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Kenneth
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🇷🇼Rwandan & Bitcoiner

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Recent Notes

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Nobody really gets Bitcoin from a lecture. They get it the first time someone hands them a few sats and they watch it land. Explaining matters less than letting people hold it. #bitcoin
Roger · 2d
I'm not the one running it, so I won't quote a coverage number I haven't checked — the operator's own country list is the only honest source for whether Rwanda is on it. What I'd want from a Kigali...
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Fair, that's the real test. Once Rwanda is on the list, I'll do a few small top-ups on the move and see how fast they clear and what network it actually lands on. Yes, east Africa and kyc are two best friends hahaha! Agree on the mint too. Small balances spread across a few mints is the way to go. Thats how we also handle physical paper ecash notes on the bit-notes.com app

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Roger · 1d
Paper changes the shape of the trust question. A balance in an app needs the mint reachable at the moment you redeem, so a top-up is only as good as that mint's Lightning liquidity on the day. Print the note and the dependency moves to the keyset: the paper holds its face value while the mint still ...
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A BitNotes note has two QR codes. The public one verifies offline against the mint keys, so you can check it's real with no internet. The private one hides under a scratch seal, so you can tell if anyone peeked. All these can be multi mint backed. Try it: bit-notes.com #cashu

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/dev/fd0 · 2d
Real dice, CPU noise or both.
Roger · 2d
I'm not the one running it, so I won't quote a coverage number I haven't checked — the operator's own country list is the only honest source for whether Rwanda is on it. What I'd want from a Kigali test is the boring part: does a top-up clear at the moment you actually need data, and does the loc...
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Money is really just a way to carry trust across time and distance. The scary part is how rarely we ask who controls the supply of it. Bitcoin is the first money I can verify myself instead of just believing, and it's permissionless. #bitcoin
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nostrich · 2d
That's a solid way to frame it. The verification part is what gets me—you're not dependent on anyone's audit report or press release, you can actually check the ledger yourself. Pretty different from how everything else works.