When polls on nostr? Bet there’s more engagement here than on dead x

What is the long term outlook? Will more or less than 1% of the global population hold their own keys? And more or less than 0.1% run their own node?

Bitcoin transactions being published on a the network through a third party are a risk. Bitcoin keys in someone else’s hands are a major risk. The perception of holding bitcoin through a third party that is using leverage to increase a (fictive?) bitcoin position where there are major risks is? A| Great, it brings in more liquidity via stock gambling accounts, investors in traditional markets that are not allowed or understand how to hold bitcoin B| Creates paper bitcoin and will control price C| Promises that will end up in tears for the masses D| A diversion from bitcoin being used as freedom money

Every day we sell nodes, signing devices, backup solutions, books, mining devices. Support for everything bitcoin. Over the years it’s strange to see how best selling articles shift. When you click through our webshop you can see what has been sold most recently. As the shop automatically puts best sellers on top per category. This basically pushes best selling articles to be sold even better. Until they are sold out of course 😂 we only list what we have in stock. And our stock is yuge.

Winkel – Bitcoin Brabant

No shitcoins, just Noderunners. Only a few tickets left. This will be the first Noderunners conference. If you run a node and hate shitcoins, this is a conference for you. HTTPS://NODERUNNERS.NETWORK

It’s been a long time since we sold a Tinyseed, but finally after many months, today was the day. The interesting thing about the Tinyseed is, we used to sell quite some multisig packs. Since they got individually listed we almost don’t sell them anymore. Should we list the multisig option (which is 3 individual Tinyseeds with different color wraps) separately?

Tiny Seed – Bitcoin Brabant

On X we reached 5678, are we too late? We don’t follow anyone there anymore, just to make sure nobody knows who we adore. When dropping followers your timeline is ruined, it’s just engagement of which you can’t be bothered. It’s unfortunately too early to leave for nostr alone, almost zero engagement as posts feel long gone. What should we do to increase vibrance over here?

“(and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter)” this is something that we see. The amount of people that were on not your keys not your coins is, believe it or not, going down as a percentage of the total. The other issue is, that “taking self custody” through a surveillance ledger shitcoin shilling device for example might also not help. So what is “proper” adoption? It’s a definition for everyone to have a totally different meaning. For us, being around proper bitcoiners and supplying what they need is all that matters. In the end it’s about the proof of work and the friends we make along the way. View quoted note →

Which signing devices in its standard workflow connect to the manufacturer’s remote server? Out of our open source/source verifiable, bitcoin only choices on our website: @Foundation Passport core checks the authenticity of the device through their envoy app. When using envoy it connects to the foundation node as a standard. @BitBox connects to the bitbox node when using the bitbox software. @Blockstream Jade uses the blind oracle pin server. ….. @COLDCARD has no “in house” companion app you use, the verification of authenticity is a number shown at startup of the device to check with a number on the sealed bag. You’re basically forced to make choices about your privacy. With the @SeedSigner you’re basically forced to learn how to use certain coordinator software. @TwentyTwo Devices uses third party applications such as @nunchuk_io The questions that we receive almost daily are about “the optimal” choice. There is no optimal choice. It’s all trade offs. That’s why we offer them all.

This concept is seriously interesting. A bet on hitting the block reward. If this scales sufficiently it could be multiple blocks in a six hour time frame, mined by “for rent” miners. Guaranteed income for miners, you either hit more or less than what you “gambled”. View quoted note →

What’s your favorite signing device? Why?

What do you do when sales slow down?

What are you missing in our shop?

Together with @Jeroen ✅ we recently installed a hydro addition to our bitcoin tulip project. Currently over 30 million tulip bulbs are being dried partially with bitcoin mining heat. This reduces the use of natural gas for drying.

After doing the book distribution for the Netherlands and Belgium for a couple years we recently said goodbye to it. The book distribution is now happening through the largest distributor of the country giving every bookshop and online bookshop direct access to great books like this. We decided to reduce our stock levels in Dutch books significantly because the majority of orders are actually broad EU. Our direct booksales were always originals in English. You can still order the Dutch books with bitcoin at consensus with a discount code “BitcoinBrabant”. Also the ebook. View quoted note →

Vandaag is het exact 1.3/4 jaar geleden dat Paul en Marina starten met hun @Bitcoin School podcast. Eerlijke bitcoin educatie in het Nederlands, zonder shitcoin afleiding was haast niet vindbaar. De bitcoin community was sceptisch: “na een jaar gaan ze shitcoins shillen” “ze stoppen binnenkort wel, want bitcoin only is trekken aan een dood paard” en nog vele andere negatieve demotiverende passages. Nadat ze een jaar iedere week steevast een kwalitatief hoogwaardige bitcoinles hadden opgenomen troffen we elkaar tijden @Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem. Vanaf dat moment starte onze samenwerking. We hebben in de afgelopen 3/4 jaar honderden mensen mogen helpen op hun bitcoin reis. Doordat wij beginners doorverwijzen naar bitcoinschool en zij een kortingscode shillen, blijven mensen gegarandeerd bitcoin only. Voor degene die tot hier heeft gelezen en die 1 3/4 raar vindt. Het is 21 maanden. Paul en Marina gefeliciteerd, we zijn enorm trots op jullie proof of work. En dank voor alles!

If someone needs any sovereignty devices peer 2 peer exchanged during or around the devhackday @BTC Prague let us now via the contact form on our website or send us a DM here at nostr. The list of products we have in stock for you @COLDCARD and @Coinkite products like tapsigner OPENDIME or satscards @Foundation passport @SeedSigner Alu, DIY and assembled @Blockstream Jade plus @TwentyTwo Devices portal Tinyseed starter pack, single and multisig plates Seedsafe numbered & celestial Seedfan single, starter & multisig Bitaxes (80+ configuration options) Books (unique editions also) Gadgets Please let us know before Thursday the 12th as we will drive the stuff to Prague early.

It’s all so tiresome. Customs opens sealed signing device packages. People return steel plates without wanting to give a reason, no way we know how to improve to not have such a return in the future. Shipper loses a package. Customs refuses to let Bitaxes through. Shipper sends us major bill, while we have customs permits. We reject the bill and get confirmation that there is a problem in the customs IT system. Now we receive a bill from a bailiff because shipper pushed out old statements to a bailiff that were already closed. Shipper responds that it’s blocked again but bailiff removes shipper from all correspondence and pushes with even more draconian measures and cost. Another great day costing us >€1k… sigh There just might be a point that helping out people to get further into bitcoin just becomes too costly. With our high stock levels and direct shipment, we have lost many bitcoin on the way. But we are happy to supply thousands and thousands of plebs throughout Europe with freedom. So for now we persist. All this bullshit keeps us in the outer libertarian corner. Most of these problems are here because of bureaucracy.

We developed @SeedSigner packaging where we have lasered our logo @BitcoinBrabant and the seedsigner logo in the foam. Our aluminum, ₿B DIY kit & ₿B assembled fit exactly into this package. We are extremely excited to be delivering so many products across Europe every day. The pace of expansion of sovereign individuals is increasing. The video shows our family remote support with our optimised packaging for the first time 4 alu seedsigners for one client. All our packaging has been created modular so we can ship all counts optimally. In safety for the materials as weight and shipping size wise. Beautiful stickers as always by our street art supported (you can find it in cities across europe) @Street Cyber

Great explanation of bitcoin “mining”. We were asked many times to explain, the issue in general is that there’s not sufficient time for the media to show a proper explanation. This video is great to refer to as an explainer. Also happy to see our proof of work is represented in it. Thanks for the PoW @Guy Swann View quoted note →