Not coming to Cape Town for this week's conference?
Well, other than an awesome high-signal Bitcoin conference for boots-on-the-ground adoption, here's what else you're missing out on...
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Conference Announcement:
Side-events, and special workshops!!!
23 Jan
Unbankable Film Screening:
https://pretix.eu/machankura/unbankable
24 Jan
nostr:nprofile1qqsxe3pztauhp3ttna9p0p9gthdmm6t4n83ktw5vse9ymyg9js4hygs7glegg - Writers Workshop:
https://pretix.eu/machankura/writers
https://btclock.store/product/btclock-workshop-set-adopting-bitcoin-cape-town/
Speaker Announcement:
Leon is the founder and CEO of Cape Crypto, a proudly South African exchange launched in November 2020. With over 15 years of experience in software engineering and product management, Leon’s journey with Bitcoin began in 2012, fueling his vision for freedom by liberating South Africans from financial tyranny.
After honing his skills in product management at various startups across the world, most recently in Sydney and later at globalist-sell-out Luno in Cape Town, Leon founded Cape Crypto to simplify Bitcoin access for every South African, particularly the under-banked, by offering voucher and bank on-ramps, a no-frills no-fuss app, and uniquely, a Bitcoin-only mode, plus BTC Lightning — still the only South African exchange to do so.
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An artist from Seattle. Employed as a freelance consultant managing software development projects. Went through the looking glass while Satoshi was conversant on Bitcointalk. Estudiante de Español.
Practitioner of yoga, still rings, and meditation. Burner. Watercolorist. Enjoooyer of SF novels and romantic realism. Competent cook. Swing dancer.
Had a long corporate career, have lately been making the most of the self-sovereignty that Bitcoin has afforded me by painting pictures from travels, and working on an audacious project to create a rock opera monumentalizing the origin of Satoshi as a romantic hero's journey.
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Felix Mukungu is founder of The Core, a Bitcoin education platform dedicated to creating Bitcoin awareness through education, content creation, and community building, in Nairobi Kenya. Additionally, he offers printing and branding services for Bitcoin projects under The Core Arts & Design.
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After trying to educate the organization to no avail for eight years, he decided to go full time bitcoin by working at Satsback.com, Daedalus Labs and of course the open-source BTClock project.
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Dr. Khushboo Khullar (PhD in Economics - Energy Security) is a Venture Partner and Head of Portfolio Success at Lightning Ventures. Lightning Ventures(USA) is a Venture Capital fund that has invested in 40+ Bitcoin and FOSS startups till date through its Node 1 fund and syndicate.
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Mzwanele Manyi has a background in economic geology, is a Harvard alumnus and a former Director General in the South African National Government. He has held senior executive positions in blue chip listed entities and multinational companies for decades. His corporate experience includes: Mining & Exploration Geology, Auto-sector, Banking, ICT and FMCG.
He is a Member of Parliament, and Chief Whip of the Leader of Opposition, uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK). He gained attention for his leadership of the Black Management Forum (BMF), where he advocated for the advancement of black professionals in South Africa's corporate sector.
Manyi was active in the African National Congress (ANC) and later the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), before joining the newly formed uMkhonto WeSizwe Party in 2024.
In December 2024 he signalled his support for an MK Party proposal, for South Africa to adopt Bitcoin as a Strategic Reserve Asset.
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Ian has lived in Malawi for the past ten years, where he founded a company to help startups and small businesses strengthen their financial management and raise capital.
He has been an advocate for bitcoin adoption in the country since 2014 and co-founded Bitcoin Boma in an effort to influence policy and support grassroots adoption and education.
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Stafford Masie has 30 Years of IT Industry Experience with an extensive career in the IT and digital innovation sectors, including leadership roles at global companies like Google, WeWork, Novell, and Dimension Data.
He worked as a Global Corporate Technology Strategist at Novell's HQ in Utah, USA for 7 years and is a former Google South Africa Country Manager, leading Google’s initiatives in South Africa, playing a key role in the introduction of new technologies and services across the region, and started Google's Africa presence and founded Google South Africa.
Stafford also developed a revolutionary mobile payment company and solution, the thumbzup Payment Pebble, empowering small and medium-sized businesses in South Africa, and went on to launch it globally.
He is a technology angel investor in several leading pre-seed startups, serves on the board of Discovery Bank, is chairman of the board at Altvest Capital, Chairman of the Wits University & Telkom Innovation Lab, and Guest (MBA) lecturer at GIBS, UJ School of Business, and Henley.
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Grant Gombwa is a Bitcoin advocate from Malawi and the Co- Executive Director of Bitcoin Boma. He’s also worked for The Core Bitcoin education platform founded by Felix Mukungu as a program manager.
Bitcoin Boma Coalition is an open platform, resources center, A hub for Malawian Bitcoiners and anyone interested in learning more about Bitcoin in Malawi as part of decentralized economic approach for an open and free market in Malawi.
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Speaker Announcement:
Grant Gombwa is a Bitcoin advocate from Malawi and the Co- Executive Director of Bitcoin Boma.
He’s also worked for The Core Bitcoin education platform founded by Mukungu Felix as a program manager.
Bitcoin Boma Coalition is an open platform, resources center, and a hub for Malawian Bitcoiners and anyone interested in learning more about Bitcoin in Malawi.
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Conor Okus is an open-source product manager and community builder.
He works at Spiralbtc managing the FOSS Bitcoin grant program and advocating for open-source Bitcoin software and tools such as BDK, LDK & Bitcoin Design Guide.
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Byron nostr:nprofile1qqsvas7gfh7v5sf6zdefr5jn0u77ewysnzft78kjlzvkeqsk54r827qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs3u8typ is a software developer working on the Liquid Bitcoin sidechain at nostr:nprofile1qqsfy229w70e8lgtxavlz9t78k06yrel6fxyhreteafqet8kfxhhwmg2c6av2
He is a Bitcoin, privacy, and freedom technology advocate. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, and is the only Blockstreamer currently living in South Africa.
Byron works on maintaining Elements, which is an open source software fork of the Bitcoin core software. Elements runs the Liquid sidechain, a Bitcoin layer 2 scaling solution, which provides confidential transactions, faster blocktimes, and much cheaper fees.
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Michael Rathebe is a Bitcoin educator, Trezor Academy local organizer and nostr:nprofile1qqsdxdpp4r7uha00aeyjkyem9vtwhfxu0ee7653sy3z9zwkpdt45dfspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsgm3wm6 founder.
Michael was born and raised in the dusty streets of Soweto, one of the biggest townships in South Africa, and founded SowetoBtc as a non-profit initiative to facilitate Bitcoin only education and mentorship, to provide Bitcoin financial education to underprivileged South African youth.
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Nomsa Williams is an educator at nostr:nprofile1qqsptpha27kgrdnpw7cqs7ascrayvheshxy4jjwgjd5rdmz7dngnzvspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcnmp4zs where she teaches community members and youths from local schools about Bitcoin.
She holds a Primary Schools’ Teachers' Degree from the University of Fort Hare, specializing in Mathematics, Languages, and Life Skills and has 10 years teaching experience, primarily focused on early childhood education.
As part of her work with nostr:nprofile1qqsptpha27kgrdnpw7cqs7ascrayvheshxy4jjwgjd5rdmz7dngnzvspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcnmp4zs
she teaches a Diploma curriculum developed by My First Bitcoin, with classes conducted in-person, 5 days per week.
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Speaker Announcement:
Ronnie Mdawida is the Co-Founder of the AfribitKibera project where he leads the vision, implementation, strategy, and expansion of the Kibera Bitcoin circular economy.
With a background in Sociology and Community Development, Ronnie is passionate about leveraging Bitcoin to drive financial sovereignty, particularly in regions with limited access to traditional financial systems.
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Janet Maingi is Gridless
Co-Founder and COO.
In 2022 Janet Maingi, Erik Hersman and Philip Walton launched Gridless, a company focusing on off-grid Bitcoin mining in Africa.
The company intends to bring new energy generation to rural communities in Africa. It works with renewable, rural, mini-grid energy generators to monetize the full capacity of their output as a buyer of last resort, as well as serving as an anchor tenant for new energy generation creation, enabling energy development companies to secure financing for new projects as well as catalyze electrification of rural Africa.
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