Here's some exciting news that have been in the works for some time!

Den has become a newsletter author. Officially.

BTCHEL, the premier Bitcoin conference in the Nordics (HEL = Heeeeeelsinki), is probably objectively speaking the best Bitcoin event out there. In Europe, it's up there with Lugano and Prague tho definitely of a more manageable size!

Being a good representative of all things Scandi #1472751, #1480167 I'm in a pretty good position to write about the Nordics from a Bitcoin point of view. Fooooollow along!

Anyway, I'll bring the snark and love you've gotten used to from SN,Anyway, I'll bring the snark and love you've gotten used to from SN,

...and a few dope recurring newsletter segments of my own: "What We’re Reading" and "Straight from the Sauna"

The latter one is a gossip, funky fun observation, wheareas What We're Reading is riiiight up ~BooksAndArticles . Today's newsletter featured the following:

Please, let’s bitcoin-bubble our way out of this bear market slump: Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber’s book Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation has gathered dust on my desk for a year and a half… and what it says about the West’s stagnation, its risk-averse regulatory nature, the lack of sustained productivity and innovation in the real world (you know, the one beyond the screens!) is explosive. Remarkably relevant to our Bitcoin times too (to which they devote a striking chapter): When things don’t grow or improve, when we’re not building for and dreaming about a better future, we turn on ourselves. Infighting is not pretty.

Bring Livonia Back: Estonia isn’t quite Nordic (close enough…), but “Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective” — by our resident Stoic Mr. @Kontext (freely available on Nostr) — is incredible, the kind of inspirational, powerful, lift-your-goddamn-gaze message we need (but certainly don’t deserve).

Deflation: speaking of freely available gems, Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers are back in business — the business of integrating deep economic meaning with how bitcoin fixes this broken fiat world: “Number Go Down: Innovation, Capital, and Deflation from First Principles” is compulsory econ reading. #1474189

Disagree But Worth Reading: Now that eyes are on oil and the Middle East, Brendan Greeley at the Financial Times has a weekend essay on the petrodollar. Probably rubs most Bitcoiners the wrong way. (Gift link here, until they run out; you’re welcome.) #1478548

Here's a direct link to the email that went out to BTCHEL subscribers today... and the button that says "SIGN UP" is where you sign up for the Nordic Node.

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