"One night during my visit to Bondo, Carl asked me to pause as the sunset was fading, to look at the hills around us: the lights were all turning on, all across the foothills of Mt. Mulanje. It was a powerful sight to see, and staggering to think that Bitcoin is helping to make it happen as it converts wasted energy into human progress."
~ Alex Gladstein
Can you imagine what it may be like to lack access to the most basic necessities like electricity, only to finally have the opportunity to turn your lights on as the sun sets, due to a room of computers, hashing away for the Bitcoin network? Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation brings us another incredible piece on how Bitcoin is freeing both the persecuted people and the wasted energy on the African continent. Not in some theoretical sense or some future hypothetical scenario, but today for real people. If you listen to any articles this week, this is the one not to miss.
Check out the original article on Bitcoin Magazine: STRANDED - How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy in Africa. (Link: http://tinyurl.com/357c7f3p)
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Read_625 - The Cascading of Interconnected Risk [Marty Bent]
Guy's Take #55 - On the Economics of CTV Batching, & Where I was Wrong
Read_624 - Riding the Lightning Network [Sam Callahan]
PSA - Price Be Crashin 2022!
Guy's Take #54 - CTV, Blockspace Debt, & TX Grenades
Read_623 - Response to the Huffman Letter to the EPA [Bitcoin Mining Council]
Guy's Take_53 - Let's Talk CTV
Read_622 - Silent Payments & Secret Blinding Keys [Shinobi]
Read_621 - I Finance the Current Thing [Allen Farrington]
Read_620 - Reading of the Transcription of the Recording of the HODL vs DeaterBob "Debate" [Stephen Chow]
Read_619 - Bitcoin Mining & The Gird, Part 1 - Generators [Blake King]
Read_618 - Expanding Functionality in Lightning Implementations [Shinobi]
Read_617 - Announcing Taro, Multi-Asset Bitcoin & Lightning [Ryan Gentry]
Chat_68 - Keysend Maximalism & LNpay with Bootstrap Bandit
Read_616 - Current State of Lightning Privacy [Tony]
Guy's Take #52 - Follow up to Read 615 - The State vs Bitcoin
Read_615 - The State vs Bitcoin [Steve Barbour]
Read_614 - ...and Then They Fight You [SovrynMindset]
Read_613 - Against the Inevitability of Bitcoin [Ariel Deschapell]
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