How do you scale Bitcoin adoption across an entire continent without a dev team?
You build with AI 🤖
PoWBoT (nprofile…9u6w) is live, paying merchants from across Africa for real-world "Proof of Work" transactions over Lightning with 96% approval rate, built by BitcoinUbuntu (nprofile…t56z) who had never written code before.
Full story on the bot and the CBAF community 👇 https://www.bitcoinafricastory.com/api/share-news/powbot-how-a-non-programmer-built-an-ai-assisted-tool-that-s-paying-bitcoin-merchants-across-africa
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2026-03-29 20:09:59 UTC
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