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Ecash travels through the NFC chip from device to device, not through the internet. The sender's phone doesn't to be online to pay, like with real credit cards.

Via NFC without internet

AskSN

bitcoin

bitdevs

BooksAndArticles

The world is loud. Everyone’s flexing, chasing numbers, and trying to look important. In the middle of all that noise, a simple question hits different: How do you stay humble, true, and focused?


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It’s not easy. Success it can mess with your head. Struggle can hardens your heart. Distractions is everywhere. Staying humble means remembering you didn’t do it alone. Staying true mean not betraying yourself just to fit in or gets ahead. Staying focused it mean keeping your eyes on what actually matters, even when shortcuts look tempting.

This isn’t about being a perfect. It’s about staying grounded while you grows. So yeah—when the noise gets louder and the path gets longer, how do you stay humble, true, and focused?

How do you stay humble, true and focused

Bitcoin Churches VS Bitcoin Factories

Design

bitcoin_Mining

Christianity

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MinerJay

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Looks suspicious though.

I would be so grateful, I can have some of those for our [Study Hubs](nprofile1qqsg94u9cu45kffp9t9jtsgt484fcvdjjpp8vgun9w6wzy0mfw744egzqqpsgqqqqqqqrt7m8z). We need resources.

The real revolution isn't just better money. It's better humans

Cashu Devs Call of 2026

Release 26.1.1: Personalise Your Mini App Experience - January 26, 2026

Music

Fountain for Artists

nostr

Your account is a weapon against you. Here is why.

When the electricity failed, the village of Mwala went quiet the way it always did—quickly, without complaint.

Shops closes early. Radios dies mid-sentence. Smoke rise from cooking fires as if nothing have changed, because for most people, nothing had. Darkness it was familiar.

Except for the old grain store by the baobab tree.

That night, light leaked from its broken windows.

Not bright enough to announces itself, but steady enough that a passersby slowed their steps. A few stopped. A few more came closer.

Inside, a dozen people sits on mismatched stools. Children shares benches with adults. The air smelled of soil and warm metal. A soft hum filled the room, like a distant insect that never tired.

At the center stood Nyeka, barefoot, holding an old phone above her head.

“Again,” she said. “Slowly this time.”


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What Nyeka Taught

Nyeka had not been a teacher before.

She sold tomatoes at the roadside and knew how to bargain without raising her voice. She had learned numbers by counting sacks, not books. But she had a patience that make people listen.

She showed them how to move value without waiting.

No offices.
No forms.
No permission.

Just simple steps repeated until hands stopped shaking.

Tembi, a farmer with calloused palms, sent a small amount to Zala, who raised chickens behind her house. Zala laughed when the phone buzzed.

“So that’s it?” she asked. “That’s all?”

“That’s all,” Nyeka said.

They did it again.

And again.


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The Place That Wasn’t a School

The grain store had been empty for years.

Now it held things that didn’t belong together but somehow worked:

A table made from scrap wood.
A box of wires and panels that will drank sunlight all day.
A warm machine in the corner that no one fully understood but everyone trusted.
Hand-drawn charts taped crookedly to the walls.

When the power failed elsewhere, the room stayed awake.

People stopped calling it the grain store.

They called it the place that stay light.


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Learning the Old Way

In Mwala, children still went to school.

They recited answers. They copied notes. They waited.

But in the evenings, they came to the lit room and learned different things.

How to measure harvest without guessing.
How to save without hiding cash in tin cans.
How to trade without losing half of it on the road.

There were no exams.

Only results.


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The Loop

Soon, the light did more than teach.

Water pumps ran without fuel.
A small garden grew where nothing had before.
Chickens wandered freely, fed by leftovers, leaving behind what the soil need.

Food costs drops. Surplus appeared.

When something was sold, value move quietly from one hand to another. No delays. No middlemen. No stories about “come back tomorrow.” No "your transaction it is under review".

Everything stayed close.

Everything made sense.


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The Question That Changed Things

One evening, Jorai, who had returned from years away, asked a question that settled heavy in the room.

“If this works,” he said, “why didn’t we learn it sooner?”

No one answered.

They all knew the truth.

Some things aren’t taught because they make people harder to control.


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When Others Comes

Word traveled the way it always do—not through announcements, but through friends, relatives, markets, and chance meetings.

People from nearby villages came, curious but cautious.

Jorai showed them once.

Then he stepped back.

“You don’t need us,” he said. “You need a place. And patience.”

That was enough.


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At Night

Long after the others left, Jorai sometimes sat outside the lit room, listening to the soft hum inside.

He didn’t think of it as change.

He thought of it as a remembering.

How things worked before waiting became normal.
Before permission felt necessary.
Before value slipped through fingers.

The light didn’t feel powerful.

It felt honest.

And in a village that had learned to expect very little, that made all the difference.

The Light That Didn’t Waited For Someone To Open

Bitcoin Circular Economy Meetup 2026

bitcoinplusplus

I was there in the Stacker Saloon.

She's in Barrie, Ontario.
I really appreciate your help

Memes

Meme Monday - Top Meme Goes in the Newsletter

Do we win, or just survive?

Crypto billionaire tried to buy Coffee with crypto.

Hello friends 



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If you or anyone you know is willing to [donate a used but reliable laptop and or anything](https://stacker.news/items/1413610?commentId=1413736) for this project, it would makes a huge difference. We doesn’t need anything fancy — just something solid for writing, editing, offline materials, and proof-of-work documentation.

There’s a trusted friend in Canada who can receive the laptop on my behalf, and she’ll be returning home about next month and can hand it over to me then. That make logistics much easier.

This laptop and other tools would directly supports real, on-the-ground education work — real tools for building something durable and useful.

Please let me know if this is possible, or if you can help connect me to someone who might be able to. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
Much love,

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[Tools Wanted] What tools would you give?

Hello friend.
Is it possible to send the laptop to Canada? There's a someone I know there, will be coming back home soon. That way might be more cheaper.

[Good News] To our friends in Zambia— BitZed even if no internet, via Machankura

Most of us lives on platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook, X, or Instagram. They is where conversations happen and information spread. But here’s the thing: even when you’re not outright banned, these platforms still decides how far your voice goes. Algorithms quietly pushes some posts up, bury others, and shapes what people see — usually to serving ads, profits, or their own interests.

It’s not always obviously, but this kind of control affecting how freely we can speaks and what information actually reach people. You might posting something important, thoughtful, or true… and it just disappear into the void because the platform don’t “likes” it. Instead of open communication, we ended up stuck inside gated systems where the audience isn’t really ours.

That’s where something like Nostr comes in.

Nostr it isn’t run by a company or a central authorities. No algorithms quietly throttling your reach. No shadowy rules changing overnight. Your messages goes out as they are — unfiltered and uncensored.

It’s a small but meaningful step toward a digital world where people, not platforms, are back in charge of how we connect and share ideas.