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It’s time to revisit the great @allenf32 article, only the strong survive.

https://21ideas.org/en/only-the-strong-survive/

Every day since a very young age…

We pulled out thousands of articles for the

. And it was worth every drop of sweat. Not in sales but in the people we met.

Sometimes there’s days you need to persist. Went to a remote area but brought the insane 5G antennas and eSIM physical sim flashed super router. Fired it up, nothing. Boot loop. Everywhere you look online, just flash the firmware. Directly a no go… Dig deeper. Reflash the boot itself. Searching all over the place. Found it. Flashed the firmware. still nothing. Reflashed it. Startup nothing. Another restart, boom. Took two hours, finally proper internet. FFS. Never give up.

Over the past year we’ve been extremely busy getting ready to on-board tens of thousands of people to proper self custody. We’re ready for prime time.

Separate money and state

The great strategic positioning is done.

Memories

Just shipped another set of seedpills halfway across the globe. People are really enjoying it 👇

GM

I’m tired, will not stop. We have to keep going. GN

If you know someone with a COLDCARD and you know them well.

REACH OUT TO THEM!

For people reaching out to you. Don’t answer. Verify it’s them via another channel if you want to reply.

Send your funds out first to a non coldcard generated seedphrase wallet ASAP.

Great moment to revisit “everyone is a scammer” https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/everyones-a-scammer/

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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.

Congratulations on number 100

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Looking forward to listen to number 200 in approximately 50 years 😂😉

GM PoWFtW (Proof of Work For the Win)

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.

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.

Becoming a bitcoin maxi… Last year I applied to become a consultant with

. 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.

Conclusion of btc Prague. Outbuilding the third party injectors is becoming critical by this point.

Physical bitcoin believers on a Pentecost market. You don’t find them like this anymore.

Woke up on this sunrise for a few weeks. It is special to be in search for a place called home.

A must read

What is the year we reach peak communism?

Spending over five years pushing bitcoin publicly, next steps.

https://bitcoinbrabant.com/2026/04/10/spending-over-five-years-pushing-bitcoin-publicly-next-steps/

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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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”.

The reason why we keep on losing bitcoin is stock levels and taxes. If you buy this thing on your business it’s ~100 euros excluding VAT. We take our losses, while helping more people to become sovereign holders.

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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.”

Would be great if this is not demolished.

At technical university delft (I studied coastal engineering at unesco-IHE in Delft) we used to have a lot of Iranian students. Their mathematic performance was higher than any other genetic background I’ve ever encountered. They hated the regime in Iran. And definitely hated regimes in general. Many understood our world better than most from a restrictive financial perspective. They were send abroad to study at a young age, because there simply was no future in Iran. There was however funding coming from Iran. But how? Simple. A boxing match would be organized and they would bring in gold. A family would visit and they would bring gold. In the past years definancialization of Iran sped up. What helped, bitcoin. Not for the regime. For families wanting to prosper globally while being able to extract value out of Iran.

Sometimes you’ll have to rewatch the classic by

on monetary sundays.

Freedom does not give a guaranteed outcome but a reduction of risk. When markets are truly free truth will flow and reward the productive that offer value for one another. Parallel bitcoin economies are the testing grounds for true freedom. Proof of work 📈 Parasites 📉

Please note this is a gift to the patient hodlers that are doing significant proof of work to stay humble and stack to hodl actual bitcoin in self custody.

Not your keys, not your coins.

Perceived bitcoin is being held by keys outside of the fools control.

HNY

Debasement

Farmers market Lawyer Pharmacy Butcher Fish shop Organic food shop Restaurants Etc Grassroots adoption. Living on bitcoin

Looks like

is taking me more serious than most 😂 He’s building a bitcoin game slaying the fiat overlords. I need to get back to martial arts 😉

This was the first time I moderated a panel on a larger bitcoin conference. Used to do this in the port world, really enjoy interviewing and moderating to increase content density. More proof of work is necessary.

GM its monetary Sunday and everyone should reread bitcoin is time by

:

https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/

Bitcoin is time

What database do you prefer to use for your compressed future time expenditure storage?

Today during an important meeting, I brought up this specific article. Two pages in all major newspapers. One of the biggest scammers is back. Where we thought this guy was out of the picture. He gets a major podium in mainstream media. It’s as if scammers receive a perpetual podium, creating a centralized narrative. The majority of the Dutch population consumes this garbage. Is there any hope for the future, where we see non negative bitcoin narrative propaganda?

This was one of the questions I received at our

booth at the conference.

If you could pick your anti fishing words, what would be your personal favorite?

Everyone who cares about their privacy should run a full node. Great article about the options currently in use and development over time.

“Every Bitcoin wallet faces a fundamental technical challenge: how do you discover which transactions belong to your addresses without revealing those addresses to others? The solution you choose determines your privacy. Download everything and reveal nothing, or query servers and expose your financial history. There is no middle ground in the protocol design, only different points on the privacy-convenience spectrum. Bitcoin's blockchain is public. Your addresses don't have to be.

Full Nodes: The Original Standard (2009) When Satoshi launched Bitcoin in 2009, there was only one way to use it: run a full node. Download the entire blockchain, every transaction ever made. Your node asks for everything, reveals interest in nothing. How it works: Download every block, validate every transaction, maintain the complete UTXO set (~11 GB). When checking your balance, scan the local database. When broadcasting transactions, relay through the P2P network alongside thousands of others.”

GN I suck at command line.

In the past few days I had my goodbye meeting at the Dutch central bank and the authority of financial markets. As the chairman representing the United bitcoin companies in the Netherlands. It’s been an interesting few years. The totally refurbished building of the Dutch central bank is open for visitors and the amount of interesting things portrayed there is worthwhile for bitcoiners. “Value of trust” “value of stability” “The value of art” The first big public piece of the new head of the Dutch central bank is “don’t agree with Eurobonds”. (Link below). This piece might give a tiny bit of hope that further EU integration gets delayed. There is a high focus on digital resilience in geopolitical uncertain times. I’ve had naive hope I could change the legacy system. At least we won lawsuits and were able to reduce the regulatory burden and many millions of cost by having a firm stance. Our lawyer was not allowed at the main board cost meeting anymore after I brought him along once ☺️. The fight at the European court in Luxembourg will persist through the next chairman. It was great to see us win in the Rotterdam and Supreme Court in the Netherlands, with the Dutch central bank having an army of the best lawyers. We were able to push an over 5 million cost relieve at AFM under MICAR oversight this year. And we’ve held really strong stances where we could. It’s time to move on and leave this legacy system behind. We’ll have to build forward on new frontiers. The direction in the Netherlands is unfortunately, stifling innovation. On regulation they are clearly far ahead of any other location on our planet. I’ve seen what’s coming and it’s going to be tough, but we will be able to use our bitcoin. That is, what matters.

Fun fact: “Wall Street De Nederlanders bouwden in 1653 een verdedigingswal tegen de Engelsen en autochtone indiaanse stammen in wat toen nog Nieuw-Amsterdam heette. Het pad met een houten hek dat hierlangs liep, werd de Waal Straat of Wal Straat genoemd. Daar werd ook toen al veel gehandeld.” “Wall Street In 1653, the Dutch built a defensive wall against the English and native Indian tribes in what was then called New Amsterdam. The path with a wooden gate running alongside it was called Waal Street or Wal Street. Even then, there was already a lot of trading going on there.”

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/ecb-sleijpen-warns-eurobonds-only-013822101.html

This quote by

has so many layers.

GM Coming to the EU soon: “The reason for the revolt was the harsh and unfair taxes imposed by the royal power, which was seated in Denmark and used foreign tax collectors and civil servants to impose its will on the population.”

Green candle incoming

As a bitcoin maxi, life is simple. You simply always are all in. And of course looking at “price” it’s not always wise. So a beautiful example of conviction as I’m going through some historical buys with the print screens and the actual numbers. At the end of 2021 I sold my bike rental, bikelimburg. My last bit of fiat came in and as always, I directly converted it into bitcoin. I just started

and knew I needed the money later. It would take years to create a profitable company. But I bought bitcoin at this top anyway. I spend €5000,- (which was basically $5000,- back then). To see it be (1/4) €1250,- a year later. In November 2022, we had basically no new clients, not a single business case made sense for mining on that fiat level. And basically nobody believed in it anymore at that time. I was earning some fiat through BitcoinBrabant still and some side jobs at that moment. I always bought bitcoin. Proof of it below 👇

Now I’m really wondering how many degens got liquidated borrowing against shitcoins 😂 Had an epic conversation yesterday evening before going to bed. Woke up around 4.15 first answered my emails and DMs of BitcoinBrabant and did some workouts. Than found out bitcoin was a a bit lower. Emptied all the bank accounts. Bought bitcoin. Don’t do leverage. Work your ass off. Don’t leave bitcoin on an exchange. (All major US exchanges went offline during the trough).

A technical issue for us in Norway. You need digital ID to access the local marketplace app Finn.no. To receive discounts in the supermarket: digital ID… Any practical ideas to work around this?