Honk if you love Bitcoin! Lightning takes the wheel of a European rally car adventure

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A Bitcoin-mobile (BTC) piloted by the Bitcoin Ambassador Team takes part in the Baltic Sea Circle Rally’s 8,000 kilometer race, orange-pilling competitors and campsites along the way.

The car is adorned and sponsored by Bitcoin companies. Source: Cercatrova

Two bitcoin advocates, Cercatrova, the democratically elected chairman of the German-speaking bitcoin community of Einundzwanzig, and his co-pilot Daktari, embarked on the orange pilling adventure this week, attempting to cross 9 northern European countries in their Bitcoin branded car.

Speaking to Cointelegraph from somewhere above the Arctic Circle, Cercatrova explained:

The whole rally is a charity rally; there are 150 teams or cars. It starts in Hamburg and goes up through Denmark, Sweden, Norway and around the Baltic Sea for about 8,000 kilometers, 16 days and was the only bitcoin team here, none of the other teams are cryptocurrency teams.

The goal is to bring Bitcoin to people, while raising funds for two sources, a Panamanian coffee producer and a Salvadoran peer2peer ridesharing app developed on Lightning. Naturally, they’ve poked orange or introduced people to bitcoin along the journey.

Christian, founder of Seedor, a Germany-based bitcoin metal backup that avidly follows their journey, told Cointelegraph that while they were in Norway, they looted the orange campground.” The duo showed the campsite owner how to pay in bitcoin:

Orange shoving the owner of a campsite in Norway

If you take your time, listen and explain to people they will understand that we could pay for our place here at #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/OReIxQKHuA

— find-find (@find-find_21) June 21, 2023

Cercatrova told Cointelegraph that so far they have discussed Bitcoin with at least 30 people as part of the rally over random conversations with interested observers. Additionally, passersby and overpasses can scan the QR code on the side of the car to receive free Satoshis, or small amounts of Bitcoin, to start their Bitcoin journey.

So when someone sees us and asks about Bitcoin, how does it work? We can actually take people to our car and say, okay, just install a wallet and it’s done in about 30 seconds. And they’re amazed: I didn’t have to fill anything out, I didn’t have to take a passport or anything. It just works”

The car also has a candy machine that accepts Bitcoin, so first-timers can spend their brand new Sats on candy just to see how it works, Cercatrova explained.

The location of the team, northern Norway. Source: superlative-adventure.com

For Bitcoin enthusiasts following at home, the car is ready for lightning. Lightning-switch remote play jukebox and horn can be used anywhere in the world. Fans and supporters around the world send their song requests to the Lightning-ready Car Telegram group, paying less than a dollar for the courtesy.

Choose the song we’ll listen to at the #BalticSeaCircle Rally and honk on Lightning All sats will go to the https://t.co/vB9oXhpbrh project (from @FPupusas), 2 indios in panama, who make coffee for sats and the creator from the jukebox pic.twitter.com/x6IsuhPZZA

— find-find (@find-find_21) June 20, 2023

Lightning enthusiasts can also set off car horns thousands of miles away. The process uses a Lightning switch that turns on when it has received enough sats. Cercatrova explains:

So on my Twitter feed there is also the QR code, where you can scan the flash bill. And when you pay that, it’s around 3000 Sats to honk it once. And then our car honks!

The horn is comically loud and playful, while the lightning jukebox playlist featured metal to Mozart and German folk tunes to crypto classics such as Pump it Up. Cercatrova explained that musical variation is a great source of pleasure and motivation:

One is death metal and the other is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and it’s really crazy.

To date, the Bitcoin Ambassadors rally team has raised around 4 million Satoshis or $1,200 for charity, although Cercatrova added that “the next few days and willingness to send more Sats” could drive up the number. The drivers are about halfway through the trip and expect to finish at the end of June.

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As essential research for this article, reporter Joe Hall not only sounded the horn during the phone interview, but also lined up a famous song by Rick Astley.

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