Is this an attempt to capture bitcoin? Like an attempt to control and centralize the internet?

Your thoughts?

In Europe there is a lot of competition. As it should be. We’re very happy to see an ever growing choice of shops. If one fails the other ones will just pickup demand. We were the first with Bitaxes, now there are dozens if not over 100 shops that sell bitaxes. We were distributing all Dutch translated books, now you can find them in the average book shop and the biggest distributor of books is taking care of it.

We were the first to start selling @FOUNDATIONdvcs and were asked by @SatsVault to take over his shop, as it was too much at that time.

We are moving in waves, are not depending on anyone. Have 0 debt. And have no plan of ever selling the business.

Sovereignty in self, what to sell, deletion of data is key.

We keep on fighting with shippers to be able to ship anonymously, though we see some worrisome directions.

On the positive side, data protection is starting to live more with the shippers as the first EU shipper has implemented 2FA if you have an account.

We keep on shipping without account manually, without API’s, no data leakage.

We hope to be able to persist.

Competitors clearly focus more on a fluid user experience, with direct WhatsApp customer service, Shopify (that’s where the ledger hack happened FYI) use and many other details with regards to privacy that we do differently.

It simply shows in the amount of anon mailadresses and postal boxes being used for orders.

We start to see more opened packages by customs, especially to Spain.

Curious what the next years are going to bring.

We are prepared to just deliver hardware for self built signers and miners in case it becomes truly difficult.

“Why it’s not possible, we know, the only thing that counts is that it happens.”

You could also translate this as

“We know why it’s not possible, that it is brought to fulfillment is the only thing that matters”

Would you have a better translation?

another day, another round of waiting for Google Play to review bitchat android 1.1.0 with geohash chat. hold on anon.

Some reputations are in need of destruction. Fiat whores.

I downloaded the 8.2 version

not bitmain

proto mining by block

All of a sudden I like CME Gaps

I’m living a nice and wholesome life

I wake up every morning without setting any alarm and do what I love all day long

But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened

Everything we used to say that would happen with Bitcoin went down the drain

Now it’s a stonk, just an instrument to speculate on in hopes of making more US dollars

It didn’t progress towards becoming a currency that competes with the dollar

It didn’t progress technically to encourage freedom fighters around the world to use it

Outside of making more dollars, there’s nothing that it does that other networks do better

It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore

The user experience sucks compared to fintech

All we have is hope that the ship will eventually turn around

But even the OGs who joined for ideological reasons seem to be selling

So who remains to defend the principles of the early days?

Who will still want to end the Fed when the Fed is making you more US dollars?

I don’t even see my friends around anymore, they either turned into insufferable suits or else they left the space

It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for and I feel deceived

I spent nearly a decade promoting Bitcoin as freedom tech, but now the FBI is allegedly happier when their targets use bitcoin instead of cash (as suggested by Peter Thiel)

I feel sorry for some of the people I onboarded, who used custodial Lightning wallets that probably rugged them

I sometimes feel like a fraud who pushed false advertisement

But ultimately, I wish more bitcoiners demanded a change. Anything that lets developers build cool stuff and new use cases.

CTV, CAT, BIP300, I don’t even care at this point. Just push the boundaries, make Bitcoin technologically exciting again.

The bankers might fuck us, the old cypherpunks might sell out, but at least give the rest of us some cool toys to play with.

But no, “there’s no consensus”

Fuxking bullshit

Time to say goodbye to ING bank. It was my last Dutch bank account. They don’t allow use of VPN to login to your bank account. Both the app and the website block VPNs.

The Mountain (Hafthor Bjornsson) is the current world record holder for deadlift: 1113lbs (505kg).

GM! Getting ready for legday! 🦵

Dumb question, but if there's a finite amount of Bitcoin, could someone (like Elon), theoretically acquire all of it, and then no trading can be done using it because no one else has any, and so it loses it's use as money?

The best time to pivot to a wartime portfolio was in 2019.

The second best time is now.

#Bitcoin

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