Tribe Vibe - The Italia Edition
☀️ Hello Tribe Vibers!
This week we take a trip to Italy exploring the Bitcoin scene there. We chat to Mir Liponi, the Godmother of Bitcoin in Italy (in Italian!) 🇮🇹 and highlight how you can vacation in Italy and pay for just about everything using bitcoin! ✈️
Editorial Note
Welcome to another exciting week in Bitcoin! Coming up:
👩🎓 Bitcoin 101: Risorse Bitcoin per gli Italiani (Bitcoin resources for Italians)
🗞News: Le ultime notizie Bitcoin (The latest Bitcoin News)
👩💼Women in Business: Bitcoin per le Donne d’Affari
🚀 Founders: Bitcoin per fondatori/fondatrici (Bitcoin for Founders)
🐣Moms: Bitcoin per i bimbi (Bitcoin for Kids)
🎧 & 🎥Vibe of the Week: Podcast con Mir Liponi, fondatrice del BHB Network (Podcast episode with Mir Liponi, founder of BHB Network)
🎓 Bitcoin Resources - Courtesy of Mir Liponi
🇮🇹 Accedi a risorse Bitcoin per italiani!
Mir Liponi has put together an incredible list of Bitcoin resources for Italian speakers looking to learn about Bitcoin. Access the list on the following GitHub link: https://github.com/mirserena/risorsebitcoin/blob/main/README.md
📈 Trending Topics in the News
1. The Wall Street Journal Touts Stablecoins
The Scoop🕵️♂️: A recent opinion piece in the WSJ explored whether stable coins could “stave off a US debt crisis”. Wall Street is finally waking up to the train wreck that is the US economy and pondering what to do about it 🤔.
Why you should care🚨: Human Rights activist Alex Gladstein had the best take on this (see below). While stablecoins may kick the can down the road, they cannot solve the deep, deep hole the US had dug for itself.
Andrew Axelrod has written a great substack post about this which you can read in full here:
2. Vacationing in Italy this Summer?
The Scoop🕵️♂️: More and more people are using Bitcoin to simplify travel and avoid paying currency exchange fees. Hodling Carla, who we interviewed for the podcast last week, has written a whole article about this for Bitcoin Magazine.
Why you should care🚨: Imagine travelling on one currency. Never having to exchange money, and never having to carry an assortment of notes and coins with you. Imagine being your own bank 🏦. 💼 Bitcoin is the perfect currency for the nomad. 🇮🇹 If you plan to travel to Italy this summer, you can find all the outlets that accept bitcoin on this handy site: https://bitcoinpos.it/map.html
🚀 Founders
LightSpark ⚡️
Bitcoin is scaling using the Lightning Network, a layer 2 solution that enables fast, cheap and scalable bitcoin payments. Lightspark, founded by David Marcus, previously of Paypal and Meta, is building “Enterprise-grade, fast, secure payments on Lightning. Modern infrastructure for payments on the Internet.”
Why You Should Care 💡
The Lightning Network is the future of payments. If your business accepts payments, (which basically every business does) then its critical that you learn how the network functions and how to integrate it into your payments tech stack.
👉 If you want to learn more about the Lightning Network, contact us here.
📺 Watch the recent conversation between David Marcus and Thndr founder Desiree Dickerson at Consensus in Austin here.
💼 Women in Bitcoin
According to the US Department of Labour (2023):
• white, non-Hispanic women were paid 80 cents,
• Black women were paid 67 cents, and
• Hispanic women (of any race) were paid 57 cents.3
Bitcoin fixes this. Learn how:
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🗓 July 11th, 2024:
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👩👧👦 Bitcoin for Kids - Bitcoin Junior Club
Bitcoin Junior Club is a one-stop-shop for all things bitcoin for kids:
“WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?
Education-fun zone for kids, teens & parents alike. All things Bitcoin in one place: collected for you, created with you, or/and handmade by us.
WHERE ELSE TO FIND US?
Follow: @BTCJuniorClub
Contact: juniorbitcoinclub@proton.me”
🎧 & 🎥 Vibe of the Week - Mir Liponi, Bitcoin Italia!
Must-Listen Podcast: 🎧
This week we caught up with Mir Liponi, Italy’s “Godmother of the Italian Bitcoin Community” and co-founder of BHB Network, a blockchain lab originally based out of Milan. Mir and her husband are taking Lugano Switzerland by storm! We chatted about the Bitcoin scene in Italy and the latest happenings in Lugano.
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