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

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…

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Notes from the Hack4Farming hackathon in Nairobi

The BitHub.Africa team was at the Hack4Farming hackathon facilitated by aWhere and our partners IOTAtoken whom we were representing. During the two day hackathon we were able to work with and advise the various #AgriTech startups present during the day. Among the teams represented were: MbeguBora AgData Seedex The winning was MbeguBora which in Swahili Kenya’s national…

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ProofOfWork Show S01E01 Laptops are for Mining!

In this episode we discuss how the Melanin Solar project uses blockchain technology and CPU mining to enable community members to trade electricity. Utilizing the Lightning Network and the Whive protocol, the system allows energy to be stored and shared as digital tokens. Over 2,000 people are expected to gain affordable power access through this…

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