"Beyond the Barrier: Female African Developers Reimagining Bitcoin Innovation"
summary
Dada Devs trains 300+ African female developers across 5+ countries with a 70% retention rate, teaching Programming Bitcoin, Lightning, UX and AI and running a physical Data Hub residency launched February then held April. The program ships 11 products shipped (MVPs like Amana, Mach Sats, Sats Saver, StocksBits, Dalbit, Chama Vault and Bitcoin plain talk), secures pre-seed funding for several teams, and records open-source contributions to Bitcoin Core, BTCPay Server and WarNet, proving builders convert coursework into live, funded products.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45Intersectionality and Bitcoin
- 3:30Female developers in Bitcoin
- 5:57Barriers and community support
- 7:22Dada Devs curriculum
- 8:28Data Hub ownership
- 10:58Success stories
- 12:23African Bitcoin products
- 14:10Impact metrics
- 15:12Call to action
- 16:22Q&A
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