2026-01-30 –, Machankura
We were told 2025 would be the year of the 'Mega-Moon,' but the charts stayed stubbornly horizontal. Why was that 'failure' Bitcoin’s greatest success? We’re moving beyond the bull run to look at the real-world plumbing being built right now."
Tech – In the bear market, we build.
Price was sideways while L2 development and transaction volume went vertical. A solution to miner centralisation is in play.
Freedom Money – You Can’t Stop Us
Focus on circular economies and the Nostr Summer explosion in Africa
Institutions – The Silent Takeover
Discuss SA banking entering the bitcoin space and approval of regulatory licenses.
Geopolitics – I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto.
Fragmenting alliances – Does Bitcoin fix this?
2026–2027 Outlook
Looking ahead to the end of the "4-year cycle" theory.
"If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that the price is a distraction from the progress. The best time to build is now."
Ricki Allardice, is a scientist, entrepreneur and Bitcoin evangelist from Cape Town, South Africa. He has a diverse professional history, including the biological sciences where he conducted research and development on soil and plant health products; asset and wealth management and the fin-tech startup space.
For the past 4 years he has been focussed on Bitcoin only startups, primarily building products and solutions which make self custody simpler and more attainable for the average user.
Ricki is the CEO and co-founder of Orange, a Lightning services company which connects african currencies to the Lightning network to facilitate cross border payments at the speed of light.
He also runs his own consulting service called Bitcoin Only, which assists individuals, businesses and trusts in their respective Bitcoin strategies, distributes sovereignty promoting hardware and Bitcoin key management for the long term.
Twitter: @BitcoinOnlyZA
Nostr: npub1aj9k43cmuqdh23un8f25nzdudpep9vaeumte5v7ran7f697y7dgswjw6h3
Website: www.bitcoinonly.io
Hermann Buhr Vivier is the founder of Bitcoin Ekasi, est. 2021. Bitcoin Ekasi is a Bitcoin circular economy project based in Mossel Bay, South Africa. The project is inspired by Bitcoin Beach (El Salvador) and utilizes The Surfer Kids, a social development & youth empowerment non-profit that Hermann co-founded in 2010, as a community platform.
Hermann’s involvement with Bitcoin dates back to late 2013 when he stumbled across an early print copy of Bitcoin Magazine.
Later, in 2015, an international tourism business he co-owns with his wife was separated from its client base due to financial sanctions. Bitcoin became a way to receive payments, bypassing sanctions and saving their business. This experience triggered a deep interest in Bitcoin as a solution to immediate problems, related specifically to its use as an uncensorable medium of exchange.
OKIN (Nikolai Tjongarero, MBA) is the Founder of OKIN.Ent under which he created the initiatives EasySats & BTC Mining Namibia.
He is known as a Published & Spoken Word Poet, Digital Entrepreneur, Bitcoin Builder, Educator, Miner & Node Runner, collectively a Digital Disruptor, who strongly believes in the unique possibilities Bitcoin use-cases can bring to Namibians & our fellow Africans at large.
He was named the 1st African Podcaster to be paid in BTC, continent-wide, Top 10 Most Impactful African Bitcoiner (Twice - 10th in 2023 & 8th in 2024) & is the innovator of the SovereignKey, a Bitcoin & FreedomTech “Swiss-Army Knife” that transforms a computer into your own personal, secure & private work station.
Co-Host for Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2025 & was most recently a Speaker at the 1st African Bitcoin Conference Diaspora edition in Boston, USA (2025), he was previously a Speaker at both the African Bitcoin Conference in Nairobi, Kenya (2024), at Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town, South Africa (2024) as well as being named the Keynote Speaker at the launch of Machankura in Nairobi, Kenya (2023).
He further hosted the 1st Trezor Academy Namibia Educational Session (2024) & the 1st Bitcoin Only Media Training Event (2024).
Nikolai is committed to hands-on Bitcoin education & building Freedom-Tech solutions for Namibians & the greater African continent.
Gavin Green is just a pleb who discovered Bitcoin in late 2021, and found the answers to questions that was bugging him for years.
A simple business owner his whole life. Father and husband.
Music, Art, Reading, Sport & Tech - those things put a smile on his face.
He currently organises a local bitcoin meetup and run a podcast called The Straight, No Chaser show.
Links:
X: https://x.com/gavingre
Nostr: primal.net/GavinBGreen