It’s been 5 years. 4 since we knew these weren’t necessary. Why don’t airports remove them?

We setup the first (I believe) Africa Nostr relay 2 years ago here in Kenya - still going strong too. wss://nostr-1.nbo.angani.co Big thanks to Riyaz and the Angani team for managing it. I still remember the late nights talking for hours with @npub1ynfl...wfm8 about how this was the first real architectural shift we’d seen on the Internet in decades. The road is long, but if we work for it, the future can be amazing.

We’ve been having fun working up a locally made in Kenya #Bitaxe bitcoin miner. First couple designed and testing. Hii ni shoka yetu “This is our axe” Funnily enough the slowest horse has been that we didn’t have any Bitmain machines, but we finally got some S19 chips.

Whirlwind trip to the US. Looking forward to Nashville, NYC, and LA!

Time for some offgrid family time. (Kindle synced, Starlink going off in 3, 2, 1…)

Really glad to hear @jack talk about how #nostr is more than just a Twitter clone, but your identity moved across application and service types. Nostr is a different way to architect the Internet that we’ve known for 30 years.

I think bitcoin is phenomenal. It’s a base layer. But I think the most exciting thing today is in media. Every time you interact in social media you feed into an algorithm. #Nostr is the media protocol layer that is permissionless - @jack at the Africa Bitcoin Conference with @ojomaochai #abc24

Getting kinda busy as we get ready for the Africa Bitcoin Conference next week. Looking forward to seeing everyone! @npub1ndzn...5nva

I had a conversation with Mike Peterson at Bitcoin Beach about how bitcoin mining makes energy profitable and how bitcoin financing will be the catalyst for rapid electrification in Africa.

Didn’t start this South America trip with a plan for El Salvador, but an invitation from Mike Peterson finds me in my way there for the Adopting Bitcoin conference this week!

Brazil has been a trip! Impressive to see the Praia Bitcoin work, as well as be at Satsconf with so many local bitcoiners. And São Paulo is 4x the size of Nairobi at 23M people. Crazy!

At Satsconf - great vibe! Fun shirt by satlantis.io #saopaulo #nostr

I didn’t realize that Argentina 🇦🇷 had the greatest IMF debt in the world (~$50B). Incinerating people’s savings, buying power, and money. Good talk by @gladstein today at LABITCONF on the economic destruction that the IMF wreaks on the world.

Set up Waitabit Coffee in Nairobi this week. A place for Bitcoiners, coffee lovers, with plenty of home made baked goods. A huge thanks to @UNCLE ROCKSTAR for helping us get a POS, where we use our own @npub155m2...dcvg to run it. If you’re in town, swing by!

Field repairs in Zambia. Have to do as much on site as possible as it is too expensive to ship to HQ.

Back to Zambia 🇿🇲 and it happens to be their 60th Independence Day.

Biomass site from above - Kenya.

Welcome my business partner @npub1fhqx...rg67 to Nostr. He’s on his way to Riga today too for Bitcoin Honeybadger.

Fixing hashboards. Kind of sucks, but is part of the job and has to be done locally.

Was just reading @gladstein's article on Nostr. (Great piece and with a read!) It reminded me that 1.5 years ago @npub1ynfl...wfm8 and I were talking about how Nostr is often thought of as a just a Twitter clone, but that what it really represents is a new architecture level for the web.

Reason.com

Can Nostr make Twitter’s dreams come true?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network.