sovenor

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I started bitcoin.rocks back in 2022 because I was tired of the media narrative around Bitcoin. Every headline was about price crashes, energy FUD, or scam associations. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is quietly helping protesters in Nigeria crowdfund when banks freeze their accounts, stabilizing the Texas power grid, and giving people in authoritarian countries a way to protect their savings.

So I built a site that collects the best of this — curated articles, videos, and data organized by how Bitcoin actually impacts the world. Human rights. Energy. Freedom. Housing. Food. Even art. About 20 categories, each with hand-picked resources from sources like Forbes, MIT Technology Review, TIME, Lyn Alden, and others.

A few things I'm proud of:

• It's fully open-source (https://github.com/sovenor/bitcoin-rocks)

• Volunteers have translated it into 9 languages

• There's a compound inflation calculator that shows people how much their salary needs to increase just to stay even

• We run a sticker campaign where anyone can request free stickers and post Bitcoin education in their city (bitcoin.rocks/stickers) — We've mailed out more than 55,000 stickers over the last few years (you can also print your own)

• A business adoption kit for getting local businesses to accept Bitcoin

I've never done any marketing for it. Just built it and let people find it. Gets about 1,500 visitors a month organically, which is cool but I know it could help way more people.

Figured I'd share it here since Stacker News is the kind of community that actually cares about this stuff. Would love feedback — what's missing? What would make it more useful?

I built a website showing how Bitcoin makes the world better

open-source contributor and bitcoin builder —  lead maintainer for https://bitcoin.rocks/