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💡Spotlight on Bitcoin Nakfa 📍Location: Eritrea 🇪🇷 About: Bitcoin Nakfa is a humble, peer-led community initiative created by Eritreans for Eritreans. Guided by the simple mission “Bitcoin Education for Eritrea,” it focuses on delivering grassroots Bitcoin education that is practical, culturally relevant, and easy to understand. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Deliver free, accessible Bitcoin education specifically designed for Eritrean communities and tailored to their local context and realities. 🔹Raise awareness of Bitcoin as a powerful tool for financial sovereignty, independence, and personal economic resilience. 🔹Build sustainable Bitcoin liquidity and develop practical, real-world use cases inside Eritrea. 🔹Foster peer-to-peer learning and support organic, community-driven adoption efforts across the country. 🔹Highlight Eritrea’s place in the growing African Bitcoin movement and encourage meaningful, long-term participation from the ground up. Connect with Bitcoin Nakfa: X handle: @BitcoinNakfa 👇Explore more inspiring Bitcoin initiatives across Africa:

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🎯The best time to learn about Bitcoin was years ago. The second-best time is before everyone around you needs it. Keep learning. Keep building.⚡

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How is Bitcoin Adoption Progressing in Eritrea? 🇪🇷 Bitcoin adoption in Eritrea remains in its early stages and is progressing gradually amid significant challenges. Key Projects Driving Adoption: 🔹Bitcoin Nakfa: One of the primary initiatives pushing Bitcoin education and awareness in Eritrea is Bitcoin Nakfa. This is a humble, peer-led community effort focused on free Bitcoin education tailored for Eritreans. 🔹Pan-African Bitcoin: The first Bitcoin education initiative based in Eritrea, promoting open-source Bitcoin awareness (#orangepill) and grassroots education for Eritreans and the broader Pan-African context. 👇Explore more inspiring Bitcoin initiatives across Africa:

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📚Tonight, we explored Chapter 6: Notorious Nodes from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver & Steve Patterson, and it sparked one of our most engaging discussions yet. We unpacked the chapter's arguments around Bitcoin scaling, full nodes, SPV wallets, miner incentives, decentralization, and how differing visions for Bitcoin shaped the blocksize debate. We also compared the authors' interpretation with broader perspectives from the Bitcoin ecosystem and reflected on why these conversations still matter today. As always, there were thoughtful questions, healthy disagreements, and plenty of learning. Thanks to everyone who joined and contributed. See you next week! 🧡 View quoted note →

📚 Readers' Friday Book Club Tonight at 6:00 PM UTC, we're diving into Chapter 6: Notorious Nodes from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson. We'll unpack one of Bitcoin's most debated scaling chapters, examine the authors' arguments, and discuss how these events continue to influence Bitcoin today. Whether you've read the chapter or just want to learn, you're welcome to join the conversation. 🕕 6:00 PM UTC 💬 Discord: discord.gg/mWt628TA4k Bring your questions. Leave with new perspectives. 📖🧡

🤯Fun Fact Thursday! Did you know? If Bitcoin were a country, its monetary policy would be more predictable than that of any government on Earth.🌍 No surprise meetings. No emergency printing. No changing the rules halfway through. Just code. Blocks. And time.⏳

🚨 JUST IN: Africa's Bitcoin ecosystem has grown to 189 verified projects across 23 countries. 🌍 In just 6 months, Africa's Bitcoin ecosystem has expanded by 13.2%, adding 22 new Bitcoin-only projects since Q1 2026. 📈 Since Q2 2026, 13 new verified projects have joined the map, bringing the ecosystem to 189 projects spanning 23 African countries, all documented in our Live Directory. 🧭 Our Live African Bitcoin Directory continues to be the most comprehensive, community-maintained database of Bitcoin-only initiatives in Africa. A special thank you to all the phenomenal builders driving Bitcoin adoption across Africa. 🧡 Explore the infographic, discover the builders, and if you're building Bitcoin in Africa, make sure your project is on the map. 🔗

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💡Spotlight on BitDevs Zambia 📍Location: Lusaka, Zambia 🇿🇲 About: BitDevs Zambia is the technical arm of Bitcoin Zambia and a fast-growing community dedicated to strengthening the country’s Bitcoin developer ecosystem. It brings together developers, builders, educators, researchers, and technically curious participants of all experience levels. Through Socratic seminars, workshops, bootcamps, reading groups, and collaborative projects, the community focuses on Bitcoin protocol development, Lightning Network, open-source contributions, and building practical solutions relevant to Zambia. Key Objectives: 🔹Advance Bitcoin technical education — Equip developers and enthusiasts with deep knowledge of Bitcoin’s protocol, cryptography, network design, and related technologies through accessible, high-quality learning. 🔹Deliver hands-on developer workshops and bootcamps — Provide practical training in building Bitcoin and Lightning applications, including wallet development, integrations, and tool creation. 🔹Foster open-source collaboration — Connect local builders with mentors and contributors across Africa and the global Bitcoin ecosystem to work on real projects and contribute to open-source repositories. 🔹Organize study groups and Socratic seminars — Create regular, interactive forums for discussing BIPs, research papers, protocol developments, and technical literature in a peer-led, beginner-friendly environment. 🔹Drive Lightning development and local innovation — Build practical Lightning Network skills and support the creation of usable Bitcoin tools and solutions tailored to Zambia’s financial and technological context. Connect with BitDevs Zambia: Website:

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🎉Behind every great movement are the incredible people driving it forward! This Wednesday, we're celebrating one of our Rockstars helping power Bitcoin adoption across Africa, Megasley, General Manager at @Africa Free Routing. 🌍🧡 Join us on X Spaces as we celebrate his contributions to the African Bitcoin ecosystem and wish him a happy birthday with the community. 📅 Date: July 8, 2026 🕑 Time: 2:00 PM UTC ⏰️Set your reminders, invite a friend, and come celebrate with us: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1yxBeeLblbbJN Let's make this one unforgettable! 🚀

🚀 Every Bitcoin expert started as a beginner. Every builder started with curiosity. Keep going.

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💡Spotlight on Bitcoin Zambia 📍Location: Zambia 🇿🇲 About: Bitcoin Zambia is a vibrant grassroots organization dedicated to Bitcoin education, adoption, and advocacy across Zambia. Operating since 2022 (formerly known as Bitcoin for Fairness Zambia), the community focuses on making Bitcoin accessible and relevant to everyday Zambians as a tool for financial inclusion, economic freedom, and innovation. Some Key Objectives: 🔹Host regular community meetups — Organize monthly Bitcoin meetups to create welcoming spaces for discussion, networking, peer learning, and organic community growth. 🔹Deliver practical Bitcoin education and workshops — Provide accessible, hands-on training programs tailored for beginners, women, journalists, civil society, and financial literacy professionals. 🔹Build technical capacity and developer talent — Grow a local Bitcoin developer community through BitDevs Zambia to foster open-source contributions and technical expertise within Zambia. 🔹Drive grassroots adoption and inclusion — Expand Bitcoin participation through targeted outreach initiatives, such as women-focused workshops, public education campaigns, university engagement, and innovative programs that bring Bitcoin into everyday community spaces. 🔹Strengthen the local Bitcoin ecosystem — Develop long-term infrastructure by collaborating with other African Bitcoin groups, educating on mining and energy solutions, advocating for Bitcoin as a tool for freedom, and creating sustainable networks of educators, developers, and advocates across Zambia. Connect with Bitcoin Zambia: Website:

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Building Bitcoin from the Ground Up in Zambia Since 2022, Bitcoin Zambia, formerly known as Bitcoin for Fairness Zambia, has been at the forefront ...

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📚Another great edition of Readers' Friday Book Club is in the books! This week, we explored Chapter 5: The Blocksize Limit from Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver and Steve Patterson, unpacking one of the most pivotal debates in Bitcoin's history. 👇 Key takeaways: • The blocksize debate was about much more than transaction capacity, it reflected competing visions for Bitcoin's future. • Decentralization, security, and scalability require careful trade-offs. • The Lightning Network emerged as a scaling solution that preserves Bitcoin's decentralized nature while enabling faster, cheaper payments. • Understanding Bitcoin's history helps us better appreciate the design decisions that continue to shape the protocol today. A huge thank you to everyone who joined the discussion, shared thoughtful perspectives, and asked insightful questions.🧡 See you at the next Readers' Friday Book Club as we continue learning, questioning, and growing together. 🧡 View quoted note →