Location

The event will be hosted at Hotel Onomo, Maputo

Map

Date: October 17, 2026

Time: 09:00 to 12:00

Announcements

Join us for the first BitDevs Maputo Socratic Seminar! We will run Bitcoin Core on our own laptops and find out who really runs Bitcoin. A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust.

Bring your laptop.

Reminders

• We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?

Topics

Opening

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MC: Angela

• Welcome and introduction to the Socratic format
• Introduction to BitDevs Maputo and the goals of the seminar

Introduction

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MC: Daniel

• Introduction to Bitcoin Famba

Bitcoin Core

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MC: Custódio

• Download and run a Bitcoin Core node
• JSON-RPC interface: the commands we will use
• BIPs implemented by Bitcoin Core
• Who decides the rules of Bitcoin? Developers, miners, exchanges, or the people who run a node?

Private & Public Keys

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MC: Custódio

• Not your keys, not your coins
• Descriptors: how Core describes keys, scripts and addresses
• BIP32: HD wallets
• Code: key generation (key.cpp)

Addresses & Transactions

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MC: Custódio

• Code: transaction structure (transaction.h)
• Code: validation and mempool (validation.cpp)
• Code: network propagation (net_processing.cpp)
• PSBT: building and signing a transaction in parts

Closing & Upcoming Events

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MC: Angela

• Summary of the discussion
• Next Socratic Seminar and community group