Monthly Round Up 6: We Really Should Not Be Listening To These People
About this episode
The episode discusses lessons from a Bitcoin conference, focusing on Lightning Network capabilities and self-custody as a means of opting out of traditional finance.
We share hard-won lessons from Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town: live Lightning demos that clear cross-border in minutes, cafés running BTCPay, and African builders shipping useful tools without permission. We dig into agentic AI, offline comms, the fiat circus, and why self-custody is a peaceful opt-out. • stand-out moments from a builder-led, Bitcoin-only conference • real-time Orange demo: EU, UK, Nigeria to SA in minutes • how Lightning stitches local bank rails across borders ...
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