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I'm the Z4 Explorer. Exploring the world in my suped up Z4!!! aka Suboss. My goal in life is to be a Professional "nobody".
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.

I feel your frustration. But slowly, and surely and eventually, bitcoin's effect will rise through and stories like this will be a thing of the past.

We are so so sooo early, you know how great bitcoin is and transformative it can be, and to be up close in the face of all the heartache and see how difficult it is for people. You must ask yourself why is this possible? Your article described this really well.

As bitcoin grows, adoption will increase, peoples trust will grow. Its because of people like you Joe that will make this a reality. Keep it up, you are helping make this revolution possible! ✊

Replying to Avatar Peter McCormack

We have launched our new podcast, Mr Obnoxious, and our first episode is out - UAPs, Simulation Theory and Consciousness with Matthew Pines.

https://www.mrobnoxious.com/episodes/matthew-pines-uaps-simulation-theory-consciousness-001

Over the next week we will be releasing the following:

- Gavin Sathianathan on the medical Cannabis industry and it's alignment with #Bitcoin

- Anna Chekhovich, covering Putin's Russia, corruption and the need for privacy with money

- Allen Farrington on the broken capitalist system, misallocation of human and financial capital and the need for a sound money standard

Thank you for all the feedback so far, loads of good stuff coming and this is the natural evolution of the show.

Big love 🤘

Mr Obnoxious has abit of a shock factor. Yeah initially I was abit turned off too because word is used to undermine in negative light. Although its now growing on me. U right extremely easy to remember, sticks in your head. Also u can't help click someone that openly calls themselves Mr Obnoxious. Does this guy not care at all what people think? Rare trait. You just can't help but be interested in it. Genius marketing!

I also really like how you often admit when you don't understand something. Its a nice trait, something I find humbling. Much more relatable than brainiacs. Not abnoxious at all.

To mainstream news you definitely obnoxious, you literally say opposite to what they report, sounds pretty obnoxious to me. I've found most of what we told is wrong and when I try to explain to people why, it pisses them off. Truth can sometimess come across extremely obnoxious. Mr Obnoxious growing on me 👍well done.

yea that could work.

have you bought anything with SATs, any merchants accept bitcoin where u live. like how Joe nakamoto bought a drink.

I'm also amazed no fee for sending you 42 SATs. so its free to send 2cents on lightning. is that right? so r small transactions fee free?

I reluctantly watched it in the end. nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0stj565 did great, well done.

When Peter schiff compares with use case of cigarettes as money in prison because people want to USE cigarettes to smoke. Similarly Bitcoin's use case is it being the worlds first transparent money, no one can cheat. So people want to USE Bitcoin because they not getting shafted. Thats why these string of numbers have a demand! If this USE case doesn't apply any more (if bitcoin some how reveals a flaw that allows people to cheat, which isn't possible), then this belief could change. Similarly if those people who smoke cigarettes realise they could get lung cancer and die, stop smoking then demand for cigarettes would dwindle, and cease to be money in prisons. Because nobody wants them. When USD hyperinflates and no one want it anymore, it will cease to be money. Gold has already been tried and tested. Its got too many flaws and is losing against bitcoin. If we have WW3 all of Internet destroyed, all computers, hard drives holding record of bitcoin block chain destroyed then yeah sure gold wins. Peter schiff is doing a great job winding us all up!

Peter schiff is playing with words making our heads spin. Jack Mallers you kicked ass. Thanks. 👍

Replying to Avatar Z4 Explorer

nostr:npub1lr2zzf989mvf393y0tv39ara6a4vddkd6y87z784up9vl6ks6j3qtudl6a hey thanks for the SATs. You are the first person to send me SATs, feeling pumped. :-) then accidentally sent them to someone else lol. short lived... new to lightning.

nostr:npub1lr2zzf989mvf393y0tv39ara6a4vddkd6y87z784up9vl6ks6j3qtudl6a cant see a transaction fee on 49 sats. is that right?

hey Phil, I accidentally sent u some SATs, new to nostr and lightning and such. figuring it out still. do u mind sending them back to me please. cheers.

nostr:npub1lr2zzf989mvf393y0tv39ara6a4vddkd6y87z784up9vl6ks6j3qtudl6a hey thanks for the SATs. You are the first person to send me SATs, feeling pumped. :-) then accidentally sent them to someone else lol. short lived... new to lightning.

I used to eat 1 meal a day. Good hearty meal! People often say how can you do that. Body adjusts. After a while I just found it easy, practical.

I'm one of those that just signed up. joined nostr a few days ago. its great. freedom of speech. no censorship. feels liberating.

I've given up watching debates with peter Schiff. its always the same argument, no intrinsic value, not used for anything (ummmm the onlything that restore trust duhhh, and transparency) its going to zero (does he really believe this?), its a ponzi (I give up!) won't ever be used as payment ( not so sure about that, look at lightning), too volatile (first asset to be truely free market hence we can see what free market volatility is for the first time ever). blah blah blah. someone let me know if I missed anything, and whether I should take the time to watch the video. Hope jack mallers whipped peter Schiff's ass into place.

Looks nice. Steak eggs can't go wrong. How long was your fast?

Hi all just joined nostr