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bert 1 year ago
I would like to use @npub1vr2n...dzvx eSIM with a 4 router to mine bitcoin with. Anyone has advise on an eSIM router?
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bert 1 year ago
I’m sad to announce we’ve halted shipping to the UK today. After packages being returned multiple times with multiple shippers without a clear reason. We will keep on shipping throughout the entire EU.
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bert 1 year ago
Happy Mother’s Day my love. You’re the sunshine for many. Learning to walk again in parallel with our son. Without you life would be empty and difficult. View quoted note → image
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bert 1 year ago
GM This is my original favorite topic at university. Breakwater design. The rock manual gives you all the different types of rock you can use. Your location gives you your impact for which you have to design. The question is, what are the extremes? You can calculate different extremes on different designs. The van der meer formulas (who also was the professor) you use are deterministic. They were created by trial and error in lab environments at the facilities in Delft. The theorists hated his guts, they wanted to come with theoretical frameworks while he just tested the variables at scales and implemented what actually worked across the globe. The university I was in was interesting. It was called UNESCO-IHE so it used to be an international sub department of the Delft University of Technology that was aiming to teach engineers from across the planet our water knowledge. Old professors and engineers from contractors/corporations taught the practicalities of water engineering in a broad sense. The original name wasn’t Institue for Hydraulic Engineering for nothing. To be able to apply as a Dutchman you needed to have 3 years of working experience in the specific field, bring a relatively large amount of money and make very clear why you wanted a specific specialization. My parents are from a poor upbringing and both worked their ass of as a teacher for sick children (mom) and a physiotherapist (dad) to give me this opportunity. During the study I found out that most students were not enrolled in engineering degrees but in, water law, water governance etc. Mostly funded by the Bill & Melinda gates foundation and the United Nations. The students were getting prepared to become the leaders of their countries. That’s at least what our lector told us at the start and end of our studies. But the strange thing is, who paid determines what happens right? Who are all these people in these positions having to pay back their studies to? From the start of the institute until today the focus shifted heavily from engineering to bureaucratic studies. And for my graduation project I doubted where I could have most impact. Because on the bureaucratic level the projects and money is divided, while at the engineering level you just engineer. I decided to do a simulation optimization study on the three gorges dam in China. And it was more engineering focused, while I got to see the political decision making that made the outcome obsolete. Rational decisions don’t take place when bureaucrats decide over engineers. I always hated this and understanding bitcoin changes everything. This is the first time bureaucracy doesn’t govern over the builders with their exploitation through printing and violence. Finally the era of properly engineered money has arrived. We’ll focus on building again, instead of the dystopian endless bureaucracy. We’ll educate a majority of engineers instead of a majority of bureacrats. The shift from majority focus of extraction of life energy will be beautiful as no force or counterfeiting will help them anymore. I can’t wait to be in the era of the engineers, the builders. I need to work harder to achieve our bitcoin future. Preferably rock solid and battle tested. image
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bert 1 year ago
image If you are not going to the @npub1uv2t...rmr8 conference you're really missing out. If you go to a conference this is the kind of mail you would love to receive. This week is going to be amazing.
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bert 1 year ago
This evening I spend time teaching children about bitcoin. 11 years old was easily creating a new seed with @npub17tyk...3mgl and we used bluewallet to export the xpub. We wrote down the seed words and verified them. Signed a PSBT. Talked about devaluating currency with the Venezuelan (🙏@El Buffalo) and Zimbabwean (🙏@Gigi ) notes. Explained the @mempool on their phones. They loved magic internet money and asked a thousand questions. It was beautiful.
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bert 1 year ago
Bitcoin is by the people, for the people. We are with many and we will eventually prevail. Stay humble, stack and spend sats. Create more than you destroy. View quoted note →
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bert 1 year ago
This is now a collectors item. I didn’t expect privacy to become criminalized this rapidly. The honeymoon fase is over. View quoted note →
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bert 1 year ago
We updated our website. First we are very happy that we can finally include two Dutch translated books the hardcover of @☣️ Vijay Selvam⚡️ “Een optimistisch scenario voor Bitcoin” and @Saifedean Ammous “Grondbeginselen voor de economie” that was translated together with the Dutch Mises institute. We’ve updated our miner installation portfolio on offer and incorporated some nice install pics with them. We ordered 21 pins when we saw that @Kanuto did some proof of work. Super cheap delivery for the Dutch 😉 Enjoy the shop, as always we only accept bitcoin and delete your data after shipment.
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bert 1 year ago
Later this year we are planning to start offering plug and play nodes and payment servers. We are currently testing @Printer beauties. The ronindojo bokuto and btcpayserver enclosure. Hack0 hardware with 2TB for the node and 1TB for the @BTCPay Server. This hardware should last longer (~decade) than our raspis (1-3 years they only lasted). We’ve been testing quite some setups but these are real beauties, proper proof of work which i can really appreciate. The node took ~5 days to sync the bitcoin timechain. There were some issues with starting the plug and play btcpayserver, which we’ll solve soon. It’s great going through these testing cycles and be in toch with fellow pleb builders in Europe. I’m really happy to see the free open market is so decentralized. Can’t wait we start supplying more plug and play sovereign devices soon. We are most likely going to need them in the future.