Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025
2025-01-24..2025-01-25
Cape Town, South Africa
[Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024, Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025, Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026]
who it's for
community organisers and local adoption teams, lightning node operators and infrastructure engineers, wallet and onboarding product teams, bitcoin educators and trainers, retail miners and hosting operators, bitcoin core and protocol implementers, mapping and directory platform maintainers, remittance and payments product builders
topics
bitcoin circular economies; merchant onboarding and acceptance; lightning network infrastructure; channel liquidity and rebalancing; bitcoin education programs; silent payments (BIP352) implementation; retail bitcoin mining practices; fiat onramps and offramps; BTCMap OpenStreetMap integration; wallet onboarding tools (Blink); hot vs cold custody workflows; bitcoin remittance rails
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Closing Remarks | Hermann Vivier | 02m |
Conference closes with logistics: an Afterparty at TimeOut Market just across the building with live DJs drawn from speakers and audience, music starts at… | ||
| Building Circular Bitcoin Economies in South Africa | Luthando Ndabambi, Thulisa Sikolpati, Frank Corva, Eldry Hill | 24m |
Panel reports concrete wins: Bitcoin Ekasi runs an ATM that converts fiat to BTC for kids’ wallet cards and a merchant onboarding program where at least one… | ||
| Bitcoin Loxion: Building a Bitcoin Circular Economy in Khayelitsha | Thulisa Sikolpati | 07m |
Local project builds a Bitcoin circular economy in Khayelitsha by running education classes, creating community gardens paid in Bitcoin and onboarding nearby… | ||
| BTCMap: Mapping Bitcoin Acceptance | Nathan Day | 21m |
BTCMap.org is a Bitcoin-only, open-source mapping platform built on OpenStreetMap with web and mobile apps and a new heatmap layer, and it lists about 14,000+… | ||
| Bitcoin, Education & Freedom | Josef Tětek | 16m |
Trezor Academy runs 42 programs across 21 countries last year and trains more than 800 people, emphasizing Bitcoin education for locals by locals with three… | ||
| Blink: Creating great tools for Bitcoin maximalists | Kemal Yaşar | 18m |
Blink began as Bitcoin Beach Wallet in El Zonte and evolves into a regulated El Salvadoran service regulated in El Salvador that deliberately targets… | ||
| Silent Payments & Bitcoin Privacy | Josi Bake | 13m |
A new Amsterdam nonprofit hires salaried developers, opens an office in March, and sponsors visas to create sustained mentorship and long‑term maintenance work… | ||
| Proof of Prudence: Smarter Bitcoin Mining | Jesse Pielke | 11m |
Ten specific guidelines for retail miners focused on one to ten machines: don’t overpay for ASICs, sign hosting contracts before purchase, and weigh cost… | ||
| Keynote | Beverley Schäfer | 25m |
Argues that Bitcoin is a practical tool for financial freedom backed by concrete examples: Rand lost 60% purchasing power (2010–23), social grants rise from… | ||
| South African Bitcoin Strategic Reserve: MK Party's Vision | Mzwanele Manyi | 29m |
Proposal: South Africa allocates 4–5% of reserves (~R50bn) into Bitcoin as a strategic reserve, arguing limited 21 million supply and decentralization prevent… | ||
| solving Africa's remittance problem | Ricki Allardice | 23m |
Claims a 10x cost reduction in cross‑border transfers by routing fiat through the Lightning Network; cites average remittance costs (Kenya 9% in / 11% out… | ||
| The Nakamoto Consensus: Bitcoin, Adventure, and Personal Growth | Nicholas Nell | 19m |
A novel called The Nakamoto Consensus reframes Bitcoin’s consensus algorithm—the Byzantine fault tolerant, energy-backed agreement mechanism—as a life arc… | ||
| State of Lightning Infrastructure | Ricki Allardice, Ry Sterling Yennie, Khushboo Khullar, Megasley, Kowalski | 31m |
Cape Crypto reports running a self-hosted stack—ran CLN then LND via gRPC—and wrestles with channel liquidity and rebalancing because sats in channels aren’t… | ||
| 100% Input, 100% Effect | Lorraine Marcel | 20m |
Founder-run Bitcoin Dada explains concrete outcomes: a program mentoring African women into Bitcoin development, matching talent to jobs, and teaching… | ||
| Bitcoin Ekasi | Hermann Vivier | 22m |
Bitcoin Ekasi launches a township circular economy (2021) where 32–35 local businesses accept Bitcoin, about 400–500 people use it daily/weekly/monthly, and 18… | ||
| Machankura | Kgothatso Ngako | 23m |
Machankura lets people send and receive Bitcoin without internet using USSD and SMS text interfaces, creating a custodial-compatible wallet that a user can… | ||
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