Andy Owethu
The Africa Free Routing initiative is a non-profit Bitcoin Lightning node run by African Bitcoiners with the objective of positioning Africa as a prominent player in the lightning payments landscape. The profits generated from operating lightning nodes will be channeled towards advancing Bitcoin education in … Read further
When buying bitcoin, it’s good practice to use exchanges that support extra layers of security to login. For this purpose, it’s most common to use 2fa standards (sometimes also called MFA). This means that alongside a strong password (generated by a password manager such as … Read further
VPN is an abbreviation for Virtual Private Network. It is a service that allows you to connect to the internet securely while also protecting your online privacy and security by establishing an encrypted tunnel between your device and the VPN server. When you connect to … Read further
What is a SegWit address? Segregated Witness, or SegWit, is a proposed solution to the Bitcoin network’s scalability problem. It is a Bitcoin address that separates transaction data from signature data (witness data), making transactions smaller and fitting more into each block. SegWit addresses emerged … Read further
CoinJoin is a technique used as a bitcoin anonymizer to enhance transaction privacy. It was first proposed in 2013 by Bitcoin developer Greg Maxwell as a way to improve Bitcoin users’ privacy. CoinJoin operates by combining several bitcoin transactions into a single transaction. This makes … Read further
Bitcoin self-custody is the act of individuals directly holding their own bitcoin without the use of custodial wallets or intermediaries such as exchanges or other third-party services. This enables you to have complete control and responsibility over your bitcoin by securely storing in a self-custodial … Read further
Dollar cost averaging (DCA) or recurrent buys is an investment strategy by which an investor uses fixed amounts of money to invest in a set period of time. For example, you use the same amount of national currency (fiat money such as euros or dollars) … Read further
The Lightning Network is a bitcoin payment technology that runs on top of a blockchain. It is intended to allow for quick, low-cost, and private Bitcoin transactions between participating nodes. The Lightning Network’s basic premise is to allow users to create off-chain payment channels between … Read further
The best solution to protect your bitcoin keys is cold storage. However, it is also convenient to be able to use your bitcoin for everyday payments, which may be done on your smartphone as well as your laptop or desktop computer. As a result, you need to understand operating system security.
Bitcoin Smiles is a program launched by BTCPay Server, Bitcoin Design, and Diente Zonte to use bitcoin to bring smiles to the people of El Salvador by giving free dental care to the needy. El Salvador is the first country in the world to make … Read further
Bitcoin Arabic is an initiative launched in 2019 to break down language barriers and spread bitcoin knowledge in the Arab world. The initiative has so far published over 60 articles and books on various aspects of Bitcoin. The initiative is run by volunteers who believe … Read further
The Bitcoin NGO Guide shows on how NGOs, activists, foundations, governments, and aid organizations can use bitcoin to improve their operations. The guide is written by Leigh Cuen with support from the Human Rights Foundation and published in partnership with the Bitcoin Policy Institute. It … Read further
Découvre Bitcoin is an open source Bitcoin academy. It already has over 2,000 students and 8 courses available for free. The aim of Découvre Bitcoin is to bring Bitcoin education to the masses. When you join the academy, you will be able to take Bitcoin … Read further
Bitcoin Mtaani is a Bitcoin-only educational platform that is making multimedia content in native African languages, thus breaking the language barrier by providing bitcoin education in Africa in languages they primarily understand and communicate in on a daily basis. Out of a population of about … Read further
Until recently, the only way I could send or receive Bitcoin in Africa was via my smartphone and an internet connection. This meant that a huge number of potential Bitcoin users in Africa were excluded from the Bitcoin ecosystem because they own low-cost mobile phone. … Read further
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