Bitcoin usage
Congo's lucha
La lucha is a non-partisan & non-violent Congolese citizen movement that demands from the DRC government a simple access to water, electricity and their social rights.
If the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo respected the word "Democracy" that names them, the movement de la Lucha would not even have to exist, but instead its members are imprisoned, tortured and even killed as Luc Nkulula.
Bitcoin helps this movement to receive donations from all over the world and to be able to avoid banking restrictions.
Bitcoin allows them to continue to spend, save, and set up new actions against their totalitarian government.
Lucha CongoLebanese crisis
Lebanon is going through one of the biggest financial crisis seen in history.
State corruption, inflation at more than 200%, bank closures, it is very difficult for the Lebanese population to have access to product of first necessities.
Crime increases rapidly and the population comes to rob the banks to recover their own money.
People start using Bitcoin because it could have avoided being hit by bank failures, hyperinflation, insure a better exchange rate against the US dollar and keep their funds safe.
Inflation rate in LebanonLebanese banks to close ‘indefinitely’ as hold-ups continue - AljazeeraLebanon to devalue currency by 90%Farida Nabourema
Farida Nabourema is a togolese human rights activist. Bitcoin serves her to avoid government censorship, and to get out of CFA Franc influence.
https://nabourema.com/Transfer fees
International transfers can take time (several days or even weeks), can be expensive through bank transfers or via services like Western Union. In some countries fees can go from 20% to 50% of the transaction.
With Bitcoin, the location of the receiver or the sender does not matter, for an on-chain transfer the costs vary but are never excessive (a few euros or even a few cents) and the transfer takes between 20 minutes and 1 hour to be confirmed, for a transfer on Lightning Network (second technological layer of Bitcoin) transfers take 2 seconds and only cost a few hundred satoshis (1 satoshi being equal to 0.00000001 BTC).
Note that in some countries the fees are even negative, indeed in these countries there is such a need for Bitcoin that its price is overvalued at +10 or +20%.
Gas flaring
During oil extraction gas surplus are rejected, these excess gas cannot be exploit so it is burned. This gas comes out in the form of methane, it is burned to transform it into Co2 which is 25 times less polluting than methane.
Bitcoin miners stand next to these borehole to exploit this excess gas and secure the network.
More on gas flaringBitcoin Bloem
To grow their flowers Bitcoin Bloem Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin mining is connecting computers to electricity and internet to find a random number. Bitcoin mining secures the blockchain, creates value, and creates heat. It is this heat that Bitcoin Bloem exploits to grow their flowers.
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