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Day 2 of the Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Cotonou is a wrap! 🇧🇯⚡️ Today was all about going deeper, from downloading Bitcoin Core to mining blocks ourselves. Here’s the breakdown 👇🧵

Olaniran 🇧🇯 started by guiding participants to download Bitcoin Core, create wallets, sign and broadcast transactions, putting Bitcoin’s peer‑to‑peer magic into practice.

We are proud of the Cotonou Lightning Developer Bootcamp. A key concern was the gap between English-speaking African Bitcoin developers and Francophone developers, and this bootcamp was held in Cotonou to bridge that divide. This was made possible by the support of Btrust,

🔥 BITCOIN MASTERMIND , c’est dans quelques jours seulement !  Conférences, ateliers, networking, nouvelles opportunités…  ⚡️ Du 4 au 6 juillet, Cotonou devient la capitale africaine de la crypto.    🎟️ Réserve ta place maintenant et viens représenter ta communauté crypto.  👉

Day 3 of our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Cotonou was all about going deep into the Lightning Network, with both theory and hands‑on practice! 🇧🇯 Participants spun up their own nodes using Polar, learned how the Lightning Network operates under the hood, and got

Day 4 of our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Cotonou was lit! 🇧🇯 We kicked things off with a thorough recap of the Lightning Network, reviewing everything the participants learned the previous day about running nodes, opening channels, and building on top of the Lightning stack.

Thank you for your feedback Vladimir Fomene 🇨🇲 🇬🇭 🇰🇪⚡. We're glad that our young people can benefit from your knowledge just a little. Thanks Africa Free Routing ⚡ & Btrust Builders

What an unforgettable five days it has been at the first-ever French-language Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Cotonou. As always, we watched developers move from zero knowledge about Bitcoin and the Lightning Network to building apps on them! Yesterday was all about bringing

Et oui, notre 1er Bitcoin Hackathon au Bénin dans le cadre du BMM2025 a été lancé avec succès hier. Les participants ont plongé dans l’univers du développement Bitcoin avec trois workshops intenses : 🔹 Introduction au Lightning Développement avec Polar animé par Olaniran 🇧🇯

Yesterday we launched the first ever Bitcoin Hackathon in Benin 🇧🇯 for this year BITCOIN MASTERMIND . 30+ young devs & designers joined yesterday to learn and build on Bitcoin for 3 days non stop.

Meet Bitcoin Hackathon 2025 teams Team FINNEY ! 🔍

6 teams ; A winner 🏆 Which team will it be ? Predictions time, take a chance. 🔥

I will be discussing Citrusrate and how to build with our api BITCOIN MASTERMIND day 1 tomorrow, and guess what? I just built a fun app using Citrusrate's price API for tomorrow's demo. Don't miss the session! 🇧🇯👍 Cc: Olaniran 🇧🇯 Loïc Kassamoto Alphonse 🌍

This is what we mean, when we say, we started a Bitcoin Dev Day for all our upcoming BITCOIN MASTERMIND 💥 A real hands on where we showcase. This is Block67 setting up with a random person chosen from participants Blink – The Everyday Bitcoin Wallet API integration with BTCPay Server ❤️

Them : How was the BITCOIN MASTERMIND Bitcoin Dev Day ? Me :

One more thing, it’s over 48 hours now. I can’t find a gym 🏋that accepts #Bitcoin yet 😢🤦🏽. - But guess what ? I’ve seen a cool cafe that accepts #Bitcoin lightning ⚡️. Kudos to Alphonse 🌍 & Loïc Kassamoto . - I bought this food🥘 for $9 worth of #BTC at Rama Cafe 🍽️ owned by

Let’s go test and add some prompts here. Where are you prompt engineers ? 👩‍💻 Nice Cissé ⚡🇧🇯 🤩

I salute Loïc Kassamoto , Alphonse 🌍 and their team for organizing this successful #BMM2025 See you next year!

It’s been 1 week since we hosted BITCOIN MASTERMIND 2025 and it was: ✅ The 1st Benin's Bitcoin Hackathon ✅ Bitcoin Dev Day: Lightning, open-source tools, workshops ✅ Conference Day: panels, keynotes, discussions ✅ Celebration Day: Graduation , Treasury Hunt, Hackathon prizes