🧡 Node is a physical space in Devonport, Auckland, for hands-on time with Bitcoin, AI, code and creative tech. A place to learn by doing and ask real questions. Come see for yourself. #Bitcoin #Auckland

🛠️ Happy Labour Day, Aotearoa. In 1840, carpenter Samuel Parnell agreed to build a store in Petone only if the day was eight hours, an early win for the eight-hour day. The Bitcoin network never clocks off: a new block roughly every 10 minutes. #Bitcoin #auckland

🎮 Gaming the System · Level 05 Tonight at dinner, ask your teenager why their favourite game item is valuable. Can the developer make more? What if the game shuts down? That’s supply, demand and risk, and a good way into Bitcoin. labs.node.org.nz/research/ga…

What would get you to a Bitcoin meetup for the first time? Honest answers help us make Node easier to walk into. Reply below.

⏳ Sent a bitcoin transaction and it’s not confirmed yet? It’s probably in the mempool, Bitcoin’s waiting room. Miners usually pick the transactions paying the highest fee rate first, so a busy network means a longer queue. #Bitcoin #auckland

Not your keys, not your coins. Not your node, not your rules.

Poll time! 🥳🥳 Which Bitcoin word confused you most at first? Weekend question. Reply A, B, C or D 👇

🎯 Weekend game: Bitcoin jargon bingo. Sats, mempool, halving, seed phrase, node, HODL… How many of the 16 could you explain to a friend? Reply with your score. #Bitcoin #auckland

🎮 Gaming the System · Level 04 You master a game’s economy. Then a patch you had no say in rewrites it overnight. Bitcoin asks a different question: can digital money run without one company having the final say over its supply? labs.node.org.nz/research/ga…

Poll time! 🥳🥳 If you were saving in bitcoin, where would you keep it? No wrong answers. Reply A, B, C or D 👇

🔥🧊 Hot wallet or cold wallet? A hot wallet lives on your phone or computer: online, handy for spending. A cold wallet keeps your keys offline, usually on a hardware device: built for savings. Plenty of people use both. #Bitcoin #auckland

🎮 Gaming the System · Level 03 Every game economy has a final boss: the operator. They can change drop rates, rewrite items or shut the servers. Bitcoin has no boss. No developer can print extra coins, and thousands of nodes check the rules.🧵 labs.node.org.nz/research/ga…

The Opportunity Party leader Qiulae Wong "Q" came into node last Friday. We chatted about AI and Bitcoin. I gave her a short Bitcoin mining 101 summary. @bitcoinpolicynz @stacked_bitcoin @aklbitcoinclub @NZBitcoinParty @NZBitcoiners

Poll time! 🥳🥳 Which part of Bitcoin would you want explained first? We’ll use the answers to plan future explainers. Reply A, B, C or D 👇

🧱 What’s inside a Bitcoin block? A list of transactions, a timestamp, the fingerprint (hash) of the block before it, and the proof of work that took real energy to find. Change one old block and every block after it breaks. #Bitcoin #auckland

The best Bitcoin explainer is still a person who’s happy to answer your question.

Poll time! 🥳🥳 Where do you get your Bitcoin news? Ties in with today’s partner post. Reply A, B, C or D 👇

📰 Our partner @CNZ_News has covered crypto in Aotearoa independently since 2020: local news, beginner guides, the NZ On-chain Podcast, and monthly meetups in nine cities. Same belief as Node: learn it properly, and learn it with people. #Bitcoin #auckland

🎮 Gaming the System · Level 02 Somewhere, a parent just called a teenager’s rarest item “only pixels”. The teenager knows better: two items that cost the same to copy can be worth very different amounts. What matters: demand, scarcity and control. labs.node.org.nz/research/ga…

Poll time! 🥳🥳 Have you ever paid with Lightning? Today’s question. Reply A, B, C or D 👇

⚡ Lightning is a payment layer built on top of Bitcoin. Payments usually settle in seconds and cost very little, which makes it handy for small, everyday amounts. Its channels are anchored to the main Bitcoin chain underneath. #Bitcoin #auckland