nifty, btc++ conensus 🇨🇦 July 22-24

build something they wont build 🛠️

Kenya has incredible forests and people 🇰🇪 big ty to @dzeg5 for being an incredible host and local guide

“but perhaps we are not meant to grow so wise”

We had @ryankuester in Kenya for @btcplusplus last week. Here is his @256FOUNDATION podcast on his experiences and seeing how open source bitcoin mining is such a big deal for us in Africa. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…

🔸This Is How Bitcoin Scales to 8 Billion People I spoke to the BRILLIANT @NiftyNei about: - Bitcoin yield on Lightning setting the capital benchmark - Bitcoin Lightning as a universal payment rail - Agentic Ai & micro-payments youtu.be/cJ5oDd0dEnU

600,000,000,000 is the new 100k

Last week we had the pleasure of supporting @btcplusplus Nairobi 🇰🇪, the first bitcoin++ conference in Africa and the first-ever open source edition. Over three incredible days, we saw developers, researchers, educators, and builders come together to explore Bitcoin, Lightning, privacy, mining, open-source development, developer tooling, financial infrastructure, and the future of building on Bitcoin. It was inspiring to see so many ideas turn into working projects tackling real-world challenges. We're especially proud of the strong representation from our community, with members speaking across the conference and teams building projects that earned recognition across multiple hackathon categories. A huge thank you to @niftynei and the entire bitcoin++ team for bringing this milestone event to Africa, as well as the speakers, mentors, judges, volunteers, sponsors, and every attendee who made it such a success. We're excited to see the projects, collaborations, and conversations that started here continue long after the conference. See you next year! 🚀

"We were able to have a very successful event here, built on the back of all that time, energy and effort that people inspired by Bitcoin have been putting into growing the African developer community." @niftynei at @btcplusplus Nairobi.

got a dataset I’m working on making accessible via API. pitch me on the best 402 payment gateway protocol we should support

WE"RE LIVE!!! (with day 1 main stage) x.com/btcplusplus/st…

Second keynote session about Building the Bictcoin Technical Community by @niftynei from Base58, Bitcoin++ She talked about Bitcoin protocol where she talked about how no changes have been made since 2025 so work is on supporting infrastructure. For example for projects like fuzzing, Fibre, Mempool Relay , Silent Payments .She talked about continuing conversations for Bips Revival, Great Consensus cleanups she talked about a diversity of bitcoin clients eg BTCD, Rust-Bitcoin , Libbitcoinkernel She also highlighted some new fieldsdevelopers can venture into eg Witness Encryption, Gabled Circuits, TEES, Quantum She concluded saying Bitcoin is still around for Everyone who is around for Bitcoin open source contribution #bitcoinconferencenairobi #bitcoin

A glimpse of the Women leading in Bitcoin panel session. We heard firsthand from the trailblazers who are shaping the future of the ecosystem across Africa. Panelists: @marcelorraine ( BITCOIN DADA ) @nduku_jay ( Gridless) @niftynei (Bitcoin++) @ Hanan Ibrahim MBE (Groundswell Project) Moderator: @CharFadirepo ( Satoshi Sister Circle) #bitcoinnairobiconference #bitcoinafrica #bitcoinconference #Nairobi #bitcoinnews

The technical heart of the movement is on stage! @niftynei She’s sharing her journey of building the Bitcoin technical community and the importance of open-source collaboration. @AfribitKibera @TrezorAcademy @GorillaSats @Talo_Africa @dx5ve @bitika_KE @tando_me @CapitalFMKenya #bitcoinnairobiconference #bitcoinafrica #bitcoinconference #Nairobi #bitcoinnews

Lisa Neigut @niftynei of Base 58 & @Bitcoin++ educated the crowd on recent Bitcoin Developer trends. She shared an update on dev convos on Quantum Computing risk in the Bitcoin space. Headline: The devs are on it and working to keep our #Bitcoin safe!!!! Only at @btcnairobi_conf!!

Day 2 morning session has @niftynei taking us through the rabbithole of the technology tree that results in Bitcoin.

here for day 2 of the @btcnairobi_conf 🔥 folks here are building real bitcoin powered networks

i love this!!

@learningbtcfdn @CheatCodeCon @JosiasCarbon @dinparis2012 this is brilliant— well done!!

Explaining BIPs through The Beautiful Game ⚽️ workshop at @CheatCodeCon 🇬🇧 with @JosiasCarbon and @dinparis2012

JUST IN: libevent is officially removed from bitcoin/bitcoin thanks to extensive work from Fabian Jahr (@fjahr) and Marcello Pinsdorf (@pins_btc) x.com/fanquake/statu…

What's it like working on making #Bitcoin quantum-resistant? We talked to Ethan Heilman (@Ethan_Heilman) at the @MITBitcoinClub last month to get his thoughts on the the work needed for preparing for a #quantum future. Tune in 👇 for another Insider Report :)

@Kruwed 😂

@niftynei Same guy? 😂

whatsapp deactivated my account today when i tried adding a local kenyan currency dealer to my contacts