SelfBankt on Nostr: FLASHING STARTOS TO RECYCLED THINKPADS & DISTRIBUTING AT LOCAL BITCOIN MEETUPS ...
FLASHING STARTOS TO RECYCLED THINKPADS & DISTRIBUTING AT LOCAL BITCOIN MEETUPS GRASSROOTS AF.
Start9 (npub126n…e9ll) wtogami (npub1pfe…elvf)I may have had a few glasses of wine but had an idea to increase the activity and value of local Bitcoin Meetups. It's a synthesis of grassroots Bitcoin adoption components : full node and Lightning node growth, hacking, lowest hanging fruit free market economics & Bitcoin circular economies.
1). Basically, I've tried almost every node project under the sun. Flashing StartOS to old Thinkpads has really impressed me recently however. The progress they've made and near future roadmap is phenomenal. Listening to CEO Matt Hill preach on the importance of sovereign computing, the homelab revolution and the cloud being someone else's computer seems so relevent right now. StartOS is also MIT licence so completely free to distribute and sell preinstalled.
2). I'm a used Thinkpad geek and can't stop compulsively collecting them.
wtogami (npub1pfe…elvf) Twitter@wtogami (Blockstream/Fedora) has a Used Thinkpad for LN nodes community that's worth a look. Apparently Start9 have just begun selling preinstalled recycled laptops and desktop PCs. I think this recycled niche has great potential and appeal rn.
3) I loosely organise a local Bitcoin Meetup
Bitcoin Bristol (npub103a…5n6p) and would love to inculcate and bring to life more full node adoption, self sovereign computing, grassroots local Bitcoin circular economy and community.
ACTION PLAN :
Local Meetup organisers consider leveraging their position to distribute to interested new Bitcoiners cheap repurposed computers like Thinkpads and Thinkcentres with StartOS preinstalled before password setup. We resell these to Meetup attendees for Lightning base cost reimbursement along with some minor hand holding through StartOS's well documented & refined MIT licensed sovereign computing OS.
It's a low risk, high return educational activity that brings to life the free market principles of Bitcoin circular economies and decentralised computing in the face of the Cloud based Big Brother Final Boss.
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