An NGO called Motiv is helping this poor Peruvian town turn around.
The tool it uses to move funds, bank the unbanked and change people’s lives is Bitcoin.
I visited in September last year. Here’s an insight from my experience there. Blew me away.
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The pace is a little slower here but I'm still finding my voice.
Send sats to Motiv here: https://motiv.ngo/
Send sats to me by (lol you know what to do, zap this theng)
Amazing! This is inspiring!
Bitcoin is exactly what most African countries need for a spark of change
African and Latin American!! :D
Great story, encouraging to see bitcoin in action. Thank you.
Good work Joe - I mentioned this before, but it would be wonderful if Motiv set up a full verification node in these communities in order to level the local knowledge base up a notch. Some of those kids might be interested in learning how to manage the node and the open source OS behind it on top of guitar lessons. A local Lightning node would likely follow if things really catch on. In a few years time, we might have a few Peruvian stackers from Quebrada Verde joining us here on @sn.
This story delivers much more value and hope for the future than any ETF and Wall St. adoption.
There is now Peru's first ever lightning node which came online a few days ago set up by a Peruvian.
I would probs get in the way as a middleman but could you try to reach out to Motiv with your idea? https://motiv.ngo/
Done. I reached out to motiv.ngo with this proposal and added that I would fund the equipment purchase for the first (or the next) full verification hardware node. Let's see where this goes.
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why are there shitcoins on the donation page, and why is there no lightning donation (on the website), while the entire village is using lightning.
Truly inspiring. Good job👍
Keep up this amazing movement Joe! You travel to all corners of the world to help out the under/unbanked get access to the most priceless asset on eart!
Great video. Thanks Joe.