The Kofán community in the Colombian Amazon now runs on their own power.
30 kW off grid. Panels, batteries, inverters. Theirs.
This started on a beach in Costa Rica.
Bitcoin Freedom Fest. I met a guy named @Brad Cuddy . We shared values about sovereignty, BTC and freedom.
I told him about a community in the jungle. He wanted to see it.
In December he came.
Brad during his visit to El Diviso Kofán Community in the Colombian Amazon.
While he was there the power went out. 24 hours during his visit, and five more days after he flew home.
That is normal there. Not an hour. Days. Because somebody has to walk into the jungle and find which pole fell.
And every time, the food in the fridge is gone. The fish somebody spent all morning catching in the river is gone. Days of work, gone.
Sovereignty is not sovereignty if someone else can turn it off.
On his last day Brad looked at me and said, I do not know how, but we are getting this community electricity.
He went home to Texas and took it to his company, Cholla, where he runs the Bitcoin mining side. Cholla funded the system. GivePower installed it.
No grant cycle. No RFP. No twelve month review committee.
A conversation on a beach, a guy who came to see for himself, and a company that said yes.
That is the school. At night. Lights on.
Then GivePower told us they needed a room for the batteries and controllers.
The community built it out of bamboo they cut across their own river.
GivePower said they had never had their equipment housed in a bamboo structure before.
The panels came from outside. The building protecting them came from the community, from their own land, by their own hands, using a skill they did not have twelve months ago.
Next, we put the excess to work.
Canaan is donating miners. What they earn goes into a fund the community holds for the upkeep of the system itself. Panels cleaned, batteries replaced, parts repaired, paid for by the system instead of by a donor.
A donated system that pays for its own maintenance does not need somebody to come back and rescue it every year.
We already run wages on Bitcoin rails into that community. This is the next piece.
This is what this network does when somebody actually shows up.
Learn more and DM if you have ideas or want to get involved!
www.terrakeepers.org
We are the Giveback Generation.
Zaps go straight to the ground in El Diviso.
30 kW off grid. Panels, batteries, inverters. Theirs.
This started on a beach in Costa Rica.
Bitcoin Freedom Fest. I met a guy named @Brad Cuddy . We shared values about sovereignty, BTC and freedom.
I told him about a community in the jungle. He wanted to see it.
In December he came.
Brad during his visit to El Diviso Kofán Community in the Colombian Amazon.
While he was there the power went out. 24 hours during his visit, and five more days after he flew home.
That is normal there. Not an hour. Days. Because somebody has to walk into the jungle and find which pole fell.
And every time, the food in the fridge is gone. The fish somebody spent all morning catching in the river is gone. Days of work, gone.
Sovereignty is not sovereignty if someone else can turn it off.
On his last day Brad looked at me and said, I do not know how, but we are getting this community electricity.
He went home to Texas and took it to his company, Cholla, where he runs the Bitcoin mining side. Cholla funded the system. GivePower installed it.
No grant cycle. No RFP. No twelve month review committee.
A conversation on a beach, a guy who came to see for himself, and a company that said yes.
That is the school. At night. Lights on.
Then GivePower told us they needed a room for the batteries and controllers.
The community built it out of bamboo they cut across their own river.
GivePower said they had never had their equipment housed in a bamboo structure before.
The panels came from outside. The building protecting them came from the community, from their own land, by their own hands, using a skill they did not have twelve months ago.
Next, we put the excess to work.
Canaan is donating miners. What they earn goes into a fund the community holds for the upkeep of the system itself. Panels cleaned, batteries replaced, parts repaired, paid for by the system instead of by a donor.
A donated system that pays for its own maintenance does not need somebody to come back and rescue it every year.
We already run wages on Bitcoin rails into that community. This is the next piece.
This is what this network does when somebody actually shows up.
Learn more and DM if you have ideas or want to get involved!
www.terrakeepers.org
We are the Giveback Generation.
Zaps go straight to the ground in El Diviso.
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