Poll for the plebs: Currently 5698 followers are following a small freedom facilitating company called @bitcoinbrabant. The amount of people buying freedom enabling devices is growing. Once it becomes clear that only bitcoin can supply freedom anywhere on the planet, this account most likely grows. The responsibility for us as a family company grows along. For survival decentralization is key. We have been working since #700.000. It seems that help is on its way to keep the supply of freedom going for a long time. This can only be done with deeply trusted people in the bitcoin space. We won’t stop building and as you noticed, we’re focusing more and more on bitcoin security. The mining opportunities in the Netherlands are looking bleaker by the day. Most of our clients are still running their operations but renewed calculations with the increased tax, higher electricity cost and heavy subsidies on alternatives just don’t make any sense. Our last dozens of requests we calculated were only viable at extreme bitcoin prices and significant drops in electricity price. As most of our market for bitcoin security and hobby mining is not the Netherlands anymore but broad EU, we will push further on helping people secure their bitcoin. Curious what the followers think:

11 orders. Average order size >300.000 sats. Supplying freedom and sovereignty. Bitcoin Brabant @SeedSigner DIY @COLDCARD MK4 in anonymous envelope via handwritten local letterbox shipment Multiple @Blockstream Jade A bitcoinbrabant sovereign node A silent bitaxe Multiple bitaxe gamma’s A three pack opendimes And a lot of @Street Cyber stickers Super cheap seal bags and some gimmicks for the larger orders.

Today we helped someone with a multisig 2/3 setup who stressed out a bit. Lost one signer with the backup. Typed in the wrong PIN code 3 times on a @Blockstream Jade (wiped). The backup didn’t work out. First the descriptor was in perfect shape in @nunchuk_io and backed up as a bsms on the cloud. We decided to use the Nunchuk instance that had the keys ready for signing. One key and backup were in perfect shape and we could directly sign off on the transaction. The backup was put into one of our @COLDCARD Qs as its the easiest to quickly do a checksum test. And the checksum didn’t match the last word on the backup. 😓 Going through the dots of the backup plate one by one we found a mistake. A four punch was marked as a one and therefore the wrong word was taken from the bip39 list. We filled in the 24 words and still there was a checksum mismatch. We went through the dots and numbers once again, no mistake there. Then we took the translation table of the numbers and found a wrong word with a number. We inputted that word and the checksum was correct (the funny part is, the word was rigid, it made us 😂). We signed the 2/3. Even if you think your setup is secure and redundant, every setup has trade offs. There is no optimal setup. This setup turned out to be just about right, oof size large.

It’s time to dump bitaxe prices. We were already the cheapest, bringing hash to plebs. Now we’re going below cost price to clear out. 10% discount on everything bitaxe. With code “bitaxe”. https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product-categorie/bitaxe/

Many bitcoiners are leaving the Netherlands. Did you know when you can prove you live outside of the EU, and can show proof at the customs, you can actually ask you VAT (21%) back on your purchase? For more info check:

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Belastingdienst – btw. Is uw klant een particulier uit een niet-EU-land? Lees hoe hij btw terugvraagt van goederen in zijn reisbagage, die hi...

Noderunners will inherit the earth pin. Limited edition "Noderunners will inherit the earth pin". 6000 sats of every pin has gone to support the Noderunners. The Noderunners, a group of dedicated Bitcoiners from the Netherlands/Flanders region, have been honoring fellow full node operators by knighting them as honorary members of the Noderunners. These exceptional individuals are awarded “Shield pins” at conferences and meetups. By purchasing the “Noderunners Will Inherit the Earth Pin,” you’re directly supporting our mission to recognize and celebrate those who contribute to Bitcoin’s success. Why Support? We understand that running a full validating economic node requires time and effort. We also recognize the hard work put into developing software, creating podcasts, writing books, producing artwork, composing music, and tirelessly educating friends and family about Bitcoin. To all you dedicated plebs out there: We see you, and we appreciate your efforts! The Shield Pin: An Exclusive Honor The coveted Shield pin cannot be bought – it can only be earned. If we identify you as a full node operator, especially if you contribute to the Bitcoin ecosystem in additional ways, a Noderunner might knight you as an honorary member. How You Can Help? If you appreciate the efforts, please consider purchasing the “Noderunners Will Inherit the Earth Pin.” Your support enables the Noderunners to continue the initiative and honor those who strengthen the Bitcoin network. Thank you for supporting the Noderunners and the broader Bitcoin community!

More and more people across the Netherlands are using the anonymous shipping (with stamps) option via the mailbox. There is a risk involved as there is no tracking and the postman these days are known for not doing their job well lately. The issue with the @COLDCARD Q is that it is ~a mm to thick to get into the Dutch mailbox. We have to carefully push it through and then check if the package wrap (thinnest plastic we could find) is still intact in combination with the stamps. We manually write down your address on the package and stick physical stamps and bring it to a postbox. We don’t add a return destination, so it’s fully untraceable to us. We delete your data a couple days after shipment, as always. With the coldcard MK4s it’s much easier to ship, even multiple, fully anonymously. Wish more manufacturers took this local anonymous shipping option into account. We specifically designed @SeedSigner packaging for this. Most orders are from broader Europe and we see more and more “ship to service point” requests. Doing this to Denmark and Sweden is easy with DHL. Doing this towards more southern countries in EU this is still a mess. As we manually input every shipping order, to preserve your data (business shipping accounts can be accessed by almost any employee and there’s no 2FA). And off course we don’t ship under our name and always with anonymous packaging. People think the European Union is open transport of goods and people, but it is not. Some of our packages we ship are opened by customs. This is a painful, time consuming and sometimes costly matter. It has took us years to optimize for privacy, but we’ve recently had a request to supply a copy of the ID of an order. Apparently the person was Russian and the shipping company reached out. We forwarded the email (as we delete a few days after shipment) if there are any issues with the international shipments like this one. The customer did not have an issue sharing a copy of his ID with the shipping company. Also in the Netherlands with PostNL, the local biggest shipper, packages going to a package point you have to use your digital ID to open the locker. What the hell is happening in EU? Will we not be able to ship anything anonymously anymore soon? What are your thoughts about this?

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?