Nostr Web Client

Pretty cool real life story…

My in-laws have a family business and they had a local guy as their web developer for a long time. They’re very non-technical but absolutely needed their website for their livelihood.

Their developer passed away suddenly a few years back and they were stuck - had no idea how to update their website, run their business or anything.

Then they get an email from some other guy on the other side of the world, reaching out to them saying he could help with their website. At first they thought it was a scam. Turns out their local web guy had been subcontracting to another firm in Ukraine that was actually doing the dev work. The new dev is able to prove he’s the one and they’re back in business. Things were smooth sailing for a couple years.

Then Russia invaded Ukraine…

The Ukrainian dev has been slower to respond (understandably) but is still maintaining everything. Recently, paying him has been more difficult. Not sure if he’s being cut off by payment providers or what, but my father in law asked me to help him sort it out. He thought I was joking when I said let’s see if we can pay him with bitcoin. He’s older and thinks bitcoin is a scam, but I know the Ukrainian dev is around my age so I figure there’s a chance.

Turns out, he doesn’t know much about “crypto” but he’s open to it, he just want to get paid.

So today, I’m assisting my father in law pay a his Ukrainian web dev in bitcoin. Possibly a double orange pill moment.

🤙🏻

The Daniel ⚡️ 2y ago

That’s awesome. Back when the war first broke out a friend of mine was working with an incredibly talented children’s book illustrator in Russia. He was no longer able to pay her so he asked me for a suggestion. I said we should set her up with a bitcoin wallet. In about 15 minutes, she went from never using bitcoin before to installing BlueWallet on her phone, backing up her seed phrase, and receiving her first payment. From there she was able to have a local friend exchange it for cash so she could pay her rent. Can’t expect her to HODL in those circumstances, but bitcoin did exactly what it was designed to do.

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TonySly 2y ago

Agreed - I don’t expect this guy to HODL either.

I’m hoping that the permissionless transaction is enough to open his mind (and my in-laws’) because this will be the fourth or fifth time they’ve had to change how they’ve paid him.