Sharon Murugi
Sharon leads communications at Btrust, a non-profit working to decentralize Bitcoin open-source software development. She’s a creative communicator with a passion for storytelling, community building, and making complex ideas easy to understand. With a background in psychology, Sharon brings a human-centered approach to her work, focusing on inclusion, connection, and well-being while building meaningful spaces, both online and offline.
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Session
Bitcoin is often described as “money that just works.” Blocks keep coming, transactions confirm, and value moves across borders with no central authority. But beneath this seamless experience is an invisible infrastructure powered by real humans: developers reviewing pull requests at midnight, debating edge cases, maintaining critical code, and sustaining the network’s resilience.
This talk explores the often-overlooked human layer of Bitcoin open-source development and why decentralizing that layer is essential for Bitcoin’s long-term survival. Drawing from Btrust’s work across the Global South, we'll explore what it takes to build sustainable developer pipelines beyond funding.
Because adoption without resilient infrastructure is just marketing, and decentralized money requires decentralized builders.