👀 #2000 ramping up #bitaxe

This device is getting better with every release! For the people using @GetBittr or other exchanges that require proof or keys, signing of transactions has now become easy. The signing feature in general is interesting. Many people don’t use it yet, but signing for example with Sparrow ensure you have control over the specific address without sending a small portion of bitcoin to an address first. The thing many people still do. Verifying this without wasting bitcoin on chain with “message signing” is a much better way. @QnA do you have an explainer video on this? View quoted note →

The first auction device is being tested and prepared for the first Open Source Mining Heater of a conference. At @Bitcoin Amsterdam we are building a heater that consists of 119 bitaxe Supra’s. 1 bitaxe Hex and hopefully 1 of @WantClue ’s creations. The first limited edition Supra’s have already been sold and are either available for pickup straight from the big B or will be sent straight to you after the conference. The bitaxe hex will be auctioned and the proceeds of the auction will be donated to open source mining United. We build a special auction page for it. We’re really looking forward to be able to decentralize mining with open source miners like never before. 🔥 https://bitcoinbrabant.com/en/product/auction-bitaxe-hex-bitcoin-amsterdam-heater/

This workshop will be held at the location where our miner installations are built. We will have an amazing BBQ lunch that’s supplied by the local butcher. @WantClue will come over all the way from Germany to teach you about open source bitcoin mining. Please make it worthwhile for him to travel all the way down to rural Brabant with all his soldering gear! Join us at Bitcoin Mining Workshop Beginner

Meetup

Bitcoin Mining Workshop Beginner, Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 10:00 AM | Meetup

Please Note there are two workshops on this day. A beginner and an advanced workshop. The beginner workshop has a maximum capacity of 100 people. T...

Proof of data deletion. After the ledger hack we felt we needed to make sure people don’t risk their data being published. What concerns us a lot is the amount of payments made with fiat since we started accepting euros about a month ago. We haven’t been accepting euros because the payment provider kicked us out “doing something with bitcoin”. Because we now are able to accept euros again, most people choose the known payment route. A lot of data is shared with the payment provider and the payment provider uses and sells this data again. It’s amazing to see most people still don’t care about privacy at all. Over 50% of the people used fiat last month.

We were asked to share our donation @SeedSigner. The private donations were not good for marketing apparently. We will make our donations public from now on.

Darkskippy in Dutch 👇 View quoted note →

One before and one after cleaning. Straight from the greenhouse. Yes there is corrosion, that’s why we maintain. Is immersion or hydro better? Yes it is. Learning by doing, maintenance is key to a successful mining operation. Monthly checkup of every machine that has significant exposure. Yearly for the devices that are in optimal conditions.

Great to see people actually don’t trust and verify a bitaxe on testnet. View quoted note →

Been running v2.1.10 for a while now. Looks stable over here. How is the new firmware by @WantClue behaving for everyone? We’ve also added the link to the web flasher directly in our product page. Shipping another ten bitaxes today 🔥 keep on ⛏️

Bitaxe Supra – Bitcoin Brabant

Lightning is working for your privacy and high on chain fees. You can off course pay on chain if you prefer. View quoted note →

It’s #bitaxe shipping time once again. Look at that beauty.

The bitaxe gamma, a great development but let’s first make the thing work on scale and have a stable release. Also it would be great if we know and battle tested the optimal adapter for the EU. A lot of questions, when, price etc. We will most likely start listing them around end of October. First we need to know what we are up to before jumping on something that is not yet ready for scale. What if the firmware has flaws? We get hundreds returned and we directly bankrupt… please understand that the bitaxe Supra we sell now, with a beautiful case and a Leicke adapter has been battle tested and we are confident in selling them.

Since we launched fiat payments again after 2 years of not being able to accept fiat: we received €11k in orders in one month. After evaluating the cost of the payments (€351,54) we decided to put the cost of the fiat payments including the additional administrative work (couple of hours per month) plus the risk of the chargebacks on the fiat paying customers. People should also understand that these payment providers horde and sell your data. When you look at PayPal you can even automatically generate the shipping labels, but before being able to do that you have to accept the shipping company hoarding all data and being able to use and sell it too… We are not inputting shipping data manually for nothing. When people use fiat rails they should be aware. We’ve now added the following text and extra charge to fiat payments: “Use bitcoin to avoid fiat fees and preserve privacy, bitcoin does not share and use your data”

We’re just a very small niche bitcoin only webshop. But it’s clear what this bitaxe movement is doing. Thanks for all the proof of work @WantClue @skot9000 @Bart Mol and so many more.

Just discovered a major flaw in our international shipping calculator in our website backend. It was no wonder not many were ordering from certain countries for certain products. The shipping fees were simply overcalculated by a multiple mistake in the calculator. We have now adapted our website backend and for example: a signer will now in general ship throughout EU for €19,95 shipping cost. We’re planning to look more in detail and set a shipping price exactly per country. But for now this means that for the @Foundation passport and coldcard q for many countries the shipping costs have halved… looking forward seeing the orders flow. We just implemented euro payments again after being blocked for 2 years out of euro rails. If we knew this would happen we should have fought harder to gain euro rails again.

Bitcoiners are clearly tinkerers and a curious bunch. So we receive a lot of emails. Can I order a bitaxe without the adapter? I’m going to put a different adapter on it. Can I order it without the case? I want to print my own creation. We try to always make things as simple as possible by assembling and creating the best standard solution. We have been doing this for the @SeedSigner and been doing this for the #Bitaxe. But because for the bitaxe you were spamming us too much we’re now giving you 10 configuration options via our website. Currently the adaptors that have been ordered a while ago are still out of stock, so are the stands that @Printer is currently working on (100s 😉). But we have the Bitaxes in stock already, so now you can order them in plain. Without adapter, without case, straight from our website. You won’t find them cheaper anywhere, the Supras are still the most efficient and amazing miners to learn. Enjoy! Also we’ve put the special edition miners online that are going to heat the amsterdam conference… you can already pre order. PS, that box consists of 100 bitaxe Supra’s. It’s amazing to see what is happening across the globe, happy to be part of this movement.

So this is putting your proof of work device to the test. The seed safe was properly tested in the creator his own kindle. And because he wanted to share his hottest moments with us, he sent the device over to The Netherlands from Sweden. It's amazing to see how much this backup device can endure. We believe that for the really stark cypherpunks it's important for the long term future to not have a single shot readable backup device. And you actually have a plate with constellations people would not recognise easily as a seed. For the most extreme bitcoiners this backup device is the bitcoin (not gold) standard.

It’s really busy in our webshop today and parallel to the busy bitaxe shipments we got some great news. We can accept fiat payments again. We lost our payment rails because we were doing something with bitcoin. We didn’t bother much because our webshop was a side business and only for bitcoiners. Recently we received a lot of requests for fiat payments. We would arrange payment links via our bookkeeping software allowing for quick fiat payments manually when requested. We were already doing this for a few years for larger business customers. At some point last month, we received more requests than orders via bitcoin. So we applied for the fiat rails again. And we received an ok today after being in discussion with mollie for 2 weeks. Really happy we are now back online with fiat rails. Apple Pay one click checkout saves you a lot of time. Time is your scarcest asset. Have been discussing this with lightning hero’s that plugins or apps should at least offer the same experience putting your address in a certain application for webshop checkouts. For privacy enthousiasts, and growth of our parallel economy and technological improvements keep on using bitcoin!

This was such great fun! Recording with @Stef⚡️🌍 @rindingvijk and @npub1vvqn...v3s8. These guys send a preparation document of so many pages @Bert was already in a headache preparing. Turned out we didn’t get to 80% of the preparation 😂 thanks guys for the proof of work!