Educative – Page 2 – BitHub Africa

Tutorial: Set up a Bitcoin Lightning Node on a Raspberry Pi!

BitHub Africa7 years ago6 years ago017 mins

This guide was written by Edwin Kiaraho, a Community Member at BitHub Africa. Reach Edwin at ekairu(at)alumni.cmu.edu. Prerequisites This guide was pieced together from several other online guides including: http://dev.lightning.community/overview/ https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md https://medium.com/@stadicus/noobs-guide-to–lightning-on-a-raspberry-pi-f0ab7525586e Port Forwarding Unless your Raspberry Pi is hosted on the network DMZ with a public IP address, you will need to forward incoming…

BitDroids: Bitcoin & Android Technological Developments Meetup

BitHub Africa8 years ago8 years ago02 mins

On Saturday, 22nd April 2017, BitHub Africa hosted a Bitcoin and Android meetup dubbed Bitdroids. The goal of the meetup was to discuss Bitcoin developments on the Android platform. The event was sponsored by BTC.com a leading Bitcoin Wallet platform operating in emerging and developing countries. Every attendee was trained on how to download, install, secure…

Highlights from the 1st Bitcoin Roundtable & Nyamachoma Barbecue #NyamaNaBitcoin

BitHub Africa8 years ago6 years ago01 mins

BitHub Africa held the first Bitcoin Roundtable and Nyamachoma Barbecue targeting Techpreneurs & Startups on Saturday 18th March 2017 at the new Incubator in Nairobi. The event targeted entrepreneurs looking to use the Bitcoin blockchain as a network to develop or scale solutions. The topics and event speakers were as follows: The African Blockchain Opportunity –…

Blockchain Africa Conference 2017 Coverage

BitHub Africa8 years ago6 years ago01 mins

BitHub Africa was at the Blockchain Africa Conference that happened on 2-3 March 2017 in Johannesburg and covered the events with curated tweets for the two days. [View the story “Blockchain Africa Conference Coverage #BAC17” on Storify]

A deep dive into LocalBitcoins.com the Bitcoin marketplace.

BitHub Africa8 years ago6 years ago013 mins

LocalBitcoins.com is a peer-to-peer service that allows people to connect with each other to buy and sell bitcoin ‘in person’. This term ‘in person’ is a broad term that doesn’t necessarily mean that the transacting parties have to be in the same geographical location or space-time continuum. Though it is not to say that they…

Bitcoin leaders come together to drive Blockchain adoption across Africa

thecryptonian8 years ago6 years ago08 mins

On Thursday 15th December 2016 BitHub.Africa hosted a Bitcoin meetup in Nairobi. It was a great meet up that saw it graced by guest speakers like Sinclair Skinner, the enthusiastic African-American who gave us a scintillating account on the proper orientation of technology, Alakanani, the effusive Bitcoinlady who was quite poignant on the stark difference…