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Very cool man, thanks for doing the work and writing about it 🫶 And fuck it, I have thought about donating to OpenSats for a while and I'm just gonna start now. I unfortunately do not have as much to share as your average Q1 donor, but I guess every little bit helps 🤩

2026-04-07 19:53:36 CEST

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Thats a cool cup 🤩 Did you make it yourself? 🧐

2026-04-03 13:58:25 CEST

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Thats pure gold man, cracked me up 🤩 Still enjoyed the 11th explanation btw 💪

2026-04-02 16:55:10 CEST

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Or if your brain works more like mine (only circled the first 3 out of 16):
https://blossom.primal.net/3964d84adf34a1932292657aceb9f36e86f127b6d29bab698f6f838b58c022dc.jpg

2026-04-02 16:53:41 CEST

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Wtf, thats not at all where I see them 😂 But for some reason that outline did cause me to see them here (only circled the first 3 out of 16).
https://blossom.primal.net/3964d84adf34a1932292657aceb9f36e86f127b6d29bab698f6f838b58c022dc.jpg

2026-04-02 10:14:19 CEST

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Oh ffs please tell me this wasnt some April Fools shizzle 😂

2026-04-02 07:19:01 CEST

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I wanna see the circles but dont. Can someone describe where they at, or is that not how this works 😂

2026-03-23 16:46:57 CET

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Not nice to see 😟 There was probably a lot of less urgent testing / early-stage treatment that got delayed because of the decreased hospital capacity due to COVID. Which would unfortunately lead to higher death rates in later years 😟 Let's hope we can get back on the downtrend.

2026-03-21 08:54:52 CET

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That guy looks surprisingly unimpressed 😱 Guess it waant his first time using the client

2026-03-16 19:01:55 CET

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Autoing must be insane now with AI 😂

2026-03-15 16:05:54 CET

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Follow up question then: what does "God is real" mean for you? You believe there is an almighty entity that created everything? And shared its rules with us, which you try to follow in life?

2026-03-15 13:55:15 CET

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Thanks for sharing what it means for you 🫶 How do you decide what "the highest standard of action" is on a daily basis? And how do you ensure you are "in service of the Divine"?

2026-03-15 10:30:35 CET

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Those first 2 sentences should be the subtitle to a reprint of Carnegies "How to Win Friends and Influence People (2026 BTC / Nostr edition)" 😂
Surprisingly few & mild replies to this thread haha. Though I guess its only been 14 hours.

2026-03-15 10:24:14 CET

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What do you mean when you say "believe in God" / "having faith" etc? Literally thinking and/or feeling there is an almighty entity out there that has your destiny mapped out for you, so no need to worry about yourself any longer?
I was raised religiously, wouldnt say I "believe in God" in that sense (although that depends on how we define it of course) but still the older I get, the easier I find it to not worry about myself or live for myself.
Not trying to be a dick or start a religious argument here btw, just curious what it means for you when you say that 🧐

2026-03-11 07:58:55 CET

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Did he ever apologize or at least acknowledge he messed up? That was some embarrassingly unnuanced 'research' if you ask me.
Anyway, thanks for continuously trying to counter that stuff with nuance, I really appreciate it 🫶

2026-03-05 18:43:43 CET

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Nice 😂 What is the chipmunk/beaver tech stack representative top left?

2026-03-05 09:30:13 CET

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I made a Spotify playlist for this, contains 11 (imo) great episodes covering various important aspects, ordered in a way that I think makes sense for people to get started.
Its not perfect yet, but best I've got atm. Gonna take some time off work to write my own (hopefully very easy to understand) "why bitcoin" article soon, so I can just send that to people 🤩
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6l7vpmYYvGILIviUGevZ8C?si=MrXJXQ_-TBihJwREZEsPmQ&pt=569a535876283c0f715e54aa7f5b2cce&pi=L-kDCkXvRqCkZ

2026-02-23 12:42:00 CET

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Awesome 👏 Can you ask one of em to make you zappable? Wanted to send some appreciation for this cool note but that does not seem to work 😬

2026-02-22 08:45:48 CET

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I'll do 2: "Fairer money". Or if it has to be 3 and a little wordplay: "Money fair all"

2026-02-20 01:06:11 CET

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Nuance, love it 🫶

2026-02-15 06:51:48 CET

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I like Perplexity for that reason. Links to the source sites included in the AI output. So far pretty decent imo 🥸

2026-01-24 17:54:35 CET

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Looks cool 🤩

2026-01-23 09:04:41 CET

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*individual, answer. Man an edit button would be good 😂

2026-01-23 08:51:01 CET

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We'll see how it goes! Personally I would like a tax system mostly based on:
1) Consumption tax (VAT / energy tax / tolls for roads etc)
2) Combined with wealth tax, since you cant fully control your consumption patterns yourself, sometimes life just happens and it would be unfair to fully punish the individual for that imo, so having the most fortunate members of the group pay a higher group contribution via a wealth tax (incl. a decent exemption for low levels of wealth) seems fine to me and I'd gladly pay that wealth tax myself if it comes to it
3) A lower income tax to stimulate working, I get that we need investments (= wealth) to make it possible to work efficiently and innovate, but I feel like the balance between capital and labor has become kinda skewed. Probably something to do with fiat 🤪
1-3 above is just the way I would like it to be structured. There will then of course be a lot of details to decide on such as how much tax income should all of this generate and how can we minimize that amount, but still arrange all the things we want to arrange collectively. Not easy and every individuals will have a different answee. Definitely interesting to think about though, we'll see how it goes!

2026-01-23 08:28:08 CET

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No, my bad, I should not have used the word "realize" there. If you have a loss in year 1 (whether realized or not) and a gain in year 2 (again, whether realized or not), you can carry forward the loss from year 1 to year 2.

2026-01-22 18:27:22 CET

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Carry forward to later years, so you can offset gains then. See the English version of this post:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvhvu6d7kfksynmx05tm0fnyljyvpmlxpy4rjr2qv3twj2nwt4l0gk9equn

2026-01-22 18:26:44 CET

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Carry forward to later years, so you can offset gains then. See the English version of this post > https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvhvu6d7kfksynmx05tm0fnyljyvpmlxpy4rjr2qv3twj2nwt4l0gk9equn

2026-01-22 08:50:58 CET

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In the current system: no. But in the proposed new system which the original post is about, you will be able to carry forward losses to future tax years. So if you realize a loss in year 1 and a gain in year 2, you can carry the loss forward and pay less or no taxes (depending on the exact amounts of loss & gain) in year 2.

2026-01-21 20:41:28 CET

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I havent studied the new proposal (apparently its for 2028 but still needs to be approved into law). Under the current system, you declare your assets in your yearly tax filing. You can of course try to leave certain assets out, but that would be illegal and the tax filing program is pre-filled more and more each year (so they have data links to banks etc).
If you go for the standard route, you are taxed based on the assumed return per asset class that you have invested in. So if you have 1K of savings, you declare that amount and that 1K in savings is assumed to have returned 1.44%, so you get taxed on 14,40 of assumed savings income.
Similarly, if you have 10K of equity or other assets (BTC falls in that category), you declare that amount and that is assumed to have earned 5.88%, so you get taxed on 588 of assumed income.
They then add up the assumed income from all asset categories and subtract the assumed interest on certain types of debt. That is the 'assumed net return' on which you are taxed 36% (this is all based on the 2025 rules). Oh and I cant forget to mention, the first 58K (single) or 115K (couple) of net assets (you can again subtract certain types of debt) is untaxed.
There is also a second option next to this 'assumed return approach'. If your actual return is lower than those assumed returns, you can opt out of the standard approach and have them tax you based on your actual returns.
Havent tried that myself yet though, so I dont know the full details there. There's not that much to tax on my end, so havent felt the need to dive into it 🥸 And I even think they are planning to automatically use this approach if your actual returns are lower than the assumed ones from 2025 or 2026 onwards.

2026-01-21 20:20:53 CET

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Its a good thing we dont live together then 😂 I dont consider taxes thievery, just a contribution to pay for things we arrange collectively as a society. Sure we can debate what that contribution is spent on and how high it should be, but the principle is fine with me. But hey we can agree to disagree, no worries 🫶

2026-01-21 18:45:39 CET

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Relax. Under the current system we already owe taxes on bitcoin, stocks, bonds and other assets each year even if nothing has been sold.
Its currently not solely based on changes in asset values, but on (a) assumed return percentages per asset class you invest in or (b) if you elect to do so, based on actual returns for your portfolio (incl. unrealised returns).
NL is a great country to live. Investors and non-investors alike know that. No need to get too dramatic about this.

2026-01-02 08:44:54 CET

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Just plotted the 'net repo' (RPTTLD and RRPTTLD data taken from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=379), this seems like quite a non-event to be honest.
https://blossom.primal.net/087e5ff8768a088fabd2dc2707446b63cc787f0d0fb6c3a43400188e735cd63b.jpg

2026-01-02 08:31:30 CET

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2026-01-01 22:46:24 CET

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Hm, actually, repo 75 billion, reverse repo 106 billion, that would make it a 31 billion liquidity removal rather than injection, right? 😂 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=379

2026-01-01 11:43:13 CET

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Nvm, gotta stop trying to rely on AI for quick answers. For whoever is interested, source straight from the Fed > https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD/#

2026-01-01 11:39:59 CET

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Source? 🧐

2025-12-20 15:46:56 CET

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Got the justice.gov link for this document? Couldnt find it searching for "Document 383" here: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search

2025-11-18 21:04:41 CET

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Dont die (yet), hope you first get to enjoy a long & fulfilled life with your kids & let others enjoy their lives with or without 🫶

2025-11-08 20:05:10 CET

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Whats wrong with the bitcoin for Signal / iMessage thing? Why does that irk you?

2025-11-08 09:54:59 CET

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I dont know you or Calle but have listened to quite some cashu / ecash podcasts over the years. Literal quote from Calle, Citadel Dispatch #120 March 2024, around the 1h35min mark: "ecash is not bitcoin, it just works with bitcoin".
That quote is part of a larger and quite nuanced answer in response to the question "Do you consider ecash a scaling solution for bitcoin". He very clearly says he does not and repeats the need to be "extremely pedantic" with these definitions several times, to prevent people from getting wrecked/rekt.
Again, I dont know him or you, but this feels like an unfair representation of what hes saying about cashu and tbh, just feels like internet fighting for the sake of internet fighting. Which I guess I'm now contributing to via this reply, but whatever.

2025-10-21 17:34:52 CEST

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If AI & robotics really end up taking all our jobs then they will have a lot of competition for the few remaining human jobs though right? 😱

2025-10-21 17:33:15 CEST

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Whaha this bot is just top class 😂

2025-10-19 13:43:36 CEST

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The arm tattoo seems a bit much 😱

2025-10-11 15:55:17 CEST

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When in doubt why not just go to the source? Dont see v30 on https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/ yet

2025-10-07 20:29:05 CEST

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Interesting, guess I should start basing my opinion of Americans on their elite circles rather than South Park. Won't be nearly as much fun though 😑

2025-09-19 16:00:12 CEST

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Haha, was thinking the same, great immature minds think alike 🫶

2025-09-19 15:59:01 CEST

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Beautiful animal 🤩 I'm sure there was an opportunity for some kind of a 'small pecker' joke in there as well, but meh, good stuff 🫶

2025-08-26 23:02:23 CEST

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Not to be a dick and hijack your note, but it reminded me of one of my favourites, figured I'd share 😇 Taken quite some time ago, RIP to 2 of them 😟
https://blossom.primal.net/d11fffb644462fc4ec4d9014bd9120ef9d1e2658c12b61a5fd50d3f2924799bd.jpg

2025-08-26 22:54:30 CEST

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Very nice 🤩

2025-08-08 13:31:16 CEST

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Hahaha you have a pretty funny setting on your spambot man, good stuff, would zap you if I could 💪

2025-05-09 08:05:22 CEST

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Nice to follow, thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity: "as long as it stays decentralized and secure (which means it must be used as a medium of exchange)" is a pretty important assumption. What makes you confident that will actually happen?
Perhaps the faith that in the end, most people are not stupid and will eventually stop accepting that their time is stolen via fiat printing and switch to the better money? I.e. you have faith in the majority of individual decisions slowly trending towards BTC? 🤩

2025-04-17 11:04:43 CEST

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Thats cool man, only Chuck Norris can be tough 24/7/365

2025-03-07 09:01:44 CET

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Dayumn, that is indeed pretty badass in my humble opinion 😱 And who cares about leaning, you guys look great together 🫶

2025-03-07 07:36:00 CET

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Lol

2025-03-05 22:21:01 CET

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Thanks for the shock therapy session 😂

2025-02-21 08:02:20 CET

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NL with no intention of moving. Every country has problems and I'm sure we can find people that want to move away from various countries because of worries.
My point is I wouldnt base my view of a continent or country on an unbalanced X post. And preferably also not share stuff that is (in my opinion) clearly meant to scare people and/or farm engagement.

2025-02-20 22:51:13 CET

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I wouldnt base my view of an entire continent off some guy's X post. And if you are going to do that and/or spread information like this, at least give his story a quick Google to try and get a bit of a balanced view of whats going on. I'm not Belgian and don't know the guy, but simply reading literally the first hit that pops up when Googling his name, strongly suggests he may not be X-ing the full story. Life is pretty sweet over here in Europe 🤩

2025-01-23 18:16:31 CET

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"Honored to chair the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets"

2025-01-18 18:42:02 CET

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Does acting like a kid count? Asking for a friend 😇

2024-12-31 13:44:41 CET

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Nice read and I love the transparency 🫶 Was a bit surprised to read about 3 'big fish' accounting for 23 of the $ 23.6 million total 2024 donations (with 'only' 926 individuals accounting for the remainder).
I'm in a (way) different league in terms of wealth and not based in the US, but I'll set something up. All small donations help I guess.
Do you guys prefer donations in sats or fiat? And any preferences in terms of frequency for 'pleb' recurring commitments (i.e. a few $ 100 per year instead of thousands or millions)? Annual / monthly / indifferent?

2024-12-27 21:22:06 CET

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I hope 2025 will be a lot better for you man 🫶

2024-12-06 09:43:14 CET

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One word: awesome 🤩👏 And two questions:
1) How does the 'get paid in BTC' part work from the employers side? Do they just transfer the fiat salary to a Strike bank account for Strike to convert it to BTC?
2) Has been said a few times already: any plans to get this to the EU? 😇

2024-11-26 17:53:37 CET

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Great post ánd comments 🤩🫶

2024-11-13 13:58:00 CET

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Love it 🫶

2024-08-29 22:56:22 CEST

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Ah cool, nice find man! I've been deep in the Polar Flow ecosystem for years so I have no illusions about my privacy there 😂 But still cool to play with, I'll see if I can get it to work later, thanks for sharing 🤩 @npub1der…xzpc this looks like a pretty privacy-preserving option if you wanna go the Polar route 🥸

2024-08-29 16:09:27 CEST

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Thats a chest strap heart rate monitor though. I use it myself (when running or cycling) but I think it would be pretty uncomfortable to wear it while sleeping or throughout the day as a proxy for an activity monitor.
On-topic: I use the Polar Vantage M watch myself. I like it in terms of tracking some relevant data (mainly runs & sleep) but not overdoing it. I don't know enough about the privacy preservation aspect. I guess if you do not create a Polar Flow account or never sync the wacht over Bluetooth / via the USB cable, then all the data will stay on the watch, so you should be good. And there's an 'airplane mode' and 'factory reset' on the watch. But I assume all this goes for most sportswatches without wifi connection, not just the Polar Vantage M.

2024-08-27 15:24:44 CEST

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😂

2024-08-27 14:21:43 CEST

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You guys share a lot of funny pics that I'm definitely stealing 🤩😂 Can't seem to zap you though? 😬

2024-08-26 15:41:24 CEST

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Is this available as a podcast or video somewhere? I watched the Bitcoin & Nostr talk by you & Jack Mallers on YouTube, good stuff 🤩 Would love to check out "What Nostr Brings to Bitcoin" as well!

2024-08-23 15:13:37 CEST

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Already have plans that evening, but will definitely keep the restaurant in mind for the next time I'm in Arnhem 🤩

2024-08-23 11:14:56 CEST

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Yup! Just tagging @npub14mg…jgm5 in here, so the Bitcoin Arnhem love goes to the right person 😇

2024-08-23 08:57:43 CEST

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I guess its a bit of a chicken & egg problem right. Merchants will (have to) accept BTC if thats what customers want to spend, customers will want to spend BTC if enough relevant merchants accept it. But hopefully over time more & more merchants ánd customers get sick of fiat & start accepting & spending 🤩 In any case kudos to you for the Bitcoin Arnhem initiative 👏

2024-08-23 08:43:58 CEST

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Thank YOU for founding the site and getting vendors going with BTC! Without that I still wouldnt have had my first real life purchase in BTC 😇 Next time I'm in Arnhem I'll check out the foodhall, seems like there are quite a lot of BTC acceptors over there.
About what I'm looking for: I don't buy a lot 'on the go' like the coffee in Gigis example. The main places that would need to start accepting BTC for me to be able to 'live in BTC' are my mortgage provider, supermarket (Picnic / AH / Jumbo etc), energy company, health insurance company, football club, various webshops such as Coolblue / Amazon / Bol.com and then the occasional 'on the go' expense like restaurants / bars / hairdresser.
Oh and pretty important: an easy & not too expensive way to get my employer to pay me in BTC rather than EUR, otherwise I'll be all out of BTC pretty quickly haha 😂

2024-08-22 19:22:38 CEST

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"Shock discovery at Nostr convention: female poledancers found to be more scarce than BTC 😱"

2024-08-22 14:25:36 CEST

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Makes sense! And enjoy the wheels, I hear that can make a big difference, will keep em on my list for future upgrades 😇🤩

2024-08-22 14:23:37 CEST

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I'll let you know if I find more places, for the next time you're in NL 🤩

2024-08-22 14:22:16 CEST

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The pancake place I went to was near Arnhem, found via https://www.arnhembitcoinstad.nl/#deelnemers. I think you are overselling Arnhem a bit though haha. Have only tried one of the participating restaurants of course, but they told me the BTC payment tablet is almost never used. And the other participating vendors are not really what most people (or atleast I myself) would need to live everyday life using BTC. I'm not trying to be a negative nancy here btw, just looking for actual useful real life places where its accepted.

2024-08-22 13:28:08 CEST

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Nice bike 🤩 Have you considered electronic shifting (and/or power meter, can't see the other crank side in your pic 🥸) as a fun crazy tech upgrade? 😇 I really enjoy those myself.

2024-08-22 13:08:37 CEST

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In which German city is BTC already that widely accepted? Not trying to 'dox' you or anything, just curious. I recently made my first real life purchase in BTC here in NL (2 pancakes and some drinks to go with them 😋😂) but had to actively look for a place that accepts BTC. Even contacted them before visiting, to double check whether they really did accept BTC. I guess BTC acceptance by Dutch pancake restaurants is not super high on the 'how to improve the world' list, but getting from 'store of value' to 'medium of exchange' (which I hope we will) still feels like quite a big step to me.

2024-08-21 08:05:46 CEST

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I probably missed the AMA, but just saw this and am curious: why do you not care about CO2 footprint?

2024-08-16 11:14:05 CEST

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The scene in the last one with the super slow fighting up the stairs -> falling down all the way -> fighting back up way faster was a bit too much for me 😂 Sweet proof of work though. The other 3 I really liked 🤩

2024-08-15 08:26:55 CEST

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Beautiful - saving that pic 🤩

2024-08-15 08:25:53 CEST

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"The meme-work makes the dream work", first time reading that, beautiful 🫶

2024-08-08 20:47:47 CEST

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Hope that gets better for you soon man 💪 You probably already know this and/or it has been said already, but where possible I'd try to prioritize sleep > food > exercise > social time with the people you like for a while (in that order, but I guess that's personal preference). And for what it's worth: I enjoy and appreciate the stuff you put out! 👏

2024-08-05 13:55:44 CEST

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If you say so - food for thought 💪

2024-08-05 13:46:00 CEST

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The math seems OK to me, but someone arguing in favor of hyperbitcoinization might (1) argue against 'only' assuming 5x (2) wonder whether looking at a relatively short 10-year period makes sense (3) wonder whether the house will really 'stay the same' if we hyperbitcoinize (sweet word 🤩) or whether houses might go down in fiat terms while BTC goes up (4) related to point 3: wonder whether you will still be able to buy a house with a 100% mortgage and no down payment after we hyperbitcoinize. And the tax / freedom / privacy stuff already mentioned by others.

2024-08-03 14:35:11 CEST

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Just saw this for the second time, again made me laugh 😂 Could be sweet intro music for Fed announcements too btw: "his palms are sweaty, knees weak arms are heavy" 🤩

2024-08-03 09:00:53 CEST

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Hahaha 😂

2024-08-01 22:01:40 CEST

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Serves you right with a surname like that 😑👋

2024-07-28 16:59:54 CEST

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Enjoyed your nuanced & relatively calm words among all the craziness via livestream haha 😂 And I like the 'stay humble & stack sats' motto as well, but at some point we'll have to start using rather than stacking them for BTC to actually take over as new & better money right? 🤔

2024-06-27 11:33:56 CEST

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Any good starting points on how to get started in the BTC circular economy? That's the part I'm most unsure about: how to get to the point of actually earning sats and using them to pay for important stuff like food / energy / housing / insurance etc. (instead of earning fiat, using that to stack sats as a better store of value and not actually spending them)

2024-05-04 15:29:21 CEST

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Awesome, respect 👏

2024-05-04 15:28:46 CEST

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Congrats on the funding and kudos for the transparency 💪

2024-04-21 00:00:23 CEST

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For whoever is interested, the link to the IMF report > https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2024/04/05/A-Primer-on-Bitcoin-Cross-Border-Flows-Measurement-and-Drivers-547429

2024-04-20 23:58:14 CEST

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Where has the IMF said this? Couldn't find it in the BTC cross border report on their website. Would be a very nice acknowledgement!

2024-04-01 16:19:33 CEST

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Whahaha thats great 😂

2024-03-28 23:08:58 CET

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You beat me to it - agreed 😑

2024-03-28 23:07:22 CET

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Great pic, saving 🤩

2024-03-28 23:06:29 CET

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Welcome! Sweet pic, set up a wallet so I can zap you 🤩