Monthly Round Up 5: Beyond The Bull Run

We revisit a live panel from Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town and argue that 2025’s flat price masked a deeper bull run in infrastructure, adoption, and freedom tech. Builders pushed Lightning, open-source mining, Nostr, and circular economies while institutions edged in.

• sideways price as distraction from real adoption
• Lightning capacity, routing, and L2 experimentation advancing
• Stratum V2 and open-source miners aiding decentralisation
• living on Bitcoin through retail payments and remittances
• circular economies scaling across Africa
• stablecoins’ trade-offs: familiarity versus control risk
• Nostr enabling creator payouts and censorship resistance
• top-down banking integrations balanced with grassroots
• practical sovereignty: self-custody, nodes, education
• open Q&A on co-option risk and resilience

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