Really glad it hit home and broadened your view of how Bitcoin could be used as a means to defend people in the future. I thought it was an important use case of Bitcoin and its ability to shift from kinetic warfare to cyber.

If you haven’t read or heard Jason Lowery’s Softwar idea that inspired this story, I highly recommend checking it out. This is his TED Talk worth watching: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spDS7q6uRkY

This week’s story was inspired by Abubakar Nur Khalil:

“Bitcoin mining in Africa isn’t just about profit. It’s about sovereignty and survival.”

Have an idea for a future Bitcoin story we should imagine? Comment below and zap to keep them coming ⚡️⚡️

Question can AI-art be submitted as part of the story without being down-zapped?

AI art is design is used by artists to expand their art and is part of the future art form that suits the theme of my stories. I disagree that you shouldn’t have a plan for writing for a specific audience. Also I’m not sure who is on SN who isn’t a bitcoiner and certainly these fictional stories shouldn’t be a source of truth for them to understand key concepts that’s what white papers, non-fiction Bitcoin books, etc are for.

Thanks for your feedback but I respectfully disagree with a couple of your points like the communist commune. Why would that be the default without more detail? The audience is for Bitcoiners so not all concepts are explained for beginners but agree it would have to be of expanded further out. Restricted word count certainly makes that a more difficult challenge but will try to add more details for the next story. I also like the AI generated images and not much of an artist so will save omitting it or putting another stock image everyone’s seen before.

Thanks so much for your comment and sharing what resonated most with you.

There are so many elements that have threads form our current times-currency devaluation, government corruption, family sovereignty and climate change. It can be hard to imagine but important to envision the possibility to help navigate the here and now.

Are there any ideas or Ethiopian influencers you’d want featured in future stories?

100% that’s what social media will become

Thanks! Still looking to improve on these. Any influencers ideas that sticks or concepts you’d want featured on future stories?

Great initiative! I hope to read and post stories to drive more traffic to this territory. Bitcoin needs more stories of all sorts to bring its values, concepts and use cases to life.

💥 Zap for next week’s story and comment on an influencer’s quote you love.

Deepest condolences @siggy47 glad you’re able to write about your friend to help process the lifelong friendship you had and the memories that remain with you.

sorry to hear about your mate

Nice one! Good timing too as just launched my own writing initiative > Fiction-imagining our future in Bitcoin from present day ideas, predictions and concepts. Check it out here: #1011647

Great idea! I’ve participated in the one @siggy47 set up and thought it was a good idea. I think getting people into the weekly rhythm of the writing competition will be key. The winning conditions should be transparent to keep people wanting to participate.

There is a book I’ve been recommended Taxtopia about “ a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear.

In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world's biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the Duke of Westminster often pay less tax than you do.

If you suspect that tax is a rigged game, a con, designed to fleece the little guy, you are about to find out just how shockingly true that really is.” https://www.amazon.co.uk/TAXTOPIA-Discovered-Injustices-Secrets-Evasion-ebook/dp/B0B2VQSDXZ

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Thanks @siggy47 for putting this out there. I've participated in both and had been searching to see if these were still on. I like to see it continue so hope these suggestions can be of some help:

If we have writing contests in this territory the questions could be focused on a particular book/article that relates to Bitcoin and other relevant topics. You could also try them in other territories and have the contest prompt relate to one of the top posts to expand on others ideas.

Another idea is that you announce the book/article to read at the start of the month (or whatever timeframe), crowdsource the most interesting question/topic/idea related to it, then run a writing contest on it.

I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now which reiterates those sentiments particularly our top-down (centralised and binary) views of the world.

Put simply, people create everything in their mind first, but if we can't evolve the abstract realities we truly desire that bring about happiness, virtue and reason, then we will suffer through the consequences of our collective faulty minds (and leadership) time and time again.

If you can believe it there are a long history of eclipse enthusiasts, who call themselves "umbraphiles." People travel around the world to witness the few minutes of solar eclipse totality.

Not much better than that!