how come nobody here is talking about this? isn't it ALSO possible that #xrp will be a life-changing opportunity for the next generation of crypo-holders? are we ONLY #bitcoin here on #nostr? 😬

couldn't I take the gains from other cryptos and SAVE THEM in #BTC? wouldn't that give someone like me my own LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITY? and, thanks to all of you who went first, the path looks really clear from here... you guys are gonna make the next round so much easier for us. 🙏🏼

maybe don't be such a purist.

maybe cheer for the next generation as we try to get ours... (i promise I'll share --I wasn't made to HODL-- I wanna live and I want everyone around me to benefit.)

🌱🧿

this morning I've been researching the #XRParmy and... while it's not Bitcoin, it does look like it's poised to break out and would be a really good opportunity...

rule #1: don't talk about XRP

omg. did i just get REALLY LUCKY?

Is this starting in 14?!

what's amber Sunday?

hello #nostr. #gm #coffeestr

I've been busy the last two weeks, opening my first business --the MVP is a pop-up tent in front of a (costarrican) friend's restaurant, serving coffee on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (in November). I'm doing a study to confirm (or should i say PROVE) it works. it'll grow from there in December, when all the tourists arrive. culmination will be in February for the nostr:npub14f26g7dddy6dpltc70da3pg4e5w2p4apzzqjuugnsr2ema6e3y6s2xv7lu

#freedomfestival, but that's all just context.

¡Osa se mueve! is going to change this culture. We're gonna stimulate the local economy, get people moving.

(I'm having the time of my life, co-creating with a LOT of really cool people here in the #bitcoinjungle.)

I need some help. ⚡

(if you know me, please vouch for me & my project, re-post or comment). that would help a lot, since i still can't figure out the goddamn relay setup...)

I told this friend I'd pay her $50 to paint this satellite dish sign for my pop-up, but that's not nearly what it's worth. look how BEAUTIFUL and cleverly costarrican it is 🇨🇷. can you please zap some sats for her beautiful sign? I'd love to pay her something in Bitcoin too. (I'll pass it sat for sat to her. she deserves it, 💯.)

thank you. 🙏🏼

#grownostr #bitcoin #value4value

#bitcoinbusinessncubator

#thatbitcoinprojectinBahía

#biencomún #mecaséconuntico

COUNTDOWN: 4 days left.

Me, at 48, opening my very first business.

Friday (1/11/24) seems auspicious.

#thatbitcoinprojectinbahía

to be honest, it's just serving coffee in the mornings, on a street where all of the tourists pass. it's hard to believe nobody else is already doing this. I bought a pop-up and a table and all the things I need to make coffee and some mugs and sadly even some to-go mugs (with plastic lids 😢) and everything I need for a total cost of about 1.5 million sats. imagine a lemonade stand, but with a REAL Costa Rican coffee, not that sh*t they made in a coffeemaker, served my my Costa Rican friends and neighbors. ☕🍊🚀

in the month of november, we will be open Fridays Saturdays and Sundays only. if there's more opportunity to justify doing more days, that's good news, but I want to grow the biz slowly, intentionally. December January and February, I'm all in. peak season is known as the only time of the year to make money in Bahía... and 90 days is the perfect amount of time for a business incubator/ test. my coffee shop is just the "proof" that it's true and it works.

the goal is to make $100 a day in profit-- that's my take-home pay. included in the overhead is $1 a coffee for the friends who are helping me.

so unlike the traditional model in Costa Rica of paying someone $4 an hour, if we can sell four coffees in 15 minutes, they'll make waaaaaay more money. and the more coffees they sell, the more money they'll make. I think that's what's missing in this economy --every time I see someone local working in a restaurant in the Bitcoin Jungle they're on their phone. they're not motivated to work. they're not motivated to sell anything. they're not making any money unless they work more hours.

while initially I pondered some of those "pay what you think it's worth" ideas, everyone around me said that probably wasn't going to work in real life. (most people from most countries don't tip, and pretty much everyone from the US knows you don't have to tip in Costa Rica bc the 10% service is already included.) I'm kind of sad about not trying that idea, especially when it's really obvious to me that this is what's called "the Bitcoin standard."

but whatever.

I figured out a better way-- commissions are very motivating. and the point wasn't TO WORK, the point was to build a community. and earn bitcoin for services provided.

the photo is me, mid-pandemic, living my best life on Little Corn Island in Nicaragua. it was not Christmas season, but the coffee mug shows how little one cares when in search of a good caffeination... i was clearly grateful. i even took a photo!

#value4value

#gm #bitcoinjungle #costarica

#coffee #popup #bizincubator

#localAF #nocorporatecoffee

(not the bitcoin jungle, which is in Costa Rica 🇨🇷)

this was Pai🇹🇭, late 2020, when there were no tourists and all the vegan restaurants were sOOOoo welcoming. don't know why i left. oh wait, it's because when tourism opened up, the tourists came back.

i enjoyed the quiet.

Hi Nic. My "feed" is alllllll you this morning. (Good morning, fellow normie. 🫶🏼 )

And you're cracking me up bc IT'S ALL SO DAMN (multiple layers) COMPLICATED. I'm like you, I *get* it. But I'm gonna need this to be a little more user-friendly before I can invite the family over.

Adding hubs and relays and paying for services and... what's a channel? Why do I need to watch a video or have a call with support to set this up?!

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I'm trying to UN-complicate myself here.

I'm just here for the freedom.

And the quality content.

But I don't wanna PAY for it.

And I'm not gonna burn my precious sats to do it. That, to me, defeats the whole purpose. Plus it's another obligation, another middleman.

#gm from the #bitcoinjungle where we have an office with in-person angels who provide support for allllll of this. For free, because wider adoption of #bitcoin makes their own lives better too.🌱

ok, THIS is funny:

"she starts reconsidering if an environmentally friendly, violent uprising is the best reason to be famous"

I can't think of a BETTER reason.

congratulations on publishing a (second?!) book on Amazon. how do I convince you to send me an autographed copy? I'd like to read it.

some of my favorite books ever were my teenage daughters' dystopian romance novels --the Hunger Games and the Divergent series. I often get through post-corporate life --it's been SIX years since I gave away everything and just... left-- pretending to be Katniss Everdeen. I passed my pandemic on Koh Tao and Koh Pha Ngan. (I wonder if they've got bitcoin yet? I'd like an excuse to go back. got a little unfinished tattoo work to be done.)

did you ultimately decide the circular economy isn't a thing?

I'm not ready to give up yet... I'm sure we all have different motivations, all my friends are locals. we're surrounded by people who have SO MUCH. but sadly the Bitcoin ethos doesn't seem to gel with charitable giving or even treating others. it's awkwardly stingy, in fact. my fiat friends are far more likely to just be nice and share. kinda breaks my brain.

ooooh, great post. I did it once, just before the pandemic. prolly need to do it again. times have changed.

where did you do yours? 🌱🕉️

also, putting my own defensiveness aside, it's not easy to start something.

you have to get someone else crazy enough to go along with you. 🤷🏼‍♀️

wait for it. estamos empezando. 😉🌱

#gm Good morning.

I wanna do a pilgrimage to Bitcoin Beach. I wanna take a bunch of my Normie friends and do an exploration of how it works (as a currency, an exchange of value) *and where it doesn't* and then do the Diplomado program and along the way, document it all to inform the community.

Think it'll stick? Wanna ask questions?

I'm obsessively trying to solve the two biggest problems I see here in the #bitcoinjungle-- but that's me. I have a lot of free time in the temporada baja.

Basically, Scuba Mamí is bored.

Need to #gtfo of #paradise for a minute and go find all the 🧆🥙🧆 in Central America.

RULE #1: Where there's falafel, they accept Bitcoin.

Should I keep talking?

HINT: it's about education

#bitcoinjungle #newbie #normiebutopentolearning

#grownostr #teachmeabout #bitcoin #education

WHY I'M OVER HERE ON NOSTR WRITING ABOUT THIS:

Today I stumbled upon a treasure.

I PayPal-ed $50 for what turns out to be a well-curated list of access to gated content about my actual dream, something which is popularly referred to as "homesteading". ¡¡SCORE!!

As I scroll through this list, I see lots of ethereal messaging, marketed to appeal to exactly me and my #eatpraylove demographic. We're the OG Gentrifiers 😭, back when it was just called "discovering" and just before the Influencers came and ruined everything.

Anyway, I'd be more than happy to share the link to the curated list if someone actually read this far.

soooOOo how do I fix it?

#grownostr this is a really high bar for entry. it's easier to buy #bitcoin.

Good morning from #bitcoinjungle #gm

Wow. That top 5% seems entirely reasonable as a point of entry... someone said to me the other day that "You get in at the price you deserve." and I can't get it out of my head. I'm upside down, turned all around because everything in the fiat world is "No. No. No." and I can't find any evidence of "no" over here... I dunno, #earlydays of adoption for me, but the future looks better with #Bitcoin.

Since I joined #nostr I quit doom scrolling cold turkey. It's not even appealing anymore, the energy over here is just so. much. better. #grownostr

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If you need a proofreader, I'm interested.

Hi. I'm Dana Rae, Tía Danna, Scuba Mamí, or the Kooky Aunt that (ran away to Costa Rica 6 years ago and) never came home. I can't promise much more than loads of not-so-perfect photos, wild outfits, and perpetually untamed hair.

I lived a perfect life for a while... it got boring. I'm here and now, pouring on the authenticity. My neighbors here in the #bitcoinjungle are nostr:npub1uvstpzurn64j8cludwa2nlaan8sd49gh6q534saw28vvxnuqmg0qz5m0p9 and nostr:npub15xyztkewtz5498d7s5tgsqesrur7q4fepv6twf4n5ts05h76gedsu8k2mz #introductions

Landing page for #thatbitcoinprojectinBahía coming soon. nostr:npub1r393f30a6vtqs90ntmj3m5lmj6j4mkdjjdfyyg6gshaucxt97cfshshw30 just explained why I need one. I also wanna say (shout out into the void) THANKS for all the detailed explainers about NOSTR and how to get set up. (I see you, hard-working IT folks and L&D gurus. Much appreciation.)

It's my first time here and this post just blew my mind.

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What are ⚡? And what did she just say about using them to buy coffee?! Where are our friends from the nostr:npub14f26g7dddy6dpltc70da3pg4e5w2p4apzzqjuugnsr2ema6e3y6s2xv7lu at? I could use an explainer. 🫶🏼♾️✌🏼