Just got the green light to moderate a panel at Web Summit on cRyPt000000 Web summit is the world’s largest internet conference. I will purely #bitcoin and Nostr questions! Hehehe

I tweeted this (don’t @ me) But I’m curious to see what the Nostr brains think of this 🧠 What is this thing? Wrong answers only. Best one gets 10k sats.

Had a nice chat at lunch with Girl Gone Crypto today. She’s smart and kind, a killer combo for a content creator! I trie to explain Nostr to her and suggested she joined. She said she used to use Steamr and was quite big on there. What was that like? And why is NOSTR way better? If I can persuade her to try out Nostr will we give her a warm welcome? 💜

Oh dear Dan held has hurt his foot so can’t attend the panel tomorrow morning at Bitcoin Amsterdam Get well soon and all but also I was well up for come cheeky virtue signalling.

Please could you share resources with me about bitcoin and if it is shariah compliant? Im trying to explain to a colleague at Cointelegraph that bitcoin is halal and Islamic coin really isn’t..!

Bloody crap news. My ESTA was unexpectedly rejected to the states. The airline won’t check me in and the USA certainly won’t let me in ⛔️ I’m stuck in Lima, Peru 🇵🇪 I’m devastated. I can no longer speak at Pacific Bitcoin. I’m now struggling to find a way home to Europe as most layovers pass through the States 🇺🇸 I’m really sorry to let everyone down, particularly Cory, P, Stephen and the Swan team. I was really looking forward to Pacific and just soaking up the LA bitcoin vibe. At some point over the past month, my ESTA status changed and I wasn’t notified. I checked it before flying to Peru in early September. I keep a copy of my esta on my phone and didn’t think to log in to the esta dashboard before flying to the states for the third time this year. Ive searched and the rejection is undoubtedly because of me being in Cuba for the bitcoin documentary I shot there. Im surprised as @RunwithBitcoin flew to the states successfully yesterday and he was in Cuba as well. Either way, gotta learn from this and move on. Next steps. - work out how to get home. - find some work to cover the $3k expense of this monumental kerfuffle. - book an appointment with the British embassy to explain that I am in fact not a Cuban collaborator for a new visa. - be less of a moron. I’m really sorry. Hope you’re having a better day than me. And to those going to Pacific, please send it 🧡

You sound like you’re from Australia? Me: 🫠🫠 ..Have you met an Australian? Yes sure! And they sounded like me? Yes, just like you. Ah, right. Then that person was also British.

Friday night 7pm. Im trying to record voiceovers while Paco is trying to drag me to the bar 😂 @Run with Bitcoin

Is Dan Held on here? Can I rant about how frustrating it is to see him be unpleasant and pointlessly negative without another petty rebuke? It made me a little upset knowing that there could be people reading his twoddle thinking, “oh maybe, I shouldn’t share or post.” So if you are a journo, content creator, photographer, writer or vlogger … basically a coding illiterate builder, please ignore him. You can do whatever you’re doing right now, you put bitcoin and Nostr on top, and boom you’re supporting a freedom movement. Sure, you’ll attract the Dan Helds, but you’ll see more clearly through your camera, pen or microphone than Dan behind his keyboard. You have my support. Get out there and do it! ⚡️ 🧡 💜

Bitcoin empowers people in freedom stricken regimes. Please share this video of Bitcoin in Cuba far and wide. 🧡 @ODELL @jack @Lyn Alden @Gigi @Anita 🏳️‍🌈 I will send any sats you Zap to this note to bitcoincuba@getalby.com ⚡️ But if you wanna zap me personally (thanks!), use joe@coincorner.io Viva Cuba, Viva Bitcoin 🇨🇺 🧡

GM 🌅 New video! Please share this far and wide. Zaps are more than welcome 😃 We are very very early. (also, sorry Peter)

My most Zapped notes on the internet is not on Nostr... but on stacker news! Thanks for hearing me out. I genuinely feel better for it.

I've had a beer and I'm trying to relax... But I need to rant. I always smash into the same issues wherever I travel to the "global south" countries. For background, I've been a journalist, researcher and now film maker in developing countries for 6+ years. I've lived in Mexico, Tunisia, the Ivory Coast, and Trinidad and Tobago. I've done in-country research projects or documentaries in Senegal and West Africa, El Salvador, Cuba and Cape Verde. They ALWAYS have very similar, unfair and yet easily fixed basic financial problems. It's borderline evil that we have created financial systems that make it very hard for the worse off to improve their lot. The worst part? These systems are flourishing. These are generalizations of course—so take this with a handful of salt—but my GOD it's so frustrating. Problems: - Banks charge extortionate amounts to withdraw cash. (In Peru there's been a $3 fee at the 8 ATMs I've tried so far.) - ATMs impose limits so you can only withdraw up to $60 meaning you have to withdraw several times and pay more fees. - There is never enough change at tills so sales get rejected. People of course prefer harder currencies dollars but you're charged through the nose if you pay in dollars. - Plus, if you accept more currencies (Sal island on Cape Verde accepts 4 currencies) then you have even worse problems at the till with change. - Visa and mastercard charge upwards of 5% . So why bother with card? It's a day to day, hand to mouth existence - so people don't even CONSIDER saving. - Saving is literally a foreign concept. - It's near impossible to open a bank account because of strict or absurd KYC requirements (how can i prove my DoB if i don't have a birth certificate?) - Regardedly high levels of inflation that everyone just deals with. In Cuba, inflation is a running joke. "Why didn't you do your homework?" Inflation. "Why are you late?" inflation. - ATM penetration is low. Right now I'm in a very popular tourist town and the nearest ATM is 20 miles away. - It's very hard or expensive to send money to the nearest city, let alone to relatives abroad. Don't get me started on predatory companies like Western Union and MoneyGram. Yes, there are growing numbers of mobile-centric financial solutions like mobile money (think M-Pesa, Yape, Wave) but they're working within the splintered fiat system. Come on... There has to be a better way. There needs to be a new system that's outside of incumbents and their insidious incentives. I have hope that Bitcoin will fix a great deal of these issues, but F*CK me it's so depressing and frustrating to see it time and again. It breaks my heart every time I hear a local complain about the banks, the fees, the ATM queues, the Western Union issue, or the fact that I can't buy a bottle of water because the till doesn't have change. Yes, I know, Bitcoin is hope. Sorry. But arrggh, give me strength!

Hello world ✌🏻 Have any of you lovely folk been to Peru? 🇵🇪 🇵🇪 🇵🇪 Can you recommend me any travel tips? The plan is to investigate bitcoin over there.

Gm 🌞 I zoomed with 6 Peruvians using bitcoin in wonderful ways yesterday. Hopefully the Bitcoin in Peru documentary with cointelegraph will get fully green lit today 🤙

I’ve not been successful in raising money for my next round of Bitcoin street videos. It’s no surprise - I’ve never been great at making money 😂 Fortunately, my girlfriend tells me I’m good at other stuff 😃 Sooooo…Last shout out if you wanna sponsor a funny, mainstream and beginner friendly video(s)! DM me if interested and I’ll share with you.

Help me out with this weird idea: 💭 Is there a way to create a crypto token project, show that the project is working and that the money is "on the blockchain" (while secretly you have kept people's funds COMPLETELY separate), 💰 then pump the project with influencers, interviews and advertisers; grow, grow grow the project, then it. ⚡️ A few days later, return the money to people (WHICH WAS SEPARATE ALL ALONG), with a great big educational piece about #bitcoin

Can I run a poll on Damus / Plebstr? I would like to hear your feedback:

X (formerly Twitter)

Joe Nakamoto ⚡️ (@JoeNakamoto) on X

If you are watching a video that features Paco, @RunwithBitcoin, do you prefer subtitles?

Thoughts on Civkit + unstoppable tech like Nostr were shared with my colleague Gareth and published here:

Cointelegraph

P2P marketplaces need to become unstoppable, permissionless — Paxful co-founder

Bitcoin advocate Ray Youssef highlights the importance of peer-to-peer marketplaces in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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GM 🌞 🇵🇹 There’s always an opportunity to squat. Don’t miss it!