GLOBAL, Jan 19, 2024 — Btrust Builders is excited to announce the commencement of its January 2024 fellowship cohort. The cohort, consisting of 55 carefully selected fellows, is set to kick off on Monday, the 22nd of January 2024. These participants have successfully gone through the rigorous code challenge and faculty
Are you ready to build innovative solutions tailored to the unique challenges faced by Africans? Welcome aboard the Build for Africa Bitcoin and Lightning Hackathon train! As you prepare to dive into building, we want to share some valuable insights to help you choose the right idea to enter for
The “Build For Africa” hackathon is a virtual hackathon for anyone interested in building innovative applications and tools to solve African problems powered by Bitcoin and the Lightning network. Organized by Btrust Builders in partnership with the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2023, the hackathon will serve as a launchpad for collaborative
Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey-funded Bitcoin Non-profit Acquires Qala to Build Next Generation of Open-Source Bitcoin Developers GLOBAL, Sept 5, 2024 — Btrust, a non-profit organisation which exists to decentralise the development of Bitcoin software, has today announced its acquisition of Qala, the leading organisation training the next generation of African Bitcoin
Written by Oghenovo Usiwoma Lightning is a second layer for Bitcoin that uses micropayment channels to scale the blockchain’s capability to conduct transactions more efficiently. This layer consists of multiple nodes that can open and close payment channels with each other, without having to broadcast every transaction to the