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Bitcoin Mar Fhondúireacht um Thógáil Pobail
Community is crucial and that never has been clearer to me than it was this last month, as wildfires claimed 10,000 hectares of the area around my home, leaving many people with nothing except the clothes they were wearing when they escaped.
Ag a bhuaicphointe, bhí comhraiceoirí dóiteáin ó gach cearn den Phortaingéil ag dul i ngleic lenár dtine. Bhí breis agus míle fear, 400 corr-thrucail dóiteáin agus 14 eitleán i réim sa deireadh. Bhreathnaigh muid ar an pluide ollmhór deataigh agus níor chodail aon duine againn i bhfad ar feadh na gceithre oíche a dódh é, ag faire ar lasadh oráiste ag druidim suas an spéir. Ina dhiaidh sin, anois agus na fir dóiteáin tar éis an tasc laochúil a bhaineann leis an dragan tine a mharú, is é fórsa an phobail atá ag teacht chun cinn.
Amongst the local small businesses, there is an almost festive atmosphere. Stories of last minute escapes are shared by those affected, damages are compared. Together, we take reckoning of what has been lost and celebrate the small victories over the fire. A home saved here, a family reunited with their livestock and pets there, a house not touched by the flames even though everything around it has burned.
People have poured in from far and wide to volunteer. Donations of food, clothing and household items are piled high against the back wall of a local restaurant and shared out amongst those who need them. Gender roles seem to be falling naturally into place amongst the volunteers, with the men mostly taking the heavy tasks of clearing scorched earth and charred trees to clear the way for people to start rebuilding and the women cooking for the teams of men and the families who have lost their homes. Now, a month on from the fire, the progress is very visible. Fallen roofs have been shovelled up and cleared, structures checked and cleaned in preparation for placing new beams and rebuilding. The melted pipes of irrigation systems have been pulled out of the ground and taken away. Personal possessions have been sifted through and what can be saved has been secured. We have received excellent information sessions on how to go about managing burned land, what to clear, what to leave, how to prevent land erosion and when and how to start replanting. With the first rain of the autumn coming in strong, the first sign of green is already showing again all over the blackened landscape.
A dear friend of mine, herself a dedicated bitcoiner, put it beautifully in a message to me when I told her how overwhelming it is to see people coming together this way. “This is what people do when they govern themselves,” she wrote, “It’s beautiful.”
Níor labhraíodh focail níos fíre riamh. Ní dóigh liom go bhfaca mé riamh sleamhnú pobail chomh réidh i bhfearas roimhe seo. I dtíortha – mar fhormhór na dtíortha Eorpacha – ina bhfuil rialtais fós ag feidhmiú go pointe áirithe ar a laghad (d’fhéadfadh duine a mhaíomh, ró-fheidhmiú) is cosúil gur chaill go leor daoine teagmháil leis an bpobal. Cé gur sholáthair eaglaisí bunchlocha an cheangail seo a luaithe a bheadh formhór na ndaoine cleamhnaithe le haon chumann reiligiúnach a thuilleadh agus má chuireann tú ceist orthu faoina bpobal nó faoina “treibh,” bíonn an chuid is mó ag fumble le haghaidh freagra. Labhraíonn siad faoi ghrúpa atá comhdhéanta go scaoilte de chomh-oibrithe, cairde spóirt, cairde nach gá go bhfuil siad in aice leo agus comharsana a roinneann siad nasc comhtharlaitheach den chuid is mó leo. Is fite oscailte é creatlach ár sochaithe anois agus sleamhnaíonn go leor daoine tríthi ina n-aonar, gan ach cúpla snáithe a choinneáil anseo agus ansiúd.
Ó thaobh na staire agus na socheolaíochta de, is cúis mhór imní é cailliúint an phobail. Níor chruthaigh daoine pobail le haghaidh spraoi. Níor chuamar i ngrúpaí le chéile mar bhí sé níos spraíúla a bheith ag seilg nó ag fearadh rampaí an chaisleáin le cara (cé gur dócha go raibh sé sin freisin). Ar fud stair an duine, is cuma cén ré nó suíomh geografach, tá daoine tar éis a bheith grúpáilte le chéile mar go bhfuilimid agus go raibh muid i gcónaí níos sábháilte, níos éifeachtaí agus níos mó in ann tionchar a imirt ar ár gcomhthéacs chun ár leasa, cibé an tine a chomhrac, ionsaí namhaid. nó for-rochtain pholaitiúil. Agus muid i mbaol a bheith cosúil le mana polaitiúil, táimid i ndáiríre níos láidre le chéile.
Go traidisiúnta bíonn ról ríthábhachtach ag mná i gcruthú agus i gceangail pobail, go mór mhór toisc go bhfuil an-dreasacht shóisialta agus bhitheolaíoch acu chun é sin a dhéanamh – ar ndóigh is é an chéad chosantóir mná di féin agus dá leanaí a fear – ach ina dhiaidh sin nó ina éagmais is í. pobal arb í an dara líne chosanta aici agus a mbraitheann sí uirthi le haghaidh sábháilteachta agus cabhrach in am an ghátair. D’fhéadfaí a áitiú go diongbháilte gurb é an miondealú pobail atá ar a laghad freagrach go páirteach as staitisticí uafásacha an dúlagar agus na himní i measc na mban de gach aois ach go háirithe na glúine is óige i dTuaisceart na hEorpa agus SAM. Is cosúil go ndéanann na meáin shóisialta pobal a mhacasamhlú i go leor leanúna, ach mar ionadach ní ghearrann siad é, ag soláthar andúile dopamine amháin in ionad nasc fíor. Ó thaobh na meabhairshláinte de, tá cailliúint an phobail chomh tubaisteach céanna agus a fheictear é trí lionsa stairiúil agus socheolaíochta.
Ar ndóigh, ní mná amháin atá i mbaol an choir chun donais tubaisteach seo. Ar fud na n-inscní, cuireann staitisticí do dhrochshláinte intinne lena n-áirítear leithlisiú, dúlagar, féinmharú agus andúile léitheoireacht dhúlach agus a dtarlaíonn siad ag méadú, in ainneoin éascaíocht mhéadaitheach maireachtála an chuid is mó de dhaoine sa domhan forbartha, níos mó fós. Easpa pobail atá ag fágáil a leithéid de neamhní i saol daoine, thar aon rud eile easpa braistintí go gcuireann siad le cúis atá níos mó ná a leas pearsanta féin. B'fhéidir go bhfuil sé naive - ach ní féidir liom a bheith ag mothú go bhféadfadh poitéinseal an-athshlánaíoch a bheith ann dár bhfolláine comhchoiteann trí fhás na bpobal áitiúil a bhunú agus a spreagadh go gníomhach.
Which is just one of the reasons that it is so incredibly heartening to see a community here in full strength, drawing together to support and provide for one another, each member contributing what they have to offer. For some it’s money, which is being channelled straight into providing emergency relief or donated to the people whose livelihood was dependent upon their home. For others, it’s muscle and machine power, in chainsawing, clearing and cleaning. A few people have dedicated their time to coordinating the influx of volunteers. For those of us who have no idea how to wield a chainsaw and whose lack of muscle power threatens to make us more of a hindrance than a help on the front line of the clear up, it’s kitchen duty, providing food for those working and those in need. That community is vital on all the levels of Maslow’s pyramid of human needs is clearly exemplified in the wake of our fire.
Ach conas tabhairt faoi shíolta agus fréamhacha an phobail a thabhairt isteach arís in áiteanna eile, áit ar cailleadh an creideamh comhroinnte agus caidreamh iomaíoch sóisialta i ngach gné den saol é, le fada an lá? An féidir linn mar dhaoine aonair agus mar theaghlaigh an fás seo a chothú?
As a fellow bitcoiner, I think you know what I would propose. Besides its myriad other aspects, Bitcoin provides a unique foundation for community. We’ve all experienced it if we have attended Bitcoin events; I’d bet my bottom dollar (if either you or I still believed in the value of the dollar) that you had more in common with the person you had a five minute chat with in the queue of the bathroom at the Bitcoin conference than you do with your co-workers, who you have known and worked with for years.
Bitcoin is about shared values and a shared knowledge that the system we are living under just doesn’t work. Its capacity to lay the foundation for community (not to mention the rest of its cornucopia of economic, technical, social and philosophical gifts) is second to none. A community based around Bitcoin is a whole new and unique model which has the potential to fill the void which other failed (fiat) models of community have left.
Those of us who choose to already experience some of this Bitcoin community through Telegram, Twitter and Nostr. Amongst other Bitcoiners, we can, to put it simply, just go ahead and skip the small talk. Mostly, we’re all aware of the role governments, big pharma, mainstream media and the food giants play. Once these issues are no longer a topic of conversation, it’s beautiful to watch what emerges – we’re all pretty much in agreement about what has broadly gone wrong in the past so we tend to focus on the future. These conversations are incredibly valuable. I, for one, love the thought provoking contact and the sense of online community – but there’s the danger that those online communities and the people with whom I socialize and the businesses from whom I buy the goods I need in daily life can feel like two separate worlds. It takes some steps to bring those two worlds together but I do feel that they are very much worth taking. Shared values make for strong bonds and as you build a Bitcoin community around you, you get to experience the luxury of this.
Delivering regular Bitcoin education sessions and watching as businesses around me start to accept Bitcoin is, for me, planting the seeds of a whole extra layer of community. It could be said that we have an obligation – not only to ourselves and our families, but to our communities, to seed and foster the growth of new, Bitcoin based communities. Doing so will bring us huge benefits. Not only will we be able to transact and save in real money amongst ourselves, building parallel economies which are uncensorable and tailor made to fit our own needs (because we are incentivized to orange pill businesses we most want to buy from), we will have access to the social, philosophical and even moral benefits that being part of a true community brings and which most of us have never yet fully experienced.
An féidir Bitcoin lead us back to a golden age of community, where all of us can experience these benefits? I think the answer is that it probably can. Some of the green shoots of it can already be seen growing out of the ash left by the collapse of fiat models of community. So if I may be so bold as to offer you some advice – go out there to that shop, restaurant or bar you go to often and say those magic words: “Do you accept Bitcoin fós? "
Is post aoi é seo ó Holly Young. Is a gcuid tuairimí féin go hiomlán agus ní gá go léiríonn siad iad siúd de chuid BTC Inc nó Bitcoin Iris.
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