Today’s Bitcoin news! 

First we look at the history of the Bitcoin price when each halving happened. It’s so telling when you zoom out this far! 

Here are the two articles about how Bitcoin mining is helping so many people in Africa: 

The African village mining Bitcoin -- 
https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-african-village-mining-bitcoin/

Bitcoin is a Liberating Force for an African Village Mining It — 
https://cryptonews.com/news/bitcoin-is-a-liberating-force-for-an-african-village-mining-it.htm

With 1.5 BILLION active users, Telegram has added a Bitcoin and crypto wallet — https://primal.net/e/note1g6aduqdt39ql250s7qlw80t69helkvkxtp5dy3d4phr553tljq7sstdj49

A great option for merchants who want to accept Bitcoin payments: Blink and BTCPay Server — 
"I can confirm that this set up is amazing. I set up two merchants today using @blinkbtc and @btcpayserver. If you're pushing adoption with merchants in your area, you'd be hard pressed to find an easier setup. 👏 Huge thanks to @nicolas @kukks and @ROCKSTAR for making this happen!” 
POST: https://primal.net/e/note1y33cgsvm0ua7v3lyy5dkla3qhgpynny007v4wj90jmkjflhmfhqsjqj9m9
WEBSITE: Blink — https://www.blink.sv/
WEBSITE: BTCPay Server — https://btcpayserver.org/

Hashdex drops new video commercial ahead of potential spot Bitcoin ETF approval:
https://twitter.com/hashdex/status/1743287176337482184

Anna and Bitcoin Atlantis happening March 1-3, 2024 on Madeira Island, Portugal: 
TWEET: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAtlantis/status/1743226605051216163
EVENT WEBSITE: https://bitcoinatlantis.com/

Abolish the IRS already!: 
"To threaten people with a felony charge for not playing the role of tax collector on behalf of the IRS is one of the most despicable and insulting things that has come out of the US government in recent years.” 
POST: https://primal.net/e/note1tc5vrvwyu4a3cqhph0s6mxw4xm3guzmat8lut45dym3ced4pxq7s8zh96y

An important distinction about Nostr: 
"You don’t have a #Nostr account. You have a key that signs events, and you publish those events, and then anyone who wants to read those events can do so by retrieving them from anywhere they exist. There’s no one to turn it off, there’s no account to suspend or restrict. There is simply information flowing to and from you and everyone else who uses it. This puts the power of speech back in our hands.” 
POST: https://primal.net/e/note1xfq28cuzllgkud3jjtynh7f72qzhluvgn9ntyfnj7z5y6n8893lsqs3wj3

This image shows how early we are! "The early 2020's were some of the best years to stack sats." 
POST: https://primal.net/e/note1vf4umcy2uvavqtevmqmal0tznr5ndk292puuzwx64jm6ytlvu8zszmmhfa

IMAGE: 
What people think it's like to HODL. --vs-- What it's actually like to HODL. 

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