I started bitcoin.rocks back in 2022 because I was tired of the media narrative around Bitcoin. Every headline was about price crashes, energy FUD, or scam associations. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is quietly helping protesters in Nigeria crowdfund when banks freeze their accounts, stabilizing the Texas power grid, and giving people in authoritarian countries a way to protect their savings.
So I built a site that collects the best of this — curated articles, videos, and data organized by how Bitcoin actually impacts the world. Human rights. Energy. Freedom. Housing. Food. Even art. About 20 categories, each with hand-picked resources from sources like Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TIME, Lyn Alden, and others.
A few things I'm proud of:
• It's fully open-source (https://github.com/sovenor/bitcoin-rocks)
• Volunteers have translated it into 9 languages
• There's a compound inflation calculator that shows people how much their salary needs to increase just to stay even
• We run a sticker campaign where anyone can request free stickers and post Bitcoin education in their city (bitcoin.rocks/stickers) — We've mailed out more than 55,000 stickers over the last few years (you can also print your own)
• A business adoption kit for getting local businesses to accept Bitcoin
I've never done any marketing for it. Just built it and let people find it. Gets about 1,500 visitors a month organically, which is cool but I know it could help way more people.
Figured I'd share it here since Stacker News is the kind of community that actually cares about this stuff. Would love feedback — what's missing? What would make it more useful?
Really cool! Superb!
Well done lad
Really cool !
Your site is great. It is the one I recommend to new people to learn about bitcoin.
Hey that's the website my stickers linked to!
bitcoin.rocks is such a badass website! @sovenor's sticker campaigns are really cool, too! Back when I was making a lot of Bitcoin movie posters, bitcoin.rocks was one of my favorite sites to put on them because it's simple, it's short, and doesn't try to sell people anything. Great work!
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the remittance angle is what gets me every time.
jamaica still runs on western union and moneygram for a lot of families. fees are 5-8%, transaction takes days, and the sender needs to be physically present somewhere. bitcoin.rocks has the human rights section but the remittance category is the one that lands hardest in the caribbean.
one thing that might strengthen the site: real dollar-cost comparisons by corridor. not "bitcoin is better" — actual numbers. $200 sent jamaica-to-family via western union costs $X, arrives in Y days. same $200 via Flash/Lightning: $0, 2 seconds. that's the converter that turns skeptics into stackers.
you've got something real here. 55k stickers is a lot of boots on ground.