Great Update for #BTClock! Thanks @Djuri The nwc balance is also activated. Ready to receive some Zaps ⚡and to test the display functions. Some Zaps are welcomed

Tested two new apps today. #Nmail (https://nostrmail.org) worked great! I enjoyed using it! Email through a free protocol! #Noscall didn't worked that well, relays had connectivity issues. The calling was coming through, connection couldn't be established. Very promising for the future! I would love to see this getting better! ✌✌✌ @sana

Every day more bullish on #Nostr

With governments around the world increasingly tightening restrictions on self-custodied no-KYC Bitcoin — from South Africa and Australia to the European Union and beyond — it’s only a matter of time before everyone is affected. The question is no longer if this will happen, but when to you too. Make your planB according to the country and placed you're living. It is a matter of time. Start thinking now about how to avoid total financial surveillance and control. Plattfroms like @peachbitcoin , @Robosats , @Mostro , @Bisq , @Hodl Hodl ,@npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3 , etc. offer partial solutions, but most of them still leave digital footprints behind. True peer-to-peer exchange needs to become far more active — especially through local meetups, conferences, and small trusted communities around you. Building circular economies and real human networks is becoming essential. Separation of money and state

Third conclusion: people do not trust existing structures, yet they are largely unaware of tools for private communication such as SimpleX Chat, Session, Keet, Bitchat, and others. Also I a country with a extrem censorship, Nostr remains very largery unknown. They also underestimate the importance of controlling their own wealth, as in most cases their investments are managed or held by third parties. Even in the rare case that someone decides to acquire Bitcoin, they struggle to understand the advantage of no-KYC over KYC. Well-known no-KYC platforms are essentially non-functional — in a country where, until very recently, transactions were conducted almost exclusively hand-to-hand. We have an enormous amount of work ahead of us! Greetings from Türkiye 🇹🇷

Second conclusion: there is a significant knowledge gap, which leads to a chaotic mix of opinions. Concepts are constantly confused, and scammers dominate the space. For them, Bitcoin is a "crypto thing" that gamblers and scammers using, like every other "kripto-parali". There are almost no books about Bitcoin available — even in a city with many large bookstores and a population that still values reading. Overall, there seems to be a clear lack of easily accessible, high-quality educational material.

Here are a few conclusions for my bitcoiner friends from my stay in Istanbul, Turkey. First conclusion: adoption has not increased at all since the last time I was here two-three years ago. If anything, it may have even declined. As a community, we need to admit that we’ve lost valuable time — whether through internal dramas, focusing on politicians, price goes up thinking, carrying about stablecoins, or building overly complex stuff that no one wants or knows how to use. No one with real influence and skills has made a serious effort to simply show people how to use digital money in their everyday lives — and why it matters. Even in a country like Turkey, with over 90 million people, or in a city of 20 million, where people watch their local currency deteriorate and lose value every single day. We have all failed together — each in our own way and according to our respective roles. If we carry as a community that Bitcoin will make people more free and the world a better place for the next to come, we probably must focus again to the basics.

I am trying to buy some Bitcoin books for some friends in Turkey. I visited some big bookstores but were no books to find about BTC. Any Turks around? Where can I find Bitcoin books in Istanbul? #asknostr #turkey

Is there a way in generall to watch BTC conferences without having to use platform like YouTube? #asknostr

Start using @bitchat and #meshtastic in Turkey. Unfortunately still not many people using these promising apps here. Still didn't find anybody to contact

Looks like some turkish guys or girls are about to get some free SATs! Always a pleasure to send tips through #tipcards.io

Sunday evening, playing #BlockHunters with the family and going deeper with orange-pilling.

Back in the time, I was living in Turkey. My rent for a 4 room apartment in a nice area was 1500 TL monthly. Nowdays you are almost paying this money for extra luggage in the airport or a couple of kebaps (Not to immention the size or the quality of it). Turks have to adopt even faster that they should

Getting awaked from the singing of nightingales. Nature is amazing beautiful

I would like to find some merchants here that I can buy stuff and spend SATs. Are there merchants Nostr Accounts that I can follow?