It was great to be in Antwerp again yesterday. At the Belgian bitcoin embassy end of year quiz I received the first prize. Dinner for our family at the restaurant where we build the miner installation to heat it. It’s actually amazing to see how much proof of work is in the Belgian community. Mining, education, real use of bitcoin and a lot of knowledge. I’m really happy we speak the same language and are able to strengthen each other beyond our fictive borders. I have been joked at as the typical Dutch tradesman always towing around my backpack with signing devices. But you have to understand as an official reseller, I still believe the best signing device buy is peer to peer. There is absolutely no trace, which is amazing. The people that have bought signing devices throughout the past year have helped my business do the work it’s intended to do. Proper bitcoin use for all, from mining to self custody in a privacy focused manner. People appreciate the deletion of data after ordering via our webshop and that we only accept bitcoin. We’ve seen thousands of visitors and over a thousand orders handled by our family. There were less mining installations I build personally this year, but more miners that were installed through my help in total. In the end this means we decentralized the network even more than 2022, which means I have been successful in my goal. My life goal is simple. Achieving a bitcoin standard for future generations. If i don’t achieve this I’ll have failed my children. In this stage of bitcoin I’m trying to decentralize the network further, ensure proper self custody and change the mainstream narrative of bitcoin by educating via proof of work.

View quoted note → We have submitted our part. It would hurt thousands of families in the Netherlands directly when a pow ban would be enforced. I would find it rather strange if that happens, they could learn from China in this respect. Banning will just set you back, whereafter you have to do a 180 once you understand this global phenomenon is not going to stop.

Shipping a couple hundred Dutch bitcoin focus magazines. Thanks family for the help. The proof of work is much appreciated.

This day feels like Xmas unpacking. Received hundreds of bitcoin focus magazines to be distributed across the Netherlands and Belgium. Next to that I’m proud to be listing the aluminum @SeedSigner by @Printer in our webshop.

Curious to see if users of X switch to Nostr protocol when it gets thrown out of the app stores in EU. So we get into the “are you hiding a relay under your floorboard” phase.

About half a year ago I gave my opinion on ordinals (from 45:00) (Dutch). It’s again relevant today. Coincidence is that ledger was a hot topic at that moment. It is once again.

Greenhouses need e-boilers that fulfill the function of grid balancers and heat source. There’s still potential in the Netherlands to grow the mining industry.

View quoted note → We need to build sufficient examples so people understand we can have a monetary network that’s running on waste electricity while heating businesses and homes.

This early morning I woke up far before the alarm. Drove to the Supreme Court in The Hague where I will represent the United Bitcoin companies the Netherlands as a chairman vs the Dutch central bank. After winning the court case against unlawful cost that was put on the sector we’re today standing in court for the preliminary payout. As the Dutch central bank refuses to pay back the unlawful cost. In total we’ll face 10 people from the Dutch Central Bank. 3 lawyers from the most renowned Dutch country lawyers. 4 lawyers of the Dutch central bank and 3 people working at the central bank. You might say this lawsuit is becoming important.

View quoted note → It’s even worse than I thought. Happy we can be of service with open source | air gapped | bitcoin only alternatives. And where we delete your order data. We will be at the 3rd Xmas day in Arnhem and at bitcoin Eindhoven at the first Friday of January. So you can buy your signing device peer2peer. Which is even better.

View quoted note → “Fuck easy”

At a solar farm we’re now heating a building with a whatsminer M60s. It’s the most efficient miner on our planet currently, running at 18,5 W/TH. The power consumption is ~3,4KW producing ~184TH. One aluminum case contains a generator grade foam that is sound dampening and fire resistant. The other has a bag filter for optimized airflow.

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 🙏