Oddbean new post about | logout
 GM! Genuine non twitter thank you to  nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n
At our meetup yesterday, we ran through their Blockstream Locals program (I'm gonna call it Bitcoin Locals...I know it does nothing for the branding).  Blockstream prepared a decent presentation.  You can check it out here:
https://blockstream.com/local/liquid-education-pack/

We had lots of good questions and most of them were answered in the presentation.

Blockstream generously donated sats to my liquid address and then I split it up 8 ways and sent it to each meetup member even though you only see 2 transactions on the liquid chain:
https://liquid.network/address/VJLKHk2659GvKe7wLpUFnKBve3HHiCdQGesYzLKi3gxJkLeeUSP2mVJ7wycY2mmERGXJWBCLVcGxx7Ev

Interesting note:  I had to wait for each block to clear before I could send the next transaction.  I'm guessing this is because I need wait for my UTXO before I can send the next one.  Because of this it took about 10 minutes to get it all sent.  This would have been faster over lightning obvs.

But even more exciting, we participated in the NonKYC Cigarette economy  nostr:npub1563z6kxmvuy7s8zhzan8m0hzmkavyfzg2aw6h7f0fvcvdms398csaxc9n6
 nostr:npub12eml5kmtrjmdt0h8shgg32gye5yqsf2jha6a70jrqt82q9d960sspky99g donated this banging coaster from our friends at  nostr:npub1jcympy69pht7ptan39se4nd09e4q66qhey649uu3rczm2zh88c7s0n2890
And we hopefully all went home a little more free than when we showed up.
https://m.primal.net/Kokt.jpg