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We are always talking about the way #bitcoin and #nostr can make the world a better place, and I’m always waiting for opportunities to see that happen in real life.

The Great #Orchestrathon is giving QW (npub1tvq…krq4) #zapathon a whole new use and meaning. It will be the first time we can all instantly through the lightning network and nostr make a huge impact in a traditional fundraiser that saves thousands of lives… the most beautiful part is that we are not limited to any type of border, all corners of the world become one on nostr 💜

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## Nostr for The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity



This Sunday, 28.01.2024 at 18:00 - 19:00 UTC we're inviting you to take pare in a very unique #zapathon

Nostrians taking part in this special zapathon that will play in tune with thousands of people playing together with The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity on their 32nd Grand Finale! Hence the name #orchestrathon

**The goal of #orchestrathon is to support the goal of this years Grand Finale, which is: funding equipment for diagnosing, monitoring and rehabilitating lung diseases of patients in pulmonology wards for children and adults in Poland**

**That means all bitcoin from zaps will be converted to PLN and donated to The Great of Christmas Charity foundation.**

What's The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity? What is the 32nd Grand Finale?! You'll find all of those answers on Geyser project story, or a few paragraphs below 👇 Now coming back to #orchestrathon...

### What Is #Orchestrathon

This Nostr account is a was generated on Geyser and is tied to Geyser project: [Bitcoiners support The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity](https://geyser.fund/project/greatorchestraofchristmascharity/overview)

**That means all zaps sent to this account are at the same time funding Geyser campaing.**

So not only you will contribute to the goal in the project, also all the zap comments will be visable there.

Ain't that crazy? We can use this campaign **as one giant #orchestrathon client!**


### Rules are simple:
1. On Sunday at 18.00 - 19.00 we all connect to our relays to join the #orchestrathon
2. For the whole hour - **you can zap this profile**, our posts or comments as crazy!
3. At 19.00 it's culmination of both #orchestrathon and Grand Finale

All Nostrians who zap will receive [special badges](https://badges.page/p/npub1cpmvpsqtzxl4px44dp4544xwgu0ryv2lscl3qexq42dfakuza02s4fsapc), depending on the zapped amount (in total):


On Sunday there will be lot's of concerts and events happening all day, culminating with Grand Finale closing at 19.00. We will try to launch a stream on [zap.stream](https://zap.stream/), so we can enjoy Grand Finale and concerts together!


This #orchestrathon and Geyser fundraise is organised by Dwadzieścia Jeden, a community of polish Bitcoiners. More about us and Proof of Work in the project story 👇

We're not only Bitcoiners, are also Nostrians, follow us:
Dwadzieścia Jeden account: @npub1cpmvpsqtzxl4px44dp4544xwgu0ryv2lscl3qexq42dfakuza02s4fsapc

Saunter: @npub1m0sxqk5uwvtjhtt4yw3j0v3k6402fd35aq8832gp8kmer78atvkq9vgcru

Fmar: @npub1xpuz4qerklyck9evtg40wgrthq5rce2mumwuuygnxcg6q02lz9ms275ams

JesterHodl: @npub18s59mqct7se3xkhxr3epkagvuydwtvhpsacj67shrta8eknynegqttz5c3

Tomek K: @npub14wxtsrj7g2jugh70pfkzjln43vgn4p7655pgky9j9w9d75u465pqvagcye

Tom Chojnacki: @npub1m0sxqk5uwvtjhtt4yw3j0v3k6402fd35aq8832gp8kmer78atvkq9vgcru

Gracjan Pietras: @npub1trkudtnp7jg3tmy4sz8mepmgs5wdxk9x2esgts25mgkyecrse7js6ptss5

Tomek Waszczyk @npub1ah8phwmfyl2lakr23kt95kea3yavpt4m3cvppawuwkatllnrm4eqtuwdmk


# Original Geyser project story

## Saving Lives and Preserving Health



[Dwadzieścia Jeden](https://twitter.com/21BitcoinPolska) a polish node in decentralised bitcoin communities network [Twenty One](https://twentyone.world/), is proud to facilitate bitcoin fundraising for **the biggest, non-governmental, non-profit, charity in Poland — The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity**.

For the past 31 years, GOCC continuously fundraises money for pediatric and elderly care in Poland. Each year, a culmination of the raise occurs during the last Sunday of January in the shape of **The Grand Finale** — a joyful day that when tens of thousands volunteers worldwide, especially kids and teenagers, go on the streets to gather money for the cause, giving donors hear-shaped stickers with logo of the foundation. If you're in Poland on that day, basically every person you'll meet on the street will proudly wear GOCC heart.


The same hear-shaped stickers can be seen in every hospital in Poland on thousands of high quality medical equipment bought by The Great Orchestra. **There is not a single polish family that hasn't benefited in some way from this equipment**, and it saved thousands of lives, especially the little ones.



## 32nd Grand Finale Goal

This year, 32rd Grand Finale will take place on 28th of January. The aim of the 32nd Grand Finale is **post-pandemic lung diseases — the raised funds will be used to purchase equipment for children's and adults' respiratory units.**

The Foundation plans to purchase:

* equipment for diagnostic imaging, i.a. MRI and ultrasound equipment,

* equipment for functional diagnosis, i.a. polysomnographs and portable spirometers,

* equipment for endoscopic diagnosis, i.a. navigational bronchoscopy systems and bronchoscopes

* equipment for rehabilitation - equipment for pulmonary rehabilitation used in the treatment of patients after lung transplantation

* equipment for thoracic surgery, e.g. electrocoagulation systems and cryoprobes.


## The Great Orchestra of Proof of Work

* **31 years** of non-stop fundraising for state-of-the-art saving life equipment, [running medical and educational programmes](https://en.wosp.org.pl/medycyna/programy) and [humanitarian aid](https://en.wosp.org.pl/pomagamy)

* 2 billion PLN or **~11,781 BTC** raised in total

* [Areas of help](https://en.wosp.org.pl/medycyna): children's cardiac surgery, oncology, geriatrics, neonatology, children's nephrology, children's and young people's mental health services, ambulances for children's hospitals, volunteer firefighters & search & rescue units

* [Last year Grand Finale](https://en.wosp.org.pl/aktualnosci/ponad-240-milionow-na-walke-z-sepsa) raised over PLN 240 million (**1,410 BTC**) for a goal to fight sepsis

* You can check how money from 2022 report (224 376 706 PLN or **~1,321.69 BTC**) raise were spent [here](https://geyser.fund/project/greatorchestraofchristmascharity) (although it's in polish)

* In addition to work focused on Poland, [GOCC fundraised money for hospitals in Ukraine and provided substantial humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees](https://en.wosp.org.pl/pomagamy/pomagamy-ukrainie), [Polish-Belarusian border crisis](https://en.wosp.org.pl/aktualnosci/wosp-zakonczyla-dzialania-na-granicy), Turkey earthquake victims and more

* GOCC is the most-trusted Polish organization and is at the top of the list as the most trusted public entities in Poland



## What We'll Do With Gathered Funds

Gathered bitcoin will be converted to PLN by a polish exchange [Quark](https://quark.house/en/) and donated to The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity after The Grand Finale which takes place on January 28th.


## Dwadzieścia Jeden Proof of Work

We're a group of polish pleb Bitcoiners that started organising ourselves about 2 years ago.

Our activities include:

* organising regular [bitcoin meetups](https://www.meetup.com/pl-PL/bitcoin-warsaw) in several cities in Poland, also Nostr meetup in Warsaw

* organising [Bitcoin FilmFest and European Halving Party](https://bitcoinfilmfest.com/) in Warsaw

* orangepilling and maintaining [map of polish bitcoin merchants in Poland on btcmap.org](https://btcmap.org/community/dwadzie%C5%9Bcia-jeden)

* [translating bitcoin FOSS to polish language](https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoininpolish)

* [writing and translating articles to polish](https://europeanbitcoiners.com/tag/po/)

* giving [talks on bitcoin](https://youtu.be/-DHee2eJKr4?t=1301)

* volounteering for helping with bitcoin payments and running bitcoin workshops on non-conferences (eg. [Weekend of Capitalism](https://weekendkapitalizmu.pl/))

* working in human rights centered NGOs and [promoting bitcoin as a tool for protecting human rights](https://youtu.be/MPhkDCd-h2E?si=waZRxu6yxp5-np8O)

* ...and we're just starting!


## Find Out More

* [Official GOCC website](https://en.wosp.org.pl/)

* [Wikipedia page about GOCC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Orchestra_of_Christmas_Charity)


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