Oddbean

📣 Announcement time! 📣 As you might have guessed (from the photos I keep posting, mostly), I really love the place where I'm fortunate enough to live. It's a small town in northern Italy. We're surrounded by 3000m peaks, Lake Como is a short drive away, and the people are warm, welcoming, and hard-working. My wife and I moved here 14 years ago with no more expectation than trying to figure out how we could live in the alps to climb and ski right outside our backdoor. Over those 14 years, Valchiavenna has become our home. For a long time, I've been plotting and scheming about how I could give more back to this community that has given me so much and over the last few months, with the help of many local friends, all the pieces have started to come together. Bitcoin Chiavenna is aimed at building a stronger Chiavenna using Bitcoin but; more broadly, it's a project focused on exploring how small, often marginalized, rural communities can benefit from adopting Bitcoin. Chiavenna is the perfect petri dish for experimentation. We have local hydro power generation (run by a local coop). We are a stone's throw from Switzerland, which brings both tourism and shows local government how sane (and very minimal) regulation of digital assets can be beneficial. And, unlike many small towns in Italy, we have a large population of young entrepreneurs who haven't bailed for the big city and have started dozens of local businesses. My hope is that our education and our learnings will be beneficial for other towns across Europe and North America. Many of whom, facing the death of their traditional industries, are having to find new ways to thrive, and do so without becoming wholly dependent on the central government for handouts. I grew up in a small town. I live in a small town. I want to see tens of thousands of vibrant, wealthy, interesting, weird small towns across the planet. And I want them all to run on Bitcoin. If you're with me, I'd love your support. We've just launched a Geyser project to raise funds for the first phase of several projects. We've got some cool rewards listed there, with more coming in the future. And if anyone is coming through the area, let me know. I'd be happy to show you around and help you leave a few sats behind at local businesses! Onwards and upwards! 🏔️🚀 https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinchiavenna

We have to build the future that we want. Congratulations, Jeff 🔥🔥🔥 nostr:nevent1qqsg7adstg83nlyllnxp2v82gnuekvtsgddxz52dcwk8r54zjvthqwgprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdakj7q3qzuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsxpqqqqqqzv9mhmt

That's strange. I could have sworn @geyser already had login with nostr. It's even listed in their help section. 🤔 https://image.nostr.build/d85abdb5166eea883bf3f84d77172c663e327384f277a8e0572af4050c42bb95.jpg

👇Utterly Brilliant👇 nostr:nevent1qqsg7adstg83nlyllnxp2v82gnuekvtsgddxz52dcwk8r54zjvthqwgpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7szyqtnnkfhmjxqcums4gn4skfccyv7yhzp7mzyrfwnf3kns5p7xymw7qcyqqqqqqg32peds

One of my great hopes for bitcoin is that it enables a different kind of decentralization: The revitalization of small towns. nostr:nevent1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wdejhgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshszymhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4ej7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq35amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3w0fjkyetyv4jjucmvda6kgtcqyz8htvz6puvle8lues2np6jylxdnzuzrtfs4znwr43ca9g5nzacrj32lfht

Amazing! I life in a small town and recently been very inspired to try to start something up in my local community as well. Almost too many ideas are coming in, but it might start with a local meetup group and hopefully build toward a circular economy. Good luck to you -- will keep an eye out and maybe drop by next time we're close to the Alps.

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I'm floored that we've already managed to raise over 1M sats for Bitcoin Chiavenna on @geyser. 🤩 Let's keep this momentum going! A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed already and, for those that haven't yet, there are still limited edition t-shirts available. 😉 https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinchiavenna nostr:note13a6mqks0r87fllxvz5cw538envchqs66v9g5msavw8f29ychwquspj3n59

แบบนี้ดี ส่งเสริมให้ผู้คนใช้ BTC โดยเริ่มต้นจากเมืองเล็กๆ #siamstr อาจดูเป็นตัวอย่าง nostr:note13a6mqks0r87fllxvz5cw538envchqs66v9g5msavw8f29ychwquspj3n59