It’s 5 degrees Celsius outside and I’m heating our living room with bitcoin. It’s hashing to our @BitcoinBrabant DATUM @OCEAN pool. We’re reducing natural gas consumption radically. We’ve just ordered a new 30KWh battery pack to start smart steering with our 44 solar panels positioned on East (12 x 480) West (12 x 480) and south (20 x 320). We will monitor the upcoming year with fluctuations and looking forward reducing grid reliance as much as possible. We’ll even have an emergency switch for when the power on the grid is gone. All our systems are backed with multiple internet connections. Both 5G and Glassfiber (1.2GBit/s). We have starlink as a backup. We recently had to change our glassfiber ISP as we got serious issues with our TOR connections. We now paid off the 2 year contract and switched to Freedom internet as ISP. Best choice ever, we haven’t had any problems since. We’re on our way to sovereignty.

My wife @Sanne has seriously improved her sourdough skills. At this time of the year also special breads and cookies are baked. It’s called “krollen” with “speculaas” with the best grass fed butter. The krollen have some anise in them. Our guests will enjoy under the story of @Lucho Poletti ‘s explanation of the unsolvable debt bomb. 💣

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As a regular visitor of the Dutch central bank these days, you can’t miss some of the small details. On the counter at the entrance you can always find plastic bags with shredded paper bills. There used to be a text on it which translates as follows. “Money doesn't make you happy, but luckily we make money!” The new plastic bags I picked up yesterday don’t have any text on them anymore… 👀 Now what was interesting is that the largest news agency NOS (which is 100% owned by the Dutch government) published the following article.

DNB waarschuwt voor internationale spanningen en cyberaanvallen

Financiële instellingen moeten zich met name voorbereiden op minder vrije handel met de Verenigde Staten.

At that exact moment I was gifting the board of DNB bitcoin socks with a SeedQR and 24word paper wrapped in the following mainstream newspaper article: https://archive.is/U9Ykx. This article stated that everyone needs to have cash euros in a sock at home. Cyber attacks could impact the financial system for longer periods of time and people should prepare. I explained that it’s important to use the parellel bitcoin rails. Because that’s the most robust financial network on our planet. I don’t advise to put naked keys in a sock at home btw.

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GM ATH its time to jump into the ocean 🌊

GM today it’s time to jump into the ocean 🌊

GM today it’s time to jump into the ocean. 🌊

What is the best Nostr desktop client for macOS, also ok if it’s browser based. But I can’t find anything that works smoothly… Damus, Snort, Nostter all the applications don’t really work, break or have so many issues… Is anything proper available?

“Clogminer is extra bullish on hashing for heat and using excess renewable electricity for bitcoin” And as you can see I really wear them a lot… everything is proof of work.

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What is the most important thing in life? Otis Sha (anagram for Satoshi) gives us a clue. Curious what is most important for you when you see this?

I finally was able to physically pull them down the rabbit hole. Now it looks like there is no turning back. Until new years we should pack many thousands of shipments with @BitcoinBrabant. Without a solid base like them this would have never been possible. I’m forever thankful for their endless sceptic criticism and support. You’re the greatest the greats, I’m literally standing on the shoulders of giants, though they are 20cm shorter than me (my surname is the great 😂).

Every Sunday it’s time to learn more about money. But this time I just felt like rereading “anatomy of the state” by Murray Rothbard. I’ve mentioned it once as my favorite piece in the @Connect the World podcast. This podcast has way too little followers btw.

GN fellow unscrewers of the bitcoin network.

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GM @Jeroen ✅ we were spotted at some conference opening the doors apparently. Come and make sure you get a limited edition bitcoin amsterdam heater bitaxe #/121. You can reserve yours online now. Oh and dad, thanks for the Proof of Work! https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/bitaxe-bitcoin-amsterdam-heater/

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The talk of a miner has to start with: technical problems. Hope everyone enjoyed! Thanks for the support everyone.