Bitdevs Gitega

Bravo 👏

Another amazing product born out of our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Bujumbura. ⚡ Huge kudos to the team behind this for turning their ideas into reality. Keep building! 🚀

Our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Bujumbura, Burundi 🇧🇮 is officially a wrap and what an incredible week it has been. Over five days, participants journeyed from Bitcoin fundamentals, the history of money, cryptographic signatures, transactions, and the blockchain, all the way to building and testing real projects on the Lightning Network. Today, they pitched those projects to the room. Watching developers who started the week with questions end it with working ideas is exactly why we run these bootcamps. A huge shoutout to our instructors, @heyolaniran and @advaxeir. You didn’t just teach, you inspired. The depth, clarity, and energy you brought to every session shaped the entire experience. Thank you both. To our executing team, @_Satoshee and @Ladyyyy_lo, thank you for the countless behind the scenes efforts that made this bootcamp possible. These events only succeed because of people like you. A special thank you to @belyi_nobel, @Barakana_GE, and the @bitdevsgtga team for inviting us to Burundi, welcoming us so warmly, and supporting the local ground planning. Your community’s passion for Bitcoin education is truly inspiring, and this definitely won’t be our last time here. And to our sponsors and partners who continue to make this mission possible, @btrustteam, @HRF, @Tether_Africa, @afribitcoiners, @planb_network, and @freetechite, thank you. Your support is what transforms an idea into five days of hands on Bitcoin education across Africa. The Lightning Network is growing across this continent. One city, one bootcamp, one developer at a time. Next stop: Kisumu, Kenya 🇰🇪

Day 4 of our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Bujumbura, Burundi 🇧🇮 is a wrap! Today was all about building. Participants configured their own setups, used @lightningpolar as dev infrastructure to test their ideas, and spent the day working on their own Lightning projects. No more hand-holding, just developers building real things on Bitcoin's second layer. Tomorrow is hackathon pitch day. Can't wait to see what they've built. 🚀 @btrustteam @HRF @Tether_Africa @afribitcoiners @planb_network @bitdevsgtga @Freeti_Bd

Day 3 of our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Bujumbura, Burundi 🇧🇮, is a wrap! Today our instructors @heyolaniran and @advaxeir went deep into the Lightning Network, its structure, how payment channels are opened, and the mechanics behind the funding transaction contract. We also unpacked payment locks and how they enable trustless transfers between peers. The highlight? Putting it all into practice with @lightningpolar. Participants simulated a real Lightning network, tested node-to-node payments, and saw firsthand how routed payments scale across the network. This is where Bitcoin's scalability story gets exciting, and watching developers grasp it in real time is why we do this work. Day 4 tomorrow 🚀 @btrustteam @HRF @Tether_Africa @afribitcoiners @planb_network @bitdevsgtga @Freeti_Bdi

✅ Day 2 of our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Bujumbura 🇧🇮 Today, we explored and tested different Bitcoin locking scripts including P2PK, P2PKH, P2SH, and P2TR, gaining a deeper understanding of how Bitcoin transactions are secured and validated on the network. We also applied message encoding and simulated block mining using @savingsatoshi, giving participants hands on experience with core Bitcoin concepts. To wrap up the day, participants used the Bitcoin CLI to query the Bitcoin blockchain and make transactions between wallets, bringing theory into real world practice. As usual, the learning, collaboration, and energy in the room continue to be incredible 🚀 @btrustteam @HRF @Tether_Africa @afribitcoiners @planb_network @bitdevsgtga @Freeti_Bdi

We just kicked off our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Bujumbura, Burundi 🇧🇮 Every seat is taken 🤩 5 days of building, learning, and shipping on Lightning. Let’s go! 🚀 Thank you to our sponsors and partners for making this happen: @btrustteam @HRF @Tether_Africa @afribitcoiners @planb_network @bitdevsgtga @freetechite