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Blantyre will host the Africa Bitcoin Conference in December, and the Mayor has already been accused of fronting a Ponzi scheme. Before you pick a side, ask the right questions. This article is not asking you to believe. It is asking you to be able to say why.
I attended a Lightning bootcamp and spent Day 2 building a blockchain explorer in Python and mining for real. Writing it up weeks later, once I had rebuilt everything properly and understood the parts I originally just nodded along to.
I am a 28 year old first year. Today a classmate asked my age, then asked why I chose school over marriage.
Six years, six admissions, and six different reasons why none of them worked. Today I finally sat in a lecture hall as a first year Computer Science student, and within the first hour they confiscated my phone.
Oh, to be a woman
Building in the open, contributing to open source, building with AI. None of it requires permission or perfection. It requires showing up in the quiet before anyone's watching. Don't finish this inspired. Finish it building something.
Five days ago I had never run a Bitcoin node. Today there is a Lightning donation button on the Women in Tech Malawi website, and I am not done.
A complete beginner's walkthrough of setting up Bitcoin Core, mining blocks, and sending a transaction on your own private blockchain.