5.30 AM GM PV installation day. PoW FTW.

View quoted note → Every first Friday of the quarter there’s a meetup in the city of technology. This time you’ll get to enjoy a beautiful lesson of bitcoin legacy.

Pura Vida fam

I don’t understand why people could hate on Bitcoin Brabant for not accepting fiat… And apparently I don’t know how to run a business.

Reached ~1000 followers on Nostr. 🎉 Beautiful to see there is a relay (pun intended) small difference between @Damus and @primal

Self crowning of the bitcoiner. The movie napoleon is still something that my wife and I will watch at some point. But for me napoleon is a special story. When I was 13 years old my French teacher in high school told us the story of napoleon in French. She was deeply in love with the man so many years after his death. The passage of the crowning is a moment I will never forget. It was the moment after decades of proof of work where this man challenged every established order. Lying in bed now, while the baby needed to get something to drink at 3AM I was thinking about time locked multisig key cutting technology and the impact once it’s easily usable for everyone. Once you set up a time locked multisig you crown yourself master of something that cannot be taken from you by force. But over time might end up in the right hands for where you have distributed your keys. Bitcoin has always been a human project with choices reaching from large multi person setups to 100% self ownership in your head. It is the first time people individually or as a group can plan how they distribute their life energy after they die. It is set in code, on the strongest and largest computer network that humans could build. The real users of bitcoin crown themselves king. This time you can choose that people can’t take it from you by force. And that is a power that never really existed for mankind. Millions of kings have already been forged, they just don’t know or feel it yet.

Interview by nostr:npub1qg5a5l3t7pakmm4r4up2e764xecsw62fk3rntevm24fwyczhndtsdrvc4xand @Edward Hollander at bitcoin Amsterdam. It was great to see you guys put in so much effort to connect the world through your Podcast 🙏

Plebs wanted to make a dent in the adoption rate. So a flyer was printed a couple thousand times to be added to our orders, or to be ordered at our webshop for a symbolic amount. “How to accept bitcoin in 3 minutes” is a short explainer with a link to @Wallet of Satoshi. We understand this is custodial. Please let lightningplaces know when there is something stable, easy and in dutch thats cheaper and self custodial lightning. They have put in the effort and proof of work to create these flyers and to make sure people have an easy first touch point with bitcoin. If you have better ideas or ways to let people experience bitcoin, please post them 👇 https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/folders-bitcoin-betalingen-accepteren-in-3-minuten/

The tombstone post on Twitter by @Lyn Alden made me think of the longevity of a post on that platform. If sufficient relays survive, an inscription on decentralized Nostr might actually have a higher survival chance than a centralized Twitter post. So here’s my take: “I don’t want a tombstone, I want them to fire it up and use the heat I emit for the last hash. Stack the sats and throw an op_return in the timechain with “Bert” nothing more, because that would cost a fortune when I die. Rather future generations stay humble and stack sats instead of getting an expensive tomb stone with a maintenance fee that they have to pay to the church.”

Happy bitcoin whitepaper day. This video was created by @Bitstein. Which is simply amazing.

Some plebs spend time on creating value for other plebs. We’ve added @Nicos seedfan to our webshop. We’ve tested it, enjoyed it and love the affordability and quality of this product. It took low time preference and he has put in the proof of work. Are you a fan? We know we are!

Seedfan kit – Bitcoin Brabant

People across Europe are using our silent heaters. It feels great to see spread sovereignty. We’ll aim more on pleb solutions soon. We’ve got quite some new products in the pipeline. We still have 80 silent heaters in stock, looking forward to distribute more hash to heat. View quoted note →

On Saturday it’s time to shop with lightning. Make sure you spend sats every day to create a bitcoin economy. I have been spending sats almost every day for over a year now. Zaps, shopping, local butcher, tips, orange pilling attempts. Keep on working on the adoption.

View quoted note → As an engineer, this hits. It really feels like the engineers are joining at this stage because they feel we need to fix the money first before we can improve the world again.

Who wrote this, correct tag in comment gets a 10.000 sats ⚡️ “We people of the world and first citizens of the internet recognize our position in the struggle against global fascism which masquerades as a global liberal world order and the perpetual emergency that it has forced all people everywhere to live under as a permanent form of life. We understand the history of those who have touched bottom and the "emergency" that always justifies the Other's economic expropriation, social marginalization, and ultimately biological liquidation for the false prophet they call fiat money. This is the state of our lives, and this is the true crisis we must each face every day.”

Explaining the silent bitcoin heater rack that was heating the conference in Amsterdam to someone who was actually interested in the details. Fun part was, he turned out to be very excited about the Jade update which enables jades to save the multisig quorum on the device. We’ve been reselling quite a few already and I couldn’t agree more. We just keep on building, let’s see where it might lead us.

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.