AGENDA

• 11.00a.m: Introductions
• 11.20 a.m: Talk: Building a bitcoin wallet using Ruby
• 12.20 p.m: Questions
• 12:35pm: Snacks and Networking

About the talk

Building a Bitcoin Wallet with Ruby by Isaack Njama
A hands-on technical workshop that will teach Ruby developers how to build a functional Bitcoin wallet from scratch. Participants will learn Bitcoin fundamentals, and implement core wallet functionality.

Who is Isaack Njama
He is a software engineer working primarily in TypeScript and Rust, building open-source Bitcoin infrastructure. He contributes to Fedimint, co-organize Bitdevs Nairobi, and writes about Bitcoin and Lightning to make these technologies more accessible. He is excited to connect with the Ruby community!

What is Nairuby?

Nairuby is a chapter in Nairobi under the African Ruby Community an organization that was started in 2010. The community currently has a reach of over 4000 members spread across East Africa, made of developers (Engineers), entrepreneurs, designers, and freelancers. In terms of development and demonstrations, the community focuses on ruby technologies and frameworks, which are all open source and widely used by startups to prototype and carry out proof of concept with a go-to-market strategy.

The community hosts weekly and monthly meetups in different cities in East Africa. The community brings you Ruby Conference every year with different themes to fill the gap that exists between school and industry and in return helps spur innovation and growth in contribution to the global economy.
Nairuby brings entrepreneurs, developers, Designers, and open-source contributors. Why? We believe in a holistic approach through, entrepreneurship “Solution approach” and open source we can solve so many problems. This in return empowers everyone who attends with technology “tool” and entrepreneurship “Methodology” to reach their fullest potential and inspire the rest of the world and their communities.
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Nairuby is a chapter in Nairobi under the African Ruby Community an organization that was started in 2010. The community currently has a reach of over 4000 members spread across East Africa, made of developers (Engineers), entrepreneurs, designers, and freelancers. In terms of development and demonstrations, the community focuses on ruby technologies and frameworks, which are all open source and widely used by startups to prototype and carry out proof of concept with a go-to-market strategy.
The community hosts weekly and monthly meetups in different cities in East Africa. The community brings you Ruby Conference every year with different themes to fill the gap that exists between school and industry and in return helps spur innovation and growth in contribution to the global economy.
Nairuby brings entrepreneurs, developers, Designers, and open-source contributors. Why? We believe in a holistic approach through, entrepreneurship “Solution approach” and open source we can solve so many problems. This in return empowers everyone who attends with technology “tool” and entrepreneurship “Methodology” to reach their fullest potential and inspire the rest of the world and their communities.