Location

The event will be hosted at theBunkers Yaba:

279 Herbert Macaulay Way | Yaba, Lagos | Map

Announcements

Join us on our Eleventh 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
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?

Topics

Mining

MC: Bosun

Introduction to Bitcoin Mining.

Mining hardware devices

The importance of mining pool in beating Bitcoin diffculty level and Hashrate required (f2pool, Braiins)

More overview of Braiins pool, in connection with BitAxe mining device

Bitcoin gaming platforms that enables passive sats collection, while promoting Bitcoin knowledge

Lightning Network

MC: Tobe

Introduction to polar for as an overview of the Bitcoin Lightning network for local app development and testing

Creating nodes and channels on the Lightning network using polar

Implementing different actions on the lightning network such as creating outgoing/incoming channels, creating and paying invoices.

Understanding liquidity flow with respect to channel capacity withing the networks.

Connecting your polar application to your local application using grpc, Rest e.t.c.

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