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𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗦 🇪🇹! WE AREN'T ASHAMED OF THAT, AND YOU'LL NEVER MAKE US ASHAMED OF IT! THE RESOURCE IS RIGHTFULLY OURS! THEY AREN'T YOURS. ENERGY IN ETHIOPIA IS A TAX-FUNDED RESOURCE FOR THE PUBLIC! Since you want to have this conversation publicly, let's get into it. We expect your PUBLIC convincing response as well. The world will decide who has the "wildly incorrect" claims. First, your crippled choice of words in calling Project Mano "xenophobic": Governments exist to serve their people; THAT'S LITERALLY THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION. No one calls this xenophobic. Xenophobia is hate... all we asked is whether we put priority on the STATE, the public, and the locals before we opened the floodgates to foreigners who will unashamedly and corruptly buy their way into every government office, who were chased out of every country they went into, and who amplify corruption and greed and actually cause a power shortage instead of helping electrify the country? The reason power in Ethiopia is a STATE monopoly and cheap is for a reason. It's not rocket science. Most of our population earns $1 a day—they can't afford food, imported items, or the luxury things you consider a product of the "free market." It isn't so the rest of the world brings their machines and makes 75-80% profit mining while throwing us pocket change that will NEVER, no matter how you do the math, take us where we need to 3-4x our export revenue. State power in Ethiopia is A TAXPAYER-FUNDED resource!! We elected a system where no company except the government can operate in generating energy to make it accessible for the public. For this reason, it is NOT a FOR-PROFIT "company" like you make it sound. It exists to serve the public at NO profit—which is why we PAY our taxes to make power cheap for all of us, NOT FOR FOREIGN BITCOIN MINERS to come and pay us pennies on the dollar. ANTI-COLONIALISM IS NOT "XENOPHOBIA"! The structure is in place to benefit the poor. Our water, our power, and our energy work from tax money and not for profit because that's what we want. Those are the systems we elected. You can't show up and lecture us about how it must change because it's good for your profit margins. Democratically and culturally, we like helping each other, and therefore many of our essentials, just like the police and military, are provided by the State and ARE NOT outsourced for profit to make an already difficult life impossible for our public. You are calling us "xenophobic" for wanting the MAXIMALLY BENEFICIAL outcome for Bitcoin and Ethiopia. You mine Bitcoin because you believe someday it will be worth multiple millions of dollars, and the cost of acquisition at today's price by mining it gives you an insane margin for the future price you might liquidate it at. Therefore, the nuances of whether your profit margin is 90% or 75% make absolutely no difference. There is an opportunity to acquire it at way below market price, and the country can do that to fund its STATE duties. We DO NOT want foreign Bitcoin companies to profit and extract all the Bitcoin out of the country. Hell, we don't even want "local" companies to just profit, even though that's a better structure—we want the PUBLIC, EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY, to benefit. The MAXIMALLY beneficial role can only be accomplished by the Government, as it's LITERALLY their job to serve the public. THE ONLY WAY TO SHARE THE REVENUE WITH THE PUBLIC IS BY STRENGTHENING THE CURRENCY EVERYONE USES—THIS WAY, EVERYONE GETS RICH TOGETHER—NOT FOREIGNERS, NOT A SELECT "FEW" ETHIOPIANS. THIS IS DONE BY CLOSING THE TRADE DEFICIT AND HAVING A RESERVE THAT WILL OUTPERFORM OUR INFLATION RATE. You know this. You are just scared that if the government starts mining, it will monopolize the market and kick you out of the country. We have told you time and time again, there is enough room for both the STATE and few local companies to mine, where the earned revenue is used to fund a NATIONAL BITCOIN RESERVE and ACTUALLY ELECTRIFY not make 50m$ or 100m$ insulting dollars. Ethiopia is a poor country where we can't justify buying Bitcoin to have a reserve, but we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire it cheaper than the market value, put it in reserve, and allow it to grow over 1000% in few years. This will truly open the economy by creating an inflow of FX and distributing wealth in the only currency we are allowed to own. WE ARE TIRED OF BEING PUBLICLY EXPLOITED, BEING A LAUGHING STOCK AND DESPITE PROJECT MANO'S EFFORTS, BEING SCOLDED BY THE LIKES OF YOU. Your fight here is pathetic and It's ridiculous. You have been trying to convince the government to import the rest of the world to benefit from TAXPAYER-FUNDED, NON-PROFIT power, to MINE BITCOIN TO TAKE OUT OF ETHIOPIA. Oh, Ethiopian government made pennies by selling electricity? Wrong. It just turned the money the public gave it for energy to Bitcoin miners for nearly zero profit when you calculate it. BUT YOU KNOW THIS! YOU PRETEND NOT TO... now let me get to your next "point." That "we fail to understand why government mining is a terrible idea": Oh yeah? WE DO, HUH? You and your crony foreign miner "partners," who are afraid to show their faces and put fake Ethiopian-looking "CEOs" like Kal Kassa because they actually understand they are exploiting the country, KNOW IT'S NOT A TERRIBLE IDEA. You have been screaming this with no proof, no research whatsoever other than your said so with no depth. You proclaimed this from the first day you set foot in the country because you are SCARED that if the government mines Bitcoin, they would compete with you, and you can't possibly imagine a cooperative environment. But I'll play devil's advocate and assume you don't know. A few questions for you: What makes YOU so DAMN competent—more than a country full of 100 million people, who, by the way, just built the largest hydro dam in the continent that produces 6,000MW, which you are BEGGING to have access to? What makes us SO DAMN INCOMPETENT that only "foreign" miners like you are the only ones who can make it work and make it profitable in literally the cheapset energy sector with ability to make it cheaper and build new resources? You can lie all you want, but we do know your profit margins. But as I said above, the true profit margins ARE NOT today's Bitcoin price; it is tomorrow's Bitcoin price. As a nation, we don't want them to "mine" it to immediately sell it. WE WANT A RESERVE. THAT HAS BEEN PROJECT MANO'S GOAL SINCE DAY ONE. We realized asking the government to buy it is unrealistic, so we made a plan for the STATE to acquire it through mining. Instead of partnering with us to make this work, those of you, who I'd actually call ANTI-BITCOIN, are in the middle causing friction, stopping a nation-state from MINING, and therefore ACQUIRING a National Bitcoin Reserve. This time will pass, and history will look back at this moment, recognizing that Project Mano was correct while you were lying. Project Mano wants nothing—no money, nada. We started this initiative 7 years ago because we saw a glimpse, a rare, once in a life time unbelievable opportunity to turn this cursed economic situation into a true paradise where hope and aspiration can live. A future where we are finally not ashamed to call ourselves ETHIOPIANS can come—not for us, but maybe for our kids. the highlights for projectmano are on bitcoin.com.et but we have super detailed plans You are wise and old enough to understand all of this. I believe you engage in these conversations with ill intent and that you actually understand what we want COULD work, WOULD work, and you are just scared it would sabotage your business endeavors, no matter how many times we tried to clarify that if you work with us, it would not. A true Bitcoiner wouldn't do what you are doing. working extra hard from stopping and misinformating a not wealthy Government mining and holding BTC is bad for them. Instead, they would tell and lobby the Government to: "Yes, if done well, if done transparently, the STATE could generate revenue that could 3-4x its foreign income, this could reverse inflation, and as Bitcoin price goes up, it will likely save a generation. But this is hard to do—it needs to be planned well, executed well, needs a committee, needs to be transparent to the public, and have an anti-corruption board—while at the same time, allowing locals to participate in this economy.". This is how we will create a Bitcoin country. It's not rocket science—just simple steps. DO BETTER! PEOPLE & HISTORY ARE WATCHING!

It is just SOO embarrassing, sad, HUMILIATING for our government, Project Mano & every Ethiopian. it shows how hopeless Ethiopia can be. Despite our countless cries for 7 years since Bitcoin price at 12k$, our ideas to transform Ethiopia & triple our buying power have been hijacked by corrupt foreign miners & gov officials to allow ONLY foreigners to make 99% profit and export the revenue out of the country on the mined Bitcoin. Project Mano wanted zero cents, nada, we just wanted our home nation to stop experiencing rising poverty and ethnic tension through resource depletion and the super obvious wealth inequality. we just wanted all of us and our children to have hope, and dignity in a national stage and wanted to call ourselves proud Ethiopians. we made a clear recommendation with many optional directions, a simple recommendation to triple our exports, with the cheapest way to build a national bitcoin reserve for future generations and to never experience the problem of our GDP growing slower than global inflation rate despite insanely growing productivity. that was all. we tried every avenue, we went to every office, we published our ideas, we just tried everything. The country is just so damn corrupt. you know you could be corrupt and still want your home country to improve? to have a bright future? to be a great nation loved globally? we thought out of thousands of high level gov officials, atleast few would listen and implement it. Instead they used our ideas, and imported exploiters, paying pennies on the dollar, exporting the value and made it impossible for the citizens of STATE or locals to transform their lives. It is a risk for Project Mano members to speak out publicly like this, but we are tired. we tried everything. we tried diplomacy, we tried lectures, we tried open letters, we tried it all. these people dont want their homeland to change. they'd rather give it to fake "ethiopian" proxy fronts run by scammers and grifters from China & random countries you never heard of like @kalkassa or @JMellerud who'd drain this limited opportunity happy and gnaw on their mothers womb. WE DID THIS TO OURSELF! WE PUBLICIZED OUR WORK. thats how they realized & went to Ethiopia. literally the whole world, from Jack Dorsey retweeting us, from Forbes writing about us 3x, from Bitcoin Magazine and many mainstream news, the whole world listened to us EXCEPT our own government. THEY WANT TO GIVE IT ALL UP - to foreigners. to those that might throw them change. starting tomorrow we will publish names and faces of every corrupt miner as well as officials. we will continue to do so unless something changes. just within the 6 years since we've been public, these people have costed the country a combined ~39BN$ USD & countless more Bitcoin that couldve transform our future. They hate us, they hate themselves & suffer from the delusion foreigners always know better. but we will not back down without a fight. HELL its always been a fight but we will clearly need to change tactics. Project Mano is a true non profit run by true patriotic Bitcoiners, to bring a technology that could easily 3-4x Ethiopia's foreign income in under a year. If you are a gov offical and want to be in the right side of history, help make this a reality. Otherwise the bribes you might have been paid will not stop the Ethiopian public from benefiting from a resource that is a rightfully theirs. Your job is to serve the public. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. we are not a satellite nation working to serve a bunch of random foreign corrupt miners when the STATE has a once in a lifetime opportunity to change way of life FOR ALL ITS CITIZENS who earn under 1$ daily! TOMORROW WILL BE DAY 1 of releasing name and photo of corrupt offical #1 who is allowing those to mine Bitcoin at a cost of 1,900$/BTC and hurting the bitcoin market by allowing insane dumping, while taking away energy and resources from the population who needs it. Our asks and integrity have never changed, & will never change: Use the stranded energy to deploy STATE powered mining that will be used to build a national bitcoin reserve and alievate the inflation. Do what you may with the revenue generated, BUT MAKE IT REAL. DO IT TRANSPARENTLY. It is an extremely rational, data backed request. if there are flaws in our asks, LET US KNOW. WE KNOW YOU ARE WATCHING! everyone outside the country is watching and laughing in sadness wondering WHY IS PROJECT MANO NOT IMPLEMENTED? GOD, ITS A MYSTRY TO THE 1000 members of Project Mano too. THATS IT. THATS THE TWEET. WISH US LUCK!

We just sent an urgent open letter to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Finance & National Bank, outlining how STATE-powered #Bitcoin mining could reverse inflation & triple our exports, boosting FX reserves by billions. Time to FixTheMoney & secure our future! Read more in the attached images (continues in next thread). ElSalvador did it. #Ethiopia can do it A LOT better. [1/2] Our open letter calls for state-powered Bitcoin mining and national Bitcoin reserve. Please help us spread the word. cc: @mihretum @Myriam_A_Said @YodaheZemichael @btaye @seleshi_b_a @EyobTolina

PLEASE READ THIS!💔🧡 A Balinese family from our #community recently fell victim to a phishing attack, losing all their bank savings at the end of the year. Sadly, this happens far too often in #Indonesia. The scam forced them to sell their bitcoin to cover daily expenses. The single mother of two, now juggling a 4th job and a loan, is fighting to keep food on the table and save for her daughter, Cahya, to attend university. 👩🏽‍🎓 Cahya is an incredible young woman - a bright, passionate member of #Bali's #Bitcoin community. Maybe you remember her. She sold her beautiful Balinese Bitcoin paintings at @BitcoinConf_ID and is the only person we know who is so dedicated to learning about Bitcoin that she's attending @MyfirstBitcoin_ for the 2nd time. This experience was a final wake-up call. They’ve realized they can’t trust banks anymore. Bitcoin is their way forward. But the first university payment is due this month. Calling on Bitcoiners everywhere: let’s support Cahya and her family with a few sats. ❤️ 📲 Here’s her wallet: farawayanswer37@walletofsatoshi.com Every little bit helps to give Cahya a better future and her mom some peaceful nights of sleep. 🙏

these guys doing great work! the @BitcoinBenin crew is one of the most awesome and undercovered Bitcoin community builers out there we had a great @GlobalBTCFest show covering their work, can listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0bv… I’ll chime in too with a donation

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You missed our serving? 🍽 Listen to the recording 🎙 of our first Culinary Bitcoin Journey, which brought a new bonding dimension to our global Bitcoin community! Get something to eat! It will make you hungry!🌏😋 open.spotify.com/episode/5QM…