I made it. It’s maybe a few months old, and I shamelessly post it whenever discussions like this come up, so it makes sense that you’ve seen it once or twice. I think Ive always had Coinos as the “get involved” link on there.

Really? Seems to me like the kind of thing @DarthCoin would be into as a quick and dirty custodial solution.

@dagny761, still got that chicken picture?

Welcome!

Welcome @UDorathy55, stacker.news is where it’s at!

By the way, I recommend coinos.io as the easiest lightning wallet in the world to “register” for. I don’t use it for sn, so I don’t know if it’s good for that. But it’s the easiest thing in the world to get going with.

Absolutely, I’ve actually been meaning to send her the syllabus I was hoping to teach before applying again for an opensats grant to hear what she thought. However, I really want to present a proof of concept at varying levels before really setting something like this up and want to get that done before reaching out to her or opensats about it.

It’s actually as if I’m in this weird spin wheel (anti-spin wheel?) of things that can’t move forward. I need the miners for the proof of concept (I mean, I have an s9 currently controlled by a solar inverter through home assistant, but it’s not a true demonstration of how cool the setup would really be) and I need the proof of concept to get some funding and I need the funding to come back in January when I’ll have access to miners… Nobody’s fault but mine.

In the meantime, I feel like I’ve at least been helping out as best I can with the folks that are getting things done here and potentially will get things better sorted for tackling the initial goal/vision in the future.

I should have led with, “thanks for the encouragement.”

I mean…it’s still pretty cool…gotta admit

It’s mostly about time right now. Almost anyone I’ve spoken with that was going to import them said January would be the earliest I could expect them. Currently, I’m going back to Ohio in November. :( I’d love to come back in January, but that will really be financially risky due to a handful of personal factors. I’m not risk averse, especially right now, but we’d be in an especially vulnerable position at that point. There are some other complicating factors, but I should probably get back to work right now. Haha

I’m currently teaching some folks how to 3d print QR codes for merchants by swapping out the filament on a single filament printer and uploading the merchant’s logo in the center. Lots of places here have employees that have to run and get the boss whenever a bitcoin payer comes in. We’re thinking about making flava-flav style necklaces with personalized wallet QR codes for servers’ tips as the next step!

That’s awesome to hear! I hope you pull it off.

It has been WAY harder for me to find miners here than I thought it would be. I’ve been pretty down the last few weeks about the way my goals are totally slipping through my fingers. It’s been great to ride the coattails of the Bitcoin Ekasi project and plugging into all that they’re doing, but it’s looking like I’m going to have to return to Ohio a failure with my big solar mining ambitions…at least this time around.

This is so inspiring!

Yup

Shell is definitely still here and this happened today. It’s not that Shell is accepting Bitcoin though. You can now use money badger to pay with bitcoin to any zapper QR code. SA is WAY more advanced than Texas, TN, and other places in this regard…

It’s not keeping the money as local as a business actually accepting bitcoin, but it makes it easy to live on a bitcoin standard.

Yeah, we’re back up over here too now.

Looks like it hasn't affected the network at all.

Thanks! And I’m glad to hear canva is up and running for you.

Oh, I’m seeing it now.

Yeah, I mean, that’s kind of my point. However, it is a concern that signal is affected.