So there’s a ton of drama around our friend and long time open source contributor @Djuri project BTClock. As an official reseller (by taking over the shop of @Wenze ) of @Coinkite products like @COLDCARD and opendime etc. we now have to ask ourselves if we want to proceed with selling these products. The behavior of @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 against open source development in the space is strange to see. The products are fantastic, but why would you attack it with a cease and desist order? So a request for comments and dialogue here on Nostr as one of the largest resellers of @Foundation @SeedSigner @BitBox @Blockstream Jade, bitaxe, books and educational material and a lot of other products is in place. We just a couple of days ago restocked on coldcard Qs and to be honest the margins are the worst on the products out of any manufacturer. We always have significant stock levels because we want to be able to deliver directly and safely, we invest in this and therefore have high stock levels on the coinkite products currently. If we would dump the products this would mean a significant loss now and in future revenue. So this is a complex decision. Because a lot of people use these solutions for amazing setups with @nunchuk_io and @craigraw sparrow FE. So this post is a sentiment check. Let’s see how the bitcoin community feels about all this drama. We’re here for the bitcoiners. And will always supply what is asked by the plebs and we’re here for the plebs. Doing our best to supply freedom since #700.000. Oh and btw, every drama is good for bitcoin. Thanks if you reply or have an opinion in comments or repost, this helps increase the views apparantly. This Nostr account will zap comments 😉⚡️

We decided to add some color to our @COLDCARD stock. Clients had some specific requests, we decided to stock up on them a bit. Only a couple per special color available.

Most people don’t know, but we bought a quarter page add in our local newspaper on the 25th of September without mentioning our name. The bitcoin price was $63k. We’ve been trying to help people to adopt bitcoin locally for >5 years now. 👇 you can find proof of the ad back on the local newspaper webpage.

Coming soon… we should gift more hashies and sovereignty to our friends and family… do you like our custom package paper design? High quality wrapping paper should be ready before the end of this month. 🔥

Now Twitter giveaways have become impossible to do transparently it’s time for Nostr to step in and bring the crowd that wants something for free or to gamble on something with >$0.01:21SATS zap to this protocol. Normally when you would do a give away on socials, people have to repost like and comment. With Nostr a raffle element could become an amazing opportunity. You zap the post and an open source raffle random pull shows the winner. NostRaffle (just a random name that we thought would work) should be a webpage where the shops can fill in their product, the zap amount, the time until the moment the raffle closes. Is something in this direction for either giveaways or raffles on Nostr already built? Would love to support this, because it would help us a lot. The important part is transparency in these things. Many giveaways and raffles just go to people that the shipowners know or they even create fake outcomes, running their own bot to boost the post and then giveaway to their own bot. Anyone has improvement ideas on this or where we can find something in this fashion? 👇

People don’t understand that the $5,- donation per bitaxe and the open source development around mining will snowball the following: - few bitaxes, how fun - 1 block a month solo mined, people start to understand the lottery principle - 1 block a week (couple million solo miners) Meanwhile, radical bitcoiners buy a freaking new machine from ASML and start to dump cheap ASIC chips on the market. Everyone starts to build on the developed open source stacks and you can get mass produced “miners” super cheap for every dimension and purpose. We will heat/use excess electricity and join the lottery while decentralizing the network. Meanwhile companies with excess/cheap electricity/need for heat will run their own “pool” instance ensuring freedom of transaction is preserved. Open source mining should develop faster than its closed source competitors, but it starts at the ASIC level. And that start is expensive. View quoted note →

Does anyone have any idea on latency impact with mining pools? Curious about measurements and impact difference now we’re starting to see DATUM / @OCEAN vs the traditional pools and all these solo pools coming online vs fully self run solo pools.

It’s amazing to see how much pool infrastructure is coming online. We have started up our own datum server that is free to use for anyone. If you want low latency and a proper datum ( @OCEAN ) instance running in the Netherlands you can connect to Pool.bitcoinbrabant.com:7331 Why would you mine with a block template with datacarriersize 42? Because if we hit a block with our setup the spam that’s polluting the network creating high fees will not be included. The discussion this opens is important for us, as censorship on the pool level is possible. What would your preference be with regards to datacarriersize? If you want to mine solo you can use the Noderunners pool as explained below, they have no limit on the datacarriersize 👇 View quoted note →

We deliver directly from stock and keeping stock levels Sufficient is a challenge. We tend to overestimate demand and lose more bitcoin on the way. Find our updated stock levels every day. The product range has become so large it’s sometimes hard to keep up 🔥 Thanks everyone for the support and requests for products. More products in shop soon. @COLDCARD #tinyseed

CONSOLIDATE YOUR UTXOs! UTXO management is very important. When fee environment allows, people order on-chain with us. When the bitcoin price rips you might want to spend some sats in our shop. But the fees might be astronomically high. In general it is wise to use lightning for spending. Lighting liquidity and opening channels is cheap now. You can also make it easy for yourself and use custodial or semi-custodial applications. Take advantage of this low fee environment. If you order with us via lightning there is no history to your UTXOs, you have more privacy and you don’t have us consolidate and burden the chain too much. Unless you are a miner or a philanthropist bitcoiner off course 😂 But seriously, be careful with spending bitcoin from your main stack or cold storage. We delete all your data and spend the bitcoin in the circular bitcoin economy, so it does not go through KYC rails via us ever. If you really want to spend on-chain make sure to always have a spending wallet. Even though we delete all your data, we can’t ensure while spending the consolidated UTXOs, someone is not following every spending trail. And congrats to all miners 1 sat/vb finally in sight.

Why are our #bitaxe gamma sales slowing down? What are we doing wrong? What should we improve?

We were the first to officially register the GTIN for the #BITAXE supra. We've now also officially listed the GTIN for the Gamma. Everyone is able to use the barcode and QR code that is shared via the GitHub. Next to that you can find the products and codes on the official GTIN website. Are there more people working on cool packaging for the bitaxes?

Now X doesn't allow API's to do useful stuff that is used a lot. Like a raffle for a giveaway... We're wondering if something like nostrpicker has already been built. If it has been built and people can publicly verify the raffle, that would be awesome. We could finally do our first Nostr #bitaxe giveaway...

Happy bitcoin whitepaper day. We also sell it in steel so it lasts a few generations 😉

This price must be liked by a lot of plebs across the EU continent. And don’t tell us about the US. We pay 21% VAT, >50% income tax and our cost of energy is 10x. So we don’t earn shit. Especially in bitcoin terms we lose. We’re purely doing this to spread the hash and people can learn and join the network. If we wanted rich, HODL! Especially now. Enjoy!

The best moment was @npub1pg4l...hp9w got to physically connect with @BitcoinBrabant. And we were discussing that we were working together for more then 2 years already… today we found our genesis transaction. 2022 was still early day lighting for us.

Just checked our X stats. Can we find any Nostr stats anywhere?

This is our favorite. What is yours?

The chipping of the below moon could be around that level. From the Antwerp keynote where we live updated the slide of the Ghent keynote two years before. Tick tock… View quoted note →