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47 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 14 Jun 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Power of Bitcoin:
My friend in the Philippines showed me her 17 year old son’s report card. He did really well so I wanted to send him a gift for his accomplishments.
Using his android phone he downloaded blue wallet and created an on-chain wallet and a lightning wallet.
I sent him a gift of 30,000 sats via lightning and 70,000 on chain.
Did all of this with no banks no IDs no exclusions nothing just him and I sending value over the internet
THIS IS WHY I BITCOIN!
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 14 Jun 2022
Did he write the seedphrase down?
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 14 Jun 2022
Yes he did!
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 14 Jun 2022
That's awesome! I hope he has the local infrastructure to spend it or earn more of it!
Philippines are an insanely international country, I have high hopes for adoption there.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 14 Jun 2022
I have a similar story where i wanted to give some sats to someone who i had sort of become friends with. Within 15 minutes of me asking this person had figured out how to receive sats and gotten my tip. I think many people take for granted what Bitcoin has enabled.
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