Africa Bitcoin News
Aggregating the latest updates from top Bitcoin publications across the continent. Stay current with developments in infrastructure, education, and regional news.
Updated: November 14, 2026, 6:00 am EAT
Eight Kisumu Businesses Begin Accepting Bitcoin in Five Days Through a $1 QR Payment System
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
A Kenyan Bitcoin developer has onboarded eight businesses in Kisumu to accept Bitcoin through kTown, a QR-based payment system that allows customers to pay in sats over Lightning while merchants receive Kenyan shillings through M-Pesa. The pilot ran from November 8 to 12, 2026. The post Eight Kisumu Businesses Begin Accepting Bitcoin in Five Days Through a $1 QR Payment System appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Bitcoin’s Quantum Computing Problem: Are Developers Finally Preparing for It?
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
The short answer is yes. Bitcoin developers, researchers, and some of the industry’s biggest firms spent 2026 preparing for a The post Bitcoin’s Quantum Computing Problem: Are Developers Finally Preparing for It? appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Blink Wallet Automates Spark Emergency Exit Backups
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
Blink Wallet’s version 3.0.46 introduces automatic emergency exit backups for self-custodial Spark wallets, addressing a critical recovery gap: a 12-word The post Blink Wallet Automates Spark Emergency Exit Backups appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Dada Devs DevFest Nairobi 2026
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
Dada Devs joins DevFest Nairobi 2026 as a Community Partner, bringing its Bitcoin and Lightning developer training for African women to Sarit Expo Centre. The post Dada Devs DevFest Nairobi 2026 appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Bitcoin Campus Zambia Announces Final Big Cohort of 2026 for Student Bitcoin Education
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
Bitcoin Campus Zambia announces its last big education cohort of 2026. The post Bitcoin Campus Zambia Announces Final Big Cohort of 2026 for Student Bitcoin Education appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Minmo: Bitcoin Needs More Than Wallets. It Needs People.
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
What if the future of Bitcoin adoption in Africa isn't just about more wallets, but more people making Bitcoin accessible? Minmo is tackling the barriers between local currencies and Bitcoin through trusted community agents, escrow-enabled exchanges and developer-friendly infrastructure. From M-Pesa users in Kenya to emerging Bitcoin communities across Africa, discover how human-centred financial access could reshape the continent's Bitcoin ecosystem. The post Minmo: Bitcoin Needs More Than Wallets. It Needs People. appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →BitFitness lance un programme de trois jours pour allier sport et éducation Bitcoin.
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
Et si apprendre à utiliser Bitcoin devenait aussi une occasion de faire du sport et de prendre soin de sa The post BitFitness lance un programme de trois jours pour allier sport et éducation Bitcoin. appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Bitcoin Core Discloses Medium-Severity Vulnerability That Could Stall Block Processing
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
Bitcoin Core has disclosed a security vulnerability that could prevent affected nodes from processing new blocks under certain conditions. The The post Bitcoin Core Discloses Medium-Severity Vulnerability That Could Stall Block Processing appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Bitcoin Meetup 11: contribuer à l’éducation Bitcoin
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
Et si tu pouvais faire avancer l’éducation Bitcoin sans écrire une ligne de code ? C’est le fil du Bitcoin Meetup 11 de Bitcoin Bénin: The post Bitcoin Meetup 11: contribuer à l’éducation Bitcoin appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →Can Bitcoin Mining Unlock Stranded Energy?
Source: Bitcoin News Africa
Africa's energy problem may not always be about generating more electricity. From rural mini-grids in Kenya to Nigeria's stranded gas, Bitcoin mining could offer an unconventional way to monetise underutilised energy and accelerate infrastructure investment. The post Can Bitcoin Mining Unlock Stranded Energy? appeared first on Africa Bitcoin News.
Read on Bitcoin News Africa →On the Bankability of Things
Source: Gridless Compute
From sugar mills and power plants to AI data centers, expensive infrastructure gets built by selling its future output before it exists.
Read on Gridless Compute →The Lunatic Line
Source: Gridless Compute
Digital offtake drives renewable energy development in Africa, bitcoin is the flexible foundation, GPU compute adds a higher-value layer on top, and intelligence is accessible closer to the people who use it.
Read on Gridless Compute →The Ultimate Dummy’s Guide to Using a Bitcoin Block Explorer
Source: BTC Dada
The Bitcoin blockchain is open and public. Great. Fantastic, even. All you need is a good block explorer and you have all the information at your fingertips. But if you’re a beginner, block explorers can be such a pain to understand. They can look like a chaotic mess of numbers, jargon and data if you... The post The Ultimate Dummy’s Guide to Using a Bitcoin Block Explorer appeared first on Bitcoin Dada.
Read on BTC Dada →State of Bitcoin Literature in Africa: When Blockchain Meets Fragile Institutions
Source: Africa Bitcoin Institute
Academic Review • Latest State of Bitcoin Literature in Africa: When Blockchain Meets Fragile Institutions Africa Bitcoin Institute · July 27, 2026 · Review of C. Osemwengie (JBBA) A new peer-reviewed study asked whether blockchain can meaningfully improve African capital markets, or whether it will simply digitise existing institutional failures. C. Osemwengie’s Spectrum of Adoption of Blockchain Technology: Implications for Emerging Markets in Africa, published in the Journal of British Blockchain Association, pushes back against the assumption that blockchain is a shortcut to fixing Afri...
Read on Africa Bitcoin Institute →Bitcoin Policy & Market Intelligence
Source: Africa Bitcoin Institute
Bitcoin Policy & Market Intelligence Bitcoin Policy & Market Intelligence: June 22nd 2026 Africa Bitcoin Institute · June 22, 2026 · Continental Market Intelligence Sub-Saharan Africa has surged to become the third-fastest-growing crypto market globally, with $205 billion in on-chain value received from July 2024 to June 2025 — a 52% year-on-year increase. The expansion reflects both retail and institutional activity, with over 8% of transfers under $10,000 — above the global average. Nigeria leads with $92.1B driven by inflation hedging, while South Africa’s mature framework attracts insti...
Read on Africa Bitcoin Institute →Graph Theory in Lightning Routing
Source: How Bitcoin Upgrades Mankind
Imagine you want to send 50,000 satoshis to a merchant in Tokyo, but you have no direct payment channel open to them. Your Lightning wallet doesn’t panic — it quietly solves a graph problem, hops across three or four payment channels run by strangers, and delivers your payment in under a second. No bank. No […]
Read on How Bitcoin Upgrades Mankind →HTLCs (Hashed Time-Locked Contracts): Key to Lightning Payments
Source: How Bitcoin Upgrades Mankind
The easiest way to think about an HTLC is this: as a conditional payment. The money moves only if the right cryptographic secret is revealed in time. If that secret is not revealed before a deadline, the money safely returns to the sender. That simple combination of a secret and a deadline is what makes […]
Read on How Bitcoin Upgrades Mankind →Bitcoin literature series part 8
Source: Africa Bitcoin Institute
“`html Bitcoin Literature Series in Africa Bitcoin, Remittances and the South Africa–Zimbabwe Corridor Author: Sean Sithole Publication: Part 8 Year: 2026 Africa Bitcoin Institute Executive Summary This episode of the State of Bitcoin Literature in Africa examines Sean Sithole’s policy brief on digital remittances and financial infrastructure in the South Africa–Zimbabwe corridor, one of the continent’s most economically significant remittance routes. More than US$3.3 billion in remittances continues to sustain households across Zimbabwe, particularly during prolonged periods of economic in...
Read on Africa Bitcoin Institute →Bitcoin Literature series : Part 9
Source: Africa Bitcoin Institute
Bitcoin Literature series in Africa Bitcoin Adoption in South Africa Africa Bitcoin Institute · 2026 In this episode of the State of Bitcoin Literature in Africa, we highlight a study by Mofokeng et al. examining Bitcoin adoption among online shoppers in South Africa. Drawing on responses from 521 participants, the study explores what drives people not only to use Bitcoin, but also to recommend it to others. The findings reveal an important distinction between adoption and advocacy. While individuals may begin using Bitcoin after observing others around them, imitation alone rarely translat...
Read on Africa Bitcoin Institute →Bolt Specifications Overview: The Backbone of Lightning
Source: How Bitcoin Upgrades Mankind
If Bitcoin is the settlement layer, then the Lightning Network is the fast-moving payment layer built on top of it. But speed without standards would be chaos. That is where BOLT specifications come in. They are the shared technical rules that help different Lightning implementations speak the same language, route payments correctly, and keep transactions secure. For […]
Read on How Bitcoin Upgrades Mankind →Celebrating the Women Building With Bitcoin Across The World (Part II)
Source: BTC Dada
The story of Bitcoin in Africa and beyond is often told through charts, adoption metrics, and headlines about currency collapse. What those narratives miss is the human infrastructure underneath them, the educators translating technical concepts into everyday language, the developers maintaining open-source systems, the organisers building institutions, and the women creating pathways into an ecosystem... The post Celebrating the Women Building With Bitcoin Across The World (Part II) appeared first on Bitcoin Dada.
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