The next Flea Market of the #Saigon community is just around the corner.

Come along or even better:

Get involved!

Still some vendor spots available and any help to make the event a success is highly appreciated!

Talk about it, bring your boots on the ground or just throw some Sats into the community chest.

🎅🌲🎁

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/satoshi-flea-market-saigon-christmas-2024/

Details:

Date: December 8th, 2024
Time: Approx. 2pm to 6pm ITC (afternoon Vietnam time)
Location: Indika Saigon (43 Đ. Nguyễn Văn Giai, Đa Kao, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 710359, Vietnam)
Entry: Free to enter!

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BitcoinSaigon

Spreading the orange gospel & assembling the local community since 2014 in Saigon / Vietnam


"Spreading the orange gospel & assembling the local community since 2014 in Saigon / Vietnam "


"BitcoinSaigon"


Welcome to our newest ⚡ pleb node in the club - #HyperspaceVN 🤝🇻🇳

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Currently 59.3 BTC (+0.3%) capacity provided by the by the (public) #Vietnam-related Lightning Routing Nodes.

This equals about 1.1% (-0.04%) of the total Network capacity.

 #Lightning #LightningNetwork

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Want to learn more what this is all about?

Read up here: bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-saigon-lightning-community-on-amboss


Bitcoin Jungle, Bitcoin Indonesia, Deciphering Bitcoin, BOBSpaces Residency, Statsie's Pocket Guides, and Africa Free Routing. Announcing our latest wave of education-focused grants: https://opensats.org/blog/second-wave-of-education-grants


From the archives:

2014 flyer from one of the very first Bitcoin meetups in Saigon

Officience & Bitcoin Vietnam ("BitcoinVN") are still around, just UBER has left the scene in Vietnam many years ago after losing the local market to South-East Asian competitors.

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Happening this weekend in #Bangkok

See you there, frens of the orange coin 🤝

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-thailand-conference-2024/


Frens in Chiang Mai have entered the chat 🫡

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Our friends at  nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 have been busy building & improving.

 nostr:npub13v9zh6hka0heyh5w0ru0ptdyrauf3wx6w25fwxufnz9l0ptax60sg63rka & his team have done a lot the past few years to help true grassroots efforts to get off the ground & maintain themselves via a convenient platform.

Thank you Mick for your continued dedication!

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A heartful thank you to all our donors in August🧡☺

Your contributions help us to

-maintain & build out more infrastructure
-public education efforts
-strengthen ties of the local community via events such as our recent Satoshi Flea Market

Building for the 21st century🙂

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#vietnam #saigon


Our friends over in #Indonesia planting the seeds

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The Alby team keeps powering forward.

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Something to consider for the upcoming events in (South-East) Asia... 🙂

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Still some catching up to do here 🧐

#Vietnam

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We're happy to welcome the new pleb node "Thien Long" in our ⚡node running community!

Currently 59.13 BTC (+9.0%) capacity provided by the by the (public) #Vietnam-related Lightning Routing Nodes.

This equals about 1.14% (+0.12%) of the total Network capacity.

--> https://bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-saigon-lightning-community-on-amboss/

 #Lightning #LightningNetwork

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El Salvador Day 👀

The Asia - Pupusa diplomacy continues

https://primal.net/e/note1uwva9qext3mu995m83yp4n3p9rc7w3x9tzdwdqv037g4z8xtsqsqnt3th2


🎅 🟠 ⚡ 🇻🇳❓

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/satoshi-flea-market-saigon-christmas-edition/


The biggest South East Asian conference of the year drawing closer - as a Bitcoiner in the region highly recommended to consider attendance!

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The largest #bitcoinonly gathering in 2024 in #SouthEastAsia dawns upon us.

Several community members from Saigon will make their way as well!

See you in #Bangkok at #TBC2024 🤝

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Thank you everyone again once more who came out to the Satoshi Flea Market #Saigon recently!

We hope to see everyone back for the next iteration!

#Vietnam #FleaMarket #Pupusa

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We also would like to thank the kind anon gentleman (woman?) for its 9,326 Sats donation in July 🙂

Contributions like these help us to keep our work going & flowing to build out a solid orange base in 🇻🇳https://m.primal.net/JyaQ.png


The one big South East Asian Bitcoin conference in 2024 - with quite a few regulars from the Saigon meetup joining in as well 🙌
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After adding up all costs and the income shared by the vendors, the organization of the inaugural Satoshi Flea Market ended with a loss of ~ - 98,000 Sats. 🧮✍🫡

While we will be able to handle it out of the Community Treasury thanks to past donations:

If you would like to send a few Sats over to help us keep making these events happening, it is highly appreciated :)

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From the old to the very young - building connections between community members and those around us.

Thank you once more for your support and we hope to see you for more at the next iteration!

#Saigon #vietnam #fleamarket #indika

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We hope to make this a semi-regular event indeed :)


Frens of #BitcoinVN and #Neutronpay were present with plenty of goodies

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Orange Keto cakes 👀

#Saigon #fleamarket

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Homemade orange-coloured passionfruit jam by our friends of Da Lach Coffee 👀

#coffee #jam #vietnam

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Do these guys looking they're having fun?

They certainly do!

Our pop-up 🇸🇻 pupuseria was a big hit with attendees & bypassers!

#saigon #elsalvador #pupusa

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Thank you everyone for coming out last Sunday! 🙌

We will share some impressions over the coming days & hope to have everyone back for more in due time!

#Saigon #fleamarket #vietnam

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Two more months to go until the only #bitcoinonly conference in #SouthEast Asia for the year!

See you in #Bangkok!  🇹🇭

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-thailand-conference-2024/


The first #Bitcoin Conference in #Japan - concluding the year for Bitcoiners in Asia.

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-tokyo-2024/


The Tet Li Xi 2024 campaign has been concluded 🙂

We would like to thank once more all parties involved on making this happen for another year, including and especially all our donors & contributors who brought the orange coin into hundreds of #Vietnam'ese households during this year's campaign. 🧡

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Late July - come, come 🙌

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/inaugural-satoshi-flea-market-saigon-2024/

#saigon #vietnam

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The inaugural Satoshi Flea Market Saigon is going to happen next month.

More announcements to follow soon 🙂

#fleamarket #saigon #vietnam


South East Asia's only Bitcoin Conference in 2024 - see you in #Bangkok

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-thailand-conference-2024/


Bitcoin Pizza Day 2024

No official celebrations are taking place organized by the Bitcoin #Saigon community due to busy schedules of our active members.

People are building, not munching carbs.

But:

Keep an eye out for announcements of public events in 2024.

Some stuff in the works.


We will swipe the remaining funds from the Lì xì campaign into the community treasury by end of June.

If you have not yet redeemed your ⚡Lì Xì 🧧... you might want to get around it soon.

Thank you once more to all our contributors and participants and onto more in 2025 🙌

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/lixi-2024-year-of-dragon/

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Thanks Derek!

We will have to coordinate a bit with our members to collect their npubs - for now there is:

Andrew: npub1kundug94z4c9llhf29v3ar657she8wu9p80cr2z3e4dujj0vzveqwpp0ge

Dominik:

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Albert:

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If you happen to be in #Bangkok 🇹🇭 in the coming days, the crew over at
#Bobspace has put on some nuggets with familiar faces:

🥜Bangkok 16th of May: Bitcoin Start-ups with
Obi Nwosu of Fedimint

28th of May: Bitcoin's architecture with Simon of mempool.space

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#Korea calling.

--> https://bitcoinsaigon.org/bitcoin-in-asia-korea-2024/

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Weekend vibes in #Saigon

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Sweetie pie 🐉🥰

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♫ Tết Tết Tết Đến Rồi ♫

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...and with that we're fully funded 🙌

1,000 envelopes are 1,000 Sats going into circulation - about half of them have made their way already into the community and with local merchants in town.

xin cảm ơn tất cả các bạn! 🥰

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Orange friends with orange gifts.

Get your 100% beef burger at #Pingu's in #ThaoDien - and snap up one of the #Bitcoin Lì Xì!

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Thank you to whoever just funded another 25 envelopes the past hour 😃
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...and thank you to however just funded another 25 envelopes :D

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We are still about ~300 envelopes  (~ 300k Sats) short of reaching our target of 1,000 Li Xi for the 2024 campaign

Every 1,000 Sats make for another Li Xi filled.

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--> https://bitcoinsaigon.org/lixi-2024-year-of-dragon/

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In preparation for our ⚡#Lightning Li Xi guide🧧:

What are your three favourite #LNURL supporting Lightning wallets?

Name your favourites below!

We want to give the receivers of the Li Xi (beginner level!) an easy time to redeem their Sats ⚡
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...inching closer to our target 👀

🧧665 out of 1,000 envelopes funded 🧧

- 140,809 Sats received via the Donation page
- 525,011 Sats received via bitcoinsaigon@getalby.com

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In 2024 and onward, we will reward those establishments who have already switched & committed to seed-oil free cooking & meal preparation.

We will bring you more business and more endorsements.

We will also continue to encourage the venues & locations in our vicinity to make the move towards cooking with traditional & animal fats.

A strong and healthy community requires strong and healthy individual members.

Provide customers with quality food - and you will gain quality customers.

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Bitcoin Saigon community - now also on #Geyser

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/now-also-on-geyser/


Current status update on our community crowdfunding campaign

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More than 20% of the crowdfunding target has been reached - thank you for all contributors so far!


Tết Tết Tết Đến Rồi!

As every year, following the good example by our friends in Hong Kong, we are making it rain Sats.

The official call for donations to fund the 2024 campaign

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/call-for-crowd-funding-tet-lixi-2024/
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The annual 🧧Tết lì xì 🧧campaign is entering preparation stage.

Third time is a charm - thanks to the inspiration by the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong and former frontman Leo Weese

More updates to follow soon on how you can support us in this endeavour!🙂

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Take note - and follow along for other updates of public gatherings in #Vietnam and the wider SEA region

https://bitcoinsaigon.org/cancellation-notice-beyond-lightning-danang-2024/

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Xin chao from Saigon/Vietnam!