In March, the Investment and Securities Act (ISA) 2025 was passed in Nigeria which now officially recognizes Bitcoin as a security. Here's what it means for Nigerian Bitcoin founders, investors, and regulation in Africa 📝 My latest for Forbes Digital Assets 🔥 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/04/30/nigerian-gov-passes-law-recognizing-bitcoin-as-a-security

The past year has been the pleasure and honor of a lifetime: working with and leading incredible people in contributing to pushing the Bitcoin space forward, and learning so much along the way 🔥 Thank you all for the wishes, trust, and support! ❤️🫂 Just getting started 🚀

Read more: https://medium.com/@johnosezele/african-bitcoin-newbies-shock-mit-bitcoin-hackathon-with-second-place-win-4cc2d5422d31

Thank you to @HRF for featuring @Btrust Builders in their latest Financial Freedom Report 🧡🔥 Read more abd subscribe here: https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-69/

@DEMAND 's Stratum V2 pool highlights that global stakeholders are committed to enhancing and protecting Bitcoin, a $1.6 trillion asset, for current and future generations, ushering in a new era for Bitcoin mining. Huge congratulations to the Demand (DMND) Team on their funding close and launch of their SV2 pool 👏 My latest piece for Forbes Digital Assets 🔥 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/03/18/demand-launch-first-stratum-v2-bitcoin-mining-pool-following-vc-close/

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 🔥 🇱🇻🇺🇸🇳🇴🇨🇿🇹🇷🇹🇼🇲🇺🇨🇭🇧🇷🇫🇮🇦🇪🇭🇰🇳🇱🇨🇦 My latest for Forbes Digital Assets 📌 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/28/the-top-15-bitcoin-conferences-in-2025-to-attend-from-around-the-world/

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Bitcoin not Crypto, Don't let them deceive you

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 👏🔥

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 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/01/tether-to-introduce-usdt-to-bitcoin-and-the-lightning-network/

Wild, absolutely historic STAY HUMBLE

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 📌

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Btrust 2024 In Review

A recap of Btrust's 2024 milestones in decentralizing Bitcoin development in Africa and the Global South.

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 🌍🔥 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/12/31/africa-produces-3-of-global-bitcoin-mining-hashrate-via-renewables/

Final Call: Applications for Btrust Builders’ 2025 ₿OSS Cohort Close Next Week 📌 "This [...] program is designed to identify and push passionate software developers in Africa to contribute to Bitcoin open-source software (₿OSS)."

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Final Call: Applications for Btrust Builders’ 2025 ₿OSS Cohort Close Next Week

Btrust Builders, in collaboration with Chaincode Labs, is issuing a final call for applications to the 2025 Builders January Cohort. This part-time...

It warms my heart immensely to see African devs building highly impactful Bitcoin tech and significantly contributing to Bitcoin infrastructure. Thank you to all the builders! ❤️🌍 Africa will continue to shape and define the long term success of Bitcoin as a technology 🔥🚀

I highly recommend The Bitcoin Leap by @Charlene Fadirepo as your holiday read of choice! A great primer into how Africa is becoming the continent leading global Bitcoin development and innovation and the first book on the topic 🔥 Thank you Charlene ❤️ https://m.primal.net/Mwzi.bin https://m.primal.net/Mwzj.bin https://m.primal.net/Mwzk.bin

A good walkthrough on the insights from the classic—Marcus Aurelius' meditations

Btrust will be running a Developer Day on Dec 8, 2024 at this year's @Africa Bitcoin Conference in Nairobi 🇰🇪 🚀 It'll be a full day dedicated to open-source Bitcoin development, learning, and collaborating with Bitcoin devs 🔥 🔗 Read more about it here:

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Announcing the Btrust Developer Day at the Africa Bitcoin Conference

GLOBAL, September 20, 2024 — Btrust, a non-profit organization focused on decentralizing the development of Bitcoin software, is partnering with ...

It's important to note that intelligence in one domain doesn't inherently translate to others. The shock comes when you assume an expert on topic X is somehow impervious to bias, propaganda, cognitive dissonance, and bad takes on topic Y. Know this and know peace.

Users don't care about Y, therefore we should reduce the focus on Y—or discard it entirely—shouldn't be a rule builders follow under the guise of pragmatism. Users may not care now, but the point of it all is to protect them & do things better.