213. Bauchi, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

September 30, 2019

“Federal polytechnic Bauchi also recorded a successful meetup with great number of participants and we had a good time discussing about blockchain and how it can be used in real life. We looked at some of the things that make æternity different from other blockchain platforms and also spoke about what æternity is doing to remain relevant in the blockchain space. We looked at topics like scalability and considering state channels and bitcoin-NG, and also looked at security and oracles. I was able to also tell them about some of the funding opportunities æternity provides for the community through the Starfleet program and how they can participate in the forthcoming Starfleet program coming up in Malta this November.” -Samson Dogo

212. Kampala, Uganda

Kabetereine Rodgers

September 28, 2019

“Most of these students were still lacking more blockchain knowledge and had to further introduce them to concepts of blockchain, wallets, cryptography, explained to them the difference between public and private key and why they should always store they private keys secretly. This lead us to share more about æternity’s æpps such as Base æpp, explorer, voting æpp and uses of each æpp. We shared how and what the current æternity’s use cases can solve some of the problems in our surrounding…The main goal of this meetup was to bring up a blockchain community group, that will begin seeing a growth of blockchain ideas, projects through interaction with different students and the utilization of dacade.org platform that will boost their understanding of blockchain technologies.” -Kabetereine Rodgers

211. Bauchi, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

September 28, 2019: “At the Bauchi State University Yuli (business management entrepreneur’s campus), we were able to discuss how businesses can take advantage of this emerging technology and how some businesses have taken advantage of this technology in the area of healthcare, finance, education, and even agriculture. Some of the students have some SMEs they run which I encouraged them to begin to think of deploying them on the blockchain to help them gain more trust and expand their customer base. This is because the blockchain promotes trust and encourages high level of transparency in the business. I was able to speak to them about accepting AE as payment for their service which some of them said they need to study the technology more and they will give me feedback.” -Samson Dogo

210. Bauchi, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

September 27, 2019: “At the Bauchi State Polytechnic, the meetup had students from various departments in the school and I was able to use the opportunity to introduce them to aeternity blockchain and what aeternity offers its community. I spoke about the state channels solution and governance on the æternity blockchain. I used the opportunity and encourage them to begin voting online within the school system. There was a situation with the just-concluded elections of the student governing council where the elections were done electronically but the system was hacked and the result was manipulated in favor of a particular candidate. I used this to clearly prove to them that when they deploy the solution on the blockchain, such situations won’t happen because the system can never be hacked and results can’t be manipulated. I was able to direct them to dacade.org to learn about Sophia and possibly integrate it into their voting system.” -Samson Dogo

209.Ondo, Nigeria

Barineka Maagbo

September 26, 2019: Students from the Osun State University of Technology join the fold in what could become a regular meetup in their campus.

“It was a bright and sunny day for crypto enthusiasts from the Osun State University of Technology. This meetup was more of blockchain education and fun. We have a whole lot of students, who didn’t know what was going on, they all joined to hear what æternity blockchain has to offer…We are still talking with the team in the school so we can run a series of meetups to introduce everything about the aeternity development and make sure, we have dedicated guys in the æternity blockchain space.” -Barineka Maagbo

208. Ife, Nigeria

Barineka Maagbo

September 25, 2019: Barineka went on a campus tour with other æternity community members.

“The blockchain roadtrip bus moved from Ladoke Akintola University to Obafemi Awolowo University and Osustech University. And we met a whole alot students who learnt and had fun, there were a lot of questions from the students. We have Stephen Sunday (æternity lead Æmbassador) and also jet (winner of Ekiti State Hackathon) and me. We had a nice time bringing these newbies to crypto and æternity (dacade.org). We are glad we are having a lot of people to be aware of this new technology.” -Barineka Maagbo

207. Caracas, Venezuela

Adrian Sanchez

September 25, 2019: “…surgen expectativas y nuevas ideas que se llevan los participantes conociendo sobre la TECNOLOGIA BLOCKCHAIN que a futuro veremos nuevas propuestas. Seguiremos fortaleciendo el ecosistema y brindando este tipo de encuentro con el fin de unir un equipo para la creación de un proyecto con visión y futuro crecimiento de tecnología en nuestro país.” -Adrian Sanchez

206. Kanungu, Uganda

Kabetereine Rodgers

September 22, 2019: “We thank everyone that welcomed us at Great Lakes Regional University, Kanungu, the staff that encouraged us to keep on sharing with their students in terms of Technology. These are the topics we covered: Introducton to Blockchain, Aeternity blockchain, Features of aeternity blockchain, Programming Languages, Smart contract programming Languages, Sophia Smart contract programming Language, Dacade.org platform and what skills and benefits someone can achieve from it. We also looked at the current challenges being faced in our country, talked about the E-voting platform that has been developed by Makerere University of Business School and how a decentralized blockchain based one would be advantageous than it. Most of the æpps were introduced to these students, and what they can be used for, base æpp, explorer and voting æpp. Introduced these students to our social media platform, forum, telegram and encouraged them to engage in daily participation to develop their knowledge about blockchain, shared with them how our telegram Tipping Bot works and how they would be tipped if they become active in our group.” -Kabetereine Rodgers

205. Oyo, Nigeria

Barineka Maagbo

September 21, 2019: “In the quest of mass adoption of cryptocurrency and the æternity blockchain in the world, I was able to bring in Fun and Blockchain education to reach out to various Universities (3) so this is the first University we visited on the road trip.” -Barineka Maagbo

204. Lafia, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

September 16, 2019: “The meetup at Isa Mohammed Polytechnic had attracted some of the Polytechnic’s lecturers and a good number of students of the computer science department. I was an engaging moment discussing about blockchain and its deployment in day to day activities. After giving a brief introduction on what blockchain is and what cryptocurrencies are, we went further to discuss about the issues blockchain solutions are currently facing and some of the solutions to these problems. We looked at how aeternity is providing a solution for scalability via state channel and how it has proven to be an effective way of solving the scalability issue so far. Also spoke about the Bitcoin-NG solution and we also looked at governance and security. We spoke about a couple of use cases which including deploying blockchain in the Nigerian educational system, Agriculture, e-commerce, governance and also land tittles. The lectures who do not have an idea of blockchain programming said they will also try to take the aeternity101 course on dacade.org and give me feedback.” -Stephen Sunday

Here’s a peek at that event.

203. Jos, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

September 17, 2019: “So we decided to do a hangout after a while to check their progress with æternity101 and to check what are the possible problems the developers are encountering in the bid to try the aeternity101 dacade.org course. And 3/4 of the developers that came around today are developers who are new into blockchain and never heard of æternity. So, we did a quick review of what blockchain is and also gave some brief about aeternity and how they can begin to use aeternity to deploy some blockchain solutions. Some of the advanced developers indicated their willingness to be on-site tutors for those who will need help with finishing the aeternity101 course and also help to begin to work on some of the use cases we have identified like the agricultural solutions and e-commerce.” -Stephen Sunday

202. Lafia, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

September 14, 2019: Stephen hosted a meetup at the Federal University Lafia.

Here are some clips from that meet-up.

201. Caracas, Venezuela

Juan Carlos Delpino

September 13, 2019: “Continuando con los talleres técnicos para nuestros embajadores en esta oportunidad se les facilitaron las herramientas para dictar charlas acerca de los ORACULOS, como crear, compilar y desplegar un Oráculo en la red de aeternity. La diferencia entre crear uno a través de un contrato inteligente o con el SDK. Registrar Oráculos en la Blockchain de æternity para que esten a disposición de la comunidad de desarrolladores, etc.” -Juan Carlos Delpino

200.Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Boris Guevara

September 2, 2019: Boris presents æternity to students and faculty at the Fermin Toro University Computer School.

199.Virtual (Tanzania, Ghana, Cameroon, South Africa)

Dotun Wilfred

September 2, 2019: Watch Dotun’s virtual meetup between participants across different parts of Africa.

198. Virtual meetup (Venezuela)

Boris Guevara

August 31, 2019: Boris held a virtual meetup to talk about æternity and its potential real-world use cases.

197. Caracas, Venezuela

Adrian Sanchez

August 30, 2019: Here’s a short clip of Adrian’s presentation in Caracas.

“Esperamos seguir fortaleciendo el ecosistema y brindando este tipo de meetup con el fin de unir un equipo para la creación de un proyecto con vision y futuro crecimiento de tecnologiadlt en nuestro pais.” -Adrian Sanchez

196. Caracas, Venezuela

Adrian Sanchez

August 29, 2019: Adrian presents æternity to a group of professionals, some of whom were already familiar with Solidity and Ethereum.

195. Maracay, Venezuela

Ivan Leon

August 29, 2019: “Albatros Airlines is looking to teach their employees about blockchain potential, this includes crypto adoption and daepps development. This aeternity presentation was focused in daepps development and the resources æternity has for that goal.” -Ivan Leon

194. Valencia, Venezuela

Ivan Leon

August 29, 2019: This event was for young people starting their professional life in an oil company. Their goal is to make changes in this company, with the natural youth energy and enthusiasm within, now they have a new option in their life in the company with blockchain technology.” -Ivan Leon

193. Adamawa, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

August 28, 2019: “While in Adamawa State University after explaining the technology they came up with a student repository system, where students can access their results regardless of where they are. Because as at the year 2014 there was a boko haram insurgent that led to students running away from the school and some have never return since then, part of the student result where burnt, so most of them couldn’t get their results. This led to the students idea of the student repository system where you can access your result and also transcripts wherever you are.” -Samson Dogo

192. Gombe, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

August 26, 2019: Samson explored the use of blockchain for insurance data security.

“At Gombe State University after the explanation they came up with a use case of an insurance policy, how blockchain’s ability to provide complete accountability, transparency and superior security will help insurers save time and money, as well as improve customer satisfaction. We bring out some of the challenges the insurance industry are facing, Insurance companies currently face a number of challenges as it relates to complex compliance issues, limited growth in mature markets, fraudulent claims activity, third party payment transactions and handling huge amounts of data. The Blockchain does provide foundational technology that promotes trust, transparency and stability. Although Blockchain is in the early stages of adoption, but there are already a handful of ways that insurers are leveraging the technology to mitigate the above mentioned challenges like, security, big data, third party transportation, smart contract and reinsurance.” -Samson Dogo

191. Guyana City, Venezuela

Iván León

July 23, 2019: Iván spoke with university faculty and students to figure out how æternity can be used to make daily tasks easier.

“Many of the attendees were university teachers, including Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela principal. They got æternity’s goal and features rapidly and they left this meet up with ideas for blockchain solutions in their University, community and local government. They wanted more meetups and I will try to arrange a new trip here for that… The attendees work for a university and they could see aepps as a solution for some issues they have, one is a clean and fast way to keep track of employees and students, another one is a way to make a budget app.” -Iván León

Read more about it here.

190. Keffi, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

August 27, 2019: Stephen got some really good insights on the barriers that keep developers from jumping into blockchain programming —the difficulty barrier is one that æternity has been striving to break down and we’re continuously making strides towards that end.

“My experience as a travelling ambassador has given me some answers to why developers are not so fascinated about blockchain development. I was at the Nasarawa state university Keffi where I hosted a meet-up with some developers in the school and from experienced developers within the state. Some of the developers and students told me the reason why they shy away from blockchain development is because the blockchain algorithm is difficult to understand and so this makes them not to be interested. I was able to help them understand that they don’t need to know the blockchain algorithm but to understand how the blockchain works and how they can create aepps. Introduced aeternity to them and why aeternity is ahead of other blockchain platforms and why they should learn aeternity’s smart contract because so far it is the most simplest of all the smart contract languages I have come across.” -Stephen Sunday

Read more about it here.

189. Nasarawa, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

August 24, 2019: Attendance rate at Stephen’s meet-up almost hit three times the expected head count — definitely not bad.

“Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa has a developers community where they meet to work on certain projects as a team. And the team lead was in one of my dev hangouts in Abuja and he invited me to come and introduce his team to æternity and Sophia so that they can begin to get their hands dirty with some blockchain syntax. It was an amazing time because we had planned for only 30 people but we had a crowd of 84 people and I was able to introduce them to Sophia and to aeternity. A handful of them signed up for dacade to take the aeternity101 course.” -Stephen Sunday

Read more about it here.

188. Caracas, Venezuela

Juan Carlos Delpino

August 23, 2019: Some æmbassadors are also working on their own æternity projects!

“We continue this Technical Meet-up Cycle aimed for our aembassadors in Venezuela in order to give them the knowledge and tools to attract new developers to their future meetups. In this opportunity, we talked about the Sophia programming language and how to create, test and deploy a smart contract…One of our æmbassadors is developing a mobile quiz app that rewards participants with ae tokens for learning the basics of the aeternity platform. The app will be available for all æmbassadors to use in their meet-ups!” -Juan Carlos Delpino

Read more about it here.

187. Abuja, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

August 23, 2019: Students from the Faculty of Science at the University of Abuja discuss a potential solution to a problem in student housing.

“One of the use cases we considered is, the school has a capacity of 25,000 students and accommodation is provided for only 6,000 students. The remaining will have to look for accommodation outside the school because most of the students don’t leave with Abuja so there is no option of coming from home. This is the same situation across the country. Within the school, there are available houses for renting but you will need to pay real estate agents some fees before they can take you to the available house and after securing a house, you pay them another fee before renting the house. There are a lot of irregularities with the system and they believe this is something they can work on and it can be replicated across the country. This is because it’s a common issue in the country and not just particular to Nigeria alone.” -Stephen Sunday

Read more about it here.

186. Mumbai, India

Ashish Chawla

August 18, 2019: Ashish explains æternity to a small group in Mumbai.

185. Kumasi, Ghana

Alhassan Yaminu

August 17, 2019: How could æternity blockchain be integrated into business transactions? What æpps are available to be tested? Would there be incentives for accepting AE tokens? These were some of the questions asked at Alhassan’s meet-up.

184. Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Boris Guevara

August 16, 2019: “Buenas noches, El día Viernes 16/08/2019 se realizó en la Universidad de Yacambu, Centro de Emprendedores de la ciudad de Barquisimeto, Estado Lara Venezuela, la charla “Una Introducción al desarrollo de la blockchain de Aeternity”, la charla formo parte de la una iniciativa que promueve el centro de emprendedores de la universidad para un grupo de estudiantes de área de ingeniería electrónica en computación que están interesados en formarse en el área de desarrollo y específicamente en la blockchain aeternity. A la charla asistieron unas 11 personas, conformados por estudiantes que desean incursionar en el desarrollo de aplicaciones. El tiempo de duración fue de una hora, la preguntas estuvieron enfocadas sobre que lenguajes de programación se pueden utilizar en aeternity y que aplicaciones de ejemplos ya existen. Se informaron de las aplicaciones de ejemplo que están en el portal, así como la herramientas y lenguajes que se ofrece la empresa para el desarrollo de las mismas, igualmente se hizo una demostración de cómo funciona la plataforma dacade.org y se hizo una invitación a utilizar los recursos que ofrece la empresa, tales como foros, portal etc.” -Boris Guevara

Read more about it here.

183. Virtual meetup (Ghana, Tanzania, Cameroon, Nigeria)

Oladotun Wilfred

August 12, 2019: Participants from enthusiasts from Tanzania, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria went online to discuss æternity’s different approaches towards smart contracts and applications.

“Use cases discussed were fintech related and smart contracts for new business models, real life data storage using oracles on æternity. The next meet-up aims to be more problem oriented.” -Oladotun Wilfred

Read more about it here.

182. Caracas, Venezuela

Juan Carlos Delpino

August 9, 2019: Juan Carlos had to explain to his meet-up group that the protocol rapidly evolves due to continuous development activity. While this presents challenges for learners, it’s one of the main aspects that makes æternity a force to be reckoned with.

“In order to give our æmbassadors new tools and materials to dictate higher-level meet-ups, we did the second æmbassadors meeting. On this occasion, we introduced ForgAE, Docker, and Docker Compose. A complete session regarding these development tools, from how to install them, deployment and use.” -Juan Carlos Delpino

Read more about it here.

181. Valencia, Venezuela

Iván León

August 7, 2019: Ivan set out to conceptualise potential projects with some experienced programmers and is optimistic that some applications will materialize soon.

“One proposal was around education/human resources field — how to create an app for certifications and achievements of people using blockchain and æternity. It is possible to create a team, next brainstorm meeting we’ll focus on this.” -Iván León

Read more about it here.

180. Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Boris Guevara

July 31, 2019: “Buenas tardes, El día Miércoles 31/07/2019 se realizo en la Universidad de Yacambu, Centro de Emprendedores de la ciudad de Barquisimeto, Estado Lara Venezuela, la charla “Una Introducción al blockchain de Aeternity”, la charla formo parte del evento “Café de Emprendedores”, donde asistieron pequeños empresarios, que mostraron sus productos y contaron sus historias de éxito. A la charla asistieron unas 17 personas, conformados por emprendedores y comunidad universitaria. El tiempo de duración fue de una hora, la preguntas estuvieron enfocadas hacia como utilizar la tecnología Aeternity en el mundo real y como se puede aplicar al sector del emprendimiento. Se informaron de las aplicaciones de ejemplo que están en el portal, igualmente se hizo una demostración de como funciona la plataforma dacade.org. Se hizo una invitación a utilizar la plataforma de aprendizaje que ofrece el portal Aeternity.” -Boris Guevara

Read more about it here.

179.Abuja, Nigeria

Naphtali Dabuk

July 30, 2019: “The æternity meet-up I had today was an interactive one. I had the privilege of talking to these students about æternity and the features it comes with…We then came up with a uses case to tackle the problem of database management found within the healthcare sector, blockchain can serve as a secure and tamperproof database on which patient medical records can be stored.” -Naphtali Dabuk

Read more about it here.

178. Caracas, Venezuela

Marco Gomez

July 30, 2019: Marco headed out to the National Civil Aviation Institute where participants evaluated potential projects for the institution.

“Meet-up executed in the National Civil Aviation Institute, specifically to the personnel of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies. They are willing to receive technical training and evaluate development projects for the institution. The development and infrastructure team of the organization is made up of about 15 people, 8 of which make up the development department.” -Marco Gomez

Read more about it here.

177. Pankshin, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

July 26, 2019: Samson presented æternity to entrepreneur students at the Federal College of Education in Pankshin.

“With three computer science students and over 60 enterpreneurs, they promised to work as a team and bring up a use case so they want to have more knowledge about æternity technology and start.” -Samson Dogo

Read more about it here.

176. Caracas, Venezuela

Juan Carlos Delpino

July 26, 2019: Juan focused on showing his meet-up group different æpps, tools, and how to use them.

In order to give our ambassadors new tools and topics for up coming meetups , we got together last Friday 26 to show them how to install the aeternity test net environment. This is part of a Tech learning cycle designed to give them the necessary knowledge to teach students how to setup and use aeternity’s platform. Thanks to all aembassadors that came from different parts of the country!”-Juan Carlos Delpino

Read more about it here.

175. Ekiti, Nigeria

Barineka Maagbo

July 25, 2019: Barineka held a hackathon at the Tech Hub in Ekiti. Decentralized payment system Pæy bagged the first prize, followed by Kwikjobs (2nd prize), MovieCoin (3rd prize), SmartFinance (4th prize), and Monkey (5th).

174.Caracas, Venezuela

Marco Gomez

July 25, 2019: Students from the Experimental University of the Greater Caracas assessed possible use cases of æternity technology in the education sector.

“Meet-up directed to the technical staff of the Information Technology Unit, of the Experimental University of the Greater Caracas. The objective is for the unit to support students who have received training and need tools for their learning and future project execution using the aeternity blockchain and all its tools with hardware and software infrastructure resources. The idea is to form a team of accessories of the university to support in the future projects students who study engineering in the area of ​​computer science.” -Marco Gomez

Read more about it here.

173. Abuja, Nigeria

Naphtali Dabuk

July 24, 2019: Some of Naphtali’s meet-up attendees were wondering how people can benefit from æternity if they do not have smart phones — something that is absolutely feasible, and something to think about for those who are looking to build start-up projects.

Read more about it here.

172. Barkin Ladi, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

July 24, 2019: Students in Barkin were interested in building some gaming applications.

“I started off at Plateau state Polytechnic Barkin Ladi which was great because the audience were computer science students and other students. I introduced Blockchain, æternity Blockchain with its features and they were interested. Most of them don’t know what Blockchain is and the only thing they do have an idea about is bitcoin but not knowing how it’s works. I then explained to them After which they understood and came up with a Blockchain use case in gaming, P2P betting.”

Read more about it here.

171. Bauchi, Nigeria

Samson Dogo

July 22, 2019: Samson brought æternity to a state university and pointed them to the dacade tutorials so those who are interested can begin learning, and hopefully coding.

“Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi State was happy to have this technology come to their school. I briefly explained æternity Blockchain and its features which are State Channels, Oracles, and Governance. They promised to look into the Sophia syntax for possible deployment on æternity’s blockchain.”

-Samson Dogo

Read more about it here.

170. Abuja, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

July 20, 2019: Stephen and his meet-up group tackled some disturbing problems in their locale.

“We have a lot of issues with buildings collapsing at an alarming rate and this is raising a lot of concerns. We also looked at supply chain within the health sector. A lot of medical supplies have been donated to people who need them but eventually, these people end up buying what was meant to be free. Already this solution is in the process of being developed.” -Stephen Sunday

Read more about it here.

169. Maidguri, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

July 18, 2019: Stephen continues his quest to educate locals about the benefits of æternity, particularly in areas of conflict.

“I gave an overview of what blockchain is and how deploying blockchain solutions can help ease day to day living in these hostile regions since to a large extend trust is now a big problem due to the constant boko haram’s (insurgents) attacks on the region…We had in attendance a robotics center in Gombe who sent some representatives to witness the meet-up, and another NGO, Raube Zaman — an NGO that is promoting women participation in Technology in Nigeria.” -Stephen Sunday

Read more about it here.

168. Caracas, Venezuela

Marco Gomez

July 16, 2019: The meet-up was aimed at students of computer engineering at the Experimental University of the Gran Caracas-Venezuela. The group discussed the potential integration of artificial intelligence into smart contracts, registration and secure storage of information.

Read more about it here.

167. Gombe, Nigeria

Stephen Sunday

July 15, 2019: Stephen brought æternity to Gombe and Borno in the hopes that the technology can help address current problems in these areas.

“I was so excited to host the first blockchain meet-up in Gombe and Borno (Maiduguri) states. These States have been greatly hit by the insurgency in Nigeria and I wanted to see how we can immediately begin to deploy some of the solutions on the blockchain to help people continue their lives and make good use of the technological opportunities.”

-Stephen Sunday

Read more about it here.

166. Ekiti, Nigeria (Virtual)

Emmanuelle Joseph

July 6, 2019: Emmanuelle conducted an introductory workshop to æternity, focusing on smart contracts and state channels. You can watch the Youtube video of this presentation here.

165.Caracas, Venezuela

Adrian Sanchez

July 1, 2019: Adrian’s group pointed out how great it would be if majority of the learning materials for budding developers were also available in Spanish. They also think focusing on other students like themselves would be highly beneficial to both. the æternity network and to aspiring blockchain developers. These are definitely noted.

“El día de hoy 01 Julio 2019 , hicimos un TERCER MEETUP en la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS ( UNEFA ), esta jornada tiene un objetivo fundamental, levantar todas las inquietudes de aquellos estudiantes interesados en desarrollar y programar en una blockchain para llegar a un proyecto donde sean beneficiados un colectivos o una idea que ofrezca un gran potencial para desarrollar. Son estudiantes de Ingeniería de Sistemas y todo lo referente a nuevas tecnologías sus coordinadores de estudios se interesaron y abrieron las puertas para que AETERNITY pueda impartir toda esa enseñanza al colectivo… El interés de los estudiantes fue excelente y quedaron a la expectativa de seguir recibiendo contenido y a su crear un grupo para una segunda fase un poco mas avanzada. Esta jornada continuara y le seguiremos comentando el desarrollo de los acontecimientos.”

Read more about it here.

164. Jinja, Uganda

Kabetereine Rodgers

June 30, 2019: Kabetereine had a productive meet-up, discussing potential use cases with his group.

“We brainstormed to understand more about blockchain and come up with numerous blockchain use cases. They talked of a transparent ecosystem for better government tax collection to reduce on their tax-collecting operations, reduce the cost of third-party transaction brokers. The participants were requested to all participate in aeternity courses on dacade.org.” -Kabetereine Rodgers

Read more about it here.

163.Ogun, Nigeria

Barineka Maagbo

June 30, 2019: Barineka led 25 curious minds through a journey into the basics of æternity, tackling cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, and blockchain technology in general. They even delved deeper into the use cases of Bitcoin beyond payments and discussed smart contracts, dApps, and their uses. They also talked about dacade courses — for which some participants signed up!

“Happy to get words out to the masses about adoption of this technology, and I want to thank the æ blockchain for helping to push this movement.” -Barineka Maagbo

Read more about it here.

162. Abuja, Nigeria

Naphtali Dabuk

June 29, 2019: Naphtali conducted a very productive meet-up where 25 people discussed how they can use blockchain technology to improve livelihoods, processes, and daily activities in their locale. They even formed a team to test out their ideas in hopes of making blockchain’s benefits a reality for their people.