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Behind the scenes, using all the tools available to us, and preferred by people, to connect with one another. \n\nIn essence, how to create and sustain momentum while building a community, with an aim to welcome no-coiners into our fold is what I aim to talk about.", "description": "Key Themes\n\n1) Introduction - How we started Bitcoin4India and other African Bitcoin communities.\n\n2) Our learnings and insights - (a) Everyone gets drawn to the shitcoin casino first. (b) The journey from shitcoin to bitcoin-only is interesting to say the least. Some get it in an instant, many take much longer. (c) Use the platforms that people like to use. In our case it has been Whatsapp and Meetup.com. (d) Be gentle on no-coiners. Meet them where they are. (e) People wanting to self-organize meetups and events is a win.   \n\n3) Similarities between India and Africa - Both are vibrant cultures comprising of several sub-cultures, customs and traditions. People have strong ties with their family and community. Its easy for an Indian to understand the term pan-Africanism. Its easy for us to understand the concept of Ubuntu.  \n\n4) Differences between Indian and African climate - (a) Africa could be the best example of slowly then suddenly - (b) The need of bitcoin is not felt in India yet, but its a burning need in Africa due to inflation, currency devaluation and censorship. (c) Africa needs bitcoin solutions made by Africans.\n\nConclusion: (a) Its about making people feel welcome into the community. (b) The west's narratives around bitcoin won't necessarily work in/for Africa. Africa needs to have its own bitcoin narrative. (c) Momentum is key to building a community. (d) Give people various platforms - online and off, if sustained and nurtured well, the community starts growing organically.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "URAQXR", "name": "Paco", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/URAQXR_ljY46mQ.webp", "biography": null, "public_name": "Paco", "guid": "39b68aa9-4ad0-5cd8-a2f6-308a23a2ae3b", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/speaker/URAQXR/"}, {"code": "WBQL7F", "name": "Kumi Nkansah", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/WBQL7F_gUhJwX3.webp", "biography": "Journalist. 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They will travel to Livingstone for 2 days each week to teach the My First Bitcoin curriculum, onboard merchants, and host Bitcoin meetups. We are ready for launch!", "public_name": "Humphrey Simwinga", "guid": "559d1367-7db7-579c-9b78-c7d0037d43e5", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/speaker/3FCSSA/"}, {"code": "UPBASN", "name": "Emmanuel Mangalashi", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/UPBASN_VY0n3jf.webp", "biography": "Emmanuel is one of the founding members of Bitcoin for Fairness in Lusaka, Zambia. He is co-organizing regular meetups in the capital city Lusaka and doing educational work with university students.", "public_name": "Emmanuel Mangalashi", "guid": "294f87ef-f056-549a-bc7d-a88f7905e9ab", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/speaker/UPBASN/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/XLVJUD/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/XLVJUD/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "d87416ea-98bb-5667-bf9c-7af25a7e8755", "code": "GEX9FT", "id": 40410, "logo": null, "date": "2024-01-26T16:30:00+02:00", "start": "16:30", "end": "2024-01-26T16:50:00+02:00", "duration": "00:20", "room": "Btrust Stage", "slug": "adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024-40410-bitcoin-and-free-private-cities", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/GEX9FT/", "title": "Bitcoin and Free Private Cities", "subtitle": "", "track": "btrust room", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "This talk aims to introduce the concept of FreePrivateCities (FPCs) and the far-reaching synergies with Bitcoin and Bitcoin projects to bring about a future of liberty. The talk will also expand on the current developments in establishing FPCs and the implications for Bitcoin adoption. FPCs are established within a host-nation and has extensive legal and regulatory autonomy. It is a legally recognized jurisdiction and can therefore offer substantial protection to many endeavours furthering the cause of liberty, that might be unwelcome in authoritarian states. BTC and FPCs share the same core values. BTC\u2019s eloquently solved governance is a great example for governance in FPCs. FPCs can accelerate transitions towards hard money (BTC adoption). Synergy between financial sovereignty and localized, autonomous and contractual governance is the next frontier for individual liberty.", "description": "Focus is specifically on the model of Free Private Cities as developed by dr. Titus Gebel: Special Administrative Zones that have the specific feature of being operated by a private company to maximise profits by satisfying resident-consumer wants. The governance itself is by a for profit corporation that has extensive legal and regulatory autonomy (negotiated with the host-nation) to direct the nature and interaction of the city, both internal and external.\nProfit is the proof that society\u2019s most urgent needs are served. This mechanism directs the allocation of resources to the wants and needs of society.  Private money, of which BTC is superior, is key to this.\nFreedom is something that you build\nThe core principle would be voluntary participation. A legal framework is developed to keep people accountable for their voluntary commitments in order to protect property rights of others. \nThis decentralization is inevitable and eventually networks of FPCs will form into leagues. This will include more abstract communities/fraternities/societies established with no geographical constraints but actualised by the jurisdictions afforded by different FPCs.\nIn a FPC, fractional reserve banking will be seen as fraudulent, favouring private money like BTC which:\nReduce negative effects of the business cycle\nGives access to monetary network without censorship\nReduce unbanked population\n Offers a permissionless monetary network allowing FPCs to trade globally.\nReduce the unbanked population.\nOther implications/features of a city/society built on sound money, property rights and voluntary commitments: \nSuperior price discovery\nIndividual freedoms\nStronger superorganisms of institutions, fraternities, societies\nBeauty\nBetter architecture, urbanism and quality of life.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "LU7UMF", "name": "Marthinus  Grobler", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/LU7UMF_ivc7BTP.webp", "biography": "Marthinus Grobler is a South African architect with a particular interest in economics and dedicated to advancing liberty.\nThroughout his career, he has worked on and investigated many disciplines of the design scale and is mostly concerned with the networks of the city and its manifestations in urban form and culture.\nTogether with various groups, he is developing mechanisms allowing neighbourhoods and cities to evolve as a result of voluntary human actions. This is based on studies into the processes of emergent order found in nature\u2019s distributed systems and the principles of Austrian Economics.\nHe is also campaigning for multiculturalism through political decentralization. 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How do South African farmers adopt a bitcoin model and regain control over their livestock and land.", "description": "I am a regenerative farmer in the KZN midlands. We raise chickens, cattle and goats and sell all our products direct to consumer. \nAdopting a bitcoin standard has made some significant changes in the way we run the farm and make decisions about the future.\nMy goal is to share this experience with other South African farmers in the hope that it may impact their farm, and management decisions, positively. Why Bitcoin and Beef?\n\nThere is, however, a deeper aspect to what we have experienced in our farming business. When we lowered our time preference, we started engaging with the land, and the ecosystem as a whole, in a way we had not beed able to before.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "FVG3AL", "name": "Andre Kauerauf", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/FVG3AL_XYRvL6P.webp", "biography": "I am a full time regenerative farmer raising chicken, cattle and goats. 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Understanding the difference between Bitcoin and \"crypto\" is critical not only for capital allocators - both retail and institutional - but equally, it's important for regulators and enforcement agencies.", "description": "The difference between Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies is stark and glaringly obvious to those who have dedicated time to properly understand the distinction or who aren't otherwise conflicted. \n\nTraditionally, VCs had to make a numerous investments and if they were lucky, they would be successful on a small number of them that would IPO or be sold in a private equity deal. For that, you needed a real business with product market fit. Crypto however has provided a panacea for VCs. No longer do they need to create a viable businesses. All they they need is an idea with a crypto token and a lot of marketing dollars. \n\nProperly understood, crypto represents liquid venture capital equity tokens largely owned and promoted by a central leadership team with mark-to-market pricing and 24/7 liquidity. However, unlike regulated capital markets, crypto projects are not required to make any material disclosure relating to shareholding, paid partnerships or other interests that typically would be disclosed. \n\nThis is what makes crypto vastly different to Bitcoin. Crypto is best viewed as akin to a share/stock, whereas Bitcoin is best understood as a digital commodity. Increasingly, regulators have made that distinction including the biggest capital market on earth, the United States.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "G7S8XP", "name": "Dale Warburton", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/G7S8XP_rXcI72s.webp", "biography": "Former lawyer and host of The Why Bitcoin Show, a podcast focused on helping ordinary people understand why Bitcoin, not crypto.", "public_name": "Dale Warburton", "guid": "53017094-6888-57ed-811b-9bc2000cafb6", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/speaker/G7S8XP/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/DF7ANT/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/DF7ANT/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "23767558-9ee3-56d4-aa40-11cf7f9bb7fb", "code": "THEC3X", "id": 42342, "logo": null, "date": "2024-01-27T09:25:00+02:00", "start": "09:25", "end": "2024-01-27T09:45:00+02:00", "duration": "00:20", "room": "Machankura Stage", "slug": "adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024-42342-hermann-keynote", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/THEC3X/", "title": "Hermann Keynote", "subtitle": "", "track": null, "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Fiat. Addiction. Bitcoin.", "description": "The likelihood of the debt-based fiat monetary system surviving is so low that it isn't worth your time and consideration to ask yourself that question.\n\nThe only thing you should be asking yourself is: \"What does my life, my business, or my organization look like when the inevitable happens?\"", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "YAFXMF", "name": "Hermann Buhr Vivier", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/YAFXMF_yWtJwDe.webp", "biography": "Hermann Vivier is the co-founder of The Surfer Kids (est. 2010) and founder of Bitcoin Ekasi (est. 2021). Hermann first became interested in Bitcoin in late 2013 as a result of the banking crisis and subsequent bank bailouts in Cyprus. In May 2015 he and his wife adopted Bitcoin as a form of payment. They operate a South African tourism business, catering for the Eastern European and Russian markets, and the first Russian-Ukrainian conflict meant that Bitcoin was (in certain cases) the only form of payment available to receive money from their clients. Following the global covid lockdowns and the resulting slump in their tourism business they started looking for ways to become more active in the Bitcoin space. 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Previously worked as a software engineer for a Swiss bank before joining a smaller software company in Bern focusing on Open Source. During that time he discovered Bitcoin and Lightning and started contributing to LND and related projects. Falling deeper down the rabbit hole, he realized that there really was no alternative to working on L2 full-time. 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My telegram is @ben_vh and Twitter @bvanhool", "description": "JAN3 (the company that Samson Mow started, jan3.com) is almost ready to launch te beta version of their new AQUA wallet by the end of the year. The wallet is very suitable for emerging markets like LATAM and Africa. I'm Ben Van Hool, the COO of JAN3 and know Hermann from Ekasi. While talking we came up with the idea to talk at your event. \n\nI'm currently also talking to Transfrontier Africa (transfrontierafrica.org) to look into Bitcoin.  The founder and director Craig Spencer is a friend of me. I could try to get him announce that they will start using Bitcoin with AQUA.\n\nAQUA will be a non-custodial wallet with on-chain BTC and Liquid BTC and Liquid USDt. We will also allow send/receive to Lightning through a Liquid swap. This is a trade-off because in the end the user has a non-custodial wallet which is very easy to use and no need for managing a node or balancing channels.\n\nI think the story of AQUA + adoption by an organization like Transfrontier Africa would be a nice story to bring. Craig Spencer could be an additional speaker on stage.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "RFJTRV", "name": "Ben Van Hool", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/RFJTRV_EQ1HXYg.webp", "biography": "COO at JAN3\n\nSerial entrepreneur with a master\u2019s degree in Computer Sciences, Economics, and Finance. Ben has over 25 years of experience in multiple domains, ranging from early internet startups to complex manufacturing in the coach, bus, and yacht-building industry.", "public_name": "Ben Van Hool", "guid": "d2351a24-9428-569e-9773-48c8c5182532", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/speaker/RFJTRV/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/VYUWUP/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/VYUWUP/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "bbff205c-bc72-5d39-acf1-c151df1edc27", "code": "H97JPM", "id": 37617, "logo": null, "date": "2024-01-27T10:55:00+02:00", "start": "10:55", "end": "2024-01-27T11:25:00+02:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Machankura Stage", "slug": "adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024-37617-civkit", "url": "https://pretalx.com/adopting-bitcoin-cape-town-2024/talk/H97JPM/", "title": "CivKit", "subtitle": "", "track": null, "type": "Panel", "language": "en", "abstract": "Ray Youssef is the co-founder and CEO of Paxful, one of the world\u2019s largest peer-to-peer platforms for buying and selling Bitcoin. All his business ventures were founded on P2P, starting with the first successful startup in P2P ringtones.\n\nYoussef is on a mission to liberate the global south from poverty \u201cbreaking the financial apartheid\u201d which is why he is sharing CivKit with the world. \n\nThe very first version of Bitcoin Core had functions for an orderbook and escrow. Those when combined with a wallet give us the three essential ingredients for a decentralized p2p electronic marketplace. An unstoppable, permissionless free market is the one thing humanity needs most and the final vision of Satoshi Nakamoto, are embodied In CivKit. \nCivKit is a decentralised open source protocol of Civilization 2.0 The kernel of governance in code built around Bitcoin", "description": "What if we built a decentralized tool kit to create an Unstoppable, permissionless p2p marketplace so anyone could trade anything with anyone. This is what Satoshi would have wanted and what he did not have time to do. \nFirst, they weren't going after the biggest problem. No one needs to sell slippers or pez dispensers on a decentralized marketplace using bitcoin. That's a lot of work to do something most people can do elsewhere. The real killer app is OTC. A p2p marketplace for all forms of money, any currency, any payment method anywhere. \nSecond, making a marketplace scale takes a lot more than just a bulletin board and a payment with condition. For it to reach the world and serve honest business people there are three ancillary services that are needed. Each of them is even harder than the marketplace itself.\n\n1. P2P dispute resolution. A decentralized court system is no easy task and is possibly harder than Bitcoin itself, but people need recourse in case of disputes. \n2. Decentralized Identity. KYC is ugly, broken and centralized but KYP, know your peer is an absolute necessity to make reputation work and keep a marketplace clear of bad actors. Getting this to work demands an oracle marketplace and a gradient of community review, an immense challenge but needed. Purely optional and all at the discretion of peers.\n3. A stable form of value during trades. The volatility of bitcoin makes trade preferable with something stable. A stable form of private credits is needed to facilitate trades.\n\nImagine we lifted all barriers. This is why we Called it Civ Kit, a decentralized open source protocol of Civilization 2.0 The kernel of governance in code built around Bitcoin.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "8NDWAC", "name": "Ray Youssef", "avatar": "https://pretalx.com/media/avatars/8NDWAC_BkMxlDZ.webp", "biography": "Ray Youssef is the newly appointed CEO of NoOnes, a financial communication super app connecting the Global South to the world\u2019s financial systems. Youssef is renown for building of one of the world's largest peer-to-peer platforms for buying and selling Bitcoin. He co-authored of the CivKit white paper, a decentralized open source protocol of Civilization 2.0. A passionate advocate for financial inclusion, Youssef believes that Bitcoin can play a major role in liberating the global south from poverty. 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