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Runy Calmera
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Macro economist, Trainer, Investor, Bitcoiner Host Island Wealth Creating wealth for islands with Bitcoin, stocks and luxurious villas
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runycalmera 2 months ago
This is my dream: a yellow porsche carerra cabrio That was my dream. Because during lesson 4 of the My First Bitcoin Education Program where we teach about the Fiat System and Fractional Banking I discussed with my students what an asset was and what a liability was. I showed them how banks use your deposits to create more debt. To create money out of nothing and why your liability is their asset. A mortgage A bank loan A credit card I had to start with assets and liabilities to show them how fractional banking works. When I discovered Bitcoin I realized that dream car is a liability. That would take money out of my pocket. Runy #IslandWealth #Curaçao image
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runycalmera 2 months ago
My First Bitcoin had an Educator Training Program!! Here is my proof of work that I completed it!! After you do the 10 week’s Mi Primer Bitcoin Certification and graduated as a student you can follow this program and start your own cohort! You can apply to become a light educational node or a full node, who can vote. This is how the My First Bitcoin Community exponentially grows around the world. Turn instructors into more students. Turn graduated students that want to teach into certified instructors. We invest in training new educators. We invest into using AI for education. We invest in creating engaging exercises for the lessons. We open source everything on github. So if you want to start your own cohort: apply for the next round! #MyFirstBitcoin #Certification #Curaçao #BTCCuraçao @BTCCuracao @Arnolnymous @My First Bitcoin image
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runycalmera 2 months ago
I’m so happy to see the impact that #Bitcoin has in the lives of my students of #MyFirstBitcoin. So I told them they need to come up with and sell me a service or product and I would pay them 1 dollar! With Lightning! Here a student who is a gym coach abd trainer sold me an exercise! And another student sold me a piece of a cake he baked and brought! I go the extra mile teaching My First Bitcoin. On small islands like Curaçao, where almost 25% of the households are considered poor, receiving money is not an option or luxury, it is a neccesity! Not everyone has a bank account! You need 3 past salary slips to get a bank account, and not everybody can provide a formal salary slip! Many people work in the informal sector, in construction, gardening, cleaning houses, cooking, creating crafts. Exporting services online and receiving credit card payments online, through your website is not for everybody. As an online digital coach and trainer I can tell you how difficult it was to get this done! So that is why I train and educate my students to download a Lightning wallet asap and sell something to me. Are you selling something online? Are you getting paid in SATS? Let me know! Runy #IslandWealth #Curaçao #Lightning #Bitcointrainingstore #BTCCuraçao #ProofOfWork @My First Bitcoin
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runycalmera 2 months ago
Fiat Money To understand how Fiat Money is used by banks to create more money through fractional reserve banking, I created a bank spreadsheet of our fake Kura Piedra Bank. You need to understand assets and liabilities. In lesson 4 of My First Bitcoin we discuss these topics with our students.
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runycalmera 2 months ago
What is money? Explaining to students in the My First Bitcoin 10 weeks Certification Program what money is. We use many games and exercises to teach #Bitcoin. Here you see students trying to barter to the goods they need. They experience there is no coincidence of wants: you are a shoemaker with 1000 shoes and you want fish. And you are a fisherman with 1000 fish and you want bread. Then using silver coins and golden coins that everybody wants makes the trade easier. But wait. When you realize that your golden coins can get debased by clipping them and changing the gold for copper. It all happens through a fast sleigth of hands. Don’t trust anybody, verify. Don’t even trust me as a teacher. Because I clipped that coin. @BTCCuracao @My First Bitcoin Runy #BTC #MyFirstBitcoin #Curaçao #BTCCuraçao @Arnolnymous @Huxley
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runycalmera 2 months ago
How does money arise? During lesson 3 of the history of money of the My First Bitcoin Certification, I let students sign a fake debt agreement for a loan of 10 dollars and I hand them 10 fake dollars out of nothing. Money = Debt = Money. I instantly create an extra money supply out of thin air. Here I’m negotiating the terms with one of the students. While everybody holds only 1 golden dollar, I create 20 golden dollars out of thin air. As I’m the Stone Fence Bank -(fake bank), I can create fake fiat dollars. Runy #ProofOfWork #BTCCuraçao #MyFirstBitcoin
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runycalmera 2 months ago
Lesson 3, My First Bitcoin Diploma The History Of Money Today we had a great group of 7 students, the second group of BTC Curaçao Institute. We discussed barter, the spagetti standard, the gold and silver standard, the fiat standard, what happened in 1971, credit card and plastic money and finally Bitcoin and Lightning running on your own node. Thanks to Family Peter Kroll of @btccuracao for sponsoring this event. Runy #ProofofWork #MiPrimerBitcoin @starnold @Huxley #IslandWealth
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runycalmera 2 months ago
When your golden coins get clipped you understand moeny debasing better. #MyFirstBitcoin Diploma lesson 3, Cohort #2, BTC Curaçao Institute. Runy
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runycalmera 2 months ago
Lesson 3, My First Bitoin Diploma The History Of Money Today we had a great group of 7 students, the second group of BTC Curaçao Institute. We discussed barter, the spagetti standard, the gold and silver standard, the fiat standard, what happened in 1971, credit card and plastic money and finally Bitcoin and Lightning running on your own node. Thanks to Family Peter Kroll of @BTCCuracao for sponsoring this event. Runy #ProofofWork #MiPrimerBitcoin @Arnolnymous @Huxley #IslandWealth
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runycalmera 3 months ago
What is money? Here you see different forms of what we call money during the second lesson of #MyFirstBitcoin diploma for class #2 of Curaçao. We show here matches, cigarettes, fiat paper money, pieces of paper, fruit. All can be used to transfer value. Chapter 2 of the Mi Primer Bitcoin certificate tries to opens the minds and eyes of students: do you really know what money is? What are its properties? And based on this exercise we teach different properties of #Bitcoin. So proud that our students bought some of the products used during this class with their #Blink wallet, with some funds sponsored by BTC Curaçao Institute, of Peter Kroll Family. When you can buy food like you can buy at Esperamos Supermarket - one of the many businesses that accept Bitcoin on Curaçao, Bitcoin becomes real. Lighting becomes real. If you can buy food, what else? How can you earn it? What is it? Students are hungry to learn more. #ProofofWork #Curaçao #MiPrimerBitcoin #IslandWealth
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runycalmera 3 months ago
Ready for lesson 2 of class 2 of Mi Primer Bitcoin. My first bitcoin. We are going to talk about what is money? You see different paper fiat money here and I have included Monopoly money in between. Do the students really know what is money? Have they thaught about this? Or have they been accepting paper for their whole lives whithout thinking about it? We already gave them 5 dollars each in SATS. They had to download their Blink wallet and Wallet of Satoshi last week and ask 5 dollars to a faucet sponsored by family Peter Kroll’s BTC Curaçao Institute. We already sent them 0.10 usd in the class ans the were able to send and receive sats on day 1. #MyFirstBitcoin is a 10 weeks open source Bitcoin Education Certification and BTC Curaçao Institute is a proud node of this global community. Today we are meeting at Esperamos Supermarket, one of the 92 businesses on Curaçao that accepts Bitcoin. We go there with a shopping list of things we use in class 2, like water, oranges, coffee, milk and the students have to now show how they spend sats locally in a real life situation. I will be recording this to show you #proofofwork what we are doing with #Bitcoin on Curaçao. Btw thanks to all the work Peter Kroll is doing we jumped to number 3 on the leaderboard of BTCMap as the third country in the world accepting Bitcoin. So you can visit Curaçao like @Joe Nakamoto did and spend your Bitcoin. And Island Wealth - my company is focussed to show small islands like Curaçao in the Caribbean and in the world that accepting Bitcoin is one of the ways you can diversify the economy. Thanks to the #Bitcoinize machine we got, I can now show my students how a normal shop, can accept Bitcoin by using a Blink wallet. Isn’t this amazing? I did not even have to stand in the lines of any bank? My students did not have to open a bank account. And we are already accepting Bitcoin on day 1 and spending it. This is how islands get integrated in the world. This gives us a way to export our services to the world, get paid, spend, hire other people in the world, to work in our teams. And pay them instantly. THIS is why this education of My First Bitcoin is changing our lives!! Thank you so much to the team of My First Bitcoin @Arnolnymous for letting Curaçao into your network as a node. Runy #MyFirstBitcoin #Curaçao #Bitcoin #Education #BTCCuraçao #Islandwealth
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runycalmera 3 months ago
Island Wealth wants to bring wealth to people and businesses on islands. Caribbewn islands depend on tourism. Visitors comming to for instance Curaçao! They need to export their services and receive value. I’m so happy you can now easily, permissionless get a “bank account” at the biggest bank in the world- Bitcoin! - No headquarters - No clerks asking you for 3 past salary slips to get an account - No waiting in long queues - No one asking you what you want to do with the account - Nobody asking you for your business plan You simply download a #wallet like Blink wallet or Wallet of Satoshi and you are done. Receiving value through the internet is the first step to get in business! So easy! Within 3 min you are part of a global network. All small businesses in the worlld can receive value instantly 24*7, 365 days a year. Isn’t that freaking awesome? Runy Calmera #IslandWealth #Curaçao #Bitcoin PS: we accept Bitcoin. image
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runycalmera 3 months ago
The first time you send and receive #Bitcoin through your Lightning wallet is magic! This happened to my students of #MiPrimerBitcoin today on Curaçao. BTC Curaçao Institute of family Peter Kroll has a beautiful orange living room. Here we invite students who don’t know anything about Bitcoin for the 10 week My First Bitcoin centification program. As a proud instructor, the first one on Curaçao, I’m so happy to onboard new people into the Bitcoin Community. Now more people on Curaçao can have their permissionless accounts, send and receive value instantly! Runy #MiPrimerBitcoin #ProofOfWork #BTC #BTCCuraçao #MyFirstBitcoin #BTCCuraço
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runycalmera 3 months ago
Second group Mi Primer Bitcoin started on Curaçao with their 10 week Bitcoin education. BTC Curaçao, family Peter Kroll has opened their Orange training center again. We are part of the global Mi Primer Bitcoin Community that started in El Salvador, a network of open source education nodes in 40 countries. Glad to put Curaçao on the map. BTW we are ranked 3 in the world on BTC map in terms of Bitcoin companies per head of the population. So there is a high density of acceptance of Bitcoin here in Curaçao. Runy BTC Curaçao Institute @My First Bitcoin @Arnolnymous #ProofofWork #Bitcoin #Education #MyfirstBitcoin
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runycalmera 3 months ago
Looks like the islands in the Caribbean are colouring orange. This is Curaçaoon my walk. Runy Island Wealth
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runycalmera 3 months ago
What would it take you to come live in paradise with your Bitcoin? Let me know how you would make that decision and what is important for you. Island Wealth image
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runycalmera 3 months ago
Bitcoin impact on small islands What is the potential impact on small island communities like Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Barbados, Turks and Caicos? That is what I’m going to focus on. Island Wealth: how do you define that and what is the impact of Bitcoin on Island Wealth? Let me know your thoughts. Runy Island Wealth image