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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La communauté BitDesigners Africa annonce un Bitcoin Designers Meetup à Abuja, au Nigeria. L’événement met au centre une idée souvent négligée dans les discussions Bitcoin: sans bon design et bonne UX, même une technologie puissante
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Nigerian startup Bread Africa has been acquired in a six-figure deal, highlighting growing consolidation in Africa’s Bitcoin and digital asset payment infrastructure space.
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L’éducation du Bitcoin en Afrique passe souvent par les meetups, les bootcamps et les formations pour adultes. Bitcoin Yara (₿itYara) propose
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BitDevs Lagos will be having its next Bitcoin technical meetup scheduled for March 29, 2025, bringing developers together for protocol-level discussions on Bitcoin Core, Lightning Network updates, and open-source contributions.
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Bitcoin Calabar announces a three-day in-person Bitcoin education bootcamp focused on security, self-custody, and Lightning basics in Cross River State, Nigeria.
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As Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana implement crypto regulations, African policymakers face critical choice: foster innovation or suffocate it. Nigeria’s N500M capital requirement would exclude all startups. Smart regulation distinguishes Bitcoin from tokens.
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