Stanley Chege Thuita

From "hello world" to a working wallet backend, one shipped phase at a time.

• 🎓 SE Apprentice @ Zone01 Kisumu, peer-to-peer and project-based, no lectures
• ⚡ Founder & sole developer of Altradits — Bitcoin banking for Kenya, M-Pesa rails, vanilla Go
• 🧩 Owns features end to end, from schema to deploy

Core, vanilla first while I build solid fundamentals:

Exploring in side projects:

"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work." — Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008

Everyone in my community has a story — an "nguru" who vanished with their savings, a Sacco that quietly went broke, a chama that fell apart when the treasurer disappeared. Altradits is my answer: a bank for my community where there's no one left to trust — only code, Bitcoin, and a ledger anyone can audit. Deposit the M-Pesa you already use, lock your sats for 5+ years, and let patience do what no nguru ever could.

• ⚡ Send/receive sats over Lightning + you@altradits.com addresses (LNURL-pay)
• 🇰🇪 Deposit & withdraw KES via M-Pesa STK push
• 💰 Treasury pool: bonds, money market, equities, BTC, auto interest
• 🛡️ JWT auth + role-based admin dashboards

Prerequisites: Go 1.22+, PostgreSQL 14+

# 1. Set up the database
make setup-db

# 2. Run (migrations + default-account seeding happen automatically)
make dev
# or: go run cmd/server/main.go

psql -U postgres << 'EOF'
CREATE USER altradits WITH PASSWORD 'password';
CREATE DATABASE altradits OWNER altradits;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE altradits TO altradits;
EOF

DB_URL=postgres://altradits:password@localhost:5432/altradits?sslmode=disable go run cmd/server/main.go

Default accounts

• Backend: Go 1.22, standard library only. Custom PostgreSQL wire protocol driver (internal/pgdrv).
• Frontend: Pure HTML + CSS + vanilla JS. No frameworks.
• Database: PostgreSQL 14+
• Auth: SHA-256 session tokens, HttpOnly cookies

1. Trust minimization — no ngurus, public assets
2. Patience as proof of work — 5-year lock minimum
3. Timestamped transparency — every sat traced
4. No KYC — email or phone only
5. Community review — no central authority
6. Incentive alignment — 2% of profit only
7. Simplicity — 6 buttons max
8. Privacy by default — no name required
9. Long-term horizon — shortcuts are traps
10. Open participation — no minimums

• Now: Manual M-Pesa + Lightning (admin-approved)
• Phase 2: M-Pesa API (Daraja) + LND integration
• Phase 3: Events, Hackathons, Travel, Crowdfunding modules

1. Fork the repo, then git clone your fork
2. Follow Quick Start above to get it running locally
3. Create a branch, make your change, and open a PR

Bug fixes, tests, and roadmap items above are all welcome — open an issue first for bigger changes.

🔥 Still showing up, every day

• 🔌 Real LND node (currently mock-Lightning for dev)
• 🧪 Test coverage for internal/wallet & internal/treasury
• 📡 Public Lightning address service (*@altradits.com)
• 🤝 Sats to cash agent network with women-led businesses near me

Hiring, or building something with Go + Lightning rails? Let's talk.