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GM #nostr #nostriches please welcome

. They are a #chess club in Vanuatu and wonderful people, new to Bitcoin and Nostr. Please give them a follow and show them what zaps ⚡️ are all about #vanuatu #oceania #pacific

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Onboarded an entrepreneur to

here in Vanuatu and now he’s pushing the government to make bitcoin off-ramps accessible. He tells his audience, in Bislama, “We can make millions of income in bitcoin.” (Millions in local currency, vatu.) #adoption #bitcoin #bitcoinismoney

Come to #Vanuatu, visit the Pikinini Bar, pay in Bitcoin, and try their truly unique, local #coffee drink called the Torbaccino, a drink inspired by the province of Torba

Vanuatu already has one restaurant on the

— currently working on adding two more

You can also stay here with Bitcoin: Villa Mali, https://villamalivanuatu.lodgify.com

If you wanna help promote Bitcoin adoption in Vanuatu, donate to our

at https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinvanuatu

Onboarded one of the biggest entrepreneurs here in Vanuatu and now he’s pushing the government to make bitcoin off-ramps accessible. He tells his audience, roughly translated from Bislama to English, “We can make millions of income in bitcoin.”

#adoption #orangepilling #bitcoinismoney He also makes a unique local coffee drink called the Torbaccino. Fellow nostrich

had one. You gotta come, spend bitcoin, and try one #vanuatu

The best part about drinking fresh coconuts 🥥 #paradise #vanuatu

Paid for with Bitcoin #vanuatu #paradise

Babies, birds, and waves #soundsofparadise #vanuatu

Anybody got any #XBT they wanna send my way #blakecoin #blake2b

Gorgeous! I’ve gotta visit Santo sometime

It’s my pleasure! It’s a beautiful piece! Bursting with hope and light. And thank you

— these new NFTs are something

Hello

welcome to #nostr. There are a few of us from #vanuatu on here, including my good friend and coworker

Calling all Bitcoiners and Nostriches! Let's get behind this game. The VBT Desk relies almost solely on Bitcoin donations and has to raise $10,000.

We can literally help endangered languages preserve their language and culture, not just in Vanuatu but around the world

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Calling all Bitcoiners, Nostriches, and Plebs! Let's get behind this game. The VBT Desk relies almost solely on Bitcoin donations and it has to raise $10,000. With this one-of-one game we can literally help endangered languages preserve their language and culture

This new project could literally save languages not just in Vanuatu but all over the world. The organization raises funds through Bitcoin almost exclusively. Let’s get behind it!

We want to play!

I know #XBT has its problems, but I have to say, what

built with

is quite impressive

My friend is in his final week before heading up to his family’s island and completing the gravestone for his father’s burial place. This means a great deal to his community here in Vanuatu.

They don’t have much in the way of finances. He’s using bitcoin through the Freedomia card to make the purchase. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Attended my first Scripture dedication yesterday! One of the most beautiful church settings I’ve ever seen. Sarabulu Church in Port Vila, Vanuatu #vanuatu #bible #jesus

The Bible said this 3,000 and 2,000 years ago:

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” — ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭18‬:‭21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” — Jesus (Matt.‬ ‭6‬:‭22‬-‭23‬)

“And Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be taken up and thrown into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.’” ‭‭— Jesus (Mark‬ ‭11‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

I can vouch for this guy. He is a great friend and help to his community. Sadly, he lost his father earlier this year

Hey

do you know if npub.pro stopped working? All my websites on there look ridiculous

Thanks for the breakdown

Touch grass… and waves

The good news for

or anybody else is that total absolution really is available in Jesus. Even after something like this, you can actually approach the throne of God with your chest out and your head held high (Hebrews 4:16). That’s the power of the Blood #coldcard

People were out here worshipping Bitcoin, thinking it was gonna solve all their problems.

True now as it is ever has been #coldcard

I asked Claude to rewrite the plot for Lionel Shriver's book The Mandibles, but make it more realistic; i.e., include the influence of the local church to provide humanitarian aid; include the influence of Bitcoin lightning payments as a way to do business; include the influence of Nostr as a means of uncensored communication.

Here's what it came up with:

'The setting: a near-future United States where a cascading debt crisis, a currency crisis triggered by loss of confidence in the dollar as reserve currency, and aggressive capital controls gut the banking system. Where Shriver's original leaned on total systemic collapse with almost no functioning alternatives (leading to scavenging, cannibalism-adjacent desperation, and a slide into feudal subsistence), this version assumes that people don't just have raw survivalism to fall back on — they have parallel networks that already exist today and would harden under stress...

Three changes to the mechanics of collapse:

1. The parish as a mutual-aid node, not just a charity. As FDIC-insured deposits get frozen and EBT/SNAP systems seize up, the family's local Catholic parish (or an evangelical megachurch, depending on region) becomes the actual clearinghouse for food, medicine, and shelter triage — not out of ideology but because it already had the physical plant (kitchen, hall, volunteer roster), the trust network, and continuity of leadership when city and federal agencies stalled. Willing initially views this as quaint, then realizes the parish's food bank and its informal "who owes whom a favor" ledger is more reliable than any government program. A subplot: tension between the family's secular skepticism and their growing dependence on a network run by people who show up not because they're bureaucratically obligated to, but because they see it as vocation.

2. Lightning-network Bitcoin as the underground medium of exchange. When capital controls freeze bank transfers and the redenominated "bancor"-style currency the government rolls out gets rejected on the street, informal commerce reroutes through Bitcoin — specifically Lightning, because it's fast and cheap enough for everyday transactions (a loaf of bread, a car battery, a haircut) in a way that base-layer Bitcoin never was in the original 2016 conception of the book. Willing becomes the neighborhood's de facto Lightning node operator — running channels, helping elderly neighbors set up custodial wallets they can actually use, converting odd jobs into sats. This replaces the original's gold-coin hoarding subplot with something that reflects how value actually moves under capital controls today: not a heavy metal you bury in the yard, but a liquidity network you have to maintain relationships to access.

3. Nostr as the uncensored public square. As mainstream platforms comply with emergency "information stability" directives (rebranded misinformation controls that conveniently suppress bank-run panic and capital-flight advice), relays running on Nostr become where the Mandibles and their neighbors actually find out which banks are still solvent, which routes out of the city are open, where FEMA-adjacent aid is being distributed versus hoarded. Nollie, the world-traveling writer, becomes an unlikely evangelist for it — she'd used it years earlier to get uncensored reporting out of a foreign crisis zone and already has the habits (key management, following pseudonymous but verified-by-reputation sources) that the rest of the family has to learn from scratch, under duress.

Narrative effect of these changes:

The original's power comes from watching institutions fail with nothing underneath them — pure freefall. This version trades some of that horror for something arguably more realistic and, in its way, more unsettling: the sanctioned institutions fail, but parallel institutions (parish networks, peer-to-peer payment rails, censorship-resistant speech infrastructure) were already quietly running the whole time, mostly ignored or mocked by comfortable people, and it's only collapse that reveals who'd been building lifeboats versus who'd been trusting the ship. Willing's arc shifts from "the kid who hoards gold and can't be shocked" to "the kid who was already fluent in the alternative rails everyone else has to learn under fire" — same narrative function, updated toolkit.

A tonal note:

Shriver's novel is partly a satire of specific policy ideas (MMT, currency manipulation, generational entitlement). If you want this reimagining to land the same way, the church/Bitcoin/Nostr elements should carry their own ironies too — the parish's charity comes tangled with real theological expectations the secular Mandibles resist; the Lightning network Willing builds has its own scaling pain points and requires a level of financial literacy most characters don't have; Nostr's lack of moderation means the family also has to wade through genuine misinformation to find the useful signal. None of these are frictionless deus ex machina fixes — they're just more realistic parallel systems with their own costs.'

My 8-year-old boy decided to give his life to Christ Jesus yesterday. There are many factors, of course, not least of which the influence of Holy Spirit. But it is perhaps no small fact that this came after listening to the Bible for the past 30+ days through the Orange Bible App by

He got into it to stack sats, and ended up becoming fertile ground for the Word of God—a seed that truly gives life (1 Peter 1:23-5) #bible

https://youtube.com/shorts/35JLyojMemU?si=5KKX9XpqXrhkAiF4

For your non-Nostr friends #purplepill #nostr #adoption #howto

https://youtube.com/shorts/3osQLUvLFL4?si=d1HbbQUQjpGWDchV

For your non-Nostr friends #purplepill #nostr #adoption #howto

Does anyone still use Chorus (chorus.community)? Paging

“Conspiracies?

‘For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying: “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’ Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled. The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread.”’ (Isa. 8:11-13)

Conspiracy theories are nothing new. It seems in our modern world there are more conspiracy theories than ever. Social media has increased the potential for information and theories to circle the globe in a matter of minutes. Christians are often caught up in such discussions, and often are responsible for ensuring the theory stays alive and grows.

While some believe that we absolutely must know of these things and speculate “who” is pulling the strings of the mysteries in our world, I see a bigger problem. A problem of identity.

We should not be surprised by the wild speculations that fill social media. We live in a fallen world which is under the sway of the wicked one (1 John 5:19). When we give our attention to conspiracies, we are stepping down from “heavenly places” (Eph. 2:6), laying aside our divine call (1 Pet. 2:9), and identifying as “mere men” (1 Cor. 3:3). We are allowing our hearts to be influenced by fear, or worry, or anger. We are no longer setting our minds on things above (Col. 3:1-2), but are allowing the cares of the world to shape us (Rom. 12:2), and choke the Word (Mark 4:19).

Who or what reigns in your heart? What captures your time and attention? Are you not a child of almighty God? Why do you care if the world is filled with lies and deceit? Do you not live for the King of Kings?

Be the Light! Don’t fear the darkness! Read Psalm 2.” — Barry Bennett

#conspiracy

I just beat the SOVEREIGN GAUNTLET challenge on

and got 1,337 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

I just beat the FFA RUMBLE challenge on

and got 600 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

I just beat the NODE RUNNER challenge on

and got 210 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

I just beat the STACKER TRIAL challenge on

and got 50 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

I just beat the NORMIE DUEL challenge on

and got 21 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

Beautiful and moving song about the Vanuatu earthquake of 2024

https://wavlake.com/track/3a66b3d4-de36-4e45-a3d6-7c002cdfb79f

https://GeoSats.org now has a World Cup ⚽️ category! Questions for all 48 countries, including tricky Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Give it a go! Ole ole ole! #worldcup #soccer #geosats

Kickstr is such a great Nostr idea! After today’s games, I’m sitting at 42nd place for the grand prize of 0.021 BTC. Among my Nostrich friends, I’m leading the way #worldcup #soccer #football

https://kickstr.einundzwanzig.dev/games/

The parts they love are the parts that voted for Trump (let the reader understand)

I like the Canada coach’s attitude. Doesn’t seem very Canadian though #worldcup #canada #soccer #football

"Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman." — GK Chesterton

biblegame.win is now live! Play the game and earn sats. Tell your non-Nostr friends! #game #gamify #shakespeare #bible

Playable at GeoSats.org

This new edition gives you 15 seconds per question; adds categories for Oceania and Africa; and makes donating to the prize pool easier with a simple QR code and lightning address

GeoSats.org is now live! Play the game and earn sats. Tell your non-Nostr friends!

Only had to spend $60.85 vibecoding on #Shakespeare (and $8.50 on a domain hosting fee for the year). Amazing!

Thanks to

and all the other Shakespeare people who make it possible #geosats #gamestr #game #gamify #edutainment

This is amazing! Way to go,

#GeoSats

UPDATE: Thanks to the Blackhat/Greyhat earlier today, an exploit involving NWC was exposed—one which was probably obvious to most of you but unforeseen by a noob like me. As a result, the prize pool is temporarily disabled. Thank you for your patience

https://geosats.shakespeare.wtf

https://bitcoinbiblebee.shakespeare.wtf

New #Nostr #games for non-Nostr kids and adults. If your friend doesn’t have an nsec, the game can create one for them and walk them through wallet setup with the

app. Onboard people to Nostr and #Bitcoin at the same time

Earn sats and get educated #Edutainment #Edustack

“Sacrificed… the rook!” #chess #chesstr #wennostrchess

If you wanna see #nostr and #bitcoin adoption in the South Pacific, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone more motivated than my friend and colleague,

. He’s a key cog ⚙️ in

, educating and onboarding people all over #vanuatu

Please give him a follow

#introductions

Hey all you Vancouverite and Canadian Bitcoiners! Getting to Vanuatu and spending sats here just got easier. Port Vila has at least one restaurant and a beachfront guesthouse that take bitcoin.

and I are working on more. Come on over! Lukim yu soon! #travel #travelstr #vancouver #canada

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My son helping me test GeoSats and actually learning state capitals. It's working!

Play it here: https://geosats.shakespeare.wtf

Paid for with Bitcoin. Come to Vanuatu 🇻🇺

https://geosats.shakespeare.wtf/

Want people to use #nostr without realizing they’re using Nostr? Want to introduce #bitcoin to a new generation? Or do you just like geography?

Try this new game vibe-coded with Shakespeare!

Let me know what kinks need to be ironed out

#vibecoded #game #gamify #geography

https://geosats.shakespeare.wtf

Want people to use #nostr without realizing they’re using Nostr? Want to introduce #bitcoin to a new generation? Or do you just like geography?

Try this new game vibe-coded with Shakespeare!

Play the game, spread the word, and let me know what kinks need to be worked out

#vibecoded #game #gamify #geography