Bitcoin for Billions, Not for Billionaires: The Staggering Story of the Lightning Network Worldwide

Scott Harrison was born in the suburbs of New York City in a happy family until one day his mother collapsed on the bedroom floor. Harrison was four years old at that time, and his mother suffered from a carbon monoxide gas leak, and her immune system died that day.

She became allergic to everything, and she had to wear strange masks often connected to oxygen all the time.

After the poisoning, Scott Harrison had to help his father doing a little of everything at home. He had to take care of his mother for his father to pay the bills with his job and side-hustles.

Harrison was a good Christian kid who played the piano at the church and wanted to be a doctor when he grew up to help sick people like his mother.

Then, he became an adolescent.

He moved to New York, joined a music band, and then became a nightclub promoter. He managed to arrange beautiful and rich people for parties and charge $500 a bottle of champagne that cost $40.

From club to club, alcohol and drugs, beautiful women, a Rolex in his wrist, and ten years smocking two packs of cigarettes a night, strip clubs, and gambling, Harrison seemed to have lost his way.

At one particular party in Uruguay, in an incredible house near the beach, expensive champagne, amazing dancers, and massive production, a long decline in happiness starts to invade Harrisson’s soul.

I tried to find my way back to very lost faith.- Scott Harrison

To compensate for his lack of happiness, he sold everything he had and took a year off, trying to find his mean of helping others instead of himself.

He tried to apply to various humanitarian organizations, but nobody wanted him. They didn’t even want him volunteering.

Fortunately, one organization said if Scott would pay $500 a month, he could join them.

A fantastic team of doctors and surgeons who travel the world in a hospital ship specialized in removing face tumors accepted Scott. They went into Liberia, one of the poorest countries in the world.

As Harrison went to some villages, he started to see how locals drink water. They literally drunk water from swamps full of mosquitoes and bugs. Most kids die before they were 10 years old of cholera or diarrhea and other infectious diseases.

785 million people live on our planet without access to clean water.

So, Harrison started to do what he did best. He came back to New York and began organizing parties. But this time, charging money to finance his new project.

Charity Water started on his 31st birthday party, with 700 people spending money to raise $15,000. They immediately took that money to Northern Uganda, built three wells, and then sent back photos of the water infrastructure in those villages providing clean water back to those 700 people.

Most western country citizens don’t trust charities, but this way of doing things was utterly disrupted. If you donate to Charity Water, you can track your money, you can see what country and village your money goes to.

And that was a game-changer.

Source: https://medium.com/the-price-of-tomorrow/bitcoin-for-billions-not-for-billionaires-the-staggering-story-of-the-lightning-network-worldwide-333fc2c1fb25?source=rss——-8—————–cryptocurrency