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[Sabina @waithiraah]

Day 4 of proving you can pay for things in Kenya using #bitcoin only!

Paid our Maasai guides in Amboseli with bitcoin and they received Kenyan Shillings instantly.

For tourists and visitors alike, you don’t need cash, a local SIM card, or a bank card that may or may not work while visiting Kenya. With just your bitcoin, a Lightning wallet, and the @tando_me app, you can pay across the country as easily as a local using mobile money.

[Adopting Bitcoin @AdoptingBTC]

Adopting Bitcoin will no longer be involved in the planned Nairobi conference. Due to differing visions for the event, we have decided to withdraw the Adopting Bitcoin brand.

We remain excited about the growing Bitcoin community in Kenya and East Africa, and we wish the local organizers every success as they continue their work under a new banner.

Thank you to everyone who expressed interest and support. The future of Bitcoin in Africa is bright.

[WithAlvin 🇬🇭 @withAlvin__]

If you’re above the age of 30 and you still don’t have kids then this is for you 😳😳

[Kimberly Sandra @Nyaaaaaaals]

My first time actually on a stage speaking on Bitcoin and this was a great starting point 🥳…….

[Balaji @balajis]

If you’re in the Singapore/Malaysia area, we have a Replit Agent 4 hackathon tomorrow at Network School.

There will be a tutorial, a little remote guest appearance by my friend @amasad, and a hackathon.

Here’s the event link:
https://t.co/s0JM5sLVSO

[Tando @tando_me]

We can do better. We must do better.
Who needs help? Come to @BitDevsNBO and we'll gladly help you setup, run and use a Bitcoin node.

https://t.co/sZiNbhmEru

[Bitcoin Well @bitcoinwell]

Everyone is laughing at Prof Jiang for asking where the "blockchain servers" are and floating the CIA Bitcoin theory.

But I'm not laughing. You might be watching a psyop play out in real time.

Jiang is a tenured professor. Are we really supposed to believe he doesn't understand distributed computing?

Does he know what BitTorrent is? When you download a torrent file, nobody asks where the central "torrent server" is. The participants are the network. The nodes are the infrastructure. A credentialed academic pretending not to grasp this is not ignorance. It is a red flag.

This feels like manufactured confusion.

Ask yourself: who wins if the public believes the CIA created Bitcoin?

The fiat system is dying. The money printer is destroying middle class purchasing power. Bitcoin is the mathematically guaranteed escape hatch. The state cannot hack the network. They cannot ban the math. Their only remaining weapon is narrative control.

If they convince the masses that Bitcoin is a government surveillance honeypot, those people stay trapped in melting fiat. Forever. That is the goal.

Here is the thing: I run a "bitcoin server". And you can too.

The code is open source. The cryptography is transparent. The 21 million hard cap is verifiable by anyone running a node. You don't have to trust Satoshi's identity. You don't have to trust the government. You only have to verify the SHA-256 math.

Don't laugh at the confused professor. Recognize this might all be a performance.

They are trying to scare you away from the exit doors right before the fiat system collapses.

Don't trust the narrative.

[402oon @402oons]

prof Jiang is ccp's own RAO

[Bitcoin Well @bitcoinwell]

Everyone is laughing at Prof Jiang for asking where the "blockchain servers" are and floating the CIA Bitcoin theory.

But I'm not laughing. You might be watching a psyop play out in real time.

Jiang is a tenured professor. Are we really supposed to believe he doesn't understand distributed computing?

Does he know what BitTorrent is? When you download a torrent file, nobody asks where the central "torrent server" is. The participants are the network. The nodes are the infrastructure. A credentialed academic pretending not to grasp this is not ignorance. It is a red flag.

This feels like manufactured confusion.

Ask yourself: who wins if the public believes the CIA created Bitcoin?

The fiat system is dying. The money printer is destroying middle class purchasing power. Bitcoin is the mathematically guaranteed escape hatch. The state cannot hack the network. They cannot ban the math. Their only remaining weapon is narrative control.

If they convince the masses that Bitcoin is a government surveillance honeypot, those people stay trapped in melting fiat. Forever. That is the goal.

Here is the thing: I run a "bitcoin server". And you can too.

The code is open source. The cryptography is transparent. The 21 million hard cap is verifiable by anyone running a node. You don't have to trust Satoshi's identity. You don't have to trust the government. You only have to verify the SHA-256 math.

Don't laugh at the confused professor. Recognize this might all be a performance.

They are trying to scare you away from the exit doors right before the fiat system collapses.

Don't trust the narrative.

[Ndindi Nyoro @NdindiNyoro]

Kenya must liberalise Power production for Manufacturing and high Tech Industries to grow.

Our Country can easily be a hub of Data Centres and take advantage of the current and growing high demand for energy as a result of technology uptake.

The entrenched patronage in Power Purchase Agreements and Independence Power Production only benefits the producers and the cost is shouldered by the entire Economy. Part of the cost being political rent.

We must rethink Power Production, Manufacturing and Technology.

We are African and Africa is our Business..

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

For context, their safeguards are 1) no using their AI for fully autonomous weapons and 2) no using their AI for mass surveillance on US citizens.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

CLIs are super exciting precisely because they are a "legacy" technology, which means AI agents can natively and easily use them, combine them, interact with them via the entire terminal toolkit.

E.g ask your Claude/Codex agent to install this new Polymarket CLI and ask for any arbitrary dashboards or interfaces or logic. The agents will build it for you. Install the Github CLI too and you can ask them to navigate the repo, see issues, PRs, discussions, even the code itself.

Example: Claude built this terminal dashboard in ~3 minutes, of the highest volume polymarkets and the 24hr change. Or you can make it a web app or whatever you want. Even more powerful when you use it as a module of bigger pipelines.

If you have any kind of product or service think: can agents access and use them?

- are your legacy docs (for humans) at least exportable in markdown?
- have you written Skills for your product?
- can your product/service be usable via CLI? Or MCP?
- ...

It's 2026. Build. For. Agents.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

People giving OpenClaw root access to their entire life

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees." - Chesterton

You have to do it by yourself.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :)

I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded monster that is being actively attacked at scale is not very appealing at all. Already seeing reports of exposed instances, RCE vulnerabilities, supply chain poisoning, malicious or compromised skills in the registry, it feels like a complete wild west and a security nightmare. But I do love the concept and I think that just like LLM agents were a new layer on top of LLMs, Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents, taking the orchestration, scheduling, context, tool calls and a kind of persistence to a next level.

Looking around, and given that the high level idea is clear, there are a lot of smaller Claws starting to pop out. For example, on a quick skim NanoClaw looks really interesting in that the core engine is ~4000 lines of code (fits into both my head and that of AI agents, so it feels manageable, auditable, flexible, etc.) and runs everything in containers by default. I also love their approach to configurability - it's not done via config files it's done via skills! For example, /add-telegram instructs your AI agent how to modify the actual code to integrate Telegram. I haven't come across this yet and it slightly blew my mind earlier today as a new, AI-enabled approach to preventing config mess and if-then-else monsters. Basically - the implied new meta is to write the most maximally forkable repo and then have skills that fork it into any desired more exotic configuration. Very cool.

Anyway there are many others - e.g. nanobot, zeroclaw, ironclaw, picoclaw (lol @ prefixes). There are also cloud-hosted alternatives but tbh I don't love these because it feels much harder to tinker with. In particular, local setup allows easy connection to home automation gadgets on the local network. And I don't know, there is something aesthetically pleasing about there being a physical device 'possessed' by a little ghost of a personal digital house elf.

Not 100% sure what my setup ends up looking like just yet but Claws are an awesome, exciting new layer of the AI stack.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

@GraphCall Imagine thinking that having a certificate that represents company shares counts as self custody in the same vein as holding a gold coin or a private key.

Stock ownership can be transferred by legal decree, since it’s all on a centralized ledger.

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

The final months of 2025 redrew Kenya’s political map. Raila Odinga’s passing closed a 30-year era of resistance, handshakes, and presidential near-misses. His absence from the 2027 ballot marks a profound silence.

Weeks later, Cyrus Jirongo’s mysterious death reopened old ledgers of power and money, reminding the nation how its current elite was forged in shadow. Now, with a 2027 election approaching, the field fragments: old rivals, former judges, activists, Gen Z voices, and recycled alliances all jostle.

The question remains: without the defining rhythm Raila set for a generation, who now composes Kenya’s political tempo? And ultimately, whose future will that rhythm serve?

Read Analysis:
https://t.co/X8vdAYovw5

@KahuraDauti @wmnjoya @mkawasi @jnyairo @johngithongo @Nanjala1 @jkobuthi @realoyungapala

#KenyaPolitics #RailaOdinga #2027Elections #LeadershipTransition #GenZVoices #PoliticalChange
#CyrusJirongo #TheElephant #DemocracyInKenya #PowerAndMoney

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

The call for change is loud but who’s composing the soundtrack of transformation? As @muthoniDQ highlights, artists aren’t just witnesses; they’re catalysts, igniting movements and inspiring action beyond slogans. Dive into this powerful conversation and discover how music and art fuel civic change.
Watch: https://t.co/6wLYm4jgpv
Podcast: https://t.co/DV9tCVwttF

@Maskani254 @nisisikenya @Pawa254 @Monajamwenyewe @azeecoptel

[cam worboys @camworboys]

From the workshop of @DamjanStankovic

Didn’t even make the cut for something new we’re building. But too fun not to share.

Such a fun time to be a designer 💚

[Dan Aceda @danaceda]

It's a work around.

The fundamental problem is that the KRA wants to be the one to decide what a valid expense is. Essentially running the business by hijack.

The business must be run by the business owner. Not by government.

[calle @callebtc]

Update to the latest version on Google Play!

Other links:

download:
https://t.co/87vMEBrYDL
ios: https://t.co/KckAxCcDs1
android: https://t.co/ZjaQ1WCszJ

github:
ios: https://t.co/x1ZCURStOK
android: https://t.co/n119zILJuQ