rich1.0zamanibitcoin (npub164…slcny)https://nostr.now/npub164j6wfwg88m8kha2ksw6xzdjq63zyma8ngnuyl9mqh2za9u2dldqlslcnynjumphttps://nostr.nowAn Iranian watching El Salvador walk back its Bitcoin law I live in El Salvador. In 2021 it became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, and every business was told it had to accept it. In January 2025, as a condition of a $1.4B IMF loan, that became voluntary. Taxes are paid in dollars again, and this year the government wallet, Chivo, was mostly handed to a private operator. People back home in Iran ask me if that means "Bitcoin failed here." I tell them the opposite lesson. The adoption that stuck never came from a decree. It started in 2019 in a surf village, El Zonte, with a donor whose only condition was "don't convert it to dollars." People chose it. That matters for Iranians, because we will never get a friendly law. What we can get is people who hold their own keys, know how to back them up, and teach a neighbor. No government signature can take that away, in San Salvador or in Tehran. Question for Nostr: what grassroots Bitcoin education actually worked where you live, without government help? Meetups, local merchants, circular economies, school programs? I'm collecting ideas for Farsi speakers. #bitcoin #elsalvador #iran