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https://allesvoorbitcoin.be

maintained by : Kim D.
(former AllesVoorBitcoin podcast, April 2022 - April 2025)

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Last Notes

2025-05-22 11:26:31

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Fix your onboarding, sent mails out when ppl re-acrivate, less fluffy UI, get rid of the ridiculously difficult captcha stuff, integrate nodeless operation, work on a good android extension that's more usable....

2025-05-21 22:10:21

Added a new tool the "Entropy Eagle" to the mytools page on AVB.
It's a user friendly, seed generator, usable offline (loosely based on my randomizer 3000 tool).
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/toolsguides/entropyeagle/
https://blossom.primal.net/6e846ab63c2c72fa38c4ee98a0abf2113063f7ef4551aeeb563df95ceb024890.png

2025-05-21 08:19:35

If Satoshi would walk among us.
He's probably be called a douchebag or a loser, by people trying to sell a middleman service or driving around in a sportscar paid by scamming users.

2025-05-20 07:16:45

The 'say Le Clock' is reafyyfor pizza day and AtH in fiat
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/sayleclock/

2025-05-18 18:37:26

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Probably we'll go full circle and discuss 'account based wallets' ;)

2025-05-11 21:26:27

https://blossom.primal.net/4efd90ae5eb1c3c0bbd163ebbf4e0552e6a22d6afbf9aa8ca81e880324bd03c2.png
Let's see if a nice wallpaper gets me soms zaps.
Writing 4 months on a 12 piece series at least didn't 😉

2025-05-10 11:02:54

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We need to be

2025-05-10 09:12:46

I just released the " grand finale " of the 12 Food For Thought writings.
"Bitcoin needs to slay monsters".
It's a long-read. And you can listen to it as well on the audio version.
https://blossom.primal.net/1ebb95468dec85e4dc936c58f8c05e2cdc9a590aed00360c469a96d481c67842.png
https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-needs-to-slay-monsters

2025-05-07 07:00:27

Part 2 of the 'Bitcoin testing is a shit town's long-read chapter is dropping in an hour.
(I actually drop my book online for free, moving on... Too much time is being lost trying to write Bitcoin books)

2025-05-06 12:20:00

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Learned

2025-05-06 10:30:58

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https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0n0ly26z8c93cuqu0jjvre2vqpq78rg5f5937yzjh3a4vq6qd2gsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsfy7f8d0lms08wxw2xu4jvxcq2x2zqy6dgypksrh05p3jr9w4qhjcrqsqqqqqpzyn8r0

2025-05-06 08:28:52

Number 11 from 12 Food for Thought writings..., it's a 2-parter: in long-read form (ideal to let an AI voice read).
"Bitcoin testing is a Ghost town"
https://stacker.news/items/972682

2025-05-06 06:17:59

So no one talks about #BitcoinKnots setting the default payload size to 46 bytes for non-standard payloads?
Coming from 80 w ehave now as a 'consensus'?
Or did I interpret that wrong?

2025-05-05 16:25:55

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I just turn my node off. So the knots users will have a bigger ‰
Right?

2025-05-05 05:37:45

Worked almost all night., 3 h of sleep or something and now I have cracked the code of a problem I was working on for a while.
It's going to be awesome when finished.
#ProjectEm

2025-05-04 09:40:17

Yesterday I was with people that actually all were bitcoiners. They didn't use or have Bitcoin however, but they had that mentality.
The main reason for them to not 'get it' was the technical barriers.
My upcoming piece (11 of 12 food for thought ' will be dealing with that hurdle.

2025-05-03 14:47:25

A few months ago, I started an invite-only Bitcoin group. I believe that's the way forward—unlike most local communities that skip any kind of vetting or proof of work, and let in anyone just because they're wearing a Bitcoin shirt or an orange tie.

2025-05-02 16:15:28

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Silent protest... We've come full circle I think.

2025-05-01 20:13:36

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2025-04-30 20:59:45

https://molly.im/ is actually nice
Signal fork.

2025-04-29 21:22:25

I've built more tools in the last month, than in the last 10 years.

2025-04-29 19:29:12

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Can't login, there's no help after 'login with extension' ,... There is no such thing in my phone.

2025-04-27 16:41:12

In Europe, I can say, most bitcoiners just feel defeated. Some can hide it really well behind some rhetoric.
But most of us feel utterly defeated.
One of the reasons for that is the enormous amount of passive bitches and backstabbers, sell-outs and cosplayers.

2025-04-27 11:34:53

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Yes indeed... he once told me I did nothing for bitcoin and that he "thought further than bitcoin" ... (he's hilarious. Started to shill chain-brol-link to his followers at the top and now keeps begging for it to go up. 😉
He's the biggest cosplayer of them all.

2025-04-26 20:16:38

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This partical shitcoiner has also promoted the same pulp-n-dump nwice, so he know his shit'
:) :)

2025-04-26 15:00:27

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Women are better in saving and thinking long term. Women will be the majority of bitcoiners in ten years or sooner.
Good to see a Bitcoin conference doing an orange ladies space.

2025-04-26 08:12:55

" 8 rack "
I think this is one of the best tools you can run for generating a seed phrase on the fly. Made for local and/or offline of course. Open source and fair distribution of entropy.
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/toolsguides/8rack/

2025-04-25 15:00:30

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Yes

2025-04-24 13:39:00

Real bitcoin -> adoption > suits --> Corporate Bitcoin → Stablecoin as the global CBDC → Nations hunting private Bitcoin holders → Bitcoin killed as freedom tech → New era of fiat with Bitcoin as underlying layer → "Consensus" between corpo and nations is the new rule of law → + > 21 million BTC + tokens + e-ID links --> more enslavement
Do you like that path?
I don't

2025-04-24 12:34:19

Dear devs:
Users have zero clue what this is, and what to fill in there.
https://image.nostr.build/c41675221308bdc7ddfaeaddd0a848418c3ea5b99a1f1d3c6f6c59da1542656b.jpg

2025-04-23 16:52:05

Question: nostra on desktop is fine.
But whenever a service has a mobile website and you need to log in with nostr, I have problems.
I'm on Android, and I'm clearly missing something.
So the thing is, like this kinostr site has a nostra login. When I press it in chrome on mobile, nothing happens.
I don't have any compatible plugin, are there any?

2025-04-23 08:16:09

Keychat.io small bug: when people paste the full Key ID (not scan QR) then the 'confirm' button doesn't work on Android, unless that user minimizes their keyboard first (Which is open b/c of the text field input foe that key I'd field)

2025-04-23 05:56:12

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Thx, but it's not working.
I'm on Android and login is not possible with nostr on that site, unless I probably install yest another thing.
But the users I want to invite already gave up as wel

2025-04-23 04:58:49

Nostra problem:
When you log in to any nostra service in nipt07:
You need to log in, but on mobile this is not possible:
The amethyst client I use doesn't handle these logins, giving the nsec in such login is too risky and unsecure, and the browser extension to handle this bunker thing is not working in mobile android (and no one of these websites guides you towards a workable login anyway).
So you're stuck as an average user, because as per usual in Bitcoin/nostr , all coders think like coders and think that users jump through 50 hoops with all kinds of plugins and other stuff that usually doesn't work or only works when you install 2 other things.

2025-04-23 04:46:14

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What's a 01 app anyway?

2025-04-23 04:35:43

Making a user jump through 20 hoops to get to a service , diminishes the number of users to the point that every hoop costs you exponentially more users.
In Bitcoin and lightning, nostr they don't seem to get that.
I needed +50 clicks and other actions to do a simple thing that could be done in 3 clicks in telegram

2025-04-23 04:31:40

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This is not workable.
The screen I get when I find this service (just typing the name gave me some celebrity website) had to take the screenshot in chrome unfortunately, but this is not a page that guides the user in what to do
At this chachi thing.
Maybe make it more clear that there is only private groups in keychat and the rest is up to other services. (UX is not usable in my opinion) https://image.nostr.build/617f5e0ac3ddd89fb1c0a4d7c2dbf7fe9a6ae0328476d0509699064079056cc7.jpg

2025-04-22 21:21:31

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It's like WorldCoin, but without the shitcoin you could dump right after selling your data. :)

2025-04-22 21:16:03

Keychat group.
'GBGO' (Get Bitcoin & Get Out)
b33d1ea2287647b98589f68ac4ff5c673dd10fca4c0942c4190e6eaba54befe9
Trying to build a new group here, if you don't have keychat.io yet, you should get it.

2025-04-22 21:08:10

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Thank you.
Looks like something I wouldn't touch seen the risk/work/profit ratio

2025-04-22 17:49:53

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Why do they all look like they were cast-rejects from a 80s Zombie movie?

2025-04-22 13:33:30

With all the hardware wallets being promoted, I can only say that you'll probably only need this when you either handle a lot of btc (or other) for or as a business , or you're a shitcoiner that needs to sign a lot of smart contracts all day.
Most bitcoiners don't need such devices imho.

2025-04-22 11:46:26

This is the bear market of Bitcoin communities.

2025-04-21 19:24:23

The 'Say Le Clock'... Hear a waterdrop every new block, hear a quote ever 3 blocks, set background music if you like.
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/sayleclock/
https://image.nostr.build/be183589fa0af09347bbbab5ba8061ce9ba3130ac21fc154854946a8ab7e7807.jpg

2025-04-21 16:31:57

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Cool.
Also possible bug: when redtoreing from deed phrase from an older keychat version, the words are not always recognized.
Word 7 in my case 'orchard' was not recognized, while it's part of the seed.
(Compatibility issue?)

2025-04-21 11:28:24

Does anyone have a tip for an easy to use, minimals style addon for chrome and/or firefox in order to zap people from a lighting wallet in combination with primal net?
(Not Alby, I get the creeps from their UX and way of working).

2025-04-20 23:20:53

GM (holiday nightlife)
Any WM41 watchers still awake here? 😉

2025-04-20 20:15:11

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https://github.com/avbpodcast/8rack/releases/tag/v25.4.21

2025-04-20 16:08:26

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small update (small iteration)
version v25.4.20
MD5 :
063D88C2E7AD90C2732E495B7C73F9B3
SHA256:
A984C360E645DFC75FE6EF948AC168A1867279212F58846ABBADB285157AC794

2025-04-20 09:43:10

https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/toolsguides/8rack/
Introducing "8rack": User-friendly seed generation with three 96-card decks.
8rack is a unique tool for generating secure, human-readable results from entropy, using a custom deck with 8 suits and 12 ranks, ensuring a fair random selection of BIP-39 seed words (432 possibilities) plus checksum.
Unlike other card-pick tools, it uses three shuffled 96-card decks for equal word selection probability. Open-source, fast, and secure, it works online and offline with fair result distribution.
Learn more within the tool. If you value my work, consider the tip jar at the bottom.
https://m.primal.net/QWyb.png

2025-04-20 07:38:33

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Tried both the alby addon and this alby hub, but I can't even get the login to work properly, as the confirmation works through email and I never receive the email message with a login code.
Even when creating a new account or logging in through lighting, I get this after the initial login.
"Due to security and usability updates on our platform please use your email to login."
When creating a brand new account (I think I've made like 10 by now), the captcha stuff is so cumbersome that I just gave up after 5 mins.
The onboarding is "not ideal".

2025-04-19 21:29:35

Local meetups should have this unwritten rule that anyone showing up there should be on Yzer.io and have leve3 or up.
So you know they at least have knowledge of the very basics and have spent some time on education.
Everyone who talks about long time preference but doesn't even get to spend an hour getting the basics can actually pack and go imho.
(of course, that won't solve all problems, but it will surely be some small form of hurdle for the absolute bottom feeders that only show up to promote their unrelated business, snoop some votes for a local political party or get some info out of people for whatever reason and then disappear. (or don't know anything about bitcoin but crave attention)

2025-04-19 16:10:44

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it's not a slot machine 😉 - I'm coding a slot machine for fun, but that's free,...
the service would almost never reach 10 uses for one person, and the "tipjar" would just pop up now and then.
thx for the input

2025-04-19 16:03:45

If a club with nice things inside has no bouncer, and no internal 'eyes', you'll get problems.
If Bitcoin communities don't have any form of vetting, you'll be internally corrupted.
Let's start by having local meetups have a 'linimal' sort if vetting.
Havibg the Yzer.io app at level 3 at minimum should be a good start
And maybe, having people who claim to be 'years in bitcoin' deliver some form of proof that they're not just BS'ing to het attention.
Just some ideas I already floated around from a while back ,when I critizised some meetups with 'grifter' types.

2025-04-19 15:09:38

I still haven't found a good integrated wallet thing to zap people with.
None of them work smooth and in combination with my other loaded apps.
Has alby made any progress lately that people know off?

2025-04-19 15:07:59

If a free service I put online would randomly ask for a 2000 sats invoice to be paid at intervals (every 10 uses or so), would you be annoyed as hell or would you now and then pay that tipjar?

2025-04-18 22:56:11

Riddle me this:
40+ billion dollars in bitcoin in a few big hands
40+ companies and initiatives all scraping to get a few people paid to make cool stuff to help the community and let bitcoin thrive.

2025-04-18 17:26:29

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Make up a Vietnam story.

2025-04-18 09:02:16

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Agreed. People are not only cheap, most people don't read anything but the titles and give nothing as a reward for work, unless you're continuously marketing yourself like hell with a budget (which is mostly non existent in the btc space anyway)
https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/why-value4value-in-bitcoin-is-a-scam

2025-04-18 08:45:06

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'No one will notice their money is missing'
:)

2025-04-17 05:47:31

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Thank you for all you do.

2025-04-16 11:25:32

If you accept a CBDC as payment, you're also going to love living in a 15 minute city gulag.

2025-04-16 08:10:12

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Onboarding in nostr is horrible.

2025-04-13 09:41:49

Part 9 of the 12 Food for Thought writings is done.
"Orange is the new Orange" (a look at the Bitcoin art scene)
https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/orange-is-the-new-orange

2025-04-13 07:29:33

https://stacker.news/items/941850

2025-04-12 07:37:40

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Overview
Entropy Seed Phrase Poker generates cryptographically secure seed phrases using a card-drawing game powered by high-quality randomness. It combines two decks (blue and orange) to map card pairs to words from the BIP-39 wordlist, ensuring robust entropy for secure seed phrases (11 or 23 words).
Randomness Source
The system primarily uses LavaRand, which fetches randomness from Cloudflare's drand (distributed randomness) service, pulling 173 rounds of 32-byte randomness for high entropy. If drand fails, it falls back to crypto.getRandomValues, a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator in modern browsers, ensuring uninterrupted operation.
Rejection Sampling
To ensure unbiased random numbers, the system employs rejection sampling in the getRandomInt function. It discards random bytes that would bias the result (e.g., for a max value of 10, it rejects bytes ≥ 250 to avoid modulo bias), guaranteeing uniform distribution for card selection and word mapping.
Shuffling Algorithm
The decks are shuffled using the Fisher-Yates (Knuth) shuffle, an unbiased algorithm that rearranges cards randomly. Each shuffle uses LavaRand or fallback randomness to determine swap indices, ensuring every permutation is equally likely. Two instances of decks are maintained, with pre-shuffling to optimize performance.
Card-to-Word Mapping
The blue deck (32 cards: 8 ranks × 4 suits) and orange deck (64 cards: 13 ranks × 4 suits + 12 "X" cards) produce 2048 possible pairs (32 × 64). Each pair is mapped to a BIP-39 word (2048 words) via a modulo operation: pairIndex = blueIndex * 64 + orangeIndex, then wordIndex = pairIndex % 2048. This ensures each draw selects a word uniformly.
Entropy Calculation
Each BIP-39 word represents 11 bits of entropy (log₂(2048) = 11). For an 11-word seed, the total entropy is 121 bits; for 23 words, it’s 253 bits. The entropy is displayed as wordCount * log₂(2048), rounded to the nearest integer, reflecting the cryptographic strength of the seed phrase.
Checksum and Security
The Calculate Checksum feature validates seed phrases by computing a SHA-256 hash of the word indices’ binary representation, using the first few bits as a checksum (per BIP-39). The system wipes sensitive data (seed phrase, randomness buffer) from memory when requested, enhancing security.
Technical Notes
The application runs over HTTPS to protect data in transit. Users are warned if accessed over HTTP (except localhost). The UI supports light/dark modes, and the code is open-source on GitHub for transparency and verification. For best practice you can download (control-s) save as... the html page to run it locally. Or use the manual version of this page that relies on physical card shuffles you can perform yourself.

2025-04-12 07:37:02

Want an open-source, fair, automatic and/or handmade way to have a seed phrase?
Don't rely on whatever a chip in some hardware wallet does.
Rely on your own shuffling of cards, or the entropy of lavalamps in order to shuffle and deliver fair entropy.
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/toolsguides/seedphrasepoker/
(github project is in the footer)
https://m.primal.net/QMjp.png

2025-04-11 17:03:18

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Built a whole set of tools for myself.
And a fun 'say-le clock' time chain ticker with quotes and BG music, and releasing a math tool this weekend.
Finally possible
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/sayleclock/

2025-04-09 20:41:27

I've built something new, and it's mathematically beautiful.
Few more tests and calculations and it will be open to the public.
https://m.primal.net/QKBj.png

2025-04-09 12:57:21

Lage kwaliteit kranten....
https://image.nostr.build/a04663a98d89091e6e5dcab286a1d05ca9050bd86934a62346375ba4ca72fc96.jpg

2025-04-08 15:39:49

A repost is in order here:)
#Strategy
https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/strategy-is-in-vogue

2025-04-08 15:31:56

The Bitcoin ecosystem has a lot of temporary commensalism.

2025-04-07 11:08:23

Black Monday memes https://image.nostr.build/6e2a8e79e31bef2c1cf3650da51063543651fd853a7bfaacbaa17e105391cb36.jpg

2025-04-06 08:19:11

3rd release in 3 days.
Fixed a lot of stuf.
Invent, work, iterate fast 😉
I claim " Randomizer 3000 " has more entropy than most hardware wallet generated seed words (run it locally, but online for excellent results).
https://github.com/avbpodcast/randomizer3000/releases/tag/randomizer3000_2025_04_07
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/toolsguides/randomizer3000/
https://m.primal.net/QFWi.png

2025-04-06 06:53:28

Bad market breeds bad oneliners.

2025-04-05 23:00:09

The "randomizer 3000"
A tool to pick near-perfect entropy for your seed phrases.
It uses a wide range of entropy, from mid-range to die-hard (quantum generated, lavalamp, and much more)
v 2025.04.06
md5
EABF597AC3006516916DDB7798421175
sha256
42EA38F9BD711A75AA8CEC5BB122CC9D08AAEC7036A540AEAFFDF7D203383700

2025-04-05 18:35:10

https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/toolsguides/randomizer3000/
The "randomizer 3000"
https://m.primal.net/QFWi.png
A tool to pick near-perfect entropy for your seed phrases.
It uses a wide range of entropy, from mid-range to die-hard (quantum generated, lavalamp, and much more)
md5
EABF597AC3006516916DDB7798421175
sha256
3464254D41B7C16113BCA59EE60F109802D4059EC7CC58A8F60D350A86D1E28B

2025-04-05 17:00:23

Release of AVB software:
https://bip39tool.com/
v2025.04.04
md5
6D50BAE03C23E462434C49785DAA727E
sha256
1548726B2253FF88556A3A6093DCD0F416BECE05F6DA9A608B2FF991D4B4D5DE

2025-04-05 11:21:36

260+ people in the "Belgian bitcoiners" group, and not even 1 post about the AVB podcast quitting. 😉
proves me right I guess.
Do the work or perish.

2025-04-03 19:21:47

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yeah , I might be available... if there's something real to do (and get actually paid)

2025-04-03 19:21:06

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no one is hungry 😉 food for thought is not popular -
I like that actually.
Because bitcoin people all want to hold their thumbs up next to Saylor or the next hardware wallet these days.

2025-04-03 14:37:01

@nprofile…c28c is your service down?

2025-04-03 14:34:35

Food for Though on bitcoin conferences.
https://m.primal.net/QCwk.png
https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-conferences-drink-your-milkshake

2025-04-02 09:18:47

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Nice, been saying the same thing for a while now.

2025-04-01 13:38:56

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Yes they do

2025-04-01 06:17:52

I've made a wizard that can guide people through making a secure cold storage wallet. This is just a beta version, the random entropy has many sourc z, including Belgian railway traffic delays as random input and cliudflare's lavalamp.
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/getyourseed/

2025-03-30 21:10:18

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yep 😉
https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/why-value4value-in-bitcoin-is-a-scam

2025-03-30 21:03:14

The level of idiocy on Bluesky is absolutely hilarious.
https://m.primal.net/PyjC.png

2025-03-30 20:40:08

Seeing some insight' from my own presentation pop up here and there.
Two slides from the 'digital life' presentation:
https://image.nostr.build/6e39be6f813d170a10cdae385ccdf79966724fe8ca09c01989853989ad36dcd1.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/a7691bb51320345b0085b0eb05f11fb398e1e1b055c4b141f5a7bbcd1d227115.jpg

2025-03-30 14:58:44

Awesome stuff
#nevent1q…55mx

2025-03-29 18:00:39

Blogpost 7/12 about Bitcoin Food for Thought:
"Strategy is in Vogue"
https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzppn35mj33rmnua6xencd695m7jn8s4pckukpy8urhllaqnugr9x3qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqpk5m5wfshget80ykkjuedd9hz64n0va6k2tfjw34rwv3en059av

2025-03-28 22:35:00

If the only thing you’re known for is hustling a referral link to a conference, that’s honestly kinda pathetic.
They don't promote things (unless it's their own little niche club, and even then it's rather mute).
In the end, it's all a way to score some free tickets to a conference where the same 10 people will stand on stage probably...
(more people in bitcoin should call out stuff to better the space instead of applauding anything that just promotes itself and has no substantial impact)
just my thought
https://m.primal.net/Pwbl.png

2025-03-28 22:22:22

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I feel you, and thank you for speaking your mind.
It always bugged me that the real support (like: real!) often comes from a few people in the shadows (if at all). (or even sh**coiners, who sometimes act more like bitcoiners than some rats in the bitcoin community, who only take and take, never do anything, unless they get a free meal or a free ticket out of it.
The funding of a lot of good people and good projects is mostly dismal.
The V4V model is broken as f (and when you honestly do your story about that, the people get shunned or banned outright by "the suits").
The sad part that bitcoin often attracts people who still don't get it. And rather send Peter Shiff some bitcoin from their vanity address than supporting people that matter and build, or do whatever it takes for bitcoin.
I'm seeing more and more people just "writing books" (even people who don't have anything to tell other than "buy my stuff"), while others can't even scrape together enough money to make a living.
And yes, we're all supposed to be "rich" and "sitting on a stash". But most don't. And it's hopeful that people like you dare to speak up, only this way can a community grow and do something more than thinking "pump my bags".

2025-03-28 10:22:21

Bitcoin books are getting out of hand.
This week, I've got like 3 ppl with some limited btc experience and/or nothing more to say other than "hard money is good" and "buy my stuff" are to publish "a bitcoin book".
The #deminishingreturns will be hard hitting.

2025-03-27 08:01:29

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Precoiners is such a stupid word.

2025-03-26 09:53:39

https://fountain.fm/show/6r1env8YjTCvlIHWsJP8
EPisode 162 : We hebben het over Saylor, de Plasma USDT brug, Japan, Amsterdam, subsidies , coding, AI en veel meer.
https://m.primal.net/Ptbr.png

2025-03-26 08:23:03

"Say le clock" (an audio timechain clock)
https://m.primal.net/PtXf.png
Feel free to check it out and see how it ticks for yourself!
Tick-Tock next block!
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/sayleclock/

2025-03-25 18:22:43

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Trezor is security theater and a marketing machine. Just like most hardware wallet makers by the way. But Ledger and Trezor are kind of the worst. (and their stuff sux-)

2025-03-25 18:20:51

I make podcasts, do interviews, review stuff, blog for years, do presentations, and build tool you can actually use.
This week I got 78 sats in rewards, and 2 people clicked a thumbs up somewhere.
In the meanwhile: a notorious bitcoin-hater like Peter Shiff is raking it in from generous bitcoiners.
😉 I'm going to have fun speaking my mind from now on, the 12 food for thought writings will get more poisonous, because complacency has begun to creep in.

2025-03-25 17:05:13

I’m excited to share a sneak peek of the "Say-le-clock" with you all.
It’s a little tool I built for myself to track the Bitcoin timechain purely through audio (I needed that)... it plays a sound for every new block, a quote every third one, and a status update every five minutes, all layered with some background tunes for those who want.
It’s a handy way to “hear” a pending transaction land when you’re waiting on a block or just hanging with the chain.
Plus, it’s also great to use as a chill background clock or even stream to your phone’s lock screen for that always-on Bitcoin connection.
Feel free to check it out and see how it ticks for yourself!
Tick-Tock next block!
https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/sayleclock/
(the super-simple non-audio version is here: https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/ticker/ )