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Bitcoin Saigon
BitcoinSaigon@primal.net
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Spreading the orange gospel & assembling the local community since 2014 in Saigon / Vietnam
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BitcoinSaigon 6 months ago
As we're recovering from all the hectic event orga in recent weeks, we would also would like to a give a shout out once again to all our donors who helped to make this event possible. image As we intentionally keep the booth vendor fees at a very low cost to keep the event accessible and community-based to allow also small home-based craft- & artisanal food makers to display their wares... image ...we are dependent on the goodwill of the wider community to support these events to keep them sustainable as a regular gathering space for the local Bitcoin community... image ...and "promising pre-coiners" who do good work for the wider community, but might not (yet) have fully taken the orange pill image To state it differently: This whole event was made possible by anon plebs from around the world who over the previous weeks used the power of the Bitcoin & Lightning network to support the orange cause in 🇻🇳- entirely permissionless. image "wHaT cAn bItCoIn bE uSeD fOr?!?" finds an answer right here. A real world event with real world impact made possible and powered by Bitcoin - donated by dozens of anon donors globally, from a few Sats to more sizeable amounts. image We also would like to thank the ⚡️infrastructure & service providers @Geyser & @Alby who made it really simple to spread the awareness of the event & accept donations - the tooling build by these teams played a decent role to make the event the success it was. image A special shout out also to our sponsor @Neutron who jumped in to help fill some of the remaining budget gap - another team that is building Lightning infrastructure at the cutting edge over here in Asia image We hope to see you around for more at the Christmas Flea Market 2025 - follow along for how you can support or ideally join in in person!🙂 image
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BitcoinSaigon 6 months ago
Thank you for coming out everyone yesterday & all the support we got over the weeks leading up to the event! Third iteration in total, first time at a new venue - and we aim to get better each time around 🙏 image Our crew will recover & reassemble in the days ahead and share some more pictures soon - if you got any, feel free to share (but please respect the privacy of people who have not opted-in to be photographed :) )
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BitcoinSaigon 6 months ago
Tomorrow afternoon - the third Satoshi Flea Market Saigon is happening 🥳 Join us! image
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BitcoinSaigon 7 months ago
~66% of the budget covered by now 🫡 One more week to go - we thank all of our supporters so far who help to make this event a regular one for the frens & the frens of the frens of the orange coin in Saigon! We are looking forward to see everyone next week at Funk Factory! image
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BitcoinSaigon 7 months ago
As of last night, 65,9% of our target budget reached ✌️ image The official announcement for the Flea Market is also live on our website by now: Join us on the 20th of July at Funk Factory Saigon! Family-friendly and kids are welcome - Bitcoiners building for the future :-) We are also still looking for further "bitcoin-aligned" vendors who are keen to participate - if you have sb in your circles who might be a good fit, be it a small business or just on passionate hobbyist level, get in touch! The booth fees are deliberately kept very low to make participation easy and affordable for everyone :-)
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BitcoinSaigon 7 months ago
This week we updated our merchant list on our page. Now with a direct integration to @BTC Map - and a (severely) reduced list of "qualified merchants". image As everyone who's tried "orange-pilling merchants" knows - turnover is brutal. Shops close, owners stop bothering... - our static merchant page essentially constantly outdated = just not a reliable guide anymore! As the overhead of maintaining a static and reasonably accurate merchant list became too high, we rather support from here on out the efforts of BTCMap - and so you should you! BTCMap is a free and open source project (FOSS) and fully relies on donations and sponsorship to continue. If you like what they're doing - consider throwing them a few Sats. image We will still keep a "qualified merchant" list around for merchants which have lasted for more than two years at a minimum (which is right now rather thin!). But better a clean short list, than a long wrong list with many outdated listings! Thanks once more for the advice and assistance to Leo Weese and the #BTCMap team who has been dedicating the past couple of years to bring this project to the clean & professional level it is now! 🙌
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BitcoinSaigon 8 months ago
The Summer Flea Market of the Bitcoin Community in Saigon is about to take place next month. Our fundraising target to cover the costs: 1,000,000 Sats image You can contribute either directly via our Website and/or via @Geyser ---> If you happen to be a vendor aligned with the ethos and would like to take part as a merchant - inbox us and we'll look to make the necessary arrangements. image Our donation address as QR code: image
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BitcoinSaigon 8 months ago
Selected representative of the Saigon Bitcoin Community heading for Seoul - besides taking on the task over at Blink ( ) on driving Bitcoin mass adoption in the Global South, he is also one of the most well-connected nodes on the human layer of the Bitcoin Network image
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BitcoinSaigon 11 months ago
Currently 59.3 BTC (- 0.6%) capacity provided by the by the (public) 🇻🇳 #Vietnam-related Lightning ⚡️Routing Nodes. This equals about 1.2% ( +0.1 %) of the total Network capacity. #Lightning #LightningNetwork ...while with those numbers we are close to 🇻🇳's share of the world population, we have some ambitious goals this year to drive adoption & network infrastructure further within the community ✌️ Chart below - Vietnam's share of the total world population in percent.
The annual Li Xi campaign is taking place once more. The Li Xi packages will start to be distributed via your local Bitcoin frens & merchants in #Saigon - the ideal way to orange-pill your frens & fam over the upcoming Lunar New Year holidays. ...word on the street has it, that some of these will make it also to the next meetup in #Hanoi...👀 --- Thank you to all our donors & sponsors who helped to make it happen for the fourth year in a row - without you, this annual tradition would not be possible 🙏 If you would like to give your 2 Sats to help maintain & support the community, you can do so here: -->
Any Bitcoiners planning to come to Saigon / Vietnam in Q1/2025 from abroad? 👀 Tag us below or inbox us 🙌
The next Flea Market of the #Saigon community is just around the corner. Come along or even better: Get involved! Still some vendor spots available and any help to make the event a success is highly appreciated! Talk about it, bring your boots on the ground or just throw some Sats into the community chest. 🎅🌲🎁 Details: Date: December 8th, 2024 Time: Approx. 2pm to 6pm ITC (afternoon Vietnam time) Location: Indika Saigon (43 Đ. Nguyễn Văn Giai, Đa Kao, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 710359, Vietnam) Entry: Free to enter! image
Welcome to our newest ⚡️ pleb node in the club - #HyperspaceVN 🤝🇻🇳 image Currently 59.3 BTC (+0.3%) capacity provided by the by the (public) #Vietnam-related Lightning Routing Nodes. This equals about 1.1% (-0.04%) of the total Network capacity. #Lightning #LightningNetwork image Want to learn more what this is all about? Read up here: bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-saigon-lightning-community-on-amboss