Bitcoin History: When Local Bitcoins shut down in 2020, Venezuelans 🇻🇪 turned to #LNP2P bots on Telegram for #bitcoin trading. @negrunch proposed the idea of using hold invoices for this tech, and Lightning Labs implemented them soon after. #lightning #history #btc #p2p

Bitcoin History: Venezuelan 🇻🇪 developer Francisco Calderón (@negrunch) describes how, in 2020, Venezuelans moved from Local Bitcoins when it closed to #LNP2P bots via Telegram. Calderón thought to use whole invoices for escrow, which Lightning Labs implemented soon after. #bitcoin #lightning #venezuela #history

"If we are God's children, do we not grow up?" Hannah Rosenberg of Lightning Labs, with quite the quote in the midst of a discussion about whether human beings are inevitably hierarchical, even in the #Bitcoin space

Many thanks to @npub17xvf...c9as for featuring our interview with Faisal Saeed Al Mutar of Middle East Uncovered and Ideas Beyond Borders in this week's Financial Freedom report! ⚡ ⚡ ⚡

"That's just privilege" -Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, on academics who dismiss Bitcoin's value

Thank you very much to @npub17xvf...c9as for recommending our interview with @Catrya and @Forte11 ⚡🇨🇺 (and @Reyna) of @Cuba ₿itcoin in the Financial Freedom newsletter! Links to subscribe to the newsletter as well as the to interview in the comments.

The team at @Cuba ₿itcoin created their own versions of @Cashu and #Lightning #wallets so that the people in their #communities could more easily use the technology. El equipo de Cuba Bitcoin crearon sus propias billeteras #Cashu y Lightning para que las personas de sus comunidades pudieran utilizar la tecnología con mayor facilidad. @Forte11 ⚡🇨🇺 @Reyna

@Catrya of @Cuba ₿itcoin explica por qué @Mostro fue desarrollado en #Nostr: Catrya of Cuba Bitcoin describes why Mostro was developed on Nostr: "La idea es crear un protocolo decentralizado y resistente a la censura en el cual las personas puedan intercambiar por cualquier moneda en cualquier parte del mundo." -Catrya "The idea is to create a decentralized and censorship-resistant protocol in which people from anywhere in the world and with any type of money can trade/change their money for bitcoin."

"No hay adopción de Bitcoin sin educación." @Forte11 ⚡🇨🇺 "There is no Bitcoin adoption without education." After teaching the @My First Bitcoin and Trezor Academy programs, Forte and the team at @Cuba ₿itcoin created their own program, tailored to the needs of Cubans, called Bitcoin Fácil (Easy Bitcoin). Despues de enseñar las programas de Mi Primer Bitcoin y Trezor Academy, Forte y el equipo de Cuba Bitcoin crearon su propio programa, adaptado a las necesidades de los cubanos, llamado Bitcoin Fácil.

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, @dread and his team have been working on a plan to help make #Jamaica more resilient against future storms. It's call "Project Island Resilience," and it includes #solar energy, #Starlink access, and #Bitcoin #nodes. Learn more:

Bitchat as "Emergency Tech" in Jamaica In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, everyday people turned to Bitchat while traditional communication tech was down. @dread describes what this was like:

"I think a lot of coders, programmers, and engineers that do open-source [work] are operating are operating at a higher vibration." @dread , founder of @flash Dread speaks to how the code that open-source developers write doesn't just benefit their own pockets, but the world.

Having a diverse cross section of #Bitcoin developers around the world isn’t only good for the security of Bitcoin, but it helps to fulfill the vision of making bitcoin global money. Words of wisdom from @npub1ul2g...czhr of @waye.