The dark side of Cuba - Blackouts 🌑 \ stacker news ~alter

1758 sats \ 18 comments \ @bitalion 17 Sep alter_native

I say the dark side of Cuba because it really is. The deficit in energy generation has caused many hours of the day and night to go by without electricity. This is becoming unbearable, many say. Blackouts lasting more than 12 hours a day are threatening the stability of the home, with many unable to cook food, children unable to do their homework or even sleep. The main cause, according to the government, is the lack of fuel, but we know that it has been the lack of attention they have given to the power plants, which can no longer cope with years of exploitation and bad decisions regarding investment. Here are some images of how people are living in these circumstances.

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84 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 17 Sep

Thanks for reminding my past. I've been in the same situation in India while I was schooling. We had no other choice than to use a Kerosene oil lamp to study. We used to get only around 6 hours of electricity that too was not constant. Those were very difficult days. I was not used to it however since my childhood as I was born in a big city but when I was 9 years old we had to migrate back to our village where there was no electricity, no schools even no road connectivity. For schooling I went to a the town nearby and it didn't feel lany different fron the village mostly due to weekly blackouts. For one week I used to get 6 hours electricity from 10 to 4 at nights and for one week in day times. To cut short, it was a real struggle and I can absolutely feel what you guys are goin' through. I hope you get past of your difficult situation very soon.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 17 Sep

Very sad. You are doing your nation a favor by exposing the reality for all to see.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 17 Sep

It’s sad people have to live with this. If our country suffered blackouts like this city’s would probably burn

68 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 17 Sep

Exactly what is happening in Venezuela, communism and the supposed Revolution have destroyed the electrical system and the dams in my country, which has caused us to spend days, hours and even weeks without electricity.

32 sats \ 2 replies \ @BTCLNAT 18 Sep

Among the challenges for Bitcoin adoption and education here are power outages. We've been in the middle of a P2P and the counterparty hasn't been able to finish the operation because the power went out and the available user ran out of battery or sometimes, mobile data towers stop working. Imagine you want to set up a node.

Hardware, power and connection. What do you do?

Don't tell me about the solar panel. Forget it here.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 18 Sep

would something like the Machankura system work for this? where people use old dumb phones and SMS menus for bitcoin payments and stuff?

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/04/17/machankura-bitcoin-wallet-without-smartphones-internet/

(this article is where i fist heard about it i believe)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCLNAT 18 Sep

I thank you for that information. It really shows that when you want you can, there is a platform here that uses USSD for digital payments, but it belongs to the telecommunications monopoly here, so implementing the use of this technology to pay with SATs is difficult, if not impossible.

The other thing is how Nagako is translating for her people. That shows the commitment.

I have no justification for not educating and adopting Bitcoin

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bature_ 18 Sep

Centralized power is like a wild fire, what ever it touches, it destroys.

To escape tyranny, it will take a lot of time and energy sacrificed in self-education. It's not gonna be easy, but with much perseverance, a better life awaits you on the other side. Learning bitcoin is the best way forward.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 18 Sep

i have a question, quite some years back my friend's parents from UK went on an all-inclusive resort holiday in Cuba. seemed like the same type of package deal Tukrey, Egypt offer etc

are those still a thing? or are they all walled-off with their own power generators etc while 99% percent of the population suffers like this?

are you able to withdraw your sats from here and use them for anything locally?

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @bief57 17 Sep

Communism is shit, it has destroyed both your country and mine, I dream of the day when these two countries are free again, it is a nightmare to live like this, I was lucky enough to emigrate, but when I see photos like this I feel my memories of suffering so many hours without light come alive, not to mention the people in hospitals who are connected to machines in order to survive. Un abrazo desde la distancia

43 sats \ 4 replies \ @bitalion OP 17 Sep

Thank you, you were lucky to be able to emigrate, but many people like me do not have that possibility, nor do we have the money to do so.

43 sats \ 3 replies \ @bief57 17 Sep

You Cubans have that disadvantage because you are on an island. It really hurts me to see the situation in Cuba. I understand your pain and perhaps frustration of wanting to leave your country. How expensive is it to leave Cuba? What is the approximate price? You have to process passports, plus plane tickets and money for at least the first month abroad. There are several pages where you can collect funds in sats, have you seen any?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 18 Sep

I heard that Geyser funds web site is not supporting Cuban projects.

Do you have any other site for crowdfunding?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitalion OP 18 Sep

I have heard of people who have paid up to 5000 USD or even more for the entire process, often helped by relatives abroad who have paid the coyotes. Now with the parole program, you may have to have support from someone abroad or a lot of money to pay for a person to put you on parole.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 18 Sep

Do you need coyotes to leave Cuba or do you need to talk to enter the United States? Which Latin American countries can you emigrate to without a visa? Because there are other options to which you can emigrate without spending so much and then go to the USA if that is what you want. I think the important thing is to leave Cuba first, even if it is to the Dominican Republic. Emigrating is not easy, but step by step you can achieve it.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 18 Sep

only thing worse than communism is the army of young woke retards simping for it.

as if we don't have enough historical data on what exactly it leads to

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 18 Sep

They are privileged morons who have no fucking idea what it means to be hungry.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger 17 Sep

Yes, I have heard the infrastructure here is poorly maintained which is not a great sign for a place that has "social good" as a political structure...