Building PoWBoT: A Journey in AI-Assisted Development

Presentation slides for the Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit, January 29, 2026.

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About

This presentation tells the story of building PoWBoT, an automated proof-of-work verification and payment system for the Circular Bitcoin Africa Fund (CBAF), using Claude AI as a collaborative development partner.

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What's Inside

• 35 slides covering:
  • The manual verification problem we faced
  • How we automated it with PoWBoT
  • Real conversations from the development process
  • Technical implementation details
  • The mindset shift in AI-assisted development
  • What you could build with similar tools

Key Projects Featured

• PoWBoT Telegram Bot: GitHub
• Public Stats Dashboard: bitcoinubuntu.github.io/powbot-stats

Tech Stack

All tools used are free or low-cost:

• Claude (Sonnet 4) for development
• Python + Telegram Bot API
• Google Sheets for data tracking
• Blink API for Lightning payments
• GitHub Pages for hosting

Organizations

This work supports:

• CBAF (Circular Bitcoin Africa Fund)
• FBCE (Federation of Bitcoin Circular Economies)
• Bitcoin Beach
• My First Bitcoin

Connect

• GitHub: BitcoinUbuntu
• X: @BitcoinUbuntu
• Dashboard: bitcoinubuntu.github.io/powbot-stats

License

MIT License - feel free to use these slides as inspiration for your own presentations about AI-assisted development.