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bert 1 week ago
Every morning at 8 AM I go to work. It’s consistent 7 days a week. So the children know. Lately the oldest, that is 3 years old is starting to ask: “Are you going to help people?” My answer is: “Yes son, father is going to help people be safe” Son: “That’s nice” He pats on my shoulder “Will you be back soon?” Me: “Yes, son, just like every day you’ll see me at dinner” Son: “Ok dad, hug and good luck!” It’s sad to not be able to be with my children that much, but at the moment we have to help hundreds of people to safety from fiat tyranny a month. Doing this proof of work will help them in the future too. My time spent on building now will reward them in the future, that’s where it’s all about.
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bert 2 weeks ago
GM PoWFtW (Proof of Work For the Win)
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bert 2 weeks ago
It’s monetary Sunday. Time to help another 10 Australians to secure their bitcoin properly today. My regular research posts on Sunday have been long gone. My agenda is full every Sunday with clients from Australia. From 8.00 in the morning until 23.00 in the evening. It’s amazing to be able to help so many people exit.
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bert 0 months ago
Just put new laces in these shoes. It’s the second pair of laces after ~5 years of these shoes. Some of my shoes are over two decades old and have been resoled and had minor repairs. Shoes should last over a decade at least. Daily shoe change is healthy for your feet and proper shoes are an extremely long term investment. image
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bert 1 month ago
Becoming a bitcoin maxi… Last year I applied to become a consultant with @The Bitcoin Way. The vacancy received 250 applicants and I became one of the few that actually got a chance to join this family of bitcoiners. True proof of work needed to be fulfilled. Hundreds of clients were waiting for their consults and due to supplying the best education for self custody in the bitcoin space, they were overrun. With the expansion of the team we were able to optimize the workflows and clients communication. When the backlog finally was overcome it was time to expand our offerings on the basis of the needs of thousands of clients the bitcoin way built over the years. The technical team now consisting of 6 cybersecurity and bitcoin maximalists with a combined experience I’ve never encountered before worked heads down on the optimal business and enterprise solution for multiple signers with full redundancy without trusting any third party. This work has finalized and is now finding its first implementations. If you were at the btcprague conference, you might have noticed a few nice boxes with hardware standing at the bitcoin way booth. The number of people checking it out was thousands. Out of our team of 25 we were only present with 15 at the conference, we couldn’t handle the number of people interested in the details of what we supply. After the MainStage performance of Mr Saylor, Tony was next. And just like our stand performance, 80% of the people left the space apparently not understanding what bitcoin is about. If you took the time to talk with us or watched Tony’s speech, you’ll understand.
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bert 1 month ago
Conclusion of btc Prague. Outbuilding the third party injectors is becoming critical by this point.
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bert 1 month ago
Woke up on this sunrise for a few weeks. It is special to be in search for a place called home. image
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bert 3 months ago
If bitcoin succeeds what does that actually look like? What is meant with “succeeds”? It is the moment that your interpretation allows to form a coherent milestone. For me bitcoin succeeds when it has supplied freedom of exchange for generations to come. No central authority able to steal from you. Long term security for mankind. Useful progress enabler and a win for the engineer. A positive future for every human being as bitcoin will bring unfathomable improvement to humanity. It is for this that it is likely I’ll spend my life dedicated to progress bitcoin. If it doesn’t “succeed”, future looks bleak. It is in the end binary. Bitcoin is freedom, anything else is dystopia. We’re at a point of no return.
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bert 3 months ago
What is the year we reach peak communism?
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bert 3 months ago
It’s monetary Sunday. Scarce eggs are being searched.
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bert 3 months ago
Over the years I’ve gathered many notes from my brain farts. Not AI. Just brain. Now there’s so much text floating around, might as well start dumping a few of these words into the void. Nobody seems to be able to handle the overflow of info. “ Hundred million sats is a bitcoin. A bitcoin of which only 21 million exist. Many have gone missing. Though they are forever on the list. Millions of transistors in a parallel state of ones and zeros. The few people on this planet controlling the keys will be seen as hero’s. It’s the only group that battles for freedom in a swath of flushing paper. It will take many years as the enemy thinks it is the existing Ponzi they can taper. “
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bert 4 months ago
When I did my bachelor I pushed for a shorter runway because I had work experience being a surveyor and I could skip half a year. When I did my master degree I applied to do it at unesco IHE with more practical programs and 6 day a week classes. 1 year, half a year of graduating. Saving me 1,5 years of useless time at university. As a side job I drawed autocad for contractors and did building oversight and engineering for the first floating houses in the Netherlands. You simply have a very short period of time on this planet. Productivity on what matters most to you is important. Wasting time is the most painful experience for every well thinking human being. The burn rate of not being able to work and generate income at full capacity was more than the cost of the private uni. The ROI was simple. Most people think in the regular path, but we must think about the optimal path. Always. For humanity the optimal path currently is a better monetary system. There is no other way to get >90% of the global population to become useful for the future of humanity. If we don’t fix the basic signal of everything, we’re simply not able to scale outside of our planet properly. Peer to peer cash that is not devaluing should not be much to ask for. We will however still have to battle for it for quite some years to come. Though I don’t see any positive outcome if we don’t embrace it as humanity. The cost of working your ass of now, for this better system will put everyone in a better spot in the future. It’s about your value burned now vs the potential value coming back to you in the future. Money is just a database. Humanity should prefer a database without someone being able to type in “motherlode”.
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bert 4 months ago
On monetary Sunday’s you read about money, to understand better how we can win. The following line out of “economic policy” by Ludwig von Mises should engage every bitcoiner: “Some capitalists, who dare to look into the future, who realize the possible consequences of such an idea, will start to put it to work.” image