Not trying to doxx my exact birthday but i’ll be one year older on paper #Soon™️

Chance to celebrate him, end of mourning? 🫂

Fuck off Father’s Day shills, my Dad just died!

We humans keep making the same 10 mistakes over and over again. And each generation is sure that they are different as they walk headlong into the same dumbassery.

But at periodic points, miraculously, change points emerge. The printing press, the steam engine, radio, tcp/ip, Bitcoin…

I forgot the reason I started writing this the same way we forget history, but it’s an interesting thought to spend some time on.

i think i have a respiratory virus. anybody know a good treatment?

For influencers, they profit by complaining. They don’t want a real solution because then their midwit audience revenue would dry up. Tons of big names are susceptible to it. Brand, Rogan, Greenwald, Tucker, JBP, Weinsteins, on and on. Instead it’s all about “rebuilding institutions”.

For general public, they also don’t want a real solution because of extreme nihilism. Hope is vulnerability. Easier to be paranoid schizophrenic.

Follower count doesn't matter on Nostr.

Not only because you can easily spin up npubs to create fake followers. But traditionally, follower count used to be a metric that attracted sponsorships for monetization. However on Nostr, you can earn money directly from each post. This encourages sharing valuable content over chasing followers.

I will. I use nostr more and more these days.

Yeh, I'm doing OK. My father had Alzheimers so it was a relief as well as sad.

Thanks for your wishes.

No, that's a while until we know. First we have to see if he gets referred to the Crown Persecution Service (first possibility for this is next Friday). If he does, there will be another trial, this time in criminal court, where he might get a prison sentence.

The wheels of justice grind slow.

Thanks NOSTR, you have been a great distraction from the passing away of my Father.

I appreciate the distraction and the drama of OKX consolidations and Craig Wright's sentencing.

Bitcoin is NEVER boring!

People don’t see what we’re dealing with behind the scenes.

As a chairman of the United Bitcoin companies the Netherlands (VBNL) a lot is happening. In the last few months we had serious issues with the bank that facilitates most on/off ramping for exchanges in the Netherlands.

In January a large part of the bitcoin exchanges received a cost increase from €499,- to €4999,- per month for their bank account. In April they received a letter that the companies had until 10th of June to move their funds and operation to another bank. The bank accounts were going to be closed down.

The issue is that many exchanges have built extensive API’s for smooth on/off ramping with this bank. So this was a move that caused a lot of stress for many people. Communication with the bank was impossible. So every individual company took them to court. Only one case was actually brought into the court room and the company won. The other companies received a message they could hold their bank account.

The insane cost increase is still there and creeping further through the list of bitcoin companies.

We’re now looking at a way to reduce the cost, because for small companies it means bankruptcy.

This we do as companies together. And VBNL has been doing this for over a decade now.

For now it’s a bank, and on 10th of September we’re facing an even larger cost issue. The Dutch central bank. We won the court case with 11 exchanges but off course they appealed and now we’ll be standing at the Supreme Court. The central bank has burdened the exchanges with millions of regulatory oversight cost that were not lawful. A win during this court case would not only drop the cost for the exchanges between 2020-2024 but most likely also impact future cost under MICAR and the Authority of financial Markets. We’re currently looking at a €5.6 million cost from just AFM for the ongoing regulatory oversight for MICAR in 2025. Wish us luck.

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lmao. I don't even come on here and all of my content is all over the place.