At the recent Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Lusaka, Zambia, there was a dev coding on just his phone. Now imagine the possibilities if he had a proper laptop. If you’ve got one sitting idle, it could empower someone building Africa’s Bitcoin future. Reach out if you’d like to help: https://x.com/bitdevszambia or https://x.com/BitcoinZambia
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162 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 8h
3 years ago, I donated to a guy (that fixed some repairs for my house - paid in BTC) from Zambia 2 old PCs, 1 laptop and 2 huge boxes with computer parts (disks, memories, video cards etc) to send them to his family in Zambia.
I hope was helping them, at least for learning. Now... idk how much he paid to deliver those boxes to his family and if is worth it.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 7h
What I know and have seen with my eyes is that are private drivers with little vans that constantly travel between Europe and Africa to transport goods for a known network of people. Kind of p2p shipping. Hope he used one of those, because traditional shipping to Africa is probably not worth, considering shipping cost, taxed and all the controls and extra fees added when stuff cross borders.
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90 sats \ 1 reply \ @Oxy 10h
The future can be build by anyone and resilience like this are what we need
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AndyOwethu OP 10h
Exactly! This kind of resilience shows the future of Bitcoin in Africa isn’t limited by resources, only by imagination and determination.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @voxmagdalenea 7h
How about people in your own country and building it up? For instance there are many people right here where I am that could use the same resources. If the people doing better in their own countries helped the people needing help, the world would be fine. I literally knew someone in Africa, someone in Palestine who were all living better lifestyles than I was or am. Churches do the same thing.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 5h
Yep, don't have to go as far as Africa to find people who need help.
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