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Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town - 30 & 31 Jan 2026
Speaker Announcement: Mawufemor Kofi Folivi is the Managing Director of Talent Foundation and the founder of Bitcoin Dua. He leads the organization’s social development efforts in Agbozume, Ghana. image He is actively involved in driving STEM education in schools within the district and leads financial literacy and empowerment initiatives centred around digital skills development among the youth utilising Bitcoin as a tool for progress.
Speaker Announcement: Carel De Villiers is the co-founder and CEO of Shiftly, one of the leading arbitrage service providers in South Africa. image With a strong background in finance and economics, Carel discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and has since become a passionate advocate for #Bitcoin as the best form of money. Under his leadership, Shiftly has become the largest supplier of #Bitcoin to South African exchanges, consistently providing liquidity and driving growth in the local market for the past five years. Get tickets:
Speaker Announcement: image @npub1g3aq...0l3q is a Grade 10 learner at Indwe High School in Mossel Bay. He is 15 years old and joined The Surfer Kids NON-Profit in May 2019 and in 2021 started attending classes at the @BitcoinEkasi Center where he now plays a key role in maintaining the centre and assisting the teacher with technical support. In October 2023, Bongani completed The Bitcoin Standard, by @Saifedean Ammous and he is currently studying Why Buy Bitcoin, by Andy Edstrom, under the mentorship of Jason Branscum. Get tickets and come see Bongani:
Speaker Announcement: Carel van Wyk Carel has dedicated his life to proving #Bitcoin can be money. image His contributions to the local ecosystem in South Africa include co-founding the largest Bitcoin exchange, Luno, and, more recently, building the country's leading Bitcoin payments service provider, Money Badger, which powers Bitcoin payments at over 1,600 Pick n Pay stores nationwide. Get tickets:
Do you need a better reason than this 👇👇👇 to take a trip to #Africa and attend either one (or both) of the two amazing #Bitcoin conferences being hosted on the continent in December 2024, and January 2025? image
‘Can Africa Save the West?’ Super stoked to announce that we'll be screening Unbankable on the 23rd of January, as an official opening to Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town. image Watch the trailer here: https://unbankablemovie.com Synopsis: UNBANKABLE is an investigative documentary that embarks on a seven-year, seven-country journey that seeks to unravel whether Africa’s rich tapestry of tradition, innovation and experimentation holds the key to Western economic revitalization. https://unbankablemovie.com/synopsis
Christopher MacClements is a trained architect from Pretoria residing in Cape Town. image He completed his master’s degree at the University of Pretoria and works as a multidisciplinary creative and designer, and self-taught graffiti artist, doing illustrations and large scale murals. image In 2024 he started accepting Bitcoin as payment, converted all his savings into Bitcoin and adopted it as a savings tool for his family in the future.
The Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town conference is going to a unique experience. In South Africa, parallel institutions like Sakeliga, Afriforum and Solidariteit operate in an extremely effective manner to fill the vacuum left by an incompetent state. What we aim to achieve with this conference is to bring these institutions and their members into a forum with Bitcoiners and let the magic happen. Check out this interview between local South African bitcoiners, Hermann Viviers & Ricki Allardice about the conference, and what you can expect from it. You can grab your tickets to the conference here: https://adoptingbitcoin.org/capetown-2024/
Cape Town Bitcoin CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Attention #Bitcoin township builders: Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 26 - 28 Jan, 2024 We hereby invite builders from South Africa's townships to apply for an attendance grant, to attend the Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town Conference. If you live or work in a South African township, and you want to build with #Bitcoin, to encourage adoption at a grassroots level in your township, then this is for you! The past two years have opened up a window for us. We've seen first-hand that #Bitcoin adoption can have a positive impact in a South African township setting and we'd like to use the Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town conference as a platform, to encourage further adoption at a grassroots level. Specifically within South Africa's townships. We want to hear what you want to build. And if we like what we hear we want to help you attend the conference and (potentially) help fund your idea following the conference. Whether it's a circular economy project, a soccer tournament with prize money paid in Bitcoin, Bitcoin education, or whatever you have in mind. As long as it encourages #Bitcoin adoption at a grassroots level, specifically in a South African township setting. Proof of work for previous projects will be considered, but if this is your first time building something, do still apply. Lack of previous experience does not automatically disqualify you from consideration. Send your proposal to: capetown@adoptingbitcoin.org No need to apply if you just want a free conference ticket and do not have the perseverance to actually build what you've proposed. Also, #Bitcoin only. The conference organisers are not under any obligation to select any proposal. No amount of funding and/or support for attending the conference, and/or subsequent project support, is guaranteed and will depend entirely on proposals received and the discretion of organisers. If you want to support this cause and contribute towards the fund, or sponsorship of the conference in general, please contact: capetown@adoptingbitcoin.org Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024 is hosted by @Machankura8333 and organised under the @AdoptingBTC brand. Conference website: https://adoptingbitcoin.org/capetown-2024/ Find us on twitter: @AdoptingBTCcpt Official conference announcement: