Botswana Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit Will Train Developers To Build Apps
Bitcoin continues to make inroads in Africa. One particular African country pushing the penetration of the digital currency is Botswana. The Satoshi Centre in collaboration with GDG Gaborone and Partners are putting together the first ever Botswana Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit. It is scheduled from 25-26 November, 2016, at the Botswana University in Gaborone. With the theme ‘Bitcoin & Blockchain: The Only Chance for Africa to Empower her People’, the summit will host 150 people from across Botswana and Africa. Participation is free. Rationale behind summit. Coin Telegraph spoke to....
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From 25-26 November, members of the global Bitcoin community will gather at the University of Botswana for the inaugural Botswana Blockchain Summit. Conference Founders, Alakanani Itireleng of Satoshicentre and Kesego Tumisang of Google Developers Group of Gaborone, aim to educate attendees on Bitcoin and blockchain technology with local and....
An India based company Power Hashing Solutions has joined the sponsors of the Botswana Blockchain & Bitcoin Summit that is scheduled for November 25-26. The summit will be the first of its kind in Africa. Power Hashing Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an India based cryptocurrency mining, exchange and trading company. Other summit sponsors are HardBTC, PlayBetr and Bitland. Alakanani ‘Motherpky’Itireleng, Director of the Satoshi Centre, the organizer of the summit, says: “It’s overwhelming to see people from all over the world supporting this event. For instance HardBTC has been with us from the....
The Botswana government is set to present a “Virtual Asset Bill” to the country’s parliament, a move that could see it become one of the first countries in Africa to have laws regulating cryptocurrencies.
Preventing the Proliferation of Risks Associated With Cryptos
A Botswana government draft document that proposes to regulate new and developing virtual assets businesses, as well as to provide a regulatory body with its functions and powers, is now set to be presented before the country’s lawmakers, a recent government gazette has shown.
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Building an infrastructure that is easy-to-use is critical if the digital currency ecosystem wants to encourage the creation of consumer-facing products. To simplify this process, startup Neuroware has built Blockstrap - an application programming interface (API) for web designers and front-end developers that supports bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, allowing developers who want to create well-designed crypto-based apps to plug into its HTML5 framework. Adam Giles, CEO of Neuroware, explained that the goal is to create a blockchain-agnostic resource for those who are looking to build....
The planet needs Vinteum because “we need developers from all over the world to build this global internet-native money.” What is Vinteum? In the post announcing the organization’s existence, they describe themselves as “a non-profit Bitcoin research and development center dedicated to supporting Bitcoin developers in Brazil and the wider Latin America region. We will […]