BTC Shule has announced the Nakamoto Hope Center, a nearly complete brick-and-mortar hub for tech training, digital skills, and Bitcoin education in Winteko village, Burundi. The centre supports an existing circular economy where 14 merchants and a hotel already accept Bitcoin through Cashu and Lightning.
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Okin Tjongarero did not start with ideology. He started with a payment problem. That practical beginning led him to build EasySats, onboard merchants in Windhoek, host Bitcoin Burgers and Beers events, and launch Bitcoin Mining Namibia, all grounded in one principle: people learn Bitcoin by using it, not by studying it.
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Nigerian-founded startup Terrahex has secured its first fleet of Bitcoin mining machines and is preparing to ship them from its Florida processing hub to southern Nigeria ahead of a December 2026 launch. The 9MW facility will host approximately 2,400 miners, with plans to scale beyond 100MW within two years.
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September 2026 is shaping up as the most concentrated month for women’s Bitcoin education and career development the continent has ever seen, with HER Internet and Dada Devs, Hack4Freedom, and Satoshi Sister Circle all running programmes simultaneously across Nairobi, Lagos, and beyond.
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Approximately 4,000 BTC worth $320 million was drained from Blockstream’s Liquid Network federation wallet on September 6, 2026, in what the attacker claims was a white-hat exploit of a bug in the Elements software. Negotiations to return the funds are unfolding publicly through on-chain Bitcoin transactions.
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The Human Rights Foundation has announced its second Bitcoin Development Fund round of 2026, distributing over 500 million satoshis across 16 projects worldwide. Three of the grantees are building directly in Africa, connecting mobile money to Bitcoin across Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, Ghana, and Zambia.
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The first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction has been confirmed on the Bitcoin mainnet, landing in block 964,199 on August 26, 2026. The method works within Bitcoin’s existing rules without requiring a soft fork, a hard fork, or any protocol upgrade, offering holders a potential escape route before quantum computers become a real threat.
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Two Severe Flaws Caught Internally Swiss hardware wallet maker BitBox released firmware version 9.26.5, the Dixence update, on August 17,
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Hardware wallet maker SafePal has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 40,000 customers, exposing names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and purchase details. No wallet credentials or funds were compromised, but the exposed data has already been used to launch targeted phishing attacks.
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At block 961,632 on August 9, 2026, BIP-110’s mandatory signaling window activated. AntPool produced the first block in the window
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