AfriBit Kibera is a community-led Bitcoin circular economy in Kibera, Nairobi. Founded by Ronnie Mdawida, it pays waste collectors and supports local businesses in Bitcoin, then teaches residents to save and spend through Lightning, education, and self-custody.
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Après des mois de préparation, BitDevs Kisumu est officiellement dans la place. Le samedi 12 septembre 2026, la communauté tient son Socratic Seminar
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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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New Village est officiellement prêt à accueillir l’éducation et l’adoption Bitcoin grâce à Trezor Academy et Josef Tetek, en partenariat avec AfriBit Kibera.
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Beyond Adversity Academy a tenu son premier meetup Bitcoin en zone rurale à Migori, Kenya, au bord du lac. Plus de 30 jeunes ont découvert
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Beyond Adversity BTC Podcast (BA-BTC) organise un nouveau Bitcoin Meetup à Muhuru, Migori avec une ambition simple: rapprocher Bitcoin de la communauté locale. Il
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From grassroots circular economies in Kibera to back-to-back Bitcoin conferences in Nairobi, Kenya is no longer debating Bitcoin adoption. It is living it. Here is what two weeks in June 2026 revealed about where Africa’s most advanced Bitcoin economy actually stands.
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Bitcoin++ Nairobi concluded its first-ever African edition this week with three days of deep protocol sessions, a Bitcoin glossary translation sprint, a hackathon won by Senegalese builder Nourou, and an immediate confirmation that the conference is returning to Nairobi in October 2027.
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Theophilus Isah trained as a biochemist, taught himself to code, and walked away from a hackathon loss to build MavaPay, one of the few Bitcoin Lightning off-ramps from Africa’s 2023 builder cohort still standing. He explains why Bitcoin, not the banking system, is the part that actually works.
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African families already lose close to nine billion dollars a year in remittance fees, from the diaspora and from within the continent itself. A new US federal tax just added to that burden. The case for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network as the alternative rail has never been clearer.
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