Good morning from El Salvador
We are now in DAY SIXTEEN since the government rescinded Bitcoin as legal tender, at the request of the IMF (effective 30 April)
I've spent a lot of time trying to explain whats happening because most people, including bitcoiners, do not understand how the IMF works and the influence it has over nations. I've also been very vocal in part because there was so much silence and censorship around an important subject
It should now be clear how strongly I oppose this agreement and why, so let's talk about solutions
While I've been ranting, the team at nostr:npub17cyatz6z2dzcw6xehtcm9z45m76lde5smxdmyasvs00r4pqv863qrs4ml3 has been building
Since this law was passed they have taught around 1,000 new students in El Salvador, trained a new group of teachers and built new curriculum. And that's just domestic. This is all while building out a global infrastructure that makes this movement less reliant on any one jurisdiction
The team has always evolved over the years and generally trended toward improvement but this current 2025 iteration has broken through to a new level and it's inspiring to witness
Grassroots, independent & decentralized is the way
The IMF deal is still a big deal and its still important to learn about whats happening there and draw attention to it, but the real change will be from the bottom up. That is as apparent as ever
Onward!
Gm
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GM!
We sure live in a weird timeline where an open-source cold storage tool which you can build yourself for cheap is the most capable bitcoin signing device on the market BY FAR. And it wasn't created by one of the big players, but by a conglomerate of volunteers with a passion, for free.
They don't ask for anything in return, as this is project is a service to the bitcoin community. Mind blowing, right? If you're getting any value from the SeedSigner project, consider giving back to them with a donation you can send via lightning. Particularly important for resellers! 🫵
We put our Sats where our mouth is, btw, and donate parts of our profits regularly, It took a while but we finally got the last months numbers crunched, so it was high time for a donation of 176k Sats to the nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl Dev Team. This is how we ensure constant improvements can be made, like the recently added Spanish Translation.
For anyone curious about the "Donation Flow", this is how it works: You input what you're willing to donate and the website will generate a separate lightning invoice for each of the five contributors. Which you can then copy or display a qr. After paying the invoices, submit the donation and you're done.
It might seem cumbersome, but it ensures these donations reach every contributor directly to his ln wallet, without any custodians or middlemen. P2P, as bitcoin was intended.
https://video.nostr.build/c09e3a5f8d8ebdcdc6058883c3261689c25289871427b720e289c0626fafa491.mp4
Year four of donating and still not tired of it. 😎
Onwards!
Gm
