My honest take on the conference y-day (we can only improve with good feedback) - I hope no one is offended or sour about this. Just trying to analyse and give my feedback.

- First of all: very well organized (congratulated the org. on that!) For real, it was smooth and well done. Except for small nitpicks you can always make anywhere.
- as a speaker; I would have loved to have a clear tablet or screen in front of me as well (timing wise, I had no Idea I had time left)
- acoustics in that beautiful place were horrible unfortunately
- Some people on stage had not much to say from a real content standpoint.
Maybe related to that : the main stage audience room was never filled for the actual talks, ... which is rather strange on a noderunners conference imho. Some talks hade like 20 or less people listening ... that's strange (maybe b/c the content? I don't know). Or maybe ppl don't come to a conference to hear someone talk? Then why not just go to a bar with your friends?
- It was hard to get a non-coffee drink, as the LN taps prevented me from just buying a water/cola. It's downright stupid to push LN-drink taps while you just want to grab a drink without having to jump through hoops (I know it's for demonstrating LNpayments, but it's not 2020 anymore, people just want to be able to buy a drink, we know that we can scan a QR code by now, we really know that such things exists! Doing this for + 6 years now, stop pushing it). I personally don't like to order a drink like that, neither with fiat, or LN or whatever. I was thirsty and was glad to find a real bottle of water somewhere.
- Not that much of a crowd unfortunately... when the corporate marketing teams and the fluffy stuff is not present, then it seems a lot of the audience stays away as well? Don't know the reason.
- The Arnhem foodhall is cool, would actually spend my day there, rather than a conference
- I'm sick about hearing about the coldcard hack in general now.
- Nice to see a lot of people again.

coinos.io seems to be down....
hmm 😟

the arguments of the Xanabu complexity bitcioners :)

"Bitcoin has split.

Not through a hard fork, not through a soft fork in the traditional sense, but through what we could designate as a “complexity fork.”"

https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoins-complexity-fork

Beware of some bitcoiners with the routine cute smile and the acting-lessons grade tears they pull out on command to get what they want from you.
Just read another story about some dude falling into the same trap.

I really hope for an opportunity to see a nice verbal "exposé" of said individual.

Sometimes you read something, and the minimum respect I muster for these people prevents me from going all-out with some story. It's tempting, but I'll not react directly to them on here, would be stirring up other things.

But I can say this: local bitcoiners, be aware that some emotional vampires / hippie types are out there... trying to make you work for free (or in exchange for some ego-boosting words or a smile).

Being a bitcoiner is also having to construct this armor around you.
I didn't had that a while back. Such people could make me upset, even emotionally down, or tearful at times. Because their attack is not with code or scams, but with invested time and effort.
I've seen the same thing with the same person(s) happen, and they always find "fresh" blood.

They're easily recognizable however. Because all they have is trying to be liked for a very short period of time to get value extracted from you while the next bag of tricks is already played on the next one.

"be warned, take 294"

just my 2cts.

#IYKYK

Updated the Wallet Generator file on AVBforge.com
2 bug fixes and 5 improvements.

Removed the path that let users deliberately bypass the RNG and supply a low-entropy seed (already behind clear warnings). Normal use was never at risk.
extra hanges + uit improvements. And
Users can no longer add their own keystrokes as extra entropy. (That was a bad idea anyway)
Full brutally honest release notes and fix overview:
https://avbforge.com/generator/RELEASE-NOTES-v1.63.pdf

This is a slide of the "never to be seen presentation" that I would have shown in September.
For those who don't believe it, don't believe it 😉

I've put the 4 entropy guides that were scattered deep in the avb website, all in one place for future reference:
(yes I did this with AI, and read through it, the original guides were of course hand-made)

https://allesvoorbitcoin.be/21tools/entropyguide/

Not much has changed since this blogpost...
"The lightning network; our crazy high-maintenance ex"

https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-network-our-high-maintenance