By Bitcoin Moheni - 7 marama ki muri - Te Wa Panui: 6 meneti
Hononga Tangata - BitcoinKo te tino mana nui
It was 12:45 a.m. on a Friday out and about in Riga, Latvia. Without going into too much detail, I was having a good time with fellow Bitcoin and Lightning folks.
I reira ahau mo te hui Baltic Honeybadger, tetahi i whakaritea e te hunga plebs mo nga plebs. A ka rongo koe i tenei! I hikaka nga tangata katoa ki te awhina me te mohio ki nga mahi a etahi atu tangata o te rauwiringa kaiao, kei reira ranei ki te ako.
We stood outside a bar where all the drinks were paid for with Bitcoin, and people seemed to be enjoying themselves. At that moment, I stood back, looked around, and observed what was happening. Most of us were far away from home, in a foreign town at almost 1 a.m., yet we only talked about Bitcoin and how we will use it to make the world a better place.
Ko te wahi i pa ki ahau. Ahakoa ka kaha taatau ki te whawhai i runga i te X, he rite tonu te ahua o te hunga porangi, i te mutunga, ka whakaae taatau ki tetahi mea. Kare he aha he aha to papamuri. Mo etahi take rereke, ka whakakotahi tatou i te wa ka tutaki tatou i roto i te ao.
Meeting fellow Bitcoiners in real life, making those connections, and using the time to discuss ideas or even set up new businesses are the best things about this community. It’s also the perfect time to clear the air and have better conversations than what we have on social media.
This got me thinking: What if there is more to Bitcoin than the benefits we’re all familiar with? What if there is a secret superpower to it, one we haven’t fully utilized yet: In-Person Connections!
Ko nga Nekehanga Hapori te Tuatoru o te ahu whakamua Hangarau
Tuhinga o mua Bitcoin’s core ethos is that of the cypherpunk movement. It values logic in code above all else. Doing so eliminates human error and corruption, which have always been issues for humankind.
Cypherpunks envision a more decentralized world where everyone has total control over their identity, privacy, and online rights. Bitcoiners know how important all of these points are. However, most people don’t care that Big Tech monetizes their data.
I kite nga pionia o te kaupapa cypherpunk i tenei wa i mua. I tua atu i te noho puku, i hara tonu ratou me te whakapuaki i o raatau whainga me o raatau whakaaro me te aha e noho ai te maminga a te kawanatanga hei take a muri ake nei.
Ko te mea i timata i te iti ka huri hei mea nui, a, i mua i to ratou mohiotanga, me tiakina e te roopu cypherpunks te mana ki te whakamuna ki mua o te Kooti Hupirimi i te US I tino mataku te Kawanatanga o Amerika ki te whakamunatanga ka mau ratou ki tetahi te roopu o nga tohunga pangarau me nga kaitoha. Whakaarohia tera!
Ko tenei roopu iti o te hunga kaingākau i hanga he kaupapa hapori i te tuatahi ki te ako me te whakaatu ki nga tangata he aha tatou e hiahia ai ki te whakamunatanga papatipu me te kino o te kawanatanga mana. Mai i tera, i hangaia e ratou nga taputapu me nga rorohiko e whakamahia ana e matou i ia ra. Whakaarohia te PGP, HTTPS, me nga karere penei i a SimpleX.
Kia taea ai e matou te whakaae me te whakamahi i te whakamunatanga, me whai kaupapa hapori e taea ai e matou te tautuhi i a matou ano. Ehara pea i te mea ko te nuinga o nga tangata e mohio ana ki te noho muna i enei ra e mohio ana ki nga cypherpunks, engari kei te mau tonu o raatau uara. Ko nga whakaaro i whakatōhia i te 40 tau ki muri ka mau tonu i tenei ra.
The same should be possible for Bitcoin. To achieve this, we as the Bitcoin community need to be more proactive and transform our online communities into more than debates online, but actually into real-world connections. Just like the cypherpunks did back in the day, we need to strengthen the social movement first, either by organizing events or by providing physical copies of essays, books, and thought pieces to read.
If we only stick to the digital realm, which is easier because Bitcoin is digital through and through, we miss out on many great chances to strengthen the social movement. Or even worse, we fall victim to the ever-increasing censorship mechanism we see online.
Te Whakakore i nga Algorithms me nga Kaipupuri i runga i te Paapori Paapori
te nuinga Bitcoin debates occur online, either on X, nostr, or in other chat-based forums. This is part of the day-to-day life for most of us as we seek to engage with all our friends online.
Heoi, ka tae mai tenei me te patunga nui mo te nuinga o tatou. Me takaro tatou i runga i nga ture o enei papaahi, ko te tikanga ka mau tonu tatou i te keeti, ka taraihia, ka aukatihia ranei, i etahi waa.
Ko ta matou take nui ko te pupuri i waho o te mahanga, kaore ranei e taea e nga tangata e tiro mai ana i waho. Ae, kei reira tonu te tohenga ka taea e te tangata te haere i te maero atu ki te kimi i etahi atu puna, huarahi ranei hei whakauru.
Ko te pono pouri ko etahi anake e mahi. Kare nga tangata o ia ra e mahi i nga huarahi taapiri ki te panui i tetahi atu puna korero, ki te haere ranei ki tetahi papaarangi ke atu i te papanga paapori kua waia e ratou. Mena he otinga kotahi-mutu, tera pea ka whakamahia e raatau.
One step to solve this is to use Bitcoin-friendly places like nostr. Not only because you can experience Lightning through Zaps but also because it’s a protocol where users can decide how they want to engage.
I tenei wa, koinei pea te otinga pai ki runga i nga tangata o ia ra me te whakaatu ki a ratou nga rereketanga o nga kawa tuwhera me nga papaa kati. Heoi, kei te whakawhiti wa tatou mo tetahi mea matihiko. Ko te whakauru i nga kaiwhakamahi ka whakapau kaha mai i te hapori me nga kaihanga nostr.
Waimarie, kua roa to matou mana rangatira ngaro, a ki taku whakapono kaore matou i te whakamahi i runga i o maatau kaha. Me pai ake ta tatou mahi me te hono atu ki nga taangata maha i roto i te ao tuuturu!
ABC - Always Be Connecting with Fellow BitcoinTuhinga o mua
Thus far, we established that Bitcoin needs more real-life connections to break free from digital censorship and to make it more accessible to people worldwide.
Ko tetahi huarahi ki te mahi pera ko te whakamahi i nga waahi penei i te nostr, te hono atu ki nga tangata maha ka taea, me te neke i te korerorero mai i te korero matihiko ki te korero tinana. Ma te whakarite kaupapa, ma te haere ki te hui whakakaha i taua here, ma te haere ranei ki te taone me te ngana ki nga tangata pire karaka.
Ka taea te whakarite i enei mea katoa i runga i nga paapori pāpori, i runga ipurangi ranei, engari he uaua. Ko etahi karekau pea e pai ki te tiritiri kei hea ratou, ki te whakamahi kaha ranei i o raatau korero hei awhina i te horapa i te panui mo tetahi take.
Koinei te wahi Bitcoin Social Layer comes in. I am a big fan of the Taupānga Pire karaka, a dedicated app to meet Bitcoin’s nearby and engage with them directly. The idea is not to spend your day endlessly scrolling in the app but rather to actually find people nearby, connect, and find a place to meet in real life. It takes the digital realm out of the equation and only uses the app to show you Bitcoiners nearby.
Because you already know that all users on there are Bitcoiners and want to help the ecosystem out, there is no need to make small talk or try to figure out if the person you’re engaging with wants to meet. Most users on OPA are engaging to meet fellow plebs. Personally, I love using OPA at conferences because it facilitates meeting fellow visitors and potentially meeting connections in real life.
I also like such apps to do some orange pilling both for merchants and private people. I can show a small business that there is a large group of potential customers around. All they need to do is to accept Bitcoin or, even better, get on the app and engage.
The same applies to people who have yet to embark on the journey down the rabbit hole. If they can see fellow Bitcoiners nearby, possibly even find plebs who share similar interests, and get on board this way, the whole community benefits by expanding with local Bitcoin nga puku.
We need such bridges between the digital and physical worlds right now. The Bitcoin movement is silent; it grows in the background, and I believe it’s time to put it upfront and make it available to as many people as possible.
He pou manuhiri tenei na Joël Kai Lenz. Ko nga whakaaro kua whakahuahia ko o raatau ake, kaore i te whakaatu i nga mea o BTC Inc ranei Bitcoin Nūpepa.
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