{"id":7980,"date":"2022-07-21T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02a6c2196000256e"},"modified":"2022-07-21T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:49:13","slug":"btrust-launches-african-cohort-for-new-bitcoin-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/btrust-launches-african-cohort-for-new-bitcoin-developers","title":{"rendered":"Non-Profit \u20bftrust Is Funding New Bitcoin Developers In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><ul>\n<li>\u20bftrust is locating, educating and paying new Bitcoin developers in Africa to decentralize contributors around the world. <\/li>\n<li>The non-profit has identified its founding member who will focus on custody solutions empowering Africans to hold their own keys. <\/li>\n<li>\u20bftrust hopes to expand the program internationally. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u20bftrust, a non-profit dedicated to furthering the open source development of Bitcoin, is funding the development and education of new developers for Bitcoin in Africa, per a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. <\/p>\n<p>The \u20bftrust Africa Open Source Cohort will locate, educate, and pay individuals for their time spent in the program as they learn to build out needed tools for the Bitcoin ecosystem. \u20bftrust continues to focus on countries with less Bitcoin developers, which means supporting newer contributors in the ecosystem. The challenge of new developers left unchecked in open source development can often lead to developers causing damage, rather than providing constructive proposals or championing needed developmental change. <\/p>\n<p>The \u20bftrust cohort has crafted a framework for preventing those damaging scenarios through a five-point system in which the non-profit will be able to offer on-going support for developers. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, members of the cohort will receive a mentor \u2013 a technical guide through the chosen application of the developer, as well as oversight from an assigned manager to assist each member. Additionally, members will gain peer support through daily team-based activities; project relations in which \u20bftrust will openly communicate on-going projects with cohort members, and finally, new cohort members will be contracted for a year with the option to renew to encourage long-term productivity. Added support will be provided including stipends for hardware and travel to encourage community foundations. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, \u20bftrust has also identified its founding member \u2013 Vladimir Fomene. Fomene is a Cameroonian \u2013 West African \u2013 software engineer proficient in both Java Script and Rust. He previously worked as a full stack engineer and his initial focus will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoindevkit.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin Development Kit,<\/a> which provides the necessary tools for developers to build bitcoin wallets capable of functioning cross-platform. With the purpose of enabling Africans to hold the keys of their own bitcoin in mind, Fomene will largely focus on developments that further bitcoin custody solutions. <\/p>\n<p>Formene detailed his initial reluctance to Bitcoin, and what eventually drew him in on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vladimirfomene.com\/blog\/i-was-wrong-about-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the unfolding of the events above, it became clear to me that we had given governments too much power and they could abuse it through their misactions or actions,\u201d Formene said. \u201cThe people must take back some of that power or have systems that can keep their governments in check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u20bftrust will continue to introduce newcomers to the ecosystem with a long-term vision of expanding the program through the global south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u20bftrust has located the founding member for its new cohort designed to locate and educate new developers in the Bitcoin ecosystem, beginning with Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2785,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[84,157,2115,93],"class_list":["post-7980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-africa","tag-bitcoin-developer","tag-btrust","tag-news"],"author_data":{"id":2785,"name":"Shawn Amick","nicename":"shawn-amick","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MjEwMTYzMzc3Njg5ODYzNjQ2-96x96.webp"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/124-btc.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}