I haven't. It's been a long while I don't dedicate time to figure out Nostr completely. Cheers.
Venezuela: Bitcoin mining machines found at the biggest & most dangerous prison
So It's a pretty long story, actually. Venezuela has nothing to envy to a epic Netflix movie.
The Tocorón Prison is the biggest & more dangerous prison from Venezuela.
From there, a criminal organization named "Tren de Aragua" operates most of the crime in the central region in the country, but with the recent migration crisis they've managed to spread their tentacles all over South America, including countries like Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Chile.
"Tren de Aragua" means the train of Aragua, a province of Venezuela. It refers to an old unfinished & abandoned train construction workers sindicate that evolved into this criminal and prolific organization.
The Tocoron prison was like a criminal citadel. Let me explain: they had a neighborhood for family and friends, a club where international artists presented their shows, a pool with park and recreation for kids, a farm with exotic animals and guess what... a Bitcoin mining facility INSIDE THE PRISON.
The Tocoron prison is located nearby the San Vicente industrial area, where many companies closed shop thanks to fucking communism & Bitcoin miners took their place to do their thing, taking advantage of industrial facilities and cheap energy. Some of these mining entrepeneurs have been working there since around year 2014. Many of them are legit, I can say.
Some others are corrupt politicians, army officials and whatnot.
So it's not a surprise that yesterday, when the government decided to raid the prison, they fund several Bitcoin mining equipment in there.
As I said, this is a heavy material for a script writer to make a Netflix movie or series.
Anyway, check the media coverage of this chapter in my crazy crazy country.
BeINCrypto: https://es.beincrypto.com/decomisan-maquinas-minar-bitcoin-carcel-tocoron-venezuela/
Crimen Sin Castigo: https://crimenessincastigo.com/fugas-y-traslados-durante-intervencion-en-tocoron/
ReporteYA (VIDEO): https://twitter.com/ReporteYa/status/1704828839975690450?s=20
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Nostr APIs like Primal, Iris and SnortSocial are buggy, at least in my experience.
How such incredible developers could make something like Nostr while having these kind of buggy interfaces and web apps? That's beyond comprehension for me, that's for sure.
But I'd still like to know if I'm doing something wrong.
I have two questions for you, dear Nostr user that reads me:
1. What's the best Nostr learning/resources page out there?
2. How can I have my own customized username both in Primal & Iris? I try to set it everytime I can but it just don't work at all. (Am I using the wrong browser? Do I have to clean up cookies or something?)
Good evening! Hope you can read me. I'll be looking forward to your answers.
I'm running a campaign to do coverage/reporting of the "WatchOut! Bitcoin" conference in Spain.
With your support I'll be able to travel & connect with Bitcoin personalities assiting to the event.
More info here:
Governments ruin economies.
People look out for #Bitcoin & stablecoins
Now gov's want to "regulate" how to use these tools.
We the people:🖕✨
¿Podrían los Ordinals de #Bitcoin estar detrás de Binance
en la adopción de Lightning Network?
Te lo explico en BeINCrypto ;)
Sounds good. I'd definitely like to onboard more journalists and engage myself in more topics about Nostr.
Recently, I saw a media & journalism company from Venezuela launching an NFT collection on Ethereum or Solana, I think to try to finance themselves & overcome censorship. That didn't sit well with me, so I definitely thought about Nostr, but a business model based on zaps it's not sustainable by itself.
Thanks for the advise!
Hello
I'm currently testing different Nostr interfaces & tools to see how I can use this protocol more.
Some of these tools & APIs are still too slow or lack of a friendly user experience.
But the future is built by innovators, those who take the time to learn and experiment enough to improve things by try and failure.
When I first heard about Nostr I knew it was a simple technology with a huge potential. I still believe it and I know there are many different utilities and improvements being developed all around the world to make it better.
Even though there's still so much more to achieve, I can see this is going fast and it puts Nostr closer to achieve mainstream adoption.
If not, we will have a very resilient and strong tool to communicate & share information still, and that's ok.
I'm not a developer nor programmer. I'm a journalist focused in Bitcoin, specially in it's techonology rather than economics or cultural issues. It's been almost 7 years working in the space & came to learn A LOT about what is Bitcoin and how it works. There's still so much to learn about it & Nostr is definitely another rabbit hole, another universe (thus connected to Bitcoin), which requires a sustancial amount of time to understand.
I'm currently doing photography, social media & marketing stuff for other clients also, so you'll understand that I don't have too much free time, specially for social media, which fortunately I'm rejecting more and more everyday in its current form.
Ideally, social media is made intended to put something out to the world, not to scroll eternally and dirty your mind with nonsensical opinions or biased news.
But sooner or later I know I will find myself doing news coverage of Nostr stuff, or looking to make a more healthy use of social media through this protocol.
Currently, traditional social media it's not a safe space for mental health, so I'm looking to run away from the algorithm and built a feed that gives me what I need. And I want to give the Nostr community what it needs also.
So, to end up this Saturday morning rant, I'd like you to share with me your insights about Nostr, what are the best tools & sources to learn about its technology. What do you think is needed right now in the space? How can I help? How Nostr can help me improve my journalistic work?
I hope your relay shows you this message. Can't wait to read your responses.
Love,
Luis
PD: Tried to send this message with Primal.net unsuccessfully, after Snort.Social gave me some issues too, but I couldn't. Lastly, I tried Iris and it seems to work. Let me know if you can read this!
Zaps are welcome too, so I can keep investing time in this.