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Beefsteak CEO and stuff. Charming as heck. Mid-brow. You can and should ask me cooking questions.

I need suggestions on how to turn lightning sats into on chain sats without closing channels.

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I've just received a grant of $25,000 USD (in Bitcoin) to work alongside the Human Rights Foundation educating political dissidents around how to use BTC. I'm very humbled and excited.

Rather than focus on me for this post though, I want to take you on a journey regarding one of the stories I've witnessed at the Oslo Freedom Forum that has had the most impact on me.

In Oslo 2022, I watched a woman take the stage and talk about her activist husband who had been abducted and imprisoned in Nicaragua, leaving their daughter fatherless, as they had no contact with him at all.

I also met a wonderful woman learning about Bitcoin wallets for the first time, as a way to fundraise and get money into countries where dissident bank accounts would be shut down.

A year later I returned to Oslo and learned two things.

1. The woman I spoke with/coached and the woman onstage were the same person. Her name is Berta Maradiaga.

2. Due to the efforts of the HRF her husband Felix had been freed and returned to them for the first time in 3 years. They even showed a video of his daughter's tearful first reunion.

I encourage you to watch all 3 videos here. It is a harrowing story and it emotionally broke me watching it play out in real time. I got to spend a bunch of time with Berta recently at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, and she continues to learn about BTC and how it can be used to further their cause. She is wonderful.

Grab your tissues.

Felix In Oslo 2019 (Before being imprisoned)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtoWHNLw-o

Berta in Oslo 2022 (Pleading for help to release her husband)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AicUo9hVlI

Felix Returning To Oslo 2023 (after his release and reunion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUnDCR5mgLg

well deserved, congrats brother.

oh shit…. sorry……

you can’t - that’s the thing!

i’ve been to a beefsteak!! nostr:note1l84fhm90z4s28sgvay972wwvkjsnchg4nvqfx47wx7qxexw3cs4sh54p0y

this lettuce is called castelmagno - but it closely related.

it’s not quite as bitter at the end.

This was probably the best thing I ate this year.

As long as there are tomatoes - I will eat them.

people do evil things.

but no truth is evil.