I've recently been pushing out a lot of Bitcoin-related tweets, but THIS one sticks out to me as a very good reminder of what pulled me into the space in the first place.
I still remember being in Nigeria for Christmas 2016 seeing a sign advertising a Bitcoin exchange. Being that Nigeria is a place where even the wealthiest people struggle for consistent access to power and running water, the thought Bitcoin there genuinely perplexed me.
To invoke a metaphor from The Matrix, it was a moment that compelled me to follow the white rabbit and see what was going on, what I was missing to make this technology viable in such an adversarial environment. What I found gave me a ray of light piercing a tunnel of darkness
Seeing the part in this article about the Feminist collective, their struggle in the #EndSARS movement, and the instrumental role Bitcoin played in it is a manifestation of EXACTLY what I wanted people to start using Bitcoin for in Nigeria.
More specifically, It gives me hope for a future in which those who have previously been frustrated by an oppressive government (one that does not even allow its citizens to use this very app) can organize and collaborate in a censorship-resistant manner
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