In the past few days I had my goodbye meeting at the Dutch central bank and the authority of financial markets. As the chairman representing the United bitcoin companies in the Netherlands. It’s been an interesting few years.
The totally refurbished building of the Dutch central bank is open for visitors and the amount of interesting things portrayed there is worthwhile for bitcoiners.
“Value of trust” “value of stability” “The value of art”
The first big public piece of the new head of the Dutch central bank is “don’t agree with Eurobonds”. (Link below). This piece might give a tiny bit of hope that further EU integration gets delayed.
There is a high focus on digital resilience in geopolitical uncertain times.
I’ve had naive hope I could change the legacy system.
At least we won lawsuits and were able to reduce the regulatory burden and many millions of cost by having a firm stance. Our lawyer was not allowed at the main board cost meeting anymore after I brought him along once ☺️.
The fight at the European court in Luxembourg will persist through the next chairman. It was great to see us win in the Rotterdam and Supreme Court in the Netherlands, with the Dutch central bank having an army of the best lawyers.
We were able to push an over 5 million cost relieve at AFM under MICAR oversight this year. And we’ve held really strong stances where we could.
It’s time to move on and leave this legacy system behind. We’ll have to build forward on new frontiers. The direction in the Netherlands is unfortunately, stifling innovation. On regulation they are clearly far ahead of any other location on our planet.
I’ve seen what’s coming and it’s going to be tough, but we will be able to use our bitcoin. That is, what matters.
Fun fact:
“Wall Street
De Nederlanders bouwden in 1653 een verdedigingswal tegen de Engelsen en autochtone indiaanse stammen in wat toen nog Nieuw-Amsterdam heette. Het pad met een houten hek dat hierlangs liep, werd de Waal Straat of Wal Straat genoemd.
Daar werd ook toen al veel gehandeld.”
“Wall Street
In 1653, the Dutch built a defensive wall against the English and native Indian tribes in what was then called New Amsterdam. The path with a wooden gate running alongside it was called Waal Street or Wal Street.
Even then, there was already a lot of trading going on there.”
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/ecb-sleijpen-warns-eurobonds-only-013822101.html
