When all bitcoiners would unite and fund something real, we would crush tge WEF eventually. And here we are , sticking sticker on a landpost or buying coffee from an Instagram woman.

Is every middleman a shitcoiner? Is every shitcoiner a middleman? Is every Bitcoin payable service other than mining fees a scam?

3+ years podcasting and 10 years in Bitcoin, yet I've never been asked for an interview outside the Dutch language area. The same 10 voices everywhere is apparently the norm? I'm on a crusade to help give information on encryption, enteopy, privacy and Bitcoin. I'm not shilling reflinks. No sponsors.

Got another 'newsletter' of a lovely woman 'love is bitcoin' trying to sell a jade toy-grade HWW At this point I have more respect for people slinging Time-Share condos at the Costa Blanca than HWW wallet peddling marketing persons.

The EU's Chat control is evil. It also makes the European Union a totalitarian regime. The moto is always : "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” That line appears wherever privacy is discussed, and it works because it smuggles in a false definition before the argument even begins.2 It redefines privacy as concealment. Once that move succeeds, resistance to surveillance can be painted as suspicious from the start. The right response is not embarrassment, nor the weak claim that everyone has private shame he would prefer to keep off display. The right response is definitional: privacy is not the hiding of guilt but control over Privacy is control over disclosure, not concealment, the power to selectively reveal oneself. That definition separates privacy from two adjacent concepts. Secrecy is narrower, and anonymity concerns attribution. The “nothing to hide” argument works only by collapsing these three into one; once they are held apart, it loses its force. The political dimension is more direct. Surveillance enables control independent of prosecution. The opposition that can be monitored can be neutralized: donors identified and pressured, organizers tracked and harassed, plans discovered and preempted. Totalitarian regimes require surveillance not because all citizens are criminals but because surveillance enables control. “Nothing to hide” ignores that the watching itself is the threat. Above text from Max Hillebrand's "The Praxeology of Privacy" The people using that phrase are either naïve (and therefor the enemy of progress) or evil.

Saying hello to my friend in 2027 in Europe be like: 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The Belgian bitcoin community is one of the most sad, morose, loser-mentality propagating, cheap-ass, lazy, scared, spineless bunch of gutless b*tch*s you can ever imagine*. there, I said it. :=) * not the 5 good people :)

The number of people running a full Bitcoin node in your environment, entourage and immediate surroundings... Had it gone up or down or stayed the same past 6 months? With me: down.

Proof of Stake networks have a lot of Proof of Work people. but Thé Proof of Work network also has a lot of Proof of Stake people.

Episode AVB 172 released... Now on Spotify (and betwen 20 and 72 hours it probably will maybe show up on nostr on Fountain app if they sync their stuff 😉 Value 4 Value Allesvoorbitcoin.be/donate

Bitcoin makes me more and more depressed. The perfection if the math and the system, is clashing more and more with.... People.

Hardware can break, is expensive, has possible supply chain issues, and makes you run dodgy Middleware most of the time. AvbForge.com takes all the good stuff (own entropy, freedom, szlf-cuztody, offline use, encrypted keys...) and leaves out the only bad part of hardware wallets: the hardware.

Want to self custody, without the supply chain problems, without the cost and without spying Middleware tools and the 'unknown' entropy? We've ditched the only bad part about hardware wallets: the hardware. Try avbforge.com Value4Value development , open source and focussed on a no-install non-hardware prone stance on self custody.

Where we're going, we don't need hardware wallets. avbforge.com

So building +25 sovereign tools for the bitcoin community brought me about 7000 sats in donations so far. Nice to see so many, many people deeply caring about standalone software without a central party and value the work through V4V 😉 Yeah, I keep telling it, because some ppl in art, code, business in bitcoin see the exact same grifter mentality, and see the same happen to their efforts. Unfortunately not many can openly tell it like it is, b/c they fear losing customers or goodwill from the few people that do care (there are some good people that actually appreciate stuff and Value it accordingly). I don't have that disadvantage however. And it's important to point problems out in this community. I can say that a big % of the bitcoiners who act like real tough sovereign, strong individuals to the outside, are actually acting like cheapskate scared little hippies that rather would donate to Peter Shiff or "stack sats" than to support real bitcoin projects. Or they find excuses to play philosopher while doing absolutely nothing, but expect their bags to pump. And maybe that's what's wrong in this environment. Maybe "price can't pump" of a large chunk of the ones that should keep it alive are turning into bitcoin hippies? Who knows. Just my insight. Who knows. I keep building. And we'll see who's better of in the end. The builders or the armchair philosopher types.

The incident with Sparrow on MACos is an unfortunate example of the power of all these "app" stores... Apple, F-droid, Google,... they're all gatekeepers of "our tools". Free yourself. I've created an offline/online open-source, standalone toolbox, where you don't depend on app stores at all... it's all NO-install, non-KYC, non-corporate. (it's Value-4-Value ... appreciate it? donate

Amulet Arsenal · AVBforge

Amulet Arsenal — free, open-source Bitcoin & encryption tools

A free, open-source, air-gap-friendly Bitcoin self-custody toolbox. Single-file HTML you can read, verify and run offline.

AVBforge now has signed PGP commits. 1B356516AFFCCEFE -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mDMEajlLdRYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAOKEvhpqhY7uDK5r3IMA5i8fOp+L9mKzb/C91 Kg0waLG0HGF2YmZvcmdlIDxhdmJmb3JnZUBub2Rlcy5iZT6ImQQTFgoAQRYhBIeB V9Qdn7m82ZsfgRs1ZRav/M7+BQJqOUt1AhsDBQkFpKgrBQsJCAcCAiICBhUKCQgL AgQWAgMBAh4HAheAAAoJEBs1ZRav/M7+/H0BAOHBfxNr0wjw9u6gDC4ubW+T6ghF Tbe0ckXjkmbyhj+rAP4hybs5d7vT9e7nEH4Aqh8JhbOtmz2A/9h1sOXJ0lw/A7g4 BGo5S3USCisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0Czt7IyWhf1G3UEDGgbpsazxBdpSczKC1jBvaQ6 m70GNQMBCAeIfgQYFgoAJhYhBIeBV9Qdn7m82ZsfgRs1ZRav/M7+BQJqOUt1AhsM BQkFpKgrAAoJEBs1ZRav/M7+GpIA/2k3OR04WKYWRZgwdkA1hvBwiKBKuEkNlPKh 2uplzv8OAQCHcrq0kZNSkh/0Ox4Rl6hWuLecMvkWHxo8xluzymO5BA== =LUzs -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Double-checked and both the LN as zaps work fine now. thank you for the support for avbforge all, you know who you are.

thanks for the 200 sats whoever bothered to open the AVBforge.com and look at the months of work in there. 😉