GM! PV! We have been heating the conference all night. We are using 12 refurbished silences S9s running Braiins OS communicating with Braiins pool over Stratum V2. The machines reach around 6KW. If you’re in Amsterdam you can find me running around in a bright orange shirt with huge black and white BitcoinBrabant B’s on the backside and BitcoinBrabant written on my chest.

Some people might have already picked this up. I have become chairman of the United Bitcoin Companies the Netherlands. This group of companies has recently won its second lawsuit against the Dutch central bank and is working together with multiple institutions to improve the bitcoin landscape in the Netherlands. It is for instance hard to get a bank account if you start a bitcoin company. We’re currently in the process of finalizing a sector document in cooperation with the Dutch banks, so there’s clear guidance and possibilities instead of standard rejection of bank account requests. We want to make sure that the Netherlands is not pushing every company abroad. In this podcast in Dutch we warn the Dutch regulator for overregulation and excessive cost which might send all companies abroad under micar. The upcoming year will be interesting to say the least. Thanks everyone for your support! View quoted note →

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GM Nostr PV! Standing still in a traffic jam early morning (that’s why my face is red, quite some bright brake lights). The miner babies can’t stop moaning to be plugged in. Looking forward to be up and running.

This is Adriaan, he’s like a second father for me. I grew up in a rural area and my neighbors across the street Miet and Adriaan were a big part of our upbringing. He was one of the last sovereign milk barrel transporters by horse cart. National horse ploughing champion and fixer of everything you can think of. “I never thought I would be refurbishing computers at 80+ years old, heck the computer was not there most of my life”. Adriaan is a sovereign man, I learned a lot from him. Thankful he helps me out with our projects. Just not today, because today it’s Sunday. And on a Sunday you don’t work.

In 15 hours our meetup in Eindhoven will start. We’ll have an amazing presentation coming up by @Patrick van der Meijde and will close the meetup with @alana's stranded. Can’t wait for the moment to see the documentary. Just tested the setup and the startshot looks amazing.

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Every time I delete all our data of our orders I smile. It gives me piece of mind I don’t use third party applications for marketing or have any data that could be at risk at our bitcoinbrabant.com website. Most people pay with lightning nowadays which is also untraceable. We use lightningcheckout, who compiled and forwards all payment on day to day basis. Our on-chain payments are consolidated into large UTXOs and spend on new products for our webshop. We are a full circular bitcoin only webshop. And seeing we already did hundreds of orders this year, makes me optimistic about bitcoin.

Silent S9s being assembled for the Amsterdam bitcoin conference in October. We’re going to heat the main area with 5 + year old refurbished machines. Thanks Adriaan for all your help!

Just replenished the @Blockstream Jade stock. Next to it there is art by @Lina Seiche and @Bitcoin Apex “forge blocks, not bullets”

It’s the time of the year again to harvest what you sowed. Or in this case dried what was moist. We used bitcoin miners to dry some bulbs so they can bloom at the halving. What is more beautiful than to watch the bitcoin bloom instead of the tulip bubble pop. You’ll leave all haters in awe. We featured @Jeff Booth on our website as he inspired us on an important part of our journey. https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/tulip-bulbs-bitcoin-miner-dried/

GM PV finished the silent s9s where we had the parts for yesterday. Waiting for another few boxes to complete our heating setup for the bitcoin conference in Amsterdam. Grandma and son Otis SHA watching the PoW.

Over the past few years I have been giving quite a few presentations about heating businesses with bitcoin. Often the scope of the presentation is broader. Every presentation made contains quotes of satoshi that fit with the topics. Which quote do you like the most?

Just picked up the flyers and posters for bitcoin Eindhoven. @Patrick van der Meijde is going to give a recap of a decade of proof of work. Make sure you let us know if you’re joining by pressing the attend button on our meetup page. This so we know how many people needs to be there to serve at the restaurant. Also there is a max limit of 100 people.

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Bitcoin Eindhoven Meetup, Fri, Oct 6, 2023, 4:00 PM | Meetup

Every first Friday of the quarter some bitcoiners meet in the wild. There is a presentation by Patrick van der Meijde, who started bitkassa and bit...

Orders have to be brought to the local dispatch centres. There are two different ones where we normally deliver. On days like this it’s beautiful to do these deliveries by bike. It’s quite some kilometers as we are in a rural area. So when you order with me, you know the first part was often shipped by bike 😉

The 2100 bitcoin miner dried tulip bulbs are being prepared for the plebs. Once we are ready we’ll open the possibility to order. Will keep you tuned.

Check our colleagues from bitsave, how they’ve integrated @Blockstream jade for their clients. They help businesses and private hodlers of bitcoin with multisig solutions. Video in Dutch

We are organizing a meetup in Eindhoven every first Friday of the quarter. This time @Patrick van der Meijde will present “10 years of bitcoin payments in the Netherlands” if you want to attend please let us know via our meetup page so we know the amount of personnel we need at the location. You can pay your drinks and food with bitcoin of course.

Meetup

Bitcoin Eindhoven Meetup, Fri, Oct 6, 2023, 4:00 PM | Meetup

Every first Friday of the quarter some bitcoiners meet in the wild. There is a presentation by Patrick van der Meijde, who started bitkassa and bit...

You can build a homestead and separate yourself from the rest of society and take care of yourself. You can also build a community with like minded people where you build an economy on hard money. Going for pancakes with bitcoiners is one of the ways where you can physically discuss sovereignty and long term value securing. Not only monetary value as being your stored life energy, but also values of life to live by. Talking with bitcoiners who are building a better world for everyone every day will prevail. Some are building for over a decade and work towards a moment we can embrace a hard currency once again. The Dutch guilder was one of the hardest currencies before the euro came. The people are still thinking in terms of saving and long term multi generational wealth. If there is one country that is ready to move to a bitcoin standard at a rapid pace, it’s the Netherlands. And we all should deliver the proof of work to make it so.