Remu

Spray 4 Zaps

Prague edition 🇨🇿

Hell of a Hangover

Time to report in on what we’ve been up to at BTCHEL. When I’m heads-down building, my posting slacks. So here we go, no hype, pure results:

1. I held my first bitcoinstrategia.com workshop at the BTCHEL Hub, co-organized with investor club Falco. ~30 attendees, all TradFi investors. My workshop thesis is simple: paper bitcoin is worthless because it depends on the system Bitcoin is disrupting. Bitcoin investors must learn proper self-custody solutions to gain anti-fragility and avoid systemic risk. I coined the term “system diversification” to crystallize the argument.

2. Vibe-data-analysis with Claude, visualized at btchel.com/survey-results. Findings:

• Most attendees in Bitcoin >5 years
• 66% locals, 33% traveling to Finland for the event
• Top priorities: Self-custody & security! (Treasuries being the least interesting topic this year)
• Main reasons to attend: Networking, learning & community
• New interests: Sovereign AI, Entrepreneurship, Health
• Community stays bullish even in bear markets
• 82% use Bitcoin as money at our events

Bigger venue + structured networking coming.

3. We’re organizing BTCTRE, a one-day side event to one of Finland’s biggest TradFi conferences. Sijoitusmessut is Finland’s biggest single-day investment fair. Held in 20 May 2026, Tampere Hall, 2,400+ attendees.

BTCTRE is right across from Tampere Hall at Lapland Hotels. Short Bitcoin talks, networking, and a relaxed afterparty. Register here: luma.com/z6vzwg53

Helsinki folks: something coming up for you too… luma.com/uag1aoid

4. I started a podcast with my co-host Klaus. Bunkkeri is a new Finnish talk show preparing for end-of-the-world happenings that never come. In peacetime, we explore societal change and tech through the lens of sovereignty. Bunkkeri offers a safe space for those who feel ideologically homeless in the current system. We’re bitcoiners, but this isn’t just another bitcoin podcast. It goes well beyond, aimed at people who value freedom, independence, and sovereignty. 7 episodes in and we’re at ~1,500 monthly active listeners, that’s surprising growth. Find our platforms at bunkkeri.org

5. Remember our mission: become the most impactful Bitcoin media in the Nordics. We’re already the most impactful Bitcoin event in our region. Now we’re increasing our focus on digital media, too, in order to deliver the best possible physical events for our attendees. Find media references: btchel.com/info

With this goal in mind, I hired Joakim Book, an experienced journalist from Iceland with a sharp eye for our Bitcoin + Nordics Venn diagram. Previously working at Bitcoin Magazine, he’ll now lead our upcoming BTCHEL News & Articles publications. Which will all be available in Nostr, BTW! His writing: authory.com/JoakimBook

Yeah, I know 🤣 It’s a lot for one month. Keep up via the newsletter: btchel.com/#sign-up

The pic is from my workshop. DM’s open if you want to book one. It’s free!

Two months ago, we started a new podcast called the bunker. It’s in Finnish, but I sure hope we get good enough AI dubs soon because it has been a serious banger.

In the bunker, we do 3 hour long super deep dives into sovereignity, individualism, preparing for the worst, hope for the future, survival, cypherpunk tech, human action, and everything you can think sovereign individuals are interested in.

This week we recorded an episode with the legend himself, Martti Malmi. In his own words: ”it was the deepest podcast I ever went to, and we covered topics that have never been covered before.”

This is the way. Onwards and upwards 🪖⚡️

BTCHEL Launches weekly meet-ups every friday until main event 2026!

It’s a day of open doors, free entry at the co-working space. Come hangaround on fridays!

https://www.satlantis.io/events/1601

BTCHEL Hub is back from the holidays!

Stop by for a cup of hot coffee during these freezing winter days ❄️☕️

"The security of Bitcoin does not extend to white market systems. Any system dependent upon the value proposition of Bitcoin must also be black market."

I kneel to this flag

running grapheneos

I love nostr because nobody is talking about the price action here

A memorial piece for a friend who just died by suicide.

He went by the pseudonym of Mozzarella or Moz and was one of the friendliest, smartest and funniest bitcoiners I ever knew.

If you ever feel like ending it, ask for help. And if you see a fella struggling, offer your helping hand.

Luke 6:38: Give and you shall receive.

The finnish bitcoin community will miss you Mozzy ✝️

I went to the Museum.

First artwork is one of the most epic Finnish art pieces by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

"The defense of the Sampo"

The second work is named "The theft of the Sampo"

Sampo is a muthological object in the Finnish epic Kalevala. It is a mill or a powerhouse that creates wealth and abundance.

Clearly Gallen-Kallela here is portraying the great efforts given by historical Finns to safeguard Sampo.

Sampo = Bitcoin

The Finns predicted it millenias ago.

A sunny but cold October morning

Shout out to JPEGMAFIA

Spray 4 Zaps continues

Visited Milano recently.

All the paint shops were on siesta when I arrived, had just a couple of hours time, so I used some cheap car paint that was sunoptimal for concrete. The wall sucked most of the paint in so it was super sketchy spot.

I enjoyed the city. Last time I visited in 2016 during the arab spring crisis and back then the city was chaotic. Drug dealers formed a line in front of you at the arrival. Military police was patrolling around during the night. People were thrown out the train station. Now almost a decade later Milano was pretty peaceful and chill. I didn't see any signs of turmoil. It can be surprising if you only consume fear mongering, propaganda and rage bait from algorithmic suggestion medias.

I love Italy 🇮🇹 Will be back some day. Ciao!

🅱️TCHEL

🅱️oomer Death

🅱️eef Bits

Plan 🅱️

It's a 🅱️ world

keeping it simple

Spray 4 Zaps vol2

Now this is a niche meme, let's see who gets it

First try

Do you still have to use Teams? I'm so sorry

I will never post this cat pic "on chain"

I hope this is true

Source you ask? I felt it in my heart

Why don't the jpegers post their cat pics on nostr?

I donated 21kSat

I just bought a pizza with the Zaps⚡️

Thank you all so much 🫶🏻

Bitcoin circular economy 🤝🏻

Feels like magic 🪄

🗣️🗣️🗣️ Skate 4 Zaps

Some miniramp this time

🛹🛹🛹SKATE 4 ZAPS 🛹🛹🛹

How do we fix death threats on nostr?

The rain went away and we finished our pieces on time against all odds!

It took a total of 10 hours to finish this artwork.

It has a lot of symbolism and attention to detail in it.

First Spray 4 Zaps is Done ⚡️

I'm satisfied with it especially because it's my first graffiti in almost 10 years.

🫟🫟🫟SPRAY4ZAPS🫟🫟🫟

🫟🫟🫟 GRAFF 4 ZAPS 🫟🫟🫟

I used to go by the name EKSIT in the graffiti world

It carries a lot of symbolism and meaning to me, perhaps more now that ever

Last time I painted was in 2016

Back to the roots

It started raining heavily so we have to finish this whole piece tomorrow, the backround and characters are all in the making still

Nostr has been a lot more active and engaging than 2 years ago.

Blessed 🙏🏻

🛹🛹SKATE 4 ZAPS DAY 2🛹🛹

Disclaimer: does not include paid advertisement!

I wish it did tho!

It appears someone forgot their bag in Helsinki when they left

Who it might be?

Speechless. Thank you for posting this. Until next time 🧡

Might as well post some more personal stuff here.

I have not been comfy with posting personal stuff on Twitter / X before, because there is an incentive to only post about a subject your chamber echoes on. The algorithm punished the user if he doesn't "stay on track" and keep making the most engaging click bait bullshit possible. It's disgusting.

Some call it social media, even tho it's extremely anti-social. To be accurate, it's an algorithmic suggestion media. The fall of social was in 2014 when Facebook invented the recommendation algorithm.

I'm trying out an old school social media approach here, sililiar to irc-gallery and early facebook / instagram.

My bitcoiner friends might not know this, but I used to be a graffiti painter from age 13 to18. I was convicted of it over10 years ago and I paid off my fines for society thru 3 years of non-stop work.

Here's a couple of pics of my younger self doing what he loved most.

I'm planning to get back to it (on legal walls of course). We'll see.

🫟🫟🫟 GRAFF 4 ZAPS 🫟🫟🫟

Hey Nostrichs

I'm Remu aka btcbenchmark and I'm a co-organizer of BTCHEL as a ceo and the head of partnerships.

The first-ever large-scale bitcoin conference in the nordics is finally done!

We got almost a thousand attendees, 20 partners and 70 speakers to join us in Helsinki this past weekend.

I previously only used our company nostr that I created back in 2022.

I just created a new npub for a personal use.

I'm trying out as a content creator here lol. This series is called skate4zaps.

First line is fs ollie over a bench, fakie cab flip and bs fiddy bs ollie out.

SKATE 4 ZAPS