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 Announcement. 📣 

While in Malawi checking out Gridless Bitcoin mines, I met a hard working kid who is the primary provider for his family. His name is Vincent. 

I showed him Machankura and paid for his guide services in BTC. 

Times are very hard right now in Malawi as the people are suffering from massive currency devaluations. 

Vincent reached out to me in desperation a few weeks ago asking for money to help him. 

I sent him some funds to help him with food for 2 weeks. It was about ~$30. 

Today I decided to put his LNURL in my nostr profile so now if you Zap me Vincent will receive the sats. 

He still needs to find ways to pay for his university and support his mother and younger siblings. If you want to support Vincent directly you can send him sats to his Machankura account.

Here is his LNURL: lnurl1dp68gurn8ghj7wpnxvejumt0vf5j7tnhv4kxctttdehhwm30d3h82unvwqhnyd348yunwwfexs6nwvgrkhd9d https://image.nostr.build/f27559025141fbcf4293d887f92a05ca48f2a949b43b55831402364caa715018.jpg  
 Am I correct that BlueSky started as nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu... 
 Its just the main client. 
 I don't tell my friends I own Bitcoin. I don't go to Bitcoin conventions. I don't wear Bitcoin me... 
 Respect 
 The most embarrassing “Bitcoiners” are the ones that simp for government enforcement. https://image.nostr.build/86da92c58c69ad5087708311854d4e338cbab8d6790946cc30409d1af33e9c5b.jpg  
 Highkey 
 I agree. 

But simping for a crackdown is clearly the tone in the pictured tweet. 
 Boomer Razor: I read it in an article therefore it must be true. nostr:note1jjgjsns45ajwhp0kn36dv5jarxafgj5wc2ydn6zrqzmarmstfq7qu9dh7g 
 new ye is good cancel me 
 Blocked!!! 
 I can disagree with half of it and still laugh at all of it.  Stewart is hilarious, deeply, natur... 
 New Zealand was not free at all in 2020 
 Email #5 from Satoshi to @adam3us  mentions Hal Finney the day after the Bitcoin code is released. #legendary https://image.nostr.build/717c7c70694faefda2cb901cd8801d7cf115d80986295638d3a1eb1ca105edf2.jpg  
 BTC at ATH against the Naira means… 

You guessed it. Nigeria bans bitcoin off ramps. https://image.nostr.build/d8af0ae0098e923daaab5f882d2e7f001a4713f0266ef429c33e66600bc17e6f.jpg  
 There is currently a major AT&T outage in the entire south east. 

Wonder if it’s benign technical issues or if there is something malicious going on. 
 USD soon. 
 I got it from Balajis and he got it from another account. Just cross posting interesting stuff  from twitter here. 
 Dear nostr bro’s you can hit me up about your feelings. 

Hodling bitcoin is fucking hard. Over... 
 I second your offer! 

Thanks for always leading @HODL
 I just got an offer for $5k that Ukrainians will get me into the country through the border witho... 
 👀 
 Had to come to an end at some point. 
 in a constant state of never being happy with the client i’ve built. I only see the flaws 😔 
 Im happy. Thanks for what you do. 
 SEVEN FUCKING YEARS I WAS LOCKED IN THE US ! UNBELIEVABLE! NOW I CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT OF 🌎 AND... 
 Congrats brother. Very happy for you. 
 Will USDT be affected? Estimated 25% of USDT on the Tron network.. nostr:note14g57wgguv6qzvdxwu04... 
 👀 
 What do people think of this more detailed explanation from Chris? nostr:note1pkzdsdu7sf4xy3fump5z08c0sdqwvnkv473cqcv32lshq265earqgyccv4 
 Ill try. Mark is the man. 
 This is why I cross post important convos. 
 I tried zapping you @Chris Guida but not sure if your LNURL is up. 
 As the fees go up, ppl realize that bitcoin base layer is only for wire-transfer-like economical ... 
 🤔 
 Unfortunately it looks like a bunch of bitcoiners think bitcoin is broken…

They will likely do something stupid unless they can find a way to cope. 

Thankfully bitcoin continues to run with no issues. nostr:note1ahdjyh5fuy0u5nj33dlw5mc092q90sk5e7hzygc2u0rhk84pd9jq6c95lf 
 Looks like the fake Lyn bots have made their way to Nostr… please mute this malicious npub. nostr:note1tcfwmf0l5fn94a8qxzfumqy8xlahaepyqkanxvjct533faeu7npq9ks8rz 
 These sleazy bastards are tricky! 
 Shill some good movies 
 Mr Nobody 
 Tucker explaining how a senior official representing Boris Johnson told him “He will talk to you, but he wants $1,000,000. $1,000,000 in either US dollars, gold, or bitcoin” to do an interview. 

Wild clip. https://video.nostr.build/877d6946726ab0abcf95749b8f14d6389bd0cafc77c4e08d81fca24ad85beb09.mp4  
 Over 100,000 Taproot Assets have been minted in the past 5 months! 
 What kind of assets? 
 Is Chris Guida on Nostr? I find it hard to agree with his point of view regarding consensus and permission. 

This is the root of the conversation Bitcoiners should he hashing out. https://image.nostr.build/b5d4317d36cebf6c04e9ec2d8db42426a1c6bbe743c3a7406e534e25568ea7f9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ed3af2daee248b68992538e5a7db31a477c3ec061e8cd23d222d1e7cded04286.jpg  
 ☠️ 
 These people are trying to merge changes into bitcoin for your info. 
 Muting shitcoiners on #nostr has given me the patience to deal with them IRL.

I love it here ... 
 Patience and empathy are virtues.