📣 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


Awesome man!


:Clap:


This sounds exciting, Jeff. I wish you the best of luck :)


Remember you mentioned last time we were in Chiavenna, unbelievable that you pulled this off 💜

Lovely to see


Approve, amazing area! 🧡 🤩


Awesome project! I hope to visit someday soon!


I've contributed a little bit, hope you're doing great. I'm Q. 😇🤣💜


Amazing project, best of luck!


We have to build the future that we want. Congratulations, Jeff 🔥🔥🔥
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My best wishes! Love the project! Please keep us updated.


Absolutely love this man!
💯 on our list of places to go.


Love local communities 🧡

When are you thinking for conference 👀


Chiavennostr!!!


BitChiavenNostr

💣💥🌋


Put your community on nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq Jeff!!! https://btcmap.org/communities


Awesome Jeff.

Let's get that community on nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq!

btcmap.org/communities/add


Onward 🫡


Ha, what nostr:npub1m0sxqk5uwvtjhtt4yw3j0v3k6402fd35aq8832gp8kmer78atvkq9vgcru said 😂


Done! I'll be adding more businesses in the next few weeks. 😉


LFG


Done! 🤙


Cheers 🍻


Can wait to show you around! 🤙


Based alert. This is great man


Zapped ⚡🫡


Molto bene, Signore Jeff!


From: nostr:npub15f0lnlxujj05a8cr7emhsz9cszcjalaq0su6rymvw22zuth0h9fs7cqrdx


Too bad geyser.fund hasn’t adopted Nostr yet. This is sad 😞 https://image.nostr.build/e1f36fb03c3ba3e51c304dcfe3d71e8c72de271e3e8a82e09f4703021a4af879.jpg


👇Utterly Brilliant👇
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Want to visit there…..


Amazing. You you need any help let me know


📣 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


Complimenti!


Very cool initiative; LFG!! 🚀


This is awesome. Nice work Jeff. Excited for you and this project!


Thanks man 🤙


That's strange. I could have sworn nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 already had login with nostr. It's even listed in their help section. 🤔 https://image.nostr.build/d85abdb5166eea883bf3f84d77172c663e327384f277a8e0572af4050c42bb95.jpg


Thank you!! 🙏


Do it!!


Close to #Lugano?


🤙 thanks!!


About 90 minutes away. Would be closer except for all those damn mountains in the way 😂


They have it on desktop. Just not quite mobile yet.


Awesome, I hope we see us at the next Plan B conference in october ✌


lfg! 🍸


what an inspiring project, congratulations !! can't wait to follow along and hope to visit one day.


Onward 🫡


Huge!!! Congrats.


Working on a Nostr project that I think you will like and is related to this post. More soon…


Following.


Help Bitcoin circular economies thrive 👇

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LOVE THIS 💯


This is awesome Jeff 🤙 I might visit Italy this summer. If so, I’ll come by for a couple of beers and to drop off some sats in the community!


Make it happen!!


Okay. I feel much better now 🫂


Sounds like a wonderful place.


Good to know!


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

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Hope to come to visit you soon, Jeff! Bravo!! 💪💪💪


I'm somewhat near couple times a year and have past through before... Might hit you up one day and have a look around


BTW… let me also know if you ever come around Bassano del Grappa! 😉


Lake Como was already high on my list of places to visit. This puts it on the top 🚀


Let's go 🚀


The length of this is hilarious


Get a blog tech bro


Bad tech not adopted lol


Here is my geyser.fund donation, Jeff. I’m taking the path of less resistance. Hopefully, Brugeman’s new nsec.app tool will motivate gyser to upgrade their mobile website. Anyways, I’m super excited for you 🫂 This is very inspirational 🫡


Onward 🫡


congratulations Jeff !
that area sounds beautiful, another spot added to my list ;-)


📣 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


Cheers 🍻


Bullish.

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This is the way!

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Good luck !! :)


Thanks!


Thank you! 🙌


nice!!! can't wait to show you around.


Let me know when!


Cavolo! Sembra molto bello lì.


It is! :)


Bitcoin and Nostr for ordinary people (normies) are like changing from the Nokia phone to iPhone, not easy for everyone. Eventually and with time can be at everybody’s hands tho.


YESSD

OR

SIIIIIIIIII 🇮🇹


Wow sounds lovely! Would love to visit and discover! How expensive its life in chiavenna? Common eu prices? Asking for a friend... 🤔


It’s actually pretty cheap by EU standards. Especially if you’re looking at larger cities. You can go out for a very good, multi-course meal with drinks and spend less than 30 a person.


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.


Amazing! Already looking for flights to visit! When will the next meetups be?


Will visit you at some point!


Si… 😉


I think they might have one while I’m away in Madeira but we’re planning one a month or so


Are you coming to Atlantis? See you here then 🫡


💯 Coming in early to hang with SovEng so definitely!


I just visited Italy in the fall to see my family and explore, but hopefully I can make it back again this September. If I do, I will definitely make a stop here.


Onward 🫡


I'll be in Siena for a couple months starting in April. Would love to make a trip up to Chiavenna and see what you're doing there with Bitcoin.


This is awesome. Congrats and good luck, looking forward to following along. Let's get you listed on fbce.io when timings right cc nostr:npub15m9yc697s82zzy652py0uddmpp5e9xl0920vg6lau9n39fnnzsys6mq643


bravo!


awesome


awesome project, will have to visit!


Small towns and local communities supporting each other. This is how we doit. Thanks for sharing. Wd love to visit some day. ✌🏼


Way to go Jeff! Sounds awesome and I will bring my tribe through one day! 👍🏻🤝


I'm floored that we've already managed to raise over 1M sats for Bitcoin Chiavenna on nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9. 🤩 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

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📣 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


everything is done 🤙


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Cheers 🍻


Nice.

What are real estate prices there?


Very reasonable.


Love this!  Love that you and your wife followed your dreams and moved to an Italian town in the Alps 🙌