The fact that bitcoin’s price is falling shows how it’s still correlated with traditional assets, and that the majority is not self-custodying all of which goes to show that 99% of people still don’t understand how fundamentally different bitcoin is. Stay calm.

GM! Delete Raivo! Messed up big after being sold. All my codes were gone. Ok, I was able to restore it now. But 🤯 Anyone using Ente auth? Full open source and they say cryptography has been externally audited. All roads lead to open source software and tech independence!

Low fee rainy Sunday: best time to consolidate UTXOs and open channels like for the new @Alby hub.

Aaaaand we granted another pack of aspiring Bitcoin educators and community builders from the Global South a scholarship for our training program! Number of Educators Go Up! Thanks to @OpenSats, @HRF and @Fedi for their support!

The Zimbabwean government takes fiat currencies to the extreme and demonstrates how they are being used to exploit the country and its people. Video 👇🏼 View quoted note →

Crazy. I feel so much better now that I have been reducing my time on X and also here. Of course I won’t leave especially as I see Nostr as one of the coolest inventions of our time (after Bitcoin 🤪) Just wanted to say HI! I’m still here and working on the projects I‘ll be doing with Bitcoin for Fairness in the coming months. We’re attending the AfroBitcoin conference in Kenya and Adopting Bitcoin in Cape Town. And we have a lot of other cool stuff in the making. Spending a lot of time in nature and found a rabbit in the hole 👇🏼

Zimbabwe has 17 mio inhabitants. Last year 1.9 billion USD were sent into the country in remittances. And much of it in USD cash via planes! It’s crazy. https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/africa/fintechs-fly-planes-of-cash-into-zimbabwe-to-meet-demand-for-dollars/

Yay! Now add Shamir backup option and @BitBox is optimal! View quoted note →

From what I read and understood from Proton’s docs is that their solution is actually less privacy preserving than a regular Bitcoin wallet. As your BTC addresses are associated with your Proton email one only needs to send you BTC, then one has the email connection to the BTC address though that transaction. So as long as they don’t have default coinjoins, it’s worse. But ppl will believe it’s more private because of their other products. Also I saw no RBF or coin control.

Disliking Bitcoin because of Trump and Bukele is as ill-informed as liking Trump and Bukele because of Bitcoin.

Recharging. GN!

Pushing updates automatically to millions of Windows machines globally, but fixing needs manual intervention 🫣 Meanwhile I sent some sats to a BTC pay server.

Nice Fiat to sats / BTC converter... only more Fiat currencies esp. African are missing.

ManySats

ManySats is a simple Fiat to Satoshi Converter

The view that bitcoin is an investment only and a partisan issue is very typical for US-Americans and Europeans as it ignores billions of people in the rest of the world who need bitcoin as a tool to escape their authoritarian regimes’ financial oppression. Bitcoin is a technology and the only form of money beneath cash that can be used by anyone without permission. Bitcoin doesn’t need politicians good will. Bitcoin is rules without rulers.

@Naval is on Nostr 🤗⚡️ makes sense as he understood Bitcoin loong before anyone else. View quoted note →

While upgrading wallet software it's advisable to verify what you've downloaded. It could be that someone interfered and you downloaded an altered version, that steals your funds. @craigraw made this process incredibly easy in Sparrow wallet. 👍⚡️

That‘s cool! As Phoenix user with an open channel and domain owner you can have your own Lightning address setup easily now.