Introduction
Brinkie Noderunner shared a great thread on X about what the Dutch Noderunners did to push Bitcoin adoption. Since it took him quite some time and he didn’t want to redo it on #nostr I’m happy to share his thread here as well, since it has a lot of cool stuff in it. Here we go:
Noderunners 2024 Recap
Here it is, the 2024 Noderunners recap! As we are preparing for our annual party on the third day of Christmas I’d like to reflect to all the great stuff we’ve build together to push bitcoin adoption from bottom up. I’m proud we’ve made it this far and we’re just starting! 🔥
We like to come together as often as possible to chat about bitcoin and drink a beer so we started even more meetups. We now do meetups in Roermond, Leiden, Eindhoven, Utrecht, Breda, Friesland, Zaandam. And an occasional party in Arnhem or Den Bosch. Feel free to join us anytime.
On our meetups and in the wild we meet the most awesome bitcoiners. To show them our respect we honor them by knighting them as an Honorary Noderunner. This year yellow Adam Curry jack mallers and josie joined our ranks! 🧡
As you can imagine, we were pleasantly surprised when we saw an honorary Noderunner wearing his pin in the courtroom in the case against fAkEtOsHi! Nice to meet again in Amsterdam Adam Back !
The Bitcoin conference in Amsterdam was full of Noderunners. On and off stage. On stage we had
Bert Maya Parbhoe SeedSigner Tom Lamoen and others.
In the panel there was Aaron van Wirdum who asked a cheeky question… 🤓 He wrote the awesome “The Genesis Book” in which he describes the people and technology that led to the birth of bitcoin. Hope to see you 3kd Aaron!
Proof of work is the thing Noderunners value the most. We do the work on and offline. In Amsterdam we had several projects to display! Of course the BitcoinTaps, the bitcoin bitaxe B at the entrance, The Chain Duel arcade and the video of @npub1f59dz0ru0l8zpsl4cryj5ch2rahwxeex3mr7lpl2ltzxsfwsdwastu6nqk!
Personally I was very exited Ramon Edward and Stef of Connect The World Podcast allowed us to bring the Arcade to the afterparty at Braai where we played some tournaments with Knut Svanholm ∞/21M UNCLE ROCKSTAR and many others!
Hopefully we can create a Noderunners lounge or such next year at
@npub13e6qu4kdjsyysrfl5an558rawvqg0rx2xuat9ca706spcdqjzhuqq6md43! Connections were made!
This year there was also the first edition of Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem organized by Patrick van der Meijde and
Bitcoin Stad. It was an awesome event with great speakers but the best thing was the Noderunners Lounge in the basement where
Hester Bais tapped a beer.. 🍺
There was some trouble in paradise when the GitHub page of
Djuri got canceled due to false copyright claims.. He makes the most beautiful, full open source BTClock! He’s a good frend and very productive Noderunner! 🧡
Djuri
also did a lot behind the scenes for the Noderunners SOLO Mining Pool!http://pool.noderunners.network
As we are also very enthusiastic about NOSTR
Michilis Azzamo has set up our own nostr relay:
wss://relay.noderunners.network
Noderunner Kevin Ravens₿erg ⚡️ ☁️ set up a mixer where he organizes a weekly coinjoin every sunday for more anonymous bitcoin transactions.
https://coinjoin.nl
Our Belgian Noderunner Kim de Vos made the infamous “Big Mac index” where he expresses the price of bitcoin in Big Macs.. He also runs the AVBpodcast (my personal favorite).
We have several members who have their own podcasts. Also a lot of Noderunners appeared in podcasts as a guest. Bitcoin School educates bitcoin beginners.
Tom Lamoen talks about libertarianism.
Bram interviews bitcoiners from all over the world.
And The more things change.... laughs at 🤡🌍
After months, even years of hard work
Arnold Hubach launched the best bitcoin board game ever!
Arnold Hubach
is also involved with the Dutch bitcoin magazine BitcoinFocus which features a lot of Noderunner builds and articles.
Of course I should mention our frens at Noderunners Radio where you can pay a few sats to play your favorite songs!
http://radio.noderunners.org
LightningPlaces is working hard making entrepreneurs accepting bitcoin and putting them on their website! 🔥💪🏼
Lightning Checkout is also hooking up webshops and physical shops (and bars) to accept bitcoin! Connect them if you’re looking for a custom solution!
https://lightningcheckout.eu/nl/
Maybe we should create an open source HW Wallet too but for now we have the man, the myth, the legend
SeedSigner in our midst.. A real honor as we all share the same values and ethics in life but especially in bitcoin! We’ve been building seedsigners from scratch by the dozen!
Most of us are very entrepreneurial. Several bitcoin shops are run by Noderunners.
BitcoinBrabant -
Bitsaga.be -
₿as Elbers -
A special shoutout to our junior Noderunner Esramsterdam
who is organizing a bitcoin event focused on women. Because bitcoin is not only for men. More info:https://vanbanknaarbitcoin.nl
Also a special shoutout to @npub17k8u7c6kfjgtd380890zx0m4adu8vl53m9fvtc7lal4j9gp74xqqkguha4! The only way to get free sats. Drank not enough beer with Léon this year.. but we really need to set up a collaborative project!
Ok I’m done. Forgot a lot but this sums it up quite well. Greetings and love to everyone involved with the Noderunners I forgot to mention. I love you all and hope to build a lot more together! 🧡🔥
Jan Burgers
Short Non-Bitcoin
Joep Laser Sheep - Elden Lord 3x
@Erik Dutch
Noderunners Shop
@Bitcmonkey
@Roynode
@HeroVanKampen
and all others I can’t find here or I forgot.. 🧡🔥💪🏼 LFG, see you soon!
Bonus: This has never aired but @DanielMol was doubtful of our impact to more bitcoin adoption.. I know we are a bit toxic but we have our hearts on the right place and help anyone who is serious about it.. Happy days Daniel! 🧡
