zamanibitcoin on Nostr: Living in El Salvador as an Iranian, one small thing still gets me: I can check my ...

Living in El Salvador as an Iranian, one small thing still gets me: I can check my host country's bitcoin reserve myself. The addresses are public. As of Nov 2 they hold about 7,823 BTC, and you can watch roughly one coin a day arrive (the IMF says recent additions come from private donations, not public money).

Back home, nobody outside a few offices knows what the central bank really holds. "Trust us" is the whole policy.

That contrast is the lesson I most want Farsi speakers to feel: don't trust, verify. Not as a slogan, but as a habit you can do on a phone in two minutes.

Question for Nostr: what's the simplest "verify it yourself" exercise you've used to teach a total beginner? A block explorer lookup, checking a wallet signature, something offline? I'm collecting ideas for a Farsi verification mini-course.