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BOB= Build On Bitcoin. Bitcoin only education and co-working spaces with satellite locations in Bangkok and Chiangmai, Thailand.
Here we go again!! Excited to announce Cohort 4 of the BOB Buidlers Residency program. The theme for this Cohort is ‘Usability’, which ranges from UX/UI designers to projects that aim to make #Bitcoin more user friendly, especially for those in the Global South. Before we get to the Residents, huge thanks go out to Tokyo Bitcoin Base (@Tokyo Bitcoin Base) for co-sponsoring Cohort 4. The initiative and efforts shown by Teruko (@Teruko) there were truly remarkable. So glad we could make this first-of-its-kind #Bitcoin only collaboration happen. Now for the Residents and Projects: there’re 2 Projects and 2 Resident Designers in this Cohort. Each Project aims to make specific features of Bitcoin (like privacy and everyday payments) easier to use. They will be supported by experienced and proven Resident Designers. Cohort 4’s Resident Projects: 1) User-friendly Silent Payments Wallet by @theanmolsharma_ on X (github.com/theanmolsharma) 2) Bounty for Openpleb QR-to-Lightning payments platform implementations (github.com/gandlafbtc/open-pleb). This project was ideated by Gandlaf (@gandlaf21), who was also a Cohort 1 Resident. Cohort 4’s Resident Designers: X) Veronika or V (@Veronika ) an experienced designer with active contributions to @bitshala, amongst others. Y) Adeyemi Matthew (@Iyanu) another experienced designer who contributed to #StratumV2 in 2024 and whose team took third place in the SKBD wallet hackathon in 2025. Welcome to Cohort 4 everyone! Look forward to another great one.
Last Friday (Aug 8), Meetup 1 of Grassroots Lightning Month kicked off to a roaring start. @Naphat09 from #WelB talked about his journey of orange-pilling small merchants in Thailand and onboarding them onto the Lightning network. Here are some images from the meetup, including all the things you can buy with Lightning in Thailand. Products and services range from coffee, food, homemade ghee to barbershop, car wash, books, clothing and Muay Thai lessons/workouts. If this was any indication, can’t wait for the Aug 22nd double-feature event!
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August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space BKK. 3 events have been posted in Meetup per links below. Aug 8 - Meetup 1 with My from WelB. He’ll talk about onboarding small merchants to Lightning, especially in eastern Bangkok. Aug 22 - Meetup 2 with Mick, who’s been orange pilling any merchant with a pulse in Huay Pheung district, Kalasin province. Also Aug 22 - the augural outdoors Lightning Free Market, where small merchants can come sell their food, beverages and other stuff on the front lawn of BOB Space. They will all accept Lightning payments.
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Grassroots Lightning Month - Meetup 1, Fri, Aug 8, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space. This month, we hear from local Bitcoiners who have been promoting Grassroots Lightning adop...
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Grassroots Lightning Month - Meetup 2, Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space. This month, we hear from local Bitcoiners who have been promoting Grassroots Lightning adop...
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Inaugural outdoors Lightning Free Market at BOB Space, Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space. In addition to hearing from great local Bitcoiners who have been promoting Grassroots Light...
Next Friday (Jun 27th), our bi-weekly meetup features a discussion of FOSS Bitcoin Grants, followed by an Application Writing Demo. Might be of interest to those looking to take that next step.
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FOSS Bitcoin grants and Application Writing Demo , Fri, Jun 27, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
We wrap up June 2025 with a talk on FOSS Bitcoin Grants and Application Writing. Being an open source developer or contributor in Bitcoin is diffi...
Quick reflection on a couple of conferences attended in the past 2 months. - Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) 2025 by HRF: Another signal-packdd event featuring freedom fighters and non-compliers from around the globe. Bitcoin as a financial freedom tool continues to feature more prominently. Privacy tech and tools (think Nostr, Cashu ecash, etc.) continue to mature and draw in more FOSS developers. And this year also marked the 5th Anniversary of BDF (Bitcoin Development Fund) - huge shoutout to the team at #HRF led by @gladstein. Another tech development of note is the launch HRF’s AI for Human Rights spearheaded by @Justin Moon. 2025 somehow seems to be an inflection point for AI in terms of promises vs. reality. Kinda been sleeping on this tbh, so will wake up and pay more attention. - Bitcoin Seoul 2025: for an event in its 2nd year, super professional production. So props to the organizers. Program wise, spent all of the first day (Industry Day) at Builders Stage. Save for maybe 1 talk (perhaps ours), every speaker was solid. 2nd day (Public Day) featured some great panels focused on Bitcoin adoption and financialization. And the dinners were legendary thanks to Calvin and Specter. Finally, an image from each event ⬇️
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