Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026
2026-01-30..2026-01-31
Cape Town, South Africa
[Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024, Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025, Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Poetry performance by Masai Sepuru | Masai Sepuru | 08m |
A slam poem that uses personal scenes — corrugated shacks, a grandmother’s margarine tin, a missing MaTumi — to make one claim: the ocean stands in for white… | ||
| Moneybadger | Carel Van Wyk | 25m |
A startup called Moneybadger builds merchant Bitcoin payments using Lightning and Lightning addresses, integrates with Zapper, Blink and wallets like Zeus and… | ||
| La Bitcoineta Announcement | Ronnie Mdawida | 04m |
A Bitcoin-branded service vehicle arrives in Kenya: a converted van named Nati (buffalo) built for community outreach and resilience, funded paid in Bitcoin… | ||
| Adopting Bitcoin Nairobi Announcement | Brindon Mwiine, Ronnie Mdawida, Josef Tětek | 07m |
Announcement of a new regional conference named Adopting Bitcoin Nairobi that runs 23–24 June 2026 and situates the venue 20 minutes' walk to Afribit Kibera so… | ||
| Bitcoin++ Announcement | Simon | 01m |
BTrust Builders announces Africa's first Bitcoin++ conference as an open source edition hosted in Nairobi, claiming a two-week schedule: week one runs Bitcoin… | ||
| Closing remarks and ABCT 2027 date announcement | Kgothatso, Hermann, Max | 06m |
Conference confirms 26 and 27 February 2027 as main dates, with a possible Bitcoin circular economy summit the day before (logistics TBD) and workshops at… | ||
| MC's Closing-off | Almo Jabu Jakes, Nikolai Paul, Tyron Vania | 03m |
Six MCs coordinate a volunteer-run event that runs 90 sessions over three stages and succeeds at giving attendees a cohesive, on-the-ground experience rather… | ||
| Machankura | Kgothatso Ngako | 21m |
Machankura launches a USSD-to-Lightning service that lets people without smartphones send and receive Bitcoin using basic phones, claiming a working prototype… | ||
| Why should we build Bitcoin Circular Economies in Africa? | Hermann Vivier | 22m |
Bitcoin circular economies prove Bitcoin as everyday money by getting sats to circulate locally rather than promising vague scale: a modeled project serves… | ||
| Money Without Borders: Bitcoin and Human Rights | Judy Imasuen | 17m |
Africa’s intra‑continental trade sits around 15% intra‑African trade, and fiat currencies act like visas—example: a Nigerian naira is useless across many… | ||
| The Invisible Infrastructure: Behind the Scenes of Bitcoin and Btrust | Sharon Murugi | 15m |
Btrust claims a concrete shift: founded in 2021 to fix geographic concentration, it locates, educates and remunerates open source Bitcoin contributors, runs… | ||
| The world is changing, but should we? | Ernst Roets | 20m |
Claims that the post‑WWII/post‑Cold War consensus is failing—citing Venezuela, Iran, Davos, Madlanga Commission scandals and 2026 turmoil—and argues… | ||
| Bitcoin Circular Economies in South Africa | Josef Tětek | 39m |
Local South African Bitcoin circular economies report concrete results: first on‑chain merchant sale in December 2021 and steady merchant onboarding through… | ||
| Building the Tools That Make Bitcoin Usable | Sabina Gitau | 20m |
A usable Bitcoin flow: a live app called Tando lets people spend tiny amounts — a 15 shillings / 129 sats “taste” — then scale to big purchases (example shown… | ||
| Fix the Money? First, Fix the Motivation | Noelene Sumba | 17m |
Education alone fails to drive uptake; tangible spending and hands-on training create motivation that turns understanding into use. Field work in Kenya with… | ||
| Crossborder Settlements Panel | Ricki Allardice | 45m |
Panel contrasts SWIFT’s 24–48 hour, multi‑correspondent hops with Lightning solutions that stitch two cheap local bank transfers to a Lightning hop and settles… | ||
| What I wish teachers taught about money, Bitcoin, and the world | Samantha de Waal | 22m |
Schools train obedience not critical money literacy and banks create money out of thin air, so savings erode while debts grow; real examples include Zimbabwe… | ||
| From Scams to Bitcoin Sovereignty: SA Lessons from Karatbars & GSB | Louis Nel | 21m |
A whistleblower-level campaign exposes Karatbars and GSB as centralized MLM scams that promise gold but show no verifiable reserves, trigger FSCA and German… | ||
| BITCOIN as The Pan-African Trade Currency | Robert Allen | 18m |
Claim: Bitcoin can cut an estimated $5 billion annual FX drag across Africa by replacing 41 local currencies and reducing absurd corridor costs (a cited… | ||
| Bitcoin Circular Economies Book | Ivan Kaleja | 17m |
A year of leader interviews and field research produces a non‑profit book documenting the first five Bitcoin circular economies — Bitcoin Beach, Praia Bitcoin… | ||
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