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An artist from Seattle. Employed as a freelance consultant managing software development projects. Went through the looking glass while Satoshi was conversant on Bitcointalk. Estudiante de Español.
Practitioner of yoga, still rings, and meditation. Burner. Watercolorist. Enjoooyer of SF novels and romantic realism. Competent cook. Swing dancer.
Had a long corporate career, have lately been making the most of the self-sovereignty that Bitcoin has afforded me by painting pictures from travels, and working on an audacious project to create a rock opera monumentalizing the origin of Satoshi as a romantic hero's journey.
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Had a long corporate career, have lately been making the most of the self-sovereignty that Bitcoin has afforded me by painting pictures from travels, and working on an audacious project to create a rock opera monumentalizing the origin of Satoshi as a romantic hero's journey.
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Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025
The boots-on-the-ground Bitcoin conference for real-world adoption in Southern Africa.
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After trying to educate the organization to no avail for eight years, he decided to go full time bitcoin by working at Satsback.com, Daedalus Labs and of course the open-source BTClock project.
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He is a Member of Parliament, and Chief Whip of the Leader of Opposition, uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK). He gained attention for his leadership of the Black Management Forum (BMF), where he advocated for the advancement of black professionals in South Africa's corporate sector.
Manyi was active in the African National Congress (ANC) and later the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), before joining the newly formed uMkhonto WeSizwe Party in 2024.
In December 2024 he signalled his support for an MK Party proposal, for South Africa to adopt Bitcoin as a Strategic Reserve Asset.
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He has been an advocate for bitcoin adoption in the country since 2014 and co-founded Bitcoin Boma in an effort to influence policy and support grassroots adoption and education.
He worked as a Global Corporate Technology Strategist at Novell's HQ in Utah, USA for 7 years and is a former Google South Africa Country Manager, leading Google’s initiatives in South Africa, playing a key role in the introduction of new technologies and services across the region, and started Google's Africa presence and founded Google South Africa.
Stafford also developed a revolutionary mobile payment company and solution, the thumbzup Payment Pebble, empowering small and medium-sized businesses in South Africa, and went on to launch it globally.
He is a technology angel investor in several leading pre-seed startups, serves on the board of Discovery Bank, is chairman of the board at Altvest Capital, Chairman of the Wits University & Telkom Innovation Lab, and Guest (MBA) lecturer at GIBS, UJ School of Business, and Henley.
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Bitcoin Boma Coalition is an open platform, resources center, A hub for Malawian Bitcoiners and anyone interested in learning more about Bitcoin in Malawi as part of decentralized economic approach for an open and free market in Malawi.
He works at Spiralbtc managing the FOSS Bitcoin grant program and advocating for open-source Bitcoin software and tools such as BDK, LDK & Bitcoin Design Guide.
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He is a Bitcoin, privacy, and freedom technology advocate. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, and is the only Blockstreamer currently living in South Africa.
Byron works on maintaining Elements, which is an open source software fork of the Bitcoin core software. Elements runs the Liquid sidechain, a Bitcoin layer 2 scaling solution, which provides confidential transactions, faster blocktimes, and much cheaper fees.
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Michael was born and raised in the dusty streets of Soweto, one of the biggest townships in South Africa, and founded SowetoBtc as a non-profit initiative to facilitate Bitcoin only education and mentorship, to provide Bitcoin financial education to underprivileged South African youth.
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She holds a Primary Schools’ Teachers' Degree from the University of Fort Hare, specializing in Mathematics, Languages, and Life Skills and has 10 years teaching experience, primarily focused on early childhood education.
As part of her work with 
With a background in Sociology and Community Development, Ronnie is passionate about leveraging Bitcoin to drive financial sovereignty, particularly in regions with limited access to traditional financial systems.
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The company intends to bring new energy generation to rural communities in Africa. It works with renewable, rural, mini-grid energy generators to monetize the full capacity of their output as a buyer of last resort, as well as serving as an anchor tenant for new energy generation creation, enabling energy development companies to secure financing for new projects as well as catalyze electrification of rural Africa.
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He finally grokked Bitcoin in 2021 and has been obsessed ever since. He co-founded 
With nearly two decades of experience in the tech industry, Pedri has built his career immersed in coding and technology, focusing on distinguishing between technologies that will truly change the world for the better and the fads and buzzwords used to trick people out of their money.
He has been following Bitcoin since its early days and believes that many of today’s modern challenges can be solved through coding, as Bitcoin has clearly proven, rather than waiting on politicians to bring about change.
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Frank has lived on five different continents and, before finding Bitcoin, he taught English to immigrants in his hometown of New York City.
Frank will be doing a Bitcoin writers' workshop. If you'd like to explore the world of Bitcoin journalism, sign up for the free workshop here:
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Nick uses his deep skills in facilitating healing, fostering care and inspiring people to be better humans. These skills span acupuncture, herbal and homoeopathic care, kettlebell, aikido, Katori Shinto Ryu, Goju Ryu, Jiu Jitsu, olympic lifting, trail running, parenting, and Bitcoin.
He uses an overarching philosophy derived from this proof of work, to help people discover greater aliveness and vitality. He thrives on using his ongoing investigation into life and meaning to help people find the wisdom that is sometimes missed in the profusion of information.
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