The sun rose over Port Louis on December 1st to mark the start of #BtrustDeveloperDay, a laser-focused day of deep work where Africa’s top Bitcoin engineers gather to learn, share, and build. The goal of Btrust Developer Day is to ship code that improves the rails of Africa’s financial system. The developers are encouraged to…
For a long time, the image of the African software developer has been one of solitary resilience. We are often pictured as the lone warrior working late into the night, battling unstable power grids, tethering expensive mobile data to a laptop, and pushing code to a repository hosted on a server thousands of miles away….
For decades, the financial capitals of the world were set in stone: New York, London, Zurich, Hong Kong. But today, the center of gravity shifted out of the Global North to Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. As the #BtrustGathering kicked off in Mauritius today, the island transformed into more than just a scenic…
The revolution is digital. It lives in GitHub repositories, flashes across terminal windows, and vibrates through notifications on Discord and Signal. We build the future of money from behind screens, separated by thousands of kilometers, inconsistent internet connections, and time zones. We know each other by our handles, our avatars, and the quality of our…