Location

The event will be hosted at theBunkers Yaba:

279 Herbert Macaulay Way | Yaba, Lagos | Map

Announcements

Join us on our twentieth Bitcoin Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor, Btrust for food and refreshments.

Reminders

We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
Chatham House Rule
Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
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Topics

Anatomy of the Bark Protocol

MC: Tobe

A follow up to the Bark session presented at the Nairobi Bitcoin++ conference.

The session started with Ark, an approach to scaling Bitcoin that offers an alternative to Lightning, and the advantages it gives end users and developers. The biggest benefits are solving inbound liquidity and channel management, which is the basis of the Ark protocol. There are three implementations, each with its own benefits alongside solving the liquidity and management problem. For Bark, the biggest offering is cost effectiveness, particularly for applications that run under the same Bark server.

Topics covered: Ark, its history and purpose, what it has proven so far, the current implementations, Bark's design, its selling points, and its anatomy and integration with regular systems.

Bitcoin and Talent

MC: Juwon Ogunseye

Juwon spoke on Bitcoin and talent. He joined BitDevs Lagos early last year and has since taken a particular interest in building products and helping people build and scale. He spoke about three products he is working on:

Bitcoin Culture Hub: a Bitcoin talent and opportunity platform that connects Bitcoin builders, contributors and professionals with companies looking for skilled talent. People can showcase their work, submit proof of contributions and discover opportunities in the ecosystem.
Bitcoin Data Lab: a Bitcoin research and analytics platform focused on collecting, analysing and presenting Bitcoin data. It gives researchers, businesses and the wider community data driven reports, dashboards and analytics tools.
Chain Co-op: a Bitcoin savings platform that lets people save in Bitcoin, borrow against their savings and create group contribution plans, making savings, collaborative contributions and financial tools more accessible.