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When the red pill kicks in 💊

Bitcoin is money!

Almost daily I am purchasing goods at any of over 2,000 PicknPay stores, coffee at First Light Coffee in Jeffreysbay and petrol at TotalEnergies with WiCode vouchers from @bitrefill in #SouthAfrica.

Today I tested the new feature in nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q which allows you to directly pay the QR code from PicknPay. It worked! Thanks to the nostr:npub1jugar2agq6369p0l86razavs9shj2p6pscxecevs8j94ap37hkqsjlfc28 SDK that enables Lightning payments via swaps from nostr:npub1nyyhnqahf3cgqzcc927x7eqyd2msgplfe27ddn6hpgu2m200wh2s0s7gan

JC Brand 10mo ago

Hey Anita, I saw your talk at Adopting Bitcoin in Cape Town. Thanks for everything you're doing to further the adoption of Bitcoin by people on the ground.

How does South Africa compare with regards to Bitcoin adoption compared to other places you've visited?

JC Brand 10mo ago

UTXOracle is a really cool protect. It's a decentralized oracle that estimates the daily price of bitcoin, removing the nee d to rely on exchange data.

https://utxo.live/oracle/

JC Brand 11mo ago

I'm at Adopting Bitcoin conf in Cape Town, South Africa.

Some things learned today:

- The travel rule is coming to SA at around March

- Eskom is being lobbied intensely to incorporate Bitcoin mining to facilitate grid management and renewables adoption.

- Lots of circular economy initiatives are springing up all around South Africa.

- 3% of Pick 'n Pay's sales is in Crypto (2nd largest retailer in SA). That's one million Rand per month and a sextupling since 2022.

Replying to KentuckyChicken

I've about finished my time in Korea.

My opinion if it is this.

It's the asian country rich white people go to. Seems even more so than Japan.

I guess because you can use visa. And the roads have English names too.

Rich Chinese people love to go shopping there.

The mall might have been half Chinese women. Kinda sucks for China. All that money leaving because it's nicer and people would rather shop there.

Anyways, I didn't even attempt to say anything in Korean except thank you and hello.

China and even Japan are both waaaay cheaper for eating food.

Meal for 25 in China 125$.

Meal for 4 in Korea 125$.

People want to cook the food in front of you. But they don't expect tips. Weird.

Uber felt cheaper than united states.

People are not especially nice nor rude. About like America. With less drugs.

JC Brand 1y ago

How do you know that the women in the mall are Chinese? Are their features different enough, or do you hear them speaking Chinese?

Replying to

Enki

Bitcoin is the Wampeter that our karass derives its foma from.

Except I see bitcoin as a form of thruth. But perhaps thats just more foma.

And no im not a Bokononist just re-reading cat's cradle.