Earning sats, open source & BIPs
“Your first earned sats teach you more than your first bought ones.”
There's a psychological switch when bitcoin arrives as pay instead of purchase: it stops being a lottery ticket and starts being money. Earning routes exist at every skill level. Sell anything and accept Lightning (Day 16 tools). Freelance for the growing set of clients who pay in bitcoin. Create — value-for-value podcasting and Nostr zaps pay creators directly, no ad network. Contribute — bounties and grants fund open-source work (Day 19). Serve a circular economy — from surf coaches in Ekasi to, soon, Merchant Ambassadors in Oakland's BIP'ing ladder, paid in sats to onboard real shops.
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