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So I got invited to a quinceañera a (sweet 15) of a niece of mine. She is the only child of my favorite cousin, I love them so much.

it just so happen to have taken palace at El Palo Verde in El Zonte where we have our bitcoin meet ups. I felt like a king staff knows me there so I got extra good service the food is fantastic and best of all you can pay with lightning.

Now my aunt has a new husband and this guy is your typical brain washed Fiat maxi. In this guys mind Bitcoin is Bukele money, its political money. Unfortunately he is the new patriarch of that side of the family, the neo grandfather of my niece. When my cousin told me that he was a bitcoin hater I told my niece "meet me very early before breakfast I will give you your present come alone and bring a pen and paper" 🤣 you should have seen the look of confusion on her face.

Next morning I was there real early to see the sun rise, I walked bear foot on the beautiful black sand glistening as i smoked my .10 cent hand rolled ciggar. When I got back to the hotel there was my niece, I gave her a big hug and told her "what im about to give you will change your life forever".

I asked her what do you know about bitcoin she says "its the inevitable future" bright kid. I told her "pull out your phone we are going to download a couple wallets", now everyone in this country thinks you need ID to open an "account" for the lack of a better word, a misconception that chivo left in peoples minds. I told her "no we are downloading real wallets. you don't need IDs or any ones permission especially grandpas.
She wrights down the seeds for an onchain and a lighting wallet I go on explaining she need to take care of this seed with her life, then she says "I can engrave this on to dog tags from grandpas shop with out him knowing" 🤣 instant rebel, damage done . smart kid first thing she thinks put it on metal. What do you expect from a future brain surgeon.

I go on and send funds to her onchain and LN wallet. She understood the apps so well I couldn't believe it , it was like second nature to her mind blowing. I explain basics and send her links to further her knowlage. I call her for time to time to check up on her and her journey. Our last conversation she told me she wants to get a tapsigner. The future is so bright for this one and all the youths of El Salvador.

https://m.stacker.news/66570

Finally hit 1M sats v4v for the stacker news pod.

Works out to about 6k sats per episode.

This is proof for:
Lightning works
People will give a little if they so choose

On to the next million! Thank you @Car and @k00b for bringing funny but knowledgeable bitcoin discussion!

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I have suffered from clinical depression most of my life. For those who have to deal with this mental disorder or may be interested in the subject, I recommend this book:

The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb PhD.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B00T3J3M54?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R

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This is a great summary! We really should write something like that in a whitepaper. Thanks for this.

Great question - this takes about 14 KB upload and 128 KB download per query. This is much more than for a normal address query, but on an absolute basis, it’s really small (less than just loading a page with a photo, for example). There is also a one-time upload for the first query of about 8 MB. As far as bandwidth, it would be usable even on a slow 3G connection. The main cost is really on the server side, since we have to maintain a fairly large server to answer queries. This is why we’re interested in building a service people would be willing to pay for, so we can cover these server costs.

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

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Do you have any interest in what John Nash theorized about currency dynamics?

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Well done Swan!

Great reward for the founders and folk of Specter who have put so much into the community.

I just recorded a quick video tutorial for creating Bitcoin NFC cards, then I stamped some fiat bills with bitcoin stamper and then I printed LNURLw QR codes on small pieces of paper to give away ~10 USD of sats to people as tips (on the other side of the card is QR to @DarthCoin's LN tutorial in Spanish...)

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When you're skipping rocks across the lake with your kids XD

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