Here are a few conclusions for my bitcoiner friends from my stay in Istanbul, Turkey. First conclusion: adoption has not increased at all since the last time I was here two-three years ago. If anything, it may have even declined. As a community, we need to admit that we’ve lost valuable time — whether through internal dramas, focusing on politicians, price goes up thinking, carrying about stablecoins, or building overly complex stuff that no one wants or knows how to use. No one with real influence and skills has made a serious effort to simply show people how to use digital money in their everyday lives — and why it matters. Even in a country like Turkey, with over 90 million people, or in a city of 20 million, where people watch their local currency deteriorate and lose value every single day. We have all failed together — each in our own way and according to our respective roles. If we carry as a community that Bitcoin will make people more free and the world a better place for the next to come, we probably must focus again to the basics.

I habe always a sencecap 1000T with me!

Same here! Great decision. I don't have any access to mainstream social media and I don't regret it at all

Third conclusion: people do not trust existing structures, yet they are largely unaware of tools for private communication such as SimpleX Chat, Session, Keet, Bitchat, and others. Also I a country with a extrem censorship, Nostr remains very largery unknown. They also underestimate the importance of controlling their own wealth, as in most cases their investments are managed or held by third parties. Even in the rare case that someone decides to acquire Bitcoin, they struggle to understand the advantage of no-KYC over KYC. Well-known no-KYC platforms are essentially non-functional — in a country where, until very recently, transactions were conducted almost exclusively hand-to-hand. We have an enormous amount of work ahead of us! Greetings from Türkiye 🇹🇷

Can you give some practical examples for this?

Second conclusion: there is a significant knowledge gap, which leads to a chaotic mix of opinions. Concepts are constantly confused, and scammers dominate the space. For them, Bitcoin is a "crypto thing" that gamblers and scammers using, like every other "kripto-parali". There are almost no books about Bitcoin available — even in a city with many large bookstores and a population that still values reading. Overall, there seems to be a clear lack of easily accessible, high-quality educational material.

Mit Abstand!

I would like to have a community for noKYC first and then to set up the node for this. I am still surpised how less people care about this and they prefer the KYC way.

This is the right way, unfortunately still far away from Europe

I really don't get it, or I miss something What will happen for example if a chinese or an indian ship trys to pass through with Iranian acceptance? The US will bomb it or what?

I am trying to buy some Bitcoin books for some friends in Turkey. I visited some big bookstores but were no books to find about BTC. Any Turks around? Where can I find Bitcoin books in Istanbul? #asknostr #turkey

👍 I am always ready

Is there a way in generall to watch BTC conferences without having to use platform like YouTube? #asknostr

Looks really far in the past but actually isn't even that far...it will look the same in the near future for the price that we have now

Of course i would do this. Same for you if you are around here and you decide to visit the swiss mountains. Have a nice week!

Start using and #meshtastic in Turkey. Unfortunately still not many people using these promising apps here. Still didn't find anybody to contact

Oh great! I will check it for sure! Cool actions and I admire that you are always so active!!!