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About

Qala is a program designed to train the next generation of African Bitcoin and Lightning developers. The program is full-time and includes stipends for participants.

Become a Bitcoin/LN Dev

Dive deep into security concerns, adversarial thinking, and approaches to Bitcoin and Lightning software design.

Project Based Learning

Unstructured time for participants to contribute to open-source projects or work on a personal project of their choosing.

Virtual & Onsite

The program is a mix of virtual and onsite sessions with demo days for project presentations.

Organizers

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Bernard Parah

Bernard is the CEO of Bitnob and is a self-proclaimed freedom maximalist.
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Carla Kirk-Cohen

Carla builds infrastructure at Lightning Labs to make it easier to participate in a decentralized, private payments system.
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Tim Akinbo

Tim is a long-time Bitcoiner and open-source enthusist.
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Abubakar Nur Khalil

Abubakar is the CTO of Recursive Capital and a Bitcoin Core contributor.
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Caralie Chrisco

In addition to serving as an Operations Manager at Chaincode Labs, Caralie is also the Content Lead at Hello, Bitcoin.
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Adam Jonas

Jonas spearheads educational initiatives at Chaincode.

Supporters

Qala is proudly supported by
hrf logo Human Rights Foundation
paxful logo Paxful
built with bitcoin foundation logo Built With Bitcoin Foundation

Resources

Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Mastering Bitcoin is a book for developers, although the first two chapters cover bitcoin at a level that is also approachable to non-programmers. Anyone with a basic understanding of technology can read the first two chapters to get a great understanding of bitcoin.

Self Paced Seminar

Our seminar materials are available for anyone to use with readings and discussion questions on various Bitcoin and Lightning topics.