It's 2032 in Belgium... And the Central Bank's A.I app took control of the #CBDC wallet.
Transaction Alert đžđ¨
Suspicious Activity Detected: Are You Feeding "Sloeber" or Yourself?
Details:
Purchase Summary:20kg Bulk Premium Dog Food (âŹ50.00 e-Digital)
Gourmet Dog Treats (âŹ15.00 e-Digital)
Eco-friendly Chew Toys (really?) (âŹ10.00 e-Digital)
Reason for Concern:Excessive quantity of pet food purchased.
No record of pet ownership registered in your Digital Life Profileâ˘.
Penalty Applied:
Fine: âŹ25.00 e-Digital deducted for suspected eco footprint circumvention.
Social Credit Impact: -30 points (New Score: 709/1000 â You're on Thin Ice).
Additional Actions Taken:
Due to the nature of this purchase, the following services have been temporarily suspended:
1ď¸âŁ Cooking Tutorials Subscription: Letâs not kid ourselves, you clearly arenât using it.
2ď¸âŁ Local Dining Pass: Until weâre sure you're not substituting "Sloeber"'s feast for Friday dinner.
3ď¸âŁ Online Dating Profile Visibility: Because âeats dog foodâ isnât exactly a winning bio.
Investigative Notice đľď¸:
A compliance officer has been assigned to verify:
Evidence of pet ownership.
That youâre not secretly hosting underground âdog food supper clubs.â
Next Steps to Avoid Further Humiliation:
Upload proof of pet ownership to the EuroDigital⢠app within 48 hours.
Attend the âResponsible Consumer Choicesâ webinar (Mandatory).
Reminder:
Circumventing eco footprint laws by consuming non-human food violates CBDC Directive EC-2040 and may result in:
Full wallet restrictions.
Public listing in the âQuestionable Consumptionâ section of your community app feed.
Weâre Watching. Make Better Choices. đ
Would you like to view government-approved recipes that arenât... you know, for dogs?
I've created a simple tool (open-source) that translates the numbers of a BIP-39 entropy into the actual word from the bip39 list.
But you can also toggle between the "0" or "1" as a starting point of that same list (as there are two used modes).
Enjoy
Episode 151, (in het Nederlands) 
over de #geldbarometer, bitcoin , de EU en middlemen.
EP150 - (English) "MiddlemenFest" 2025
We talk about the Travel rule, lobsters, bitcoin elites.
Name the shitcoin launch party.
About the #travelrule in Europe.
A rant to end the year.
Close to no one actually seems to care.
Three years ago, my podcast started because the first proposals for this law were being worked on in the EU Commission.
Since then, only a handful of people have reacted.
The rest just shrugged it off with some nonsense like, "I'll be outside the EU by then," or even worse: "Who cares? Some tech mumbo jumbo will solve it if you run 15 tools and use 15 compiled solutions that only 100 nerds really understand."
This is about our entire Bitcoin space being overrun by middlemen selling lies, bullshit, shitcoin casinos, credit cards backed by venture capitalist garbage, or even worse: untested solutions or toy-grade hardware wallets with buggy software or attached middleman services.
And now our main man, Jack Mallers, whose company rolls over to deliver the EU the Strike honeypot data by implementing the travel rule?
I remember
@Trezor
taking a huge shitstorm online a few years ago for unilaterally implementing the #travelrule, but now... hardly anyone reacts.
Yes, I get itâyou canât expect a bigger company to just ignore the law and continue without repercussions. But the Strike app is no longer an onboarding tool (we saw this coming, of course). Still, try onboarding someone to Bitcoin in Europe after January 1, 2025, and itâs either going to be:
KYC + criminalization + high taxes and a mountain of paperwork,
or
Just tell them, "Donât bother with Bitcoin. Itâs over. We live in the European Unionâyou should move elsewhere if you want freedom."
The fact that Europeans arenât even organizing a single protest, a single act of defiance, or any resistance is telling of the sort of total patsies weâve become. I see no end to this.
We now live in a totalitarian state as of January 1, 2025.
We should either resist or run.
But resistance at this point requires many brave people to stand up, instead of wasting time on Netflix or TikTok.
Unfortunately, for many of us, running is not an option or a desired outcome.
The travel rule is here, and for me personally, it feels like defeatâwhile the ones I should be fighting alongside in the trenches are rolling over like trained poodles.
first meetup on dec 6, 2024 was done at secret location "1"
the next one will be held in secret location "2"
stay tuned
first meetup on dec 6, 2024 was done at secret location "1"
the next one will be held in secret location "2"
stay tuned
I'll stop using Nostr for now.
Will return in a few months.
It's not worth the hassle to double your posts here for zero reach and close to zero people of the audience in Belgium.
I tried.
The engagement on Nostr is still very poor. Even the 100k posts and all,... Everything was on X.
Long way to go.
The celebration is on X it seems.
Happy 100k to the pol here anyway ;)
XRP training wheels 
Thank you for the best hardware wallet in the industry.
No hidden costs, no fees, no postal service, no online risk, non-hackable firmware, no dark skippy, no bricked hardware, no supply-chain "secrets" and no leaked data, incompatible BIPs and no broken interfaces, leaks and frozen interfaces.
Saylor is the big blocker of PowerPoint presentations.
We need to rethink the First/Third World framework.
From a Bitcoin-standard perspective:
Genesis World: (1st world) :
Full Bitcoin adoption (e.g., El Salvador, moving toward this).
Second World: Soft adoption, pro-Bitcoin gov, but still fiat as main money
Third World: Very limited adoption, no government involved, (but mainly grassroots citizens adoption).
Fourth World: Anti (or ignorant) Bitcoin stance from governments, companies and uninformed citizens with close to no adoption (e.g., Belgium).
This is how it looks when someone puts their union membership fee in Belgium (17 à 19⏠) into bitcoin every month since only June 2022.
You can do it ...
