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In just 3 days.... the first ever #BITCOIN crew and parade float will grace the presence of an expected 300,000 attendees of the infamous Gasparilla Parade and Pirate invasion celebration.
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Our local bitcoin non profit foundation and meet up kids worked tirelessly to accomplish this highly difficult goal, on top of Continually hosting weekly pleblabs and educational meet ups, speaking to schools, building circular economies, local farmers and healthy food options, environment cleaning efforts all an extra aside....people try for years to earn a spot on any number of the crews who participate in the most ungovernable traditional celebrational pirate invasion known to man. By land or by sea.... this Bitcoin grassroots movement is making its mass publoc debut in Tampa Bay via a Bitcoin themed flotilla to be reckoned with.
The election took some wind from their sails.... big players who excitedly promised donations and support fell off the planet worried only about the big money and politics occurring. But...These local, young, helpful, amazing bitcoiners have had to take on the cost (and debt) of this epic event and they followed through!!π§‘
I'd encourage some actual real bitcoiners lend some good faith, a shake of a hand, a pat on the back, and even a tax write off donation. π Aside from all the excitement of the last few days, real bitcoiners are still out there doing the adoption work.
Please go support my beloved @bitcoinbaytpa
Visit their page, their website and lend a hand.
They've always been there to help anyone. Now I'm hoping we can help them.
Moms-in-Bitcoin1
MomsInBitcoin1@primal.net
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Momma, #bitcoin is money, fiat-less, My time, My value, My decision
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I need some help or advice from actual pleb bitcoiners. My local meet up kids(young adults) made a non profit bitcoin foundation.... they work tirelessly to promote and mostly educate locals on using #bitcoin. they host pleblabs weekly. they teach sovereignty and healthy seed oil free foods, grow foods and work with local farmers for beef, they build circular economies, build local wallets and speak at local schools and universities. they clean up the environment monthly via volunteering. they are working so hard that its all they do. full time job.
in our area there is this massive traditional push back against the authority....type of party and a parade that is 300,000 people strong each year. via land and sea. Folks try for years to get involved or included in some of these yearly float crews. its a strong tradition here in the way of a pirate takeover. an invasion of ungovernables.
a certain bitcoin publication co got all excited with them to build and host the first ever BITCOIN float in this gigantic parade. it will be epic they said. we'll share and repost and hype yall up they said. well give you speaking spots on big eyes news desks at conferences they said. we'll help you find donations etc.
now, we are 4 days away from this 6 month long monumental effort and they kinda got forgotten by this big bitcoin media machine. ghosted a bit. and to accomplish and follow through with the promises and build the float and host the party and crew they had to get a loan against their precious corn. I cannot stand to see this happen. I need to find a way to reach real bitcoiners, not politics or favors, but real circular economy, bitcoin is Freedom bitcoiners who may be interested in giving/helping...in the tax write off, in spreading adoption etc etc. I am just a lil normie momma pleb. I have no idea who to even ask who may know some giving folks. who can I call on to help spread word to give to the foundation so these kids can keep their bitcoin from risk/loan and continue the amazing work they do?
nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx or nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle or nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m do you perhaps know some folks I can reach out to? i dont actually have any stake in this event or group but as a momma bitcoiner.... i hate to see any plebs count on promises and out of the goodness of fheir heart or good intentions risk their bitcoin in order to follow through with this massive adoption event.
again... expected 300K in attendance normally and is the very first bitcoin official float and bitcoin crew in the beautiful Tampa Bay Gasparilla Parade.
If there is anyone who feels lead to give please go to
https://www.Bitcoinbay.live
or let me know. i heard through the grapevine they are short 0.13 btc and I simply cannot stand it for them.
can I just say it outloud please?
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watching y'all jam brings me calm joy. I am not sure why.... its like a familiar home-like feeling.
So surreal. 4 yrs ago this month. 4 years! I after years of thinking I was too late, too inept, too unlucky... I gifted myself a mere $500 for Christmas and decided to sit down and learn/buy #bitcoin.
What an exciting, terrifying, joyous, infuriating, tremendously wild fecking ride!π₯π₯
So unbelievable that my 4 yr anniversary month, my whole cycle mark... is the month we hit 100K.
I've not spoken a word to family who thought I was nuts. But I did wake the kids this morning with a glowing screenshot.
So humbled and grateful for all those here who've helped and been along this insane journey. I still only have about $86 fiat dollars in my bank account. I am that nuts.
Love you psychopaths so much!!! π§‘π§‘π§‘
π guys... I'm starting to process the last 4 yrs and realize some humbling things that may be helpful to someone. And I think it's important π₯π―
Many know my story. Just a normie average momma trying to get by after a once stable income and career was promising just a few years back is not barely enough to get by now. Dreams crushed. Plans spoiled. All of the things. BUT...
I found #Bitcoin
And for nearly 4 years I put my head down and worked. And learned. And worked. And cut. There weren't fun family vacations. No amazing toys or trips. There was cutting costs and accepting being flat out poor. Living as such. Back to 20 ur old car. My kids did not gain access to the things in life that their friends had etc etc.
With all those things aside, some of those cuts went into psycho daily or weekly stacking. About 10% or so of my income. Not enough to have done much else with, but over 4 years let's say that was the equivalent to close to half (1/2) of 1 years income.
Stay with me. Over 4 years time I could pinch pennies every freaking day and make hard spending and budget decisions and set aside what adds up to HALF of one yrs income. And do you know what?!?!?! Because I put all of that into #BITCOIN throughout this full cycle, up and down and up again.... it has turned into nearly two full years of income. That's. 0.5 to 2.0. Those lil dollars would not have gotten me much in real time... I'd likely have spent on random things or one or two long weekends, birthday etc. But now.... because of these lil bits I've gained back two full years of time and effort and value from what would have been a few sweaters and jeans or shoes or daily coffees or some dinners out or new couch yada yada. For real... our couch is held together with duct tape π€£
Seriously. I do not make a lot of money so the actual figures aren't impressive to most well off or very stable people, but....
Damnit I'm gonna cry...
Ok feck it, onward...
but... think of that freedom those extra two years gives a person who had zero savings or retirement to start with. Think of that daily stress becoming somewhat lifted. Think of the emergency I can face if needed, the burden I won't place on my kids as much as I age, the incentive to KEEP GOING. π₯π
It's the years you save on the back end. It's the hope in looking forward. It's finding even one single thing in life that is truth and won't screw you over. It's freedom. It's proof that even 10 or 20 or 50 bucks at a time every day, or every week actually CAN matter. It CAN get you somewhere because the vehicle is truly impeccable in its very nature.
ππThank you to all the true amazing bitcoiner plebs who've been there, taught, Podcasted, shared, hung around, listened, yelled, cheered, and remained consistently and unapologetically toxic. I love and respect y'all SO very much. π§‘π§‘π§‘
GN and GFY. πͺπ«Άπ
Spent 3 hours at the dang DMV in some odd repetitively, automatic, number announcing, robotic female voice, futuristic feeling environment....then another almost 3 hours experiencing the same kind of recorded automated voice recordings on the phone waiting to reach a human at Doctors offices and MRI imaging centers as well as a pharmacy. Felt so dang awful and senseless and of zero value to accomplish all the things I had to get done... waiting and waiting with automated non human interactions.
Until.... I swung into a UPS store, the kid there asked for my ID to be able to ship something, and I've been shipping things to family from here for near a decade and all of a sudden I need my ID?? I must have forgotten that rule. I questioned him and he's like oh yes everyone has to show it since 9/11... you must not have shipped for awhile so your account got scrubbed. And I'm like uhhhhh hmmmmm OK so wow, y'all are storing my DL info, how secure is that really? And what are these 10 mile long terms and conditions?!?!!? And he calmly and kindly grinned and was polite and kept tilting his head to the side a bit and looking at me....around the computer etc etc. I felt myself wondering..... no way this kid is checking me out, I'm old, have no make up on and am a sweaty mess.... and as I walked to the car I realized.... I've got a #bitcoin t-shirt on π€£π€£π€£π§‘
Makes sense. Lol. My dude was super chill with a side sly grin. He knows what's up. π§‘π₯
Damnit!! My #bitcoin is showing.
At work with clients there is always a new person in my chair every few hours, spewing their opinion on politics and who's good or bad and why, what's wrong, what's happening, how to fix it yada yada.....
I got so frustrated today I said under my breath , nooooo (slightly evil grin pops up) it's the money. The money is broken. π
She's like, what?? I said incentives!! The incentive structure and the broken fiat dollar debt based system stealing from all of us.... it incentivises all of these things you are complaining about.
She, eyes glazed over... inhaled and then just kept going...
She kept on, jumping to knew talking points and I said broken, money...broken money....it's THE MONEY!!!! Jeez. Once you see it, you can no longer have normie conversations. It's over. I'm so f*cked.
I do not know I will continue to handle having to talk all day at work with the general public. π
Can anyone help me find my nip 05 verified nostr?? when I got on primal at one point it told me I needed to copy or verify but the screen froze and now in my settings it's blank and I have no idea how to find it or what to place in there. need #bitcoin or #nostr community help for this noon π
π€Anyone ever just wake up with an overwhelming sense of doom? Like a personal one? Not all the crap going on in the world.... that's bad enough. Not all the #bitcoin fud and economy insanity. But like a feeling in your gut that something is coming.... one of my kiddos, a parent, even me..... something is in the air and I can't seem to shake it.
Today, a holiday....I took my dryer apart, used all kinds of home remedy style solutions, took turns supporting a ladder and climbing a ladder to the roof and dryer vent, used tools most chics don't (socket wrenches?) substituted classic butter knives and plastic cards etc for missing putty knife, when shop vac didn't work well enough used a blower, then back to shop vac with a pool noodle duck taped around it for better fit and suction.... took apart lint filter casing....cleaned everything out in order to get the dryer drying again.... reassembled dryer, lint casing, stupid annoying venting foil thing, front and upper dryer panels etc... catching up on 10 endless loads of laundry. A Labor day it certainly was.
A. because it needed to be done
B. Kids need to see how to learn to do things themselves.
C. I don't have time to schedule a repair and miss work.
D. Could stack more #bitcoin instead of pay repair man.
Do I feel like it was a wasted free day??? No.
Do I wish we had been able to have an enjoyable day off.... outside in the sun, smiling instead of barking and yelling? Yes. π€·ββοΈ
The tiny amount of sats will be worth it I hope. Along with the whole proof of work thing the kids may eventually recall fondly. as they become adults.