Btrust Builders
Written By Jennifer Ezeobi I am Jennifer Ezeobi and this book will be a journal of my journey into bitcoin software development facilitated by Qala. I first heard of Bitcoin in 2019, a period when ponzi schemes were at an all time high in Nigeria, so I dismissed it as
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Written By Collin Rukundo Created as a response to the global financial crisis that swept the world in 2008, Bitcoin emerged as a “trustless” monetary system and worthy solution to the erosion of trust in traditional institutions like banks. Trustless does not mean devoid of trust. It simply means that
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Written By Theophilus Isah Bitcoin and lightning are so linked that their essential ideas are nearly identical. Payment receipt procedures are a unique and crucial feature of both technologies. It's the bitcoin address for bitcoin, and the lightning invoice for lightning (BOLT 11 invoice, to be precise). They
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Written By Enigbe Ochekliye A digital signature is a “mathematical scheme for demonstrating the authenticity of a message” (Antonopoulos, 2017). It finds use in bitcoin transactions where it proves that transactions have been created by “known” senders, that “known” senders cannot repudiate broadcast transactions and that the transactions have not
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Written By Rapheal Eyerin Bitcoin, the first successful decentralized digital currency (cryptocurrency) means different things to different people. Many perceive Bitcoin as a way to get rich quick, although some people have made a lot of money from Bitcoin others have also been caught up in the volatility of Bitcoin
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Written By Olutobi Adeyemi The Lightning Network (LN) is a network that operates as a second layer on top of Bitcoin. Here users can make payment to each other without the necessity of publishing a transaction to the Bitcoin blockchain for each payment. Before LN transactions can be made, a
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Written By Vladimir Fomene Note: Following Btrust's aquisition of Qala on Sept 5, 2023, Qala is now known as Btrust Builders. How I got interested in Bitcoin? Introduction Welcome to my medium, I’m Vladimir Fomene, a Bitcoin/Lightning developer in training at Qala Africa (now known as
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Writtnen By Bamidele Oluwatobi Note: Following Btrust's aquisition of Qala on Sept 5, 2023, Qala is now known as Btrust Builders. How it Started…. I was randomly scrolling through my twitter timeline sometime in the year 2020 can’t remember the month and day vividly when I saw
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Originally Published On TechCabal Note: Following Btrust's aquisition of Qala on Sept 5, 2023, Qala is now known as Btrust Builders. For many African software developers, the pathway to a career as a Bitcoin developer is not clear, and so it remains an unexplored possibility. This is the
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The cohort includes the first Btrust open source grant beneficiary and marks the initiation of Btrust’s unique approach to responsibly introducing newcomers to the Bitcoin open source ecosystem. As of August, 2024, the Africa Open Source Cohort is now known as the Btrust Open Source Cohort. WEST AFRICA, July