Chess ♜, H20 🚰, Sleep 🛌, Podcasts 🎙️ and Audiobooks 🔊📚 @ 4x
(And free from our local libraries [thanks libraries!]. I'll send you any .mp3 files free from 1000+ list below.)
Book editor for over a decade, with eagle eyes; happy to proofread your ₿itcoin articles, newsletters, and books. (Maybe I'll create a new site for my portfolio and references, but I'm not trying to dox myself (and I don't need the work), so for now I suppose you'd just have to take my word for it until I build up a new reputation or create another website (IKIK, DT,V.). Don't hold your breath for the latter, atm.
Happy to chat about ₿itcoin adoption in rural Zambia, developments seen since 2014, we progressive left in ₿itcoin, a ₿itcoin Giving Pledge, stewardship and public service, podcasting, Bantu Bitcoin, library audiobooks at 4x, learning GitHub and finding ways to contribute, cybersecurity and pseudonyms, nomadic travel/vanlife, frugality and FIRE/FILE, the children/childfree question, my conversion from ardent dog-person to cat lover with cute aggression, or possibly anything if you sign and encrypt with PGP.
We Bitcoiners will soon be among the wealthiest people in the world.
So how are we ensuring we steward this great responsibility to best do right by the most people?
And how are we bringing others along while doing so?
There is a CrYPtO Giving Pledge; great, convert those scam coins into at least some sort of benefit for society.
The Billionaire's Giving Pledge exists too... wonderful, more of the world's fiat wealthiest should join them.
We Bitcoiners can will do our part too.
NO MINIMUM. Anyone—everyone—can BTC, Be The Change.
Is it 21% of your stack to the cause(s) of your choice? 2.1%? Will you donate at death, or perhaps better, during your life? Or maybe you even opt to live off just 21% and dedicate your other 79%... IDK. Make it your own!
SEE, FEEL, AND LIVE YOUR IMPACT
It doesn't matter how much Bitcoin you have.
You don't have to be a billionaire or even a millionaire; most of us aren't.
No worries. Percentages don't care.
You just have to have a good heart to do well in the world in even some small way.
And then remember, you can just zap sats. ⚡️
We early #bitcoiners may very well become the richest people in the world. How are we ensuring everyone comes along in this global transformation? (Answering that is the difference between rich and wealthy.) A #BitcoinGivingPledge? I'll sign. #bitcoin$BTC
— 2014 (🇺🇲, 2018-23 in rural Zam₿ia 🇿🇲) 🐀 13% (@5atoshiNakamoto) August 13, 2023
Let's make positive differences! Raise your bar. Ascend Maslow's Hierarchy. No contribution is too small.
You might use #BitcoinGivingPledge. Or sign your commitment with a PGP-signed message. (OpenTimestamps.org can help.)
Make yourName@BitcoinGivingPledge.github.io Your NIP-05 Nostr Address
If you're committing to participate in the Bitcoin Giving Pledge and would like to help spread awareness, you can opt to use yourName@BitcoinGivingPledge.github.io as the NIP-05 on your Nostr account.
Fork this GitHub repository and add your name and the HEX of your nostr npub to the nostr.json file inside the .well-known folder. You can convert your nPub key to HEX format at https://damus.io/key.
Want to help get this off the ground? Thanks, please get in touch.
A Bitcoin-only education podcast 🎙️ from rural Zambia 🇿🇲, in Bemba and English.
“Bantu Bitcoin” ni podcast ukusambilila pafya Bitcoin mu iciBemba. Bantu Bitcoin is a podcast to learn about Bitcoin in Bemba.
(English translation follows each [Bemba] episode. The [English] feed is different content, more interviews and behind-the-scenes from my experience here in rural Zambia. Two different shows.)
Donations directly help introduce Bitcoin to rural Zambians. Donations do not go to me or toward production of this show itself. Check out our YouTube playlists for videos from grateful sats recipients.
Lowest Hanging Fruit: Over time, change all passwords to be unique and long (Bitwarden's easy)
Cover your webcam
Always activate 2FA when available, via an app, not by SMS
Minimize the apps installed on your phone. Instead, add web app shortcuts to your homescreen.
Disable location permissions
Disable most app permissions (and on Android, disable the default "Enable Background Data" after downloading any app)
Disable voice-activated assistants: Don't ever use Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Echo, etc.
Use a VPN
Backup often and if using cloud storage (Dropbox, etc), encrypt first with VeraCrypt or Cryptomator
Ditch Facebook (Instagram) and Google (Gmail, Chrome, Maps)
Explore using pseudonyms
Encourage your friends and family; be an Uncle Jim
To track and diminish spam, consider using a different email for every account:
Email Aliases in SimpleLogin, DuckDuckGo, or Proton, as well as options within Bitwarden
By adding +somethingUnique to the end of your email name, before the @, ex: yourName+anything@protonmail.com
By different names to a catchall address at your own domain, ex: relevantWebsite@yourName.com
For privacy, consider a domain name that is not yourName.com, however domain owner info is publicly searchable, so for true privacy, you must buy the domain privately (OrangeWebsite.com).
I love audiobooks and have built up a massive collection from my time in Zambia with the Peace Corps for a school in the village where I was recently. (Libraries!!) I imagine many of us here also like to read and learn, so here's a list of over 1000 audiobooks I have and can share. This isn’t even all of them, so if there’s another book you’re looking for, let me know and maybe I can find it for you. 98% of these are non-fiction.
If you have a book in mind, CTRL / CMD + F search will pull it up by title or author if it's here. Next, I will work on cleaning it up into different cells and adding Authors.
Reach out however you like to ask for as many books as you'd like. We have found that sending them to someone over Signal or Telegram is the easiest way for them to get the .mp3 files right to their phone's favorite podcast app.
(click the dropdown heading here to browse)
📚 Last Updated: Mon 18, Mar. 2024
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Bitcoin is not a get-rich-quick (although yes, some—those who figure this out sooner than others—have and will) scheme; it is a don't-go-poor-slowly (through purchasing power debasement due to monetary inflation caused by inevitable Central Bank fiat currency printing) protocol.
![Bantu Bitcoin [Bemba] podcast album art](./assets/images/bantu-bitcoin-bemba-substack.png)
![Bantu Bitcoin [English] podcast album art](./assets/images/bantu-bitcoin-english-substack.png)
