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🤯 Fun Fact Thursday!

Did You Know?
The Bitcoin network doesn't know your name.

It sees transactions, addresses, signatures, and amounts, not your identity by default.

Bitcoin isn't anonymous. It's better described as pseudonymous.

#Bitcoin

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🌍 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: BTC Shule

📍 Location: Burundi 🇧🇮

About:
BTC Shule (“shule” means “school” in Kirundi and several other African languages) is a grassroots Bitcoin education and circular-economy project.

The project was inspired by communities like Bitcoin Ekasi and Bitcoin Beach, and is building real everyday Bitcoin use in rural Burundi, starting in Winteko, and expanding through Gitega.

The work is practical, not theoretical. BTC Shule teaches Bitcoin in Kirundi and French, runs village classes and city meetups, trains merchants to accept sats, and helps families earn, save, and spend Bitcoin locally.

Key Objectives:
1. Build Bitcoin circular economies: Turn Winteko and later more Burundian communities into places where sats are earned, spent, and saved locally among families, farmers, shops, and services.

2. Expand practical Bitcoin education: Teach Bitcoin in Kirundi and French through village classes, university and professional training, Trezor Academy self-custody programs, BitDevs Gitega, and hands-on workshops for both children and adults.

3. Increase everyday Bitcoin usage: Onboard merchants, support Lightning and low-connectivity wallets, and make Bitcoin useful for real purchases.

4. Empower communities with financial knowledge: Give unbanked households tools for self-custody, savings, local trade, and inflation resistance, linking learning to income through sats rewards, gardens, and micro-enterprise.

5. Strengthen grassroots Bitcoin Adoption: Grow a homegrown Burundian Bitcoin culture with meetups, open-source tools, Kirundi resources, youth graduates, and a model other African villages can copy.

Connect with BTC Shule:
Website: https://btcshule.com

X handle: @btcshule

👇Dive deeper into the African Bitcoin economy!
https://directory.bitcoiners.africa/

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TJR Goat Express · 3d
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🎥 Watch Party Wednesday was a success!

Today, we watched a video from Simply Bitcoin exploring the growing debate around AI regulation, superintelligence, surveillance, and centralised control.

🔑 Key takeaways:
• AI development is moving faster than regulation.

• Powerful voices are now debating how much control governments should have over AI.

• The same systems used to manage AI could raise wider questions about privacy, surveillance, and financial control.

• Programmable money could give institutions greater control over how people use their money.

• Bitcoin offers a different model: open, decentralised, permissionless, and difficult for any single authority to switch off.

🌍 What does this mean for Africa?
Africa is still building its digital economy. The choices made today around AI, money, privacy, and open technology could shape how much control individuals, businesses, and governments have tomorrow.

This makes understanding technologies like AI and Bitcoin increasingly important.

Big thank you to everyone who joined today’s Watch Party and contributed to the discussion! 🧡

See you next Wednesday! 🫡



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🎬 Watch Party Wednesday! Join us today as we watch a Bitcoin video, break down the key ideas, ask questions, and hear different perspectives from the community. 🕑 2:00 PM UTC 📍 Discord: https://discord.gg/uVD8C5Jurh Come curious. Leave with something new.⚡ https:// Show more
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🌍 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: BitDevs Gitega

📍 Location: Gitega, Burundi 🇧🇮

About:
BitDevs Gitega is a Bitcoin-only technical community in Gitega for developers, educators, builders, students, and technically curious people who want to go beyond surface-level adoption and study how Bitcoin actually works.

The group focuses on Bitcoin protocol development, the Lightning Network, privacy tools, free and open-source software, and practical use cases that fit Burundi’s local context.

Key Objectives:
1. Deepen Bitcoin technical knowledge through regular Socratic Seminars, reading groups, workshops, and study sessions on protocol design, Lightning, privacy, and related tools.

2. Support local developers and builders as they learn to write, review, and ship Bitcoin software, including hands-on projects and open-source work relevant to Burundi.

3. Host consistent technical gatherings that give Gitega a reliable space for collaborative learning, critique, and discussion instead of one-off events.

4. Encourage free and open-source contribution by helping members find grants, bounties, fellowships, and ways to publish code, notes, and local-language learning resources.

5. Strengthen Burundi’s Bitcoin developer community by connecting Gitega talent to the wider African and global BitDevs network while keeping the focus technical, Bitcoin-only, and locally grounded.

Connect with BitDevs Gitega:
Website: https://bitdevsgtga.org

X handle: @bitdevsgtga

👇Dive deeper into the African Bitcoin economy!
https://directory.bitcoiners.africa/

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Baba Malaika ⚡ · 4d
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How is Bitcoin adoption progressing in Burundi? 🇧🇮

Bitcoin adoption in Burundi is steadily gaining momentum, driven by grassroots communities focused on education, technical development, financial inclusion, and building a circular Bitcoin economy.

Some of the projects leading this growth:
🔷 BitDevs Gitega — A technical Bitcoin community in Gitega inspired by @BitDevsNYC. It hosts meetups, workshops, study groups, and Socratic seminars for developers, builders, educators, and Bitcoin enthusiasts.

🔷 BTC Shule — A leading initiative building Bitcoin circular economies in communities such as Gitega and Winteko. Through meetups, training, and hands-on education, BTC Shule empowers individuals with the knowledge and tools to use Bitcoin in everyday life.

🔷 Free Tech Institute (FREETI) — A non-profit think tank advancing digital freedom, entrepreneurship, and decentralized technologies through Bitcoin education, youth empowerment, policy advocacy, and community initiatives.

🔷 Rurbit — Building Bitcoin-powered financial infrastructure for rural and underserved communities, enabling greater financial sovereignty where traditional banking services are limited or unavailable.

🔗 Discover more projects driving Bitcoin adoption across Africa in our directory:
https://directory.bitcoiners.africa

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