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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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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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I write about the horrors of the fiat money machine in Africa, advocate bitcoin adoption in Malawi with @bitcoinboma, and economics for kids with @...
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Not-for-profit organization ||Education|| building awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits of #₿itcoin for Malawi
Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025
The boots-on-the-ground Bitcoin conference for real-world adoption in Southern Africa.
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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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.
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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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 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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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 
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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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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He finally grokked Bitcoin in 2021 and has been obsessed ever since. He co-founded 
With nearly two decades of experience in the tech industry, Pedri has built his career immersed in coding and technology, focusing on distinguishing between technologies that will truly change the world for the better and the fads and buzzwords used to trick people out of their money.
He has been following Bitcoin since its early days and believes that many of today’s modern challenges can be solved through coding, as Bitcoin has clearly proven, rather than waiting on politicians to bring about change.
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Frank has lived on five different continents and, before finding Bitcoin, he taught English to immigrants in his hometown of New York City.
Frank will be doing a Bitcoin writers' workshop. If you'd like to explore the world of Bitcoin journalism, sign up for the free workshop here:
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Nick uses his deep skills in facilitating healing, fostering care and inspiring people to be better humans. These skills span acupuncture, herbal and homoeopathic care, kettlebell, aikido, Katori Shinto Ryu, Goju Ryu, Jiu Jitsu, olympic lifting, trail running, parenting, and Bitcoin.
He uses an overarching philosophy derived from this proof of work, to help people discover greater aliveness and vitality. He thrives on using his ongoing investigation into life and meaning to help people find the wisdom that is sometimes missed in the profusion of information.
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He is the founder of BTC Shule, an initiative that is building a Bitcoin circular economy to foster financial autonomy in Gitega, while educating Burundians on Bitcoin through meetups and online training.
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The El Zonte-born Blink Wallet is built to be the bottom-up bitcoin adoption weapon for communities around the world to make bitcoin payments accessible and secure for the masses.
He is also the founder of the Istanbul Bitcoin Meetup and the Yirmibir Bitcoin Community, developing Bitcoin educational resources in Turkish language.
Previously, Kemal was the Director of Marketing at Galoy, developing the open source bitcoin banking infrastructure that powers Blink.
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Witsand is a remote South African seaside village next to the Breede river estuary. With only 601 permanent residents it celebrates the highest per capita merchant adoption of #Bitcoin in the world, as per data from 
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.
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.
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