Even if you are specific and name your conference using "Bitcoin" people will still refer to it as a crypto conference.

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Keep bitcoin away from South Africa's strategic reserve: Helen Zille

DA federal chair Helen Zille is bullish about bitcoin but has said it shouldn’t be used in South Africa’s strategic reserve.

Makes me wonder what we need to do? Shall we rebrand to 'Adopting Bitcoin (NOT Crypto) Cape Town'?

All videos have now been uploaded to the Adopting Bitcoin YouTube channel: Check them out here: Machankura Stage Day 1 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2-dhqIYoj_dr4ZUOJSWAWK7ieQT4ONd&si=NUBjO9vgiUws_jRE Machankura Stage Day 2 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2-dhqIYoj-EtxXyaRgnkPpT0Cmpoj_6&si=Hh-vTc-ylHGgsGVK Blink Stage Day 1 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2-dhqIYoj8YejZ8G35R5IaJBv5x5CdI&si=4o3yfTFWw2bKkvTC Blink Stage Day 2 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2-dhqIYoj-76su-bQJhEqKPz3g4hTeD&si=rsREFBmp16l_lNIR BTrust Workshop Room https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2-dhqIYoj-UBjZlr92Q8Wzo9EWAHyIy&si=WI4RyHa_hzZGUaSh

Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026 Save the date: January 30th & 31st !!! (Tickets go on sale on the 1st of March)

Woman in Bitcoin, at Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town. @npub1gsff...hqlq

The only two Mozambican Bitcoiners (that we know of) meet at last!!! 🇲🇿 🇲🇿 🇲🇿 @Daniel Taju & Jorge And in no small part thanks to connections made at Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town. Can't wait to see what happens between now and Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026.

It's not often that someone is onboarded to Bitcoin and Nostr simultaneously. @Vukosi Chuck came to film the conference and walked away with a brand new Nostr profile and happy to take half his fees in Bitcoin. Give him a follow!

As a last minute add-on to our post-conference road-trip, attendees visited @npub1gsff...hqlq today. Inspiring fact: Bitcoin Loxion emerged as a result of our inaugural conference, Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024. Project Founder, Thulisa, attended last year January, and left the 2024 conference with a mission. A year later, 30 conference attendees visited that same project, building a circular Bitcoin economy in one of South Africa's largest townships, a stone's throw from Cape Town.

We're in @npub1k3zl...ydsu, final stop on the post conference road-trip!

Post conference road trip arrived in Witsand!

Approximately 80 people arrived in Mossel Bay last night, having made the post conference road-trip to Mossel Bay to come and visit @BitcoinEkasi and @npub1k3zl...ydsu!! We unfortunately won't have good weather, lots of rain and wind coming, but will make the best of it none the less.

The Winners and Runner Ups of our AdoptingBitcoin Cape Town Padel Tournament this weekend. A total of R11 000 in prize money was paid out in Bitcoin via @Blink Wallet to all the finalists. Thank you for a great tournament and we will see you all next year!

Do normal people stop to think how ludicrous it is that a platform like X can simply suspend a (verified, paid-for) account, because it "broke the rules", without explaining exactly which rule was broken, and how it was broken, and without warning the account that it had just broken a rule, before just suspendig it, causing major disruption to an event that's been planned months in advance? Sadly, the answer is probably "No."

And... that's a wrap for day 2, and part 1 of the conference. Tomorrow we take a road trip to visit @BitcoinEkasi and @npub1k3zl...ydsu!

On the Machankura stage, we have speaker Nicholas Nell (author of The Nakamoto Consensus) Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/t0bTXqIqaMo

BTrust Stage at the Adopting Bitcoin Conference Capetown Speaker: Nikolai Okin Tjongarero from EasySats Talking about the Sovereign Key.

Panel: South African Bitcoin Educators In the Blink room, we talk about Bitcoin Education throughout SA. From the challenges to the successes. Speakers: Cole Tuckett (a Bitcoin Educator) Michael Rathebe (Bitcoin educator) Nomsa Williams (an educator and a team member at Bitcoin Ekasi) Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/ruRLCKNc6V0

On the main stage, we have speaker Nathan Day from BTCMap. Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/t0bTXqIqaMo

Machankura stage Panel: State of Lightning Infrastructure Speakers: Ricki (Roderick) Allardice Ry Sterling Yennie Megasley Leon Kowalski Dr. Khushboo Khullar Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/t0bTXqIqaMo

Any other Bitcoin-only conferences out there that are also Nostr-only? Please comment below, want to follow!

On the Machankura Stage we have speaker Josef Tětek. Talking about Trezor Academy: Bitcoin. Education. Freedom. Trezor Academy is a non-profit educational initiative aiming to bring bitcoin awareness to places where it is needed the most. Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/live/t0bTXqIqaMo