#introductions let’s welcome this new nostrich! View quoted note →

Why does @primal try to connect to local networks and with that also get my geolocation?

Last week, I hosted a panel discussion at @Adopting Bitcoin about Open Source Bitcoin Education! Topic: the @Mi Primer Bitcoin El Salvador Node Network, with @BitcoinEkasi, @npub1xxcy...tfly, Bitcoin Indonesia and AmityAge. Or in other words: stories from bitcoin educators in South Africa, Zambia, Indonesia and Honduras! 🇿🇦🇿🇲🇮🇩🇭🇳 🎥

Bitcoin fixes this #elsalvador #sansalvador #bitcoin

WHAT A DAY 🤩 The Bitcoin Educators Unconference from @Mi Primer Bitcoin El Salvador is a wrap. Proud of the result after putting in quite some work. Outdoors, decentralized, Unscheduled. Give, inspire, empower Thanks all for attending!

I feel that we're getting closer to a World Order in which everyone is equally important. One that pushes for collaboration, not competition One that unites instead of separates One that's neutral, not political One that's transparent One that's peaceful #bitcoin

STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS

After a cancelled flight, today the 2nd try to go to El Salvador. Yesterday I boarded a plane twice, but it was cancelled both times (first mechanical error, second time federal law with testing hours for staff - we couldn’t make it on time anymore). Third is a charm. Salvador, here we come! 🇸🇻🔥 (Oh, and I’m sending this note mid-air)

Here we come again 🇸🇻🎉

👀👀👀 Got the @BitPopArt nostr book today! 🔥

Who won the election tonight? Ehmm. Politics did. And politicians.

Fixed supply + low time preference = Peace of mind. Truly. Few.

🫵🏼 “Socialism works, we have just never implemented it well” We all heard the quote. But what If I told you that there is ONE place where socialism (or communism) actually did work? No, it’s not in Cuba or with the Soviets, or Pol Pot. I’m talking about Social(ist) Media. Social Media. It worked online. ➖ you think you own something, but actually you don’t. Property rights don’t exist. ➖ you don’t earn anything, but are creating wealth for the boss/CEO. They get rich, you swipe for them. ➖ everything you do, is for the greater good (or: “the algorithm”). You’re feeding it every single day. ➖ you think you are in charge, but actually you are constantly surveilled and monitored. ➖ you have no freedom to say what you want, as the “thought police” is always there to censor you. If you really look at it, social media is maybe the best implementation of socialism so far. Or maybe even communism — Lenin and Marx would be proud! Luckily, there is a peaceful way out. We don’t have to fight, but we have to ignite a revolution with code. “Ideas are bulletproof, they cannot be killed.” Nostr is this peaceful way out! With nostr “you own something”, “you earn something”, and “you are in charge”. It’s the antidote to Social(ist) Media. It’s Free(dom) Media. ✨ “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller

Yesterday's meeting with the @Mi Primer Bitcoin El Salvador Bitcoin Educators Network was (once again) fantastic🤩 Almost 40 educators from all over the world! 🇸🇻🇿🇦🇨🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧🇰🇪🇩🇴🇭🇹🇸🇷🇿🇼🇺🇬🇳🇬🇧🇩 Everyone teaches the open source Bitcoin Diploma. This is the power of collaboration, decentralization and bitcoin.

Sometimes I’m trying to think how my life would have been without bitcoin. Without Satoshi Nakamoto. It would likely have been very different..! ➖ No remote job ➖ No passion ➖ No full-time traveling ➖ Less savings (mentality) ➖ No outlook for a better, fair world ➖ Run the fiat hamster wheel ➖ Different friends ➖ Care about career ladder I guess: “different” savings, job, passion, etc. But I can’t believe I would have been living a more interesting and happier life. Thanks to bitcoin I wrote the two Dutch bitcoin magazines, co-created a Bitcoin board game, wrote dozens of articles, translated five Bitcoin books to Dutch, gave plenty lectures, visited 5+ circular economies, spend most of my time in El Salvador, and much more. Oh, and learned how social media and the internet is broken because bitcoin brought me in nostr. It’s crazy to think how much “an idea” and “computer code” and its community can do to one’s life.