Well, had 3 recent bitcoiners over. Had only used lightning. Went through full run from going through mempool and node and UTXO management and transaction stuff and followed with soft wallet, recovery, hard wallets and seed storage. Obviously served with a healthy dose of rib eye and aguja. My take away here is the best eye opener is to set up a wallet on their phone (we used blue), send 500000 sats to them and then delete the wallet. Watch the freak out panic. Let it stew for a second whilst finding the transaction on mempool.space and then recover the wallet. I found using a hardware device (trezor in this case) worked a charm at getting past the barrier of "where is it?" And helped understanding. Also instantly drive home importance of the seed phrase. A productive day and a happy belly!

Todays challenege. 4 students, node, mempool runthrough, self custody soft wallet, hard wallet, air gapping and Ecash in 5 hour workshop. Nothing like a good challenge on a Monday!

One of the interesting things watching a team go out and push bitcoin adoption is the friction of iniquitous understand and desire to take it within the establishments. The time to get an owner onboard is one thing but getting staff to understand and learn POS etc is definitely another. This is where spending is actually playing your part IMO. It’s an opportunity to try talking a bit to staff and assist with some of the learning burden and help spread curiosity. Only by seeing people arrive at establishments and be wanting to give custom in bitcoin will the staff generate enough curiosity to ask questions and in turn be more open to adoption. Take the time when the opportunity arises, and a larger Bitcoin economy opens up to you too. Decentralised only works through community

Sports shop in huacas onboarded? Our little #bitcoin community growing rather rapidly!

Supporting Bitcoin circular economy resulting in me trying new offerings!

Anybody in Flamingo area of Costa Rica want to have a little party time and pay in bitcoin on saturday, El Tiki great fun and good crowd!

Very nice Mediterranean chicken lunch. 14,700s. Nice to have so many locations adopting around here. It’s just a lot easier!

Hey nostr! Farid is working to build our Bitcoin community. Am trying to help him with nostr. Give him a follow. At the very least, you’re gonna find out about all the places to spend some corn and truly push circular economy in north Costa Rica! #bitcoin View quoted note →

Pay for tobacco and vapes in bitcoin in tamarindo... well the variety of shops definitely expanding rapidly!

Saw 6 people pay their food and drink tabs with bitcoin last night and was asked questions about nostr. Adoption signals are definitely there now

So if we should live in 15-20% deflation in current tech exponential insanity and inflation (not the bullshit numbers) is running around 12% and btc has CAGR against usd of 34%…… is it really going up? Like what is up or down? 🤔🤪

Best cashu wallet? #asknostr #cashu

What’s going on in the jungle? @Tico 🇨🇷

Anybody know where one can get a copy of Encrypted Abundance by David West? #asknostr

Recommend more circuspect on dating potentially a good idea