We're back! See you in Mauritius for the second edition of the #BtrustDeveloperDay 🇲🇺🧡🔥
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Huge congratulations to the Demand (DMND) Team on their funding close and launch of their SV2 pool 👏
My latest piece for Forbes Digital Assets 🔥
We’re excited to welcome Brandon Odiwuor and Itoro Ukpong as the latest recipients of the Btrust Starter Grant 🚀
This grant allows recipients to explore different areas within Bitcoin development, identify a focus for long-term contributions, and engage deeply with the Bitcoin open-source community without financial constraints.
These talented developers are making impactful contributions to open-source Bitcoin projects, strengthening the ecosystem and expanding Bitcoin’s accessibility.
• Brandon is focused on improving Bitcoin Core’s testing infrastructure, build system, and developer tooling, while also engaging with the community through Nairobi BitDevs.
• Itoro is enhancing Bitcoinj and BDK-FFI, improving wallet development, mobile privacy features, and Schnorr/PSBT support, and also driving Bitcoin education as an organizer for BitDevs Accra.
At Btrust, we are committed to supporting open-source Bitcoin developers in the Global South, ensuring they have the resources to build, contribute, and grow.
Btrust grants are open year-round. Learn more about the grants and apply here: https://www.btrust.tech/grants
Welcome Btrust's Q1 2025 round of grantees, huge congratulations to these rockstars! 🧡🔥
We’re excited to welcome Brandon Odiwuor and Itoro Ukpong as the latest recipients of the Btrust Starter Grant 🚀
This grant allows recipients to explore different areas within Bitcoin development, identify a focus for long-term contributions, and engage deeply with the Bitcoin open-source community without financial constraints.
These talented developers are making impactful contributions to open-source Bitcoin projects, strengthening the ecosystem and expanding Bitcoin’s accessibility.
• Brandon is focused on improving Bitcoin Core’s testing infrastructure, build system, and developer tooling, while also engaging with the community through Nairobi BitDevs.
• Itoro is enhancing Bitcoinj and BDK-FFI, improving wallet development, mobile privacy features, and Schnorr/PSBT support, and also driving Bitcoin education as an organizer for BitDevs Accra.
At Btrust, we are committed to supporting open-source Bitcoin developers in the Global South, ensuring they have the resources to build, contribute, and grow.
Btrust grants are open year-round. Learn more about the grants and apply here: https://www.btrust.tech/grants
Welcome Btrust's Q1 2025 round of grantees, huge congratulations to these rockstars! 🧡🔥
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WE MADE IT TO FORBES 🚀
Huge thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqsgfhsg3q4kudnstnm9jth93e3jm4hqjtwkrsf3jt7gpjaupj7g9nq6arlph for giving us a shoutout for all of our events! Proud to serve the #Bitcoin community 🫡
Thank you for all the work through the years 🧡
OFF, BTCPrague, Baltic Honeybadger and ABC25, see you at one of these 🫡
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With so many conferences, it gets difficult to navigate and keep track, from Africa to Europe, Asia to the Americas, here are the top 15 Bitcoin conferences from March to December 2025 🔥
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My latest for Forbes Digital Assets 📌
Welcome to Nostr Btrust Builders 🚀🔥
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The Replit AI Agent is impressive; it created a working simple web dashboard that connects to phoenixd to display the balance and list of payments ... all in just minutes 👏🔥
💥 The game has changed.
⚡ Bitcoin is taking over sports
⚽🏈🏀🥊 And top athletes are waking up.
📽️ Watch Kieran Gibbs, Alex Crognale, nostr:npub1sn0q3zptdcm8qh8ktyhwtrnr9htwpykav8qnryhusr9mcr9ustxqe4tr2x, and Russell Okung explain why Bitcoin is the BEST money worth earning. Props to nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz for video editing!
Follow nostr:npub130nt4lhy3w3928nl0fc52kh83c9retzug6fcvvrw7rr6ndgd5qcsw0m2la for the top thrilling and provocative Sports + Bitcoin content.
Together we build the momentum for the world's first Bitcoin Football Cup Tournament - featuring TOP tier football club brands form UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, and beyoooond!
https://video.nostr.build/a9f2f693f6b5ee75097941e7a30bfc722225918a896b29a73e13e7581dfed77c.mp4
Football X Bitcoin 🔥 ⚡️
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A few days ago at the PlanB Forum in El Salvador, Tether announced that they are bringing USDT to Bitcoin
This marks a new Era for Bitcoin as a global monetary network amidst increasing demand, in addition to Bitcoin, for cheap, instant global USD payments 📌
In this piece, I cover the announcement, Taproot Assets on the Lightning Network, stablecoins on Bitcoin and its potential benefits and consequences, and the future of USDT on Bitcoin 🔗
My latest for Forbes Crypto
Btrust will now be publicly publishing annual reports on all our activities and grants to the public.
Huge thank you to the Btrust team for an incredible 2024! ❤️
Here is our 2024 year-in-review 📌
https://blog.btrust.tech/btrust-2024-in-review/
TL;DR From training the first female African Bitcoin Core contributor to hosting our first Developer Day, 2024 was a landmark year in decentralizing Bitcoin open-source development in the Global South.
Here’s some of what we achieved:
• Graduated 17 developers from our Btrust Builders Cohort 3, focusing solely on open-source Bitcoin development
• Supported 11 developers through grants; 5 now working on long-term projects like Bitcoin Core, BTCPay Server and Lightning Dev Kit (LDK)
• Expanded BitDevs meetups to 5 African cities: Kaduna, Abuja, Lagos, Nairobi & Accra
• Held the Annual Btrust Gathering to plan for 2025
• Hosted the first Developer Day in Nairobi: 250+ attendees
The grind continues in 2025 🔥
Great convo 📌
For my last piece for Forbes Crypto of 2024, I covered the surge we experienced in Bitcoin mining in Africa in 2024, led by Ethiopia, where Africa now produces 3% of global hashrate (up from 1% just a year ago), and the outlook for Bitcoin mining in Africa in 2025 🌍🔥