Sitting on a bus between Harare and Bulawayo traveling 7 hours through the countryside of #Zimbabwe and sending instantly settled money from my somehow self-hosted Misty @Breez ⚡️ wallet to my self-hosted Lightning wallet @npub148qm...jra7 and back. On mobile data. It still baffles me how it - compared to the traditional systems - is fast, cheap, secure and permissionless. I‘m living in the future. I hope to see it coming into general use. The bus driver just did a very risky maneuver.

Zen browser or Librewolf? Upsides and downsides please! #asknostr

Since many US financial regulations are being adopted globally I hope this too. #Privacy is a human right. View quoted note →

The currency board at Electrosales in Harare shows 1 USD = 32 ZIG today. #Zimbabwe Gold is the current legal tender called which loses value just as fast as all other currencies before. That’s why everyone wants to own USD instead. Almost no one uses ZIG.

How spending Bitcoin accelerates your financial intelligence… ⬇️ Simply Sow is a neighbor and was inspired by @BitcoinEkasi View quoted note →

Bongani started as a surfer kid. Now he’s 17 and set up nodes for the @BitcoinEkasi center, where he lives. He teaches the other kids and wants to become a developer and go to university. Listen to him talk about Satoshi and the tech! Not sure if he’s on Nostr. Please send some sats this way: bongani@blink.sv View quoted note →

Listening: The roots of tyranny - how unprocessed fear fuels aggression, domination, and the rise of authoritarianism. Talk by Tara Brach - Freedom from Inner and Outer Tyranny

Tara Brach

Freedom from Inner and Outer Tyranny: The Path of Spiritual Warriors - Tara Brach

Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening from Tara Brach, PhD - Psychologist, Author, and Meditation Teacher

GN from Zimbabwe. 🇿🇼

Working in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa comes with challenges like daily load shedding. That means there is no electricity as there is not enough production to cover the demand. In South Africa there is an app that announces times without electricity, at least you can plan. Not in Zambia and Zimbabwe, here you never know when it comes or for how long. Even if you have solar since batteries are expensive many houses only have electricity for a couple of hours. If it’s a rainy day even less. So we turn off the fridge and use solar lamps. Whenever power comes we immediately start charging all devices. When electricity goes often the internet dies down too. And you never know when. Quite challenging.

I can remember her from our 2022 visit. Fantastic that she is a coach now and earning sats! View quoted note →

Working on removing myself from Google: Step 1: get a @GrapheneOS phone (a Pixel 🤦‍♂️) ✅ Step 2: start using @Proton mail ✅ Step 3: start using Proton Docs ✅ Still many steps ahead, but the direction is clear. View quoted note →

The perfect finale to my #Bitcoin week in #Zambia: Women's workshop with @Bitcoin Zambia and 20 curious women, lively discussions, great questions and fantastic tutors: Natasha, Tamara and Tilo did a fantastic job! All received and sent their first sats. @Bitcoin for Fairness

Some similarity between Trump's so-called "shithole country Zimbabwe" and Trump himself: both presidents want to break the constitution by extending their terms of reign, preferably as monarchs.

Zimbabwe protest: Harare shuts down as Blessed Geza calls for Emmerson Mnangagwa to resign

Many streets across Zimbabwe remained deserted and empty on the day of a planned protest.

Add facial recognition to KYC social media and free speech is dead. Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned a fan over his T-shirt design And he didn’t even wear it to the venue! The 2017 design was „disrespectful“ to the CEO of the company behind MSG. All these whiny little boys who can’t stand being criticized. 🤦‍♂️

The Verge

Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design

MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.

@calle is going nuts on bsky. Let’s show them how we zap!

Trying to upload a 3.2 GB video file with Starlink from Zambia. Yesterday it took around 5 hours to upload a video of the same size. Just to give you an impression of how difficult it is to work here.

Today we @Bitcoin for Fairness conducted the first ever Bitcoin developer meetup in Lusaka, Zambia together with @Bitcoin Zambia I’m very happy about over 20 people showing up and having great conversations. On Sunday we will do a hackathon!