As we're recovering from all the hectic event orga in recent weeks, we would also would like to a give a shout out once again to all our donors who helped to make this event possible.
As we intentionally keep the booth vendor fees at a very low cost to keep the event accessible and community-based to allow also small home-based craft- & artisanal food makers to display their wares...
...we are dependent on the goodwill of the wider community to support these events to keep them sustainable as a regular gathering space for the local Bitcoin community...
...and "promising pre-coiners" who do good work for the wider community, but might not (yet) have fully taken the orange pill
To state it differently:
This whole event was made possible by anon plebs from around the world who over the previous weeks used the power of the Bitcoin & Lightning network to support the orange cause in π»π³- entirely permissionless.
"wHaT cAn bItCoIn bE uSeD fOr?!?" finds an answer right here.
A real world event with real world impact made possible and powered by Bitcoin - donated by dozens of anon donors globally, from a few Sats to more sizeable amounts.
We also would like to thank the β‘οΈinfrastructure & service providers @Geyser & @Alby who made it really simple to spread the awareness of the event & accept donations - the tooling build by these teams played a decent role to make the event the success it was.
A special shout out also to our sponsor @Neutron who jumped in to help fill some of the remaining budget gap - another team that is building Lightning infrastructure at the cutting edge over here in Asia
We hope to see you around for more at the Christmas Flea Market 2025 - follow along for how you can support or ideally join in in person!π
As we intentionally keep the booth vendor fees at a very low cost to keep the event accessible and community-based to allow also small home-based craft- & artisanal food makers to display their wares...
...we are dependent on the goodwill of the wider community to support these events to keep them sustainable as a regular gathering space for the local Bitcoin community...
...and "promising pre-coiners" who do good work for the wider community, but might not (yet) have fully taken the orange pill
To state it differently:
This whole event was made possible by anon plebs from around the world who over the previous weeks used the power of the Bitcoin & Lightning network to support the orange cause in π»π³- entirely permissionless.
"wHaT cAn bItCoIn bE uSeD fOr?!?" finds an answer right here.
A real world event with real world impact made possible and powered by Bitcoin - donated by dozens of anon donors globally, from a few Sats to more sizeable amounts.
We also would like to thank the β‘οΈinfrastructure & service providers @Geyser & @Alby who made it really simple to spread the awareness of the event & accept donations - the tooling build by these teams played a decent role to make the event the success it was.
A special shout out also to our sponsor @Neutron who jumped in to help fill some of the remaining budget gap - another team that is building Lightning infrastructure at the cutting edge over here in Asia
We hope to see you around for more at the Christmas Flea Market 2025 - follow along for how you can support or ideally join in in person!π
Our crew will recover & reassemble in the days ahead and share some more pictures soon - if you got any, feel free to share (but please respect the privacy of people who have not opted-in to be photographed :) )
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The official announcement for the Flea Market is also live on our website by now:
As everyone who's tried "orange-pilling merchants" knows - turnover is brutal.
Shops close, owners stop bothering... - our static merchant page essentially constantly outdated = just not a reliable guide anymore!
As the overhead of maintaining a static and reasonably accurate merchant list became too high, we rather support from here on out the efforts of BTCMap - and so you should you!
BTCMap is a free and open source project (FOSS) and fully relies on donations and sponsorship to continue.
If you like what they're doing - consider throwing them a few Sats.
We will still keep a "qualified merchant" list around for merchants which have lasted for more than two years at a minimum (which is right now rather thin!).
But better a clean short list, than a long wrong list with many outdated listings!
Thanks once more for the advice and assistance to Leo Weese
and the #BTCMap team who has been dedicating the past couple of years to bring this project to the clean & professional level it is now! π