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Replying to Avatar Joe Nakamoto

Today I visited a school for mentally challenged and disabled kids that didn’t have a lick of AC.

Classrooms do have ceiling fans but they do sweet fuck all when it gets to a certain temperature.

It was 35 degrees + humid today but felt like 42.

That’s like when you open the oven door to check on your chicken.. every time you step outside.

Why was I there?

Well bitcoiners at btccuracao funded the school’s brand new WiFi.

I wanted to see the impact of this donation and speak to a poorer community about their experience with btc.

Btccuraco paid the internet company that installed the WiFi in Sats as part of the donation. It’s one of many grassroots initiatives they undertake to try to show that bitcoin is better money.

The new WiFi is a total game changer for the school and the teachers were tearful explaining how much it has helped them teach, inspire and lead these less fortunate kids.

But it only goes so far.

The solar panels atop the school’s long roof “stopped working” this week.

A govt contractor installed the panels this year as a “go green” initiative.

Long story of govt enraging incompetence short, basically half the school had working WiFi + ceiling fans. Sometimes the electricity simply cuts out.

So one half of the school had classrooms of engaged kids with YouTube access + useful visual aids for the kids in a semi manageable heat

while the other half slowly cooked and tried to read books in the inferno.

My white shirt was wet and transparent by the time I finished the school tour. I was like how the feck are these kids gonna get a chance in life?

I interviewed the head of ICT who was gushing about the new WiFi and was saying how some of the kids can now learn to code with this Minecraft coding thing.

She had the biggest heart. But like many islanders she had been crypto scammed a few years ago and was still really reluctant about bitcoin.

Really saddening because of course no sane person thinks “oh yeah I’m gonna learn about bitcoin now I sold my gold necklace for a crypto thing 5 years ago and never got the money back.”

I managed to send her some sats to say thank you but if I’m honest I think it’s coz I was recording this during the interview.

In all, I left the school utterly humbled and a little bit angry at the world.

I don’t have a nice thing to round off on, sorry.

Bitcoin doesn’t fix everything. And some things utterly suck.

That's how the tropics are, everything rots sooner...

Replying to Avatar walker

English translation of the French press release regarding Telegram CEO Pavel Durov:

Founder and leader of the instant messaging and platform TELEGRAM, Pavel DUROV, was arrested and taken into custody on Saturday, August 24, 2024, at 8:00 PM, in Le Bourget.

This action is part of a judicial investigation opened on July 8, 2024, following a preliminary investigation initiated by Section J3 (Cybercrime – JUNALCO) of the Paris Prosecutor's Office.

This judicial investigation was opened against an unnamed person for the following charges:

- Complicity - Operating an online platform to facilitate illicit transactions in an organized group,

- Refusal to provide necessary information or documents requested by authorized authorities for the execution and exploitation of interceptions authorized by law,

- Complicity - Possession of images of minors with a pedo-pornographic nature,

- Complicity - Distribution, offering, or making available in an organized group, images of minors with a pornographic nature,

- Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession, offering, or sale of narcotic products,

- Complicity - Offering, selling, or making available, without legitimate reason, equipment, instruments, programs, or data designed or adapted to damage and access the functioning of an automated data processing system,

- Complicity – Organized fraud,

- Criminal conspiracy to commit a crime or offense punishable by at least 5 years of imprisonment,

- Money laundering of crimes or offenses in an organized group,

- Providing cryptology services aimed at ensuring confidentiality without proper declaration,

- Providing a cryptology means not exclusively ensuring authentication or integrity control functions without prior declaration,

- Importing a cryptology means not exclusively ensuring authentication or integrity control functions without prior declaration.

The investigating magistrates in charge of this judicial investigation have also assigned the Center for the Fight Against Digital Crime (C3N) and the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF) to continue the investigations.

In this procedural context, Pavel DUROV is being questioned by investigators. His custody was extended on August 25, 2024, by an investigating judge and can last up to 96 hours (until August 28, 2024) due to the procedure applicable to the offenses related to organized crime as mentioned above.

Original press release: https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf

H/t nostr:npub1mznweuxrjm423au6gjtlaxmhmjthvv69ru72t335ugyxtygkv3as8q6mak for the link.

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