Your New Year’s resolution is a non KYC (Kill Your Customer) stack that’s properly secured and maintains its privacy.
Self custody, run node, mine.
Happy new year.
Our stock levels are at the lowest level in 3 years.
The last two orders of the year are products that did not exist in our shop at the end of last year.
This year was lower volume, higher quality.
The orders this year were on average, how can we say it neatly, “more serious”.
If we look at order breakdown over the year and compare it with last year. The bitcoin volume was lower than last year. The fiat volume increased.
In this overview consultancy and project numbers are not incorporated.
Next year we are aiming to increase the volume of bitcoin payments. How can we explain better that fiat payments leak data and are more expensive on the merchant side?
In 2026, should we kill the fiat rails on our webshop and become bitcoin only again?
Currently shop intake (couple $100k) is 70% fiat.
We convert it all directly into bitcoin when we sell items.
It’s now been almost 2 years since a payment provider for fiat granted us the use of fiat rails again. We lost that back in 2022, because we were “doing something with bitcoin”.
So many people are paying with creditcards or Apple Pay while your data is spread through payment provider and banks into a lot of databases you don’t want to be in… Especially in EU.
Don’t understand why not many people are buying the best bang for your buck device… Wishing you all a warm Xmas. We have them in stock if you want to be warm the next cold weeks in the Netherlands.
https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/canaan-avalon-q-home-bitcoin-miner-90t/
Bitcoin is a mere tool to achieve freedom.
It’s the first time possession / ownership of your wealth / invested time can’t be taken from you by a third party.
It’s just a bunch of people that follow some rules instead of rulers.
These people believe these rules facilitate a better society.
Study bitcoin if you’re not yet at the self custody stage.
Spend time on learning why this project will create a better society.
In the BENELUX there are three major bitcoin only webshops.
During the amsterdam bitcoin conference we were coincidentally meeting at the same time, so a perfect opportunity for a picture.
Rob of bitsaga was standing in the back of our Eindhoven meetups quietly looking how to start his shop and helping people with self custody. His company bitsaga has now been running a few years.
Mario started with his shop, bitcoinstuffstore, a couple years ago and is specialized in customer experience. He started to list products we would distribute and gained significant market share. He started to distribute products himself and grew much faster than we did.
In bitcoin there is no competition, there’s only a strengthening of the network and bitcoin.
It’s amazing to see how far we have come already and where we’re heading next.
Wishing our “concullegas” a fantastic Xmas and happy new year!
Walking up to the wife: “Is it cold enough to start the heater yet?”
Sovereignty dealer since #700.000
Should we increase or decrease the amount of products?
So, Black Friday is over. Worst week in years. Back to normal.
This device just hit a solo block. The home miner movement keeps on growing. It’s a self reinforcing mechanism as more solo blocks are getting hit and more people join the biggest lottery on planet earth.
The amazing thing, it’s a global lottery draw every ten minutes with a direct payment into your wallet.
No boundaries, borders, middle men. It’s the lottery ticket that empowers individual and strengthens the biggest freedom movement in existence.
https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/canaan-avalon-q-home-bitcoin-miner-90t/
Lurkers. We need more proof of work people.
#BTClock version 3.3.14 has just been released, which fixes the weird artifact under the letter A when you get a Zap Notification and also fixes a block height synchronization issue.
You can update via the WebUI or using https://web-flasher.btclock.dev (or compile the firmware yourself of course!)
You don’t sleep? You keep on delivering proof of work.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
When it’s time to stack sats, BitcoinBrabant has negative stats 😂
Sales drop during sats for sale periods. IYKYK
In bear markets we build and expand.
We’ve listed the SpecterDIY Shield. It’s one of the longer running open source signer / hardware wallet projects.
It has matured and is now ready to be listed.
Next to that we are listing the bottle that contains all bitcoin.
As per request of our loyal bitcoin maxi Noderunners client base.
Cheers and GM.
https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/specter-shield/
https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/seed-bottle/
Black Friday sale today.
Our shop (with multiple orders per day) is categorized on popularity.
In the self custody category the most popular items are mostly backup related.
The most obscure one, our seedsafe, on the last page with only celestial bodies, is the most obscure.
Nobody knows what the heck that is. And cameras can’t scan the thing. Extreme Cypherpunk 😂
It’s all trade offs.
Seedfan, easy to engrave easy to scan the seedqr
Tiny seed, obscure but scannable, most use it in multisig
Seedsafe, obscure and difficult to translate, no camera can scan te seed at once
Seedhammer backup plates for the pro multisig heroes
But off course our most sold product remains the thick seedpaper with the seal bags.
Because why would you put a 3/5 on steel if you can just write them down and throw them in a sealbag. (Most still prefer steel)
https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/seedsafe/
What is the long term outlook? Will more or less than 1% of the global population hold their own keys?
And more or less than 0.1% run their own node?
This concept is seriously interesting. A bet on hitting the block reward. If this scales sufficiently it could be multiple blocks in a six hour time frame, mined by “for rent” miners.
Guaranteed income for miners, you either hit more or less than what you “gambled”.
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The bitaxe gamma Silents are finally back in stock. The northbridge heatsinks ran out at the manufacturer and now they are golden… We’ve added multiple combinations with different stands. 50 pieces in stock for as long as stock lasts. Most likely this is a one off production with the golden northbridge heatsinks…
https://bitcoinbrabant.com/product/bitaxe-gamma-silent/
