Sontje Mercelina wint Tumbafestival 2026 met ‘Awe tami so kubo’


 WILLEMSTAD – Charelson “Sontje” Mercelina is uitgeroepen tot Rei di Tumba 2026. Hij wint het Tumbafestival met het nu...

If you want a taste of the Curaçao Carnaval. Check this video🪩 And make sure you are there! Runy Island Wealth

My First Bitcoin Graduation on Curaçao @My First Bitcoin @Arnold Hubach @Huxley BTC Curaçao Institute

What A beauty I got from the Peter Kroll Family during the graduation of the first 6 students of the My First Bitcoin. @My First Bitcoin 10 weeks of global Bitcoin training, right from Curaçao, a beautiful island in the Caribbean. Here it is hot, not cold like this Coinkite. After hearing Natalie Brunell talk about Coinkite after so many episodes on Youtube in her show with Jeff Booth I finally got mine. Now I’m pumped, feeling a little bit cold with this cold card!!!! Now send me some Bitcoin, lol, so I can put it in this cold baby, lol. Runy Island Wealth @nat brunell

So happy to sit next to our chairman of BTC Curaçao Institute as an instructor of the Mi Primer Bitcoin first ever graduation ceremony on Curaçao!! The first educational block hashed. Peter Kroll signing the certificates of 6 students here after 10 weeks of teaching in the beautiful Orange House on Curaçao. Mrs. Kroll created this beautiful training orange room that feels like a home on Curaçao. All students received Bitcoin training and the book used in the whole world. Our lessons were given in the native language of Curaçao: Papiamentu. So if you ever visit Curaçao, which ranks 5th on the BTC Map as we have number of businesses that accept Bitcoin, make sure you meet these 6 new graduated students of the Bitcoin family. #graduation #myfirstbitcoin #miprimerbitcoin #curaçao #willemstad #islandwealth @My First Bitcoin - Bitcoin Education for the World @Arnold Hubach @Huxley

We hashed our first educational block for My First Bitcoin!! Proof of work!! Last saturday BTC Curaçao Institute on Curaçao, part of the Mi Primer Bitcoin global education network finished our first class with 6 students. Here you see Peter Kroll and his family together with the students eating celebration cake. Thanks to @Arnold Hubach and @Huxley of the @My First Bitcoin - Bitcoin Education for the World for inviting Curaçao in their global family. This Curaçao node hashed its first educational block with 6 students in it! More pictures to come and video. Runy Calmera BTC Curaçao Institute #Bitcoin #Caribbean #Curaçao #IslandWealth #Miprimerbitcoin #Myfirstbitcoin #BTCCuraçao #Elsalvador #Graduation #Certification

In economic war everything is related. You hurt my export with tariffs, I hurt your bonds market, and your real estate, and your banking… I build economic models of islands and of big countries. And what you learn is : all sectors of the economy are related!! Something happens here, it flows to the other sector. Something happens with tariffs and it flows to the labor market and you lose your job. And it goes from the labour market to the financial sector. Because without your job, you can’t pay your mortgages! So the banks suffer. This also happens globally. Take the tariffs of USA on China, on Europe. On Germany. On Denmark. Those are in the real sector. On goods. Also affecting the external sector. Where you trade with others. You think you are done. I raise tariffs and I’m done!! But like I said: everything is linked. And this is what people often don’t see!! The links. Ok you raise tariffs, I am China and Europe and I got less exports now. Because you made my products more expensive for your citizens. But I, China, got 700 billion USD of your bonds. I European countries each got billions of your bonds. If I dump these bonds, I sell because I don’t trust you any more, now it has flown into the financial/monetary sector. And the banking sector. I sell your bonds. The prices of your 10 year bonds go down. If prices of bonds go down, the yields of bonds go up. Imagine the 10 year bond yield moves up from 4% to 5%. Or from 4% to 6%. Now your banks that are loaded with 10 year bonds of say 3% are all at a loss!! It entered your banking sector now. Banks are making losses. Some of them collapse. People lose their deposits. Now you have to print money. To save the banks. This is great for Bitcoin. Because you cannot print Bitcoin. Now at higher costs for money, your real estate suffers. It entered the real estate market. If people were getting mortgages at 4% plus 2% first, at 6%, now with higher yields mortgage also could be at 8%. Now nobody can afford a home. You see how it can bounce back to you? If you have a debt of 38 trillion USD, check who is holding your bonds. Check the yields. Check what could happen. PS: in this scenario islands in the Caribbean are also at a higher costs. Because their central banks raise their interest rates based on what happens in the USA because their currencies are pegged to the US dollar. Runy Island Wealth

Imagine if European countries start dumping 25% of their USA bonds President Trump has found the hammer to hit the world: tariffs. 25%! If you don’t cooperate, it will go higher: 35%. But I have to let you know: if you play with fire you can be burnt. What if Euope hits back by dumping 25% of the USA bonds? In this chart and in this file you see what the power is of European countries. https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt_table3.html These are data from the USA treasuries. It shows each country holding USA bonds. To calculate the impact you would need to: Add the current bonds of all European countries. Take 25% And imagine what would happen with the USA bond market if bonds get dumped. Yields would go up as prices go down. And USA could not take it! It would devastate the business of USA. Wallstreet, banks, and Mainstreet would suffer. I’m not saying Europe should do this. I’m just saying what would happen? If you are playing with tariffs you could get hit. Check this out. Runy Island Wealth

Nostr and Holepunch and Keet and Pears You know Nostr. The decentralized social media protocol. Let me tell you about the rest. Keet.io is a peer to peer app. Not yet open source. It is beta. But you need to try it out. It is peer to peer. You can use a nym. No email, no name, no telephone number. Use a vpn, save your seed phrase. Chat, dm, hold meetings. Holepunch is the company creating Keet. They are sponsored by Tether. So Paolo is doing something great here. Creating peer to peer technology. Holepunch means: You punch a hole through walls, servers etc and you establish peer to peer connections. Globally. I can send you a 1 gigabyte file fast, peer to peer, globally. Pears is the runtime. You can create desktop, terminal apps. If you know nodejs, javascript, html and css you can create any pear to pear app in minutes. The whole software stack is open source. Keet is the first example of an app created with Pears runtime. You got databases, connections, all local running. Check docs.pears.com and the holepunch github repository. And you see many examples of software. Unstoppable software. Peer to peer. No infrastructure. No servers. No need for email nor your telephone number. Nostr and Pears There is a place for both. They are not competitors. There is a bridge. But nobody has built that bridge yet. There is more once you enter that Holepunch/Pears world. There is peer to peer AI. There are wallets to send Bitcoin. I wish islands could build on top of Nostr and Holepunch and Pears. Connect islands. To create Island Wealth. Thriving small businesses. Trading. Connected. In a Hyperswarm! Check it out! And let me know your thoughts. Let me know what you are going to build. Peer to peer. Be unstoppable. Be local. Runy Island Wealth

In a volatile world of tariffs you want to build on Bitcoin The world seems like more volatile. Stocks of German, Dutch, Danish public companies can just dive because the USA President Trump put tariffs. If you have a portfolio of stocks, what if they lock your account: not your keys not your stocks. What if they close your bank account? Your credit card? If you have a business, what if you cannot accept money any more because your bank account, your credit card has been closed? I live in the Caribbean. We already have the priviledge here to NOT having business paypal accounts! Some Caribbean islands can receive Paypal payments. But not Curaçao. Not Sint Maarten. We know what it is to do business without Paypal. Now imagine a world in its fourth turning. Imagine a world in the last phases of its global debt cycle. Imagine a world full of debt. A world where anything can happen. Your payment gateway can just stop working. You own Greenland? Now you don’t own it any more. Venezuelan oil? Now you don’t own it any more. A world where trust has broken. Not only the money is broken. Trust has broken down. A trustless world. Enter Bitcoin. You don’t need to trust the banks. You are your own bank. You run your own Bitcoin node. Your own Lightning node on top of it. Your own mempool app. A world where you have your own non custodial wallets. A world where you do unstoppable business with all the world. You pay with Bitcoin! You save in Bitcoin! You receive your sales in Bitcoin. A world where you can hire hundreds of students of the My First Bitcoin certificate. Because they all got the basics of Bitcoin. A world built on the Nostr protocol. Where you can plug in. It feels like code is the new trust. No matter how volatile the world gets. Bitcoin will tick every 10 minutes. Unstoppable. Build on Bitcoin. Runy Island Wealth

European Exports to USA abd to China

European Union Exports to United States - 2026 Data 2027 Forecast 2000-2024 Historical

European Union Exports to United States was US$571.11 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade...

Check this out! I will dive deeper into the stats with you, but lets see. According to these data the exports to USA are double those to China. What would happen it Europe would double its exports to China? And leave USA? See my other posts. If USA don’t want European products they could go to China. China’s economy is growing faster than the USA. Chinese businesses and citizens have higher purchasing power and could buy these products. The Chinese market is larger than the USA market. China is part of the BRICS, together 40% of the world population. What do you think Europe should do? Trade with China? Foxus on China instead of on USA? What would you do? Runy Island Wealth

Imports of the world are used to produce USA goods. Why you didn’t want to live in East Berlin Hey imagine I’m a hotel in the USA. When you enter a hotel you see steel, material, furniture. You go in the kitchens you see Siemens and Whirlpool. When you go to a room you see Samsung TV. Your Wifi system. Look at the brand. You go to the swimming pool. Look at the brand. The cooler. Look at the brand. I bet you: say 50% of all the stuff you see was IMPORTED! Why? Because the world made it cheaper, faster, and better quality than the USA. The USA has a better financial system than the world. You can buy stocks, bonds, options. Wallstreet is top of the world making financial products. But making physical stuff, manufacturing, the world, China, is faster, better and cheaper than the USA. That is why you import! Because YOU benefit! Check your numbers. That means your wealth is dependent from the world. What is wealth? What gives you a higher standard of living? Your wealth- the options you have, the variety of brands, the colours, the features is dependent of what you see in your shelves. Why are the people in Venezuela less wealthier than the USA? Their shelves are empty. Only the very wealthy in Venezuela can get a variety of stuff. Different brands, different colours. If they are in a hospital and the machine that they cannot import any more is broken: people die. You don’t die because your hospital can import that Siemens machine. You are not blind because your hospital has that eye machine of a top European brand. If you did not import it you are blind or you die. Can you see this? Your hotel in USA is luxurious, has everything BECAUSE you trade with the world. Now lets stop all these imports. 10.000% tariffs. On everything. Because the world has been taking advantage of us. They have sent us all their physical stuff their machines and we have been sending them a piece of paper that we can print unlimited. What do you think is going to happen when that pool engine in that hotel breaks? What when that Samsung TV needs to be renewed? Are we going to put USA brands only? Can we produce it cheaper, faster ourselves? Or will it be more expensive, and of less quality? I was in East Berlin. Before the walls went down. East Berlin was a place that traded with nobody. That did not trade with the world. No imports from the world. You had to be there. You had to look at the streets, the buildings, the hotels and the shelves! You had to become sick and end up in a hospital. I wish you were there. Your wealth, your options, your way of life, depends on trading with the world! Imports are contributing to your way of life. Every timeyou hear tariffs on imports I wish you hear tariffs on my way of life. On my options. Runy Island Wealth

USA Import tariffs: why not put 10.000% import tariffs on the world? Today I read that President Trump put import tariffs on the Netherlands, Denmark and other European countries, because thesent troops to Greenland. Why not put 10.000% import tariffs on the world? Lets go max. Stop imports completely. All imports from the whole world. Zero imports!! It would kill the USA economy instantly. You would lose your job. It would have secondary effects you could not image. When you put tariffs the people who pay these are USA businesses and citizens. These tariffs are paid at the border, by the one who ships the stuff. If I am a USA importer of say a German car of 100.000 usd, I, the USA importer have to pay 25% or 25.000 usd more. At the border. After it has been shipped. So what will happen is that : I either sell it and increase my price with 25.000 usd to sell it to wealthy US citizens or businesses. Or I take that 25.000 usd and my profit would be 25.000 usd less. I could pass 10.000 usd in the price to my consumer and hit my profit with15.000 usd. Whatever I do, my customers will demand less German cars and only THEN the German economy might be hit. Less demand of German cars. But I, a USA importee, pay the tariffs. Lets not kid ourselves about this! Now if my profits go down, do you think I will invest more in the USA? No way. I postpone all investments. So that new car dealer I was going to open in the USA to sellGerman cars is gone! All those USA employees I was going to hire in that dealership, the sales reps, the HR, the marketing, the accounting all USA citizens: gone. The electricity, the office equipment, the construction workers to build that car dealership are gone! I was planning to invest 5 million USD this year. I had my business plan ready with all my expenses after that investment. I was just about to signnthat mortgage of 5 million USD at a local USD bank. That bank was gling to get interest payments on that 15 year mortgage. 5%. Gone! I called the bank and closed everything. Do you start to see the indirect effects of that tariff? Looks great. But who is it hurting? The German car manufacturer is already looking at the BRICS to sell its cars. So less investments, less consumption, less imports. Y = C + I + G + E - M This is an economic identity, meaning it is true for all economies. Now suppose C declines, I declines and M also declines. But C and I decline more than M. The Y the economic growth will go down. So tariffs make the economy go down. If I go 10.000% on the world I am in a deep recession. So now suppose the USA economy has no imports. Nothimg produced outside enters the USA economy. Ever. 10.000% on all imports of the world. M is zero. Y = C + I + G + E How do you think the USA economy is going to look like? Imagine you have no cloths, no fruit, no oil, no machinery, no iphones. Nothimg imported. And you have wall street with all that debt, those stocks all financial services. Can you imagine a USA without any foreign imports? The reason USA imports all those stuff is that you can not make them yourself or the world can make it cheaper, faster or better than you. Put 10.000% of tariffs on everything and see how your economy crashes. Runy Island Wealth

Is it possible to do business on Nostr and leave Linkedin, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram completely? Why don’t we have Linkedin on Nostr? I got 3653 followers on Linkedin and 500+ connections. But Linkedin can cancel me anytime. So those followers and connects look great. But they are not "mine". I don't own anything. And I'm still happy. Jeff Booth says we should give our attention to the Bitcoin world. To open protocols. Because what we give our attention too, grows. So it seems crazy to give my attention to Linkedin. To follow anybody there. To engage in conversations there. So here is what I did: I extracted all my data from Linkedin. And I put it in a local folder. And I started analyzing it. My chats, my posts and my connections and followers. This move already is a first step. Then I did that also on Facebook and Instagram and planning to do that on Youtube. Extract everything and back them up. Next step is: be more here on Nostr. On Primal. Putting content here first and ultimately move completely to Nostr. Here I got my pub key and private key. If I don't like a client I can move. If I want to analyze my content I can do that in python. And nobody can cancel me. The only thing you can do is follow me or unfollow me. But you can not cancel me. It already feels a little more empowering. But I'm telling you honestly. It looks brave. But it also looks a little bit scary. Leave Youtube and Linkedin and Facebook and Instagram completely. Only going live here on Nostr. Putting all my videos in a decentralized distributed backend. Could that be possible? Island Wealth Runy Calmera Building on open decentralized platforms

Building websites and shops on Nostr. I have seen some shops on nostr. I think it is called shopstr. But the shops need to be different if you are helping people by providing online training. Imagine you are a digital coach and trainer like me. You want to: - build a following of people who don’t know you - then let them raise their hands and tast a little bit of your product and service (often raise your hands mean they subscribe by providing their name and email) - then you give them a taste of your services (often by sending only the people who subscribed the invitation to the webinar) - you hold a 45 minute webinar - in that webinar you paste a link to your sales page (often outside the webinar software , like a wordpress site) - when they land on that sales page they can pay (in wordpress it is done by plugins as woocommerce). This payment often goes through a payment provider (they process credit cards so you can receive money that goes to your bank account) - after payment your customers get in a private space where they see your videos of your course or program (this is often videos you have unlisted on youtube and share with them). This is the general flow. To get 50 new customers at 1% conversion you need to engage with 5000 new people at the top of your funnel. This system is used by many coaches, trainers and digital content creators. Nostr should be able to do this. We need a way to let people “raise their hands” for a specific content. The content creator - I - need a way to have the dms of all these people who raised their hands for my content. Say if I say AI and Automation is my content I need a way to simply dm all those people, say 5000 people on nostr that are interested in #aiandautomation. So on top of this primal user interface or maybe through python I need to create code that can dm all these people who maybe liked my content, I posted, specifically on this topic. Is that already available? Then I need a way to stream my content with OBS or Ecamm software (I use Ecamm) easily to my Nostr page. I have used Zapstream in the past. But I see I have to keep paying for zapstream to keep my videos up. What if I host my videos myself? How can I ensure my videos stay visible on Nostr? There needs to be a way so I can pull up a server that is up constantly. Next I have the webinars. I should be able to invite all those 5000 people who raised their hands a dm. I don’t need their emails. They only thing I need is sending them some content so they show up. They need to be able to unsubscribe from my content. So Nostr needs a way to send mass content to a list of people. It needs to directly end up in their dms. Is this already available? Then there is a private page on Nostr where I can hold my webinar. Only the people who got invited, because they raised their hands and were subscribed need to see that page. I don’t want to stream to a general page. So the url needs to be hidden. In that webinar on Nostr I would deliver my content about the program. All people clicking on that link to my sales page need to go to a sales page on nostr where they can buy my program. They should be able to zap say 997 usd and get access to the program. If they cannot zap they should be bale to pay with lightning wallets. After payment they get inside a secret room where they see my course say 6 modules during 6 weeks. Each module has more videos. This is private content. Hosted on nostr. During those 6 weeks we have coaching and training calls. There I can share my screen and people can talk. Something like Hivetalk (opensource) but on Nostr. The videos need to be recorded and available for the customers. THIS is a flow that will add value to digital content creators like me. This will be powerful and let us create outside the Youtube, Linkedin, Facebook social media channels. How do you start creating this? How do you build this on Nostr? Should I create NIPS for each feature? Should I design the protocol first? Should I start coding a new client on Nostr in Python, javascript, html and css and nodejs on nostr? Let me know your thoughts. Runy Island Wealth

How can we offer our products and services on Nostr? Instead of promoting on Youtube I would like to build a community on Nostr. Bout on Youtube you can create ads and more people see your content! How can you promote your content on Nostr. Runy Island Wealth

The economics of oil say that it is going to take a lot of time to put Venezuela’s oil on the market. Curaçao has a refinery that needs 0.5 -1 billion usd of investments to upgrade. After watching this episode I tend to conclude that: - the business case of oil refinery on Curaçao is not going to be positive. - oil storage from Venezuela probably is not something feasible as the oil will not be soon drilled in Venezuela. What else can we do with the huge polluted terrain on Curaçao? Is it feasible to put solar power and batteries and mine Bitcoin there? The solar irradiation on Curaçao is high. Has anybody done the math regarding to minimg on solar power on different locations in the world? Is that business case more feasible than refining heavy crude oil on Curaçao? Let me know your thoughts below. Runy Island Wealth

Today we show the Bitcoinize machine and all the ways to accept lightning payments during lesson 8 of the My First Bitcoin on Curacao at the BTC Curacao Institute at Eden Mall. Powered by Peter Kroll Family!! #ProofOfWork #Bitcoin #Lightning #MiPrimerBitcoin #MyFirstBitcoin @Huxley @Arnold Hubach

Proof of Work can be simple. Just move some stones from the red dot to a green dot on a piece of paper. This is what we did in Lesson 6 of the My First Bitcoin certificate. #Proof of Work. BTC Curaçao Institute

Attack at Dawn Byzantine Generals #ProofOfWork #MiPrimerBitcoin #MyFirstBitcoin #Lesson6