I'm using a Blossom (Nostr) mediaserver (which I'm hosting at https://nosto.re) for the images here
From May 23 till May 25 I was in the Bitcoin capital of The Netherlands: Arnhem. There was a full program around the conference day on Saturday. I and many other bitcoiners gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of #bitcoincity Arnhem.
Playing the Blockhunters board game#
It was very honourable to play with one of the first prototypes of the boardgame Blockhunters developed by
Arnolnymous .

Nostr meetup: Nostrdam Arnhem#
A nice small present from
Jurjen de Vries and meeting
Nathan Day in real life from btcmap.org. A project that deserves some Nostr integration (which he agrees with!).
A gift from Bitpopart together with
Patrick van der Meijde (who organised Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem),
Jeroen ✅ ,
BitPopArt in the middle and
Djuri . I'm on the right ;-)

Gravel at the Veluwe#
On Friday morning I enjoyed a 70km gravel ride on the Veluwe to Radio Kootwijk and back.

Bitdevs meetup#
In the afternoon I attended the Bitdevs meetup. It was my first time and I expected a lot of technical stuff to be discussed. This wasn't the case, all conversations were led very professionally in an easy, understandable way. Also, the Silent payments (https://silentpayments.xyz/) feature was introduced to me. A very interesting feature integrated in Bitcoin recently which I would like to dive in later.
Meeting the Noderunners community#
On Thursday I got a nice pin from a Noderunner community member. The Noderunners are a community with 200+ bitcoin-only minded people. I already knew some of them, but every time I attend a Bitcoin event I always learn to know new people who are often also members of that community. During the Bitcoin Business meetup on Friday night, I also met a new Noderunner who was also camping at the same site as me. He was literally standing beside me with his tent!
Noderunners on stage

Conference day#
You can check out the livestream recordings here:
- Mainstage:
- Arnhem stage:
These are the sessions I enjoyed the most:
- Bitcoin & human rights, what 99% don't get with Anita Posch @Anit
- AML regulations and financial freedom panel discussion with
Sjors Provoost (possibly compromised) (Bitcoin core developer)- Rebecca van Essen (relation manager Financial Intelligence Unit Netherlands)
Lyudmyla Kozlovska (president of Open Dialogue Foundation)- Dorien Rookmaker (Member of the European Parliament)
- Maud Bökkerink (financial and cryptocurrency expert & consultant)
- Non-custodial and custodial solutions and their global impact
- Fiat the system vs Bitcoin the tool with
CoinsureNZ
I also got my book The Genesis Book signed by the author
Aaron van Wirdum .

Other recaps (in Dutch)


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