Greetings from South Africa!
+ How To Write About Bitcoin Online
Hello, readers!
I’m writing to you from the South African countryside, on a road trip back to Cape Town.
I just spend the last week attending/presenting at a conference in Cape Town; visiting Bitcoin Ekasi, a township in Mossel Bay that is using Bitcoin as a tool to change their community; and Bitcoin Witsand, a community near the southernmost tip of Africa that has the highest amount of Bitcoin business penetration per capita of all the Bitcoin circular economies (granted, it’s a small community).
While it will take some time to process the impact this trip has had on me, I will say one thing about it now: The Bitcoin and cypherpunk ethos is alive and well across Africa.
So many of the people I’ve met on this trip, as well as on my recent trip to Kenya, embody the notion of permissionlessness; they’re building the future they want using Bitcoin and other freedom tech without waiting for someone to say it’s okay or not for them to do so.
And, no, I’m not talking about ex-pat tech bros based here in Africa; I’m talking about the likes of African women building financial inclusion technology like Tando and creating Bitcoin circular economies in the largest township in South Africa, as is the case with Bitcoin Loxion.
The rest of the world has so much to learn from what’s happening with Bitcoin here in Africa, and I plan to do my best to continue bringing these important stories to you.
How To Write About Bitcoin Online
At Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town last week, I presented on writing about Bitcoin online.
And I promised those in attendance that I would share the slides from that talk here in the newsletter.
So, without further ado, here they are:
For those of you who might feel compelled to start writing about Bitcoin online, but have thoughts like “I don’t know enough about Bitcoin to write about it,” please know that I still feel the exact same way — and I write about it anyway.
You have your experience with Bitcoin — share that.
So, when you get started with your Bitcoin writing journey, please keep in mind that consistency is key (something I forgot to mention in my presentation).
Make a commitment to posting once or twice a week, and stick to it no matter what.
A+ consistency with B+ content is better than the inverse, in my opinion.
Ross Ulbricht Is Free, But The Fight Continues
This week, President Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.
This is something Trump promised to do on the campaign trail and he followed through on it, so credit where credit is due here. And massive shout out to my boss, David Bailey, for playing such an instrumental role in convincing Trump to free Ross.
With that said, other important entrepreneurs/developers in the Bitcoin space are still in the crosshairs of the state, being tried on some bogus charges.
The most prominent of these are the Samourai devs, and we can support them.
I wrote about how to do so in a piece for Bitcoin Magazine last week:
Bitcoin Reserve > Digital Asset Reserve
Last week, Trump signed an executive order that stipulated that members of his administration begin looking into creating a digital asset stockpile.
The U.S. government doesn’t need such a stockpile, though, as bitcoin is the best savings technology in the crypto space. If it’s going to stockpile anything, it should only be bitcoin.
I wrote about this in greater detail for Bitcoin Magazine last week:
Thank you for reading (especially to the new subscribers)!
To all the aspiring writers out there, please take a moment to embrace the concept of permissionlessness this week, as it’s only you that is holding you back from publishing.
Much Love,
Frank
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