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Runy Calmera

Macro economist, Trainer, Investor, Bitcoiner

Host Island Wealth
Creating wealth for islands with Bitcoin, stocks and luxurious villas

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2026-04-21 01:10:30 UTC

My First Bitcoin had an Educator Training Program!!
Here is my proof of work that I completed it!!
After you do the 10 week’s Mi Primer Bitcoin Certification and graduated as a student you can follow this program and start your own cohort!
You can apply to become a light educational node or a full node, who can vote.
This is how the My First Bitcoin Community exponentially grows around the world. Turn instructors into more students. Turn graduated students that want to teach into certified instructors.
We invest in training new educators.
We invest into using AI for education.
We invest in creating engaging exercises for the lessons.
We open source everything on github.
So if you want to start your own cohort: apply for the next round!
#MyFirstBitcoin
#Certification
#Curaçao
#BTCCuraçao
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@nprofile…wjsm
@npub17cy…4ml3
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2026-03-28 19:56:59 UTC

What is money?
Here you see different forms of what we call money during the second lesson of #MyFirstBitcoin diploma for class #2 of Curaçao.
We show here matches, cigarettes, fiat paper money, pieces of paper, fruit. All can be used to transfer value.
Chapter 2 of the Mi Primer Bitcoin certificate tries to opens the minds and eyes of students: do you really know what money is?
What are its properties?
And based on this exercise we teach different properties of #Bitcoin.
So proud that our students bought some of the products used during this class with their #Blink wallet, with some funds sponsored by BTC Curaçao Institute, of Peter Kroll Family.
When you can buy food like you can buy at Esperamos Supermarket - one of the many businesses that accept Bitcoin on Curaçao, Bitcoin becomes real. Lighting becomes real.
If you can buy food, what else? How can you earn it? What is it?
Students are hungry to learn more.
#ProofofWork
#Curaçao
#MiPrimerBitcoin
#IslandWealth
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2026-03-28 18:44:02 UTC

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2026-03-28 17:58:25 UTC

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Joe thanks for repost. Curaçao is on #Bitcoin!!!

2026-03-28 13:09:06 UTC

Ready for lesson 2 of class 2 of Mi Primer Bitcoin. My first bitcoin.
We are going to talk about what is money? You see different paper fiat money here and I have included Monopoly money in between. Do the students really know what is money?
Have they thaught about this? Or have they been accepting paper for their whole lives whithout thinking about it?
We already gave them 5 dollars each in SATS. They had to download their Blink wallet and Wallet of Satoshi last week and ask 5 dollars to a faucet sponsored by family Peter Kroll’s BTC Curaçao Institute.
We already sent them 0.10 usd in the class ans the were able to send and receive sats on day 1.
#MyFirstBitcoin is a 10 weeks open source Bitcoin Education Certification and BTC Curaçao Institute is a proud node of this global community.
Today we are meeting at Esperamos Supermarket, one of the 92 businesses on Curaçao that accepts Bitcoin.
We go there with a shopping list of things we use in class 2, like water, oranges, coffee, milk and the students have to now show how they spend sats locally in a real life situation.
I will be recording this to show you #proofofwork what we are doing with #Bitcoin on Curaçao.
Btw thanks to all the work Peter Kroll is doing we jumped to number 3 on the leaderboard of BTCMap as the third country in the world accepting Bitcoin.
So you can visit Curaçao like @nprofile…mtx5 did and spend your Bitcoin.
And Island Wealth - my company is focussed to show small islands like Curaçao in the Caribbean and in the world that accepting Bitcoin is one of the ways you can diversify the economy.
Thanks to the #Bitcoinize machine we got, I can now show my students how a normal shop, can accept Bitcoin by using a Blink wallet.
Isn’t this amazing? I did not even have to stand in the lines of any bank? My students did not have to open a bank account. And we are already accepting Bitcoin on day 1 and spending it.
This is how islands get integrated in the world.
This gives us a way to export our services to the world, get paid, spend, hire other people in the world, to work in our teams. And pay them instantly.
THIS is why this education of My First Bitcoin is changing our lives!!
Thank you so much to the team of My First Bitcoin @nprofile…wjsm for letting Curaçao into your network as a node.
Runy
#MyFirstBitcoin
#Curaçao
#Bitcoin
#Education
#BTCCuraçao
#Islandwealth
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2026-03-21 17:29:44 UTC

Island Wealth wants to bring wealth to people and businesses on islands.
Caribbewn islands depend on tourism. Visitors comming to for instance Curaçao!
They need to export their services and receive value.
I’m so happy you can now easily, permissionless get a “bank account” at the biggest bank in the world- Bitcoin!
- No headquarters
- No clerks asking you for 3 past salary slips to get an account
- No waiting in long queues
- No one asking you what you want to do with the account
- Nobody asking you for your business plan
You simply download a #wallet like Blink wallet or Wallet of Satoshi and you are done.
Receiving value through the internet is the first step to get in business!
So easy! Within 3 min you are part of a global network.
All small businesses in the worlld can receive value instantly 24*7, 365 days a year.
Isn’t that freaking awesome?
Runy Calmera
#IslandWealth
#Curaçao
#Bitcoin
PS: we accept Bitcoin.
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2026-03-21 17:19:11 UTC

The first time you send and receive #Bitcoin through your Lightning wallet is magic!
This happened to my students of #MiPrimerBitcoin today on Curaçao.
BTC Curaçao Institute of family Peter Kroll has a beautiful orange living room.
Here we invite students who don’t know anything about Bitcoin for the 10 week My First Bitcoin centification program.
As a proud instructor, the first one on Curaçao, I’m so happy to onboard new people into the Bitcoin Community.
Now more people on Curaçao can have their permissionless accounts, send and receive value instantly!
Runy
#MiPrimerBitcoin
#ProofOfWork
#BTC
#BTCCuraçao
#MyFirstBitcoin
#BTCCuraço
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2026-03-21 17:08:38 UTC

Second group Mi Primer Bitcoin started on Curaçao with their 10 week Bitcoin education.
BTC Curaçao, family Peter Kroll has opened their Orange training center again.
We are part of the global Mi Primer Bitcoin Community that started in El Salvador, a network of open source education nodes in 40 countries.
Glad to put Curaçao on the map.
BTW we are ranked 3 in the world on BTC map in terms of Bitcoin companies per head of the population.
So there is a high density of acceptance of Bitcoin here in Curaçao.
Runy
BTC Curaçao Institute
@npub17cy…4ml3
@nprofile…0g5h
#ProofofWork
#Bitcoin
#Education
#MyfirstBitcoin
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2026-03-13 14:08:15 UTC

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I got a project for you:
Keet.io (not yet open sourced)
Holepunch technology (peer to peer)
Pear runtime and Pear stack: a peer to peer software development stack.
They are pushing the frontiers of peer to peer development. However their stack can use writers like you, asking questions, explaining stuff, explaining it to regular people.
See docs.pears.com
Let me know your thoughts.

2026-03-10 22:44:00 UTC

Looks like the islands in the Caribbean are colouring orange.
This is Curaçaoon my walk.
Runy
Island Wealth
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2026-03-10 22:38:08 UTC

What would it take you to come live in paradise with your Bitcoin?
Let me know how you would make that decision and what is important for you.
Island Wealth
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2026-03-07 20:20:50 UTC

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You are right. And due to the small population you see the effects of Bitcoin faster!
There are more opportunities for experiments.
You directly see the impact on the lives of people!
In Curaçao many businesses accept Bitcoin as a percentage of the population.
I have created a video how you can accept Bitcoin easily by using open source website software Wordpress with Blink wallet and BTC Pay server.
So now anybody with a business and foundation on Curaçao can accept Bitcoin and sell their products online.

2026-03-07 14:04:04 UTC

Bitcoin impact on small islands
What is the potential impact on small island communities like Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Barbados, Turks and Caicos?
That is what I’m going to focus on.
Island Wealth: how do you define that and what is the impact of Bitcoin on Island Wealth?
Let me know your thoughts.
Runy
Island Wealth
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2026-02-28 01:29:57 UTC

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Well done! Creating a progressive web app!!

2026-02-28 00:22:36 UTC

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Congrats! This is exactly what we are also doing on Curacao, with My First Bitcoin. Mi primer bitcoin.
You could download the open source book and check the education. There are 10 weeks in there and 10 or more exercises. Each exercise explains a concept.
In lesson 9 I vibecoded a Bitcoin blockchain game that explains hashing, hashing a block, linking blocks together etc.
In the future, when you need to explain more technical stuff you could use these to continue your journey.
I have opensourced this lesson and all my exercises and games on the github of My First Bitcoin - node Curacao.
Keep up the great work.

2026-02-17 17:22:16 UTC

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Would be great to simulate a business situation with agent customers buying a product and agent suppliers selling a product.

2026-02-17 17:20:53 UTC

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It would be good if this could be open sourced so others can use this system

2026-02-15 23:06:50 UTC

Canaval Curaçao
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2026-01-31 16:07:06 UTC

https://www.curacao.nu/nieuws/evenementen/85375/sontje-mercelina-wint-tumbafestival-2026-met-awe-tami-so-kubo
If you want a taste of the Curaçao Carnaval.
Check this video🪩
And make sure you are there!
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-27 13:46:25 UTC

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Damage control

2026-01-27 13:45:53 UTC

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Damage control

2026-01-27 13:45:24 UTC

My First Bitcoin Graduation on Curaçao
@npub17cy…4ml3 @nprofile…zr2n @nprofile…53qe
BTC Curaçao Institute
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2026-01-26 18:28:04 UTC

What A beauty I got from the Peter Kroll Family during the graduation of the first 6 students of the My First Bitcoin. @npub17cy…4ml3 10 weeks of global Bitcoin training, right from Curaçao, a beautiful island in the Caribbean. Here it is hot, not cold like this Coinkite.
After hearing Natalie Brunell talk about Coinkite after so many episodes on Youtube in her show with Jeff Booth I finally got mine.
Now I’m pumped, feeling a little bit cold with this cold card!!!!
Now send me some Bitcoin, lol, so I can put it in this cold baby, lol.
Runy
Island Wealth
@nprofile…8lhe
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2026-01-25 19:50:59 UTC

So happy to sit next to our chairman of BTC Curaçao Institute as an instructor of the Mi Primer Bitcoin first ever graduation ceremony on Curaçao!! The first educational block hashed.
Peter Kroll signing the certificates of 6 students here after 10 weeks of teaching in the beautiful Orange House on Curaçao.
Mrs. Kroll created this beautiful training orange room that feels like a home on Curaçao.
All students received Bitcoin training and the book used in the whole world. Our lessons were given in the native language of Curaçao: Papiamentu.
So if you ever visit Curaçao, which ranks 5th on the BTC Map as we have number of businesses that accept Bitcoin, make sure you meet these 6 new graduated students of the Bitcoin family.
#graduation
#myfirstbitcoin
#miprimerbitcoin
#curaçao
#willemstad
#islandwealth
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@nprofile…h2wu
@nprofile…chpu
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2026-01-25 19:30:59 UTC

We hashed our first educational block for My First Bitcoin!!
Proof of work!!
Last saturday BTC Curaçao Institute on Curaçao, part of the Mi Primer Bitcoin global education network finished our first class with 6 students.
Here you see Peter Kroll and his family together with the students eating celebration cake.
Thanks to @nprofile…h2wu and @nprofile…chpu of the @nprofile…xc7m for inviting Curaçao in their global family.
This Curaçao node hashed its first educational block with 6 students in it!
More pictures to come and video.
Runy Calmera
BTC Curaçao Institute
#Bitcoin
#Caribbean
#Curaçao
#IslandWealth
#Miprimerbitcoin
#Myfirstbitcoin
#BTCCuraçao
#Elsalvador
#Graduation
#Certification
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2026-01-17 22:54:53 UTC

In economic war everything is related. You hurt my export with tariffs, I hurt your bonds market, and your real estate, and your banking…
I build economic models of islands and of big countries.
And what you learn is : all sectors of the economy are related!!
Something happens here, it flows to the other sector. Something happens with tariffs and it flows to the labor market and you lose your job.
And it goes from the labour market to the financial sector. Because without your job, you can’t pay your mortgages! So the banks suffer.
This also happens globally.
Take the tariffs of USA on China, on Europe. On Germany. On Denmark.
Those are in the real sector. On goods.
Also affecting the external sector. Where you trade with others.
You think you are done. I raise tariffs and I’m done!!
But like I said: everything is linked.
And this is what people often don’t see!! The links.
Ok you raise tariffs, I am China and Europe and I got less exports now. Because you made my products more expensive for your citizens.
But I, China, got 700 billion USD of your bonds. I European countries each got billions of your bonds.
If I dump these bonds, I sell because I don’t trust you any more, now it has flown into the financial/monetary sector. And the banking sector.
I sell your bonds. The prices of your 10 year bonds go down.
If prices of bonds go down, the yields of bonds go up.
Imagine the 10 year bond yield moves up from 4% to 5%. Or from 4% to 6%.
Now your banks that are loaded with 10 year bonds of say 3% are all at a loss!!
It entered your banking sector now.
Banks are making losses. Some of them collapse.
People lose their deposits.
Now you have to print money. To save the banks.
This is great for Bitcoin. Because you cannot print Bitcoin.
Now at higher costs for money, your real estate suffers.
It entered the real estate market.
If people were getting mortgages at 4% plus 2% first, at 6%, now with higher yields mortgage also could be at 8%.
Now nobody can afford a home.
You see how it can bounce back to you?
If you have a debt of 38 trillion USD, check who is holding your bonds.
Check the yields.
Check what could happen.
PS: in this scenario islands in the Caribbean are also at a higher costs. Because their central banks raise their interest rates based on what happens in the USA because their currencies are pegged to the US dollar.
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-17 22:21:36 UTC

Imagine if European countries start dumping 25% of their USA bonds
President Trump has found the hammer to hit the world: tariffs. 25%!
If you don’t cooperate, it will go higher: 35%.
But I have to let you know: if you play with fire you can be burnt.
What if Euope hits back by dumping 25% of the USA bonds?
In this chart and in this file you see what the power is of European countries.
https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt_table3.html
These are data from the USA treasuries.
It shows each country holding USA bonds.
To calculate the impact you would need to:
Add the current bonds of all European countries.
Take 25%
And imagine what would happen with the USA bond market if bonds get dumped.
Yields would go up as prices go down.
And USA could not take it!
It would devastate the business of USA.
Wallstreet, banks, and Mainstreet would suffer.
I’m not saying Europe should do this. I’m just saying what would happen?
If you are playing with tariffs you could get hit.
Check this out.
Runy
Island Wealth
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2026-01-17 20:32:43 UTC

https://keet.io/

2026-01-17 20:31:20 UTC

Nostr and Holepunch and Keet and Pears
You know Nostr. The decentralized social media protocol.
Let me tell you about the rest.
Keet.io is a peer to peer app. Not yet open source. It is beta. But you need to try it out. It is peer to peer. You can use a nym. No email, no name, no telephone number. Use a vpn, save your seed phrase. Chat, dm, hold meetings.
Holepunch is the company creating Keet. They are sponsored by Tether. So Paolo is doing something great here. Creating peer to peer technology.
Holepunch means: You punch a hole through walls, servers etc and you establish peer to peer connections. Globally. I can send you a 1 gigabyte file fast, peer to peer, globally.
Pears is the runtime. You can create desktop, terminal apps. If you know nodejs, javascript, html and css you can create any pear to pear app in minutes.
The whole software stack is open source. Keet is the first example of an app created with Pears runtime. You got databases, connections, all local running.
Check docs.pears.com and the holepunch github repository. And you see many examples of software.
Unstoppable software.
Peer to peer.
No infrastructure.
No servers.
No need for email nor your telephone number.
Nostr and Pears
There is a place for both.
They are not competitors.
There is a bridge. But nobody has built that bridge yet.
There is more once you enter that Holepunch/Pears world.
There is peer to peer AI.
There are wallets to send Bitcoin.
I wish islands could build on top of Nostr and Holepunch and Pears.
Connect islands. To create Island Wealth.
Thriving small businesses.
Trading.
Connected.
In a Hyperswarm!
Check it out!
And let me know your thoughts.
Let me know what you are going to build.
Peer to peer.
Be unstoppable.
Be local.
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-17 20:09:33 UTC

In a volatile world of tariffs you want to build on Bitcoin
The world seems like more volatile. Stocks of German, Dutch, Danish public companies can just dive because the USA President Trump put tariffs.
If you have a portfolio of stocks, what if they lock your account: not your keys not your stocks.
What if they close your bank account? Your credit card?
If you have a business, what if you cannot accept money any more because your bank account, your credit card has been closed?
I live in the Caribbean. We already have the priviledge here to NOT having business paypal accounts!
Some Caribbean islands can receive Paypal payments. But not Curaçao. Not Sint Maarten.
We know what it is to do business without Paypal.
Now imagine a world in its fourth turning. Imagine a world in the last phases of its global debt cycle.
Imagine a world full of debt.
A world where anything can happen.
Your payment gateway can just stop working.
You own Greenland? Now you don’t own it any more.
Venezuelan oil?
Now you don’t own it any more.
A world where trust has broken.
Not only the money is broken.
Trust has broken down.
A trustless world.
Enter Bitcoin.
You don’t need to trust the banks.
You are your own bank.
You run your own Bitcoin node.
Your own Lightning node on top of it.
Your own mempool app.
A world where you have your own non custodial wallets.
A world where you do unstoppable business with all the world.
You pay with Bitcoin!
You save in Bitcoin!
You receive your sales in Bitcoin.
A world where you can hire hundreds of students of the My First Bitcoin certificate.
Because they all got the basics of Bitcoin.
A world built on the Nostr protocol.
Where you can plug in.
It feels like code is the new trust.
No matter how volatile the world gets.
Bitcoin will tick every 10 minutes.
Unstoppable.
Build on Bitcoin.
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-17 19:42:46 UTC

European Exports to USA abd to China
https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/exports/united-states
Check this out! I will dive deeper into the stats with you, but lets see.
According to these data the exports to USA are double those to China.
What would happen it Europe would double its exports to China? And leave USA?
See my other posts.
If USA don’t want European products they could go to China.
China’s economy is growing faster than the USA.
Chinese businesses and citizens have higher purchasing power and could buy these products.
The Chinese market is larger than the USA market.
China is part of the BRICS, together 40% of the world population.
What do you think Europe should do?
Trade with China?
Foxus on China instead of on USA?
What would you do?
Runy
Island Wealth
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2026-01-17 19:12:37 UTC

Imports of the world are used to produce USA goods. Why you didn’t want to live in East Berlin
Hey imagine I’m a hotel in the USA.
When you enter a hotel you see steel, material, furniture. You go in the kitchens you see Siemens and Whirlpool.
When you go to a room you see Samsung TV. Your Wifi system. Look at the brand.
You go to the swimming pool. Look at the brand. The cooler. Look at the brand.
I bet you: say 50% of all the stuff you see was IMPORTED!
Why?
Because the world made it cheaper, faster, and better quality than the USA.
The USA has a better financial system than the world. You can buy stocks, bonds, options. Wallstreet is top of the world making financial products.
But making physical stuff, manufacturing, the world, China, is faster, better and cheaper than the USA.
That is why you import! Because YOU benefit!
Check your numbers.
That means your wealth is dependent from the world.
What is wealth? What gives you a higher standard of living?
Your wealth- the options you have, the variety of brands, the colours, the features is dependent of what you see in your shelves.
Why are the people in Venezuela less wealthier than the USA?
Their shelves are empty. Only the very wealthy in Venezuela can get a variety of stuff. Different brands, different colours.
If they are in a hospital and the machine that they cannot import any more is broken: people die.
You don’t die because your hospital can import that Siemens machine. You are not blind because your hospital has that eye machine of a top European brand.
If you did not import it you are blind or you die. Can you see this?
Your hotel in USA is luxurious, has everything BECAUSE you trade with the world.
Now lets stop all these imports. 10.000% tariffs. On everything.
Because the world has been taking advantage of us.
They have sent us all their physical stuff their machines and we have been sending them a piece of paper that we can print unlimited.
What do you think is going to happen when that pool engine in that hotel breaks?
What when that Samsung TV needs to be renewed?
Are we going to put USA brands only?
Can we produce it cheaper, faster ourselves? Or will it be more expensive, and of less quality?
I was in East Berlin.
Before the walls went down.
East Berlin was a place that traded with nobody. That did not trade with the world. No imports from the world.
You had to be there.
You had to look at the streets, the buildings, the hotels and the shelves!
You had to become sick and end up in a hospital.
I wish you were there.
Your wealth, your options, your way of life, depends on trading with the world!
Imports are contributing to your way of life.
Every timeyou hear tariffs on imports I wish you hear tariffs on my way of life. On my options.
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-17 18:42:57 UTC

USA Import tariffs: why not put 10.000% import tariffs on the world?
Today I read that President Trump put import tariffs on the Netherlands, Denmark and other European countries, because thesent troops to Greenland.
Why not put 10.000% import tariffs on the world? Lets go max. Stop imports completely. All imports from the whole world. Zero imports!!
It would kill the USA economy instantly. You would lose your job. It would have secondary effects you could not image.
When you put tariffs the people who pay these are USA businesses and citizens.
These tariffs are paid at the border, by the one who ships the stuff.
If I am a USA importer of say a German car of 100.000 usd, I, the USA importer have to pay 25% or 25.000 usd more. At the border. After it has been shipped.
So what will happen is that :
I either sell it and increase my price with 25.000 usd to sell it to wealthy US citizens or businesses.
Or I take that 25.000 usd and my profit would be 25.000 usd less.
I could pass 10.000 usd in the price to my consumer and hit my profit with15.000 usd.
Whatever I do, my customers will demand less German cars and only THEN the German economy might be hit. Less demand of German cars.
But I, a USA importee, pay the tariffs. Lets not kid ourselves about this!
Now if my profits go down, do you think I will invest more in the USA?
No way. I postpone all investments. So that new car dealer I was going to open in the USA to sellGerman cars is gone! All those USA employees I was going to hire in that dealership, the sales reps, the HR, the marketing, the accounting all USA citizens: gone.
The electricity, the office equipment, the construction workers to build that car dealership are gone! I was planning to invest 5 million USD this year. I had my business plan ready with all my expenses after that investment. I was just about to signnthat mortgage of 5 million USD at a local USD bank.
That bank was gling to get interest payments on that 15 year mortgage. 5%. Gone!
I called the bank and closed everything.
Do you start to see the indirect effects of that tariff? Looks great. But who is it hurting?
The German car manufacturer is already looking at the BRICS to sell its cars.
So less investments, less consumption, less imports.
Y = C + I + G + E - M
This is an economic identity, meaning it is true for all economies.
Now suppose C declines, I declines and M also declines. But C and I decline more than M.
The Y the economic growth will go down.
So tariffs make the economy go down. If I go 10.000% on the world I am in a deep recession.
So now suppose the USA economy has no imports.
Nothimg produced outside enters the USA economy. Ever.
10.000% on all imports of the world.
M is zero.
Y = C + I + G + E
How do you think the USA economy is going to look like?
Imagine you have no cloths, no fruit, no oil, no machinery, no iphones. Nothimg imported.
And you have wall street with all that debt, those stocks all financial services.
Can you imagine a USA without any foreign imports?
The reason USA imports all those stuff is that you can not make them yourself or the world can make it cheaper, faster or better than you.
Put 10.000% of tariffs on everything and see how your economy crashes.
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-16 16:57:49 UTC

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Jeff what would happen if all the people talking about the system you are mentioning - we never lived in a global free economy - on Youtube would close their Youtube channels and only stream on Nostr, and decentralized social media?
I watch many interviews with you on YOUTUBE. And I started thinking - all these people, including me, are giving their attention, time and strenghtening the existing system Youtube.
It doesn’t make sense to me any more to see one of your interviews on Youtube.
Those interviews could be on Nostr or on Keet.
Even if we don’t yet have billions of views on Nostr.
I’m going to move 10% of my posts per month to Nostr and Keet. I’m going to stream only on Nostr and Keet.
Not anymore on Youtube. And lets see what happens.

2026-01-15 16:14:26 UTC

Is it possible to do business on Nostr and leave Linkedin, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram completely?
Why don’t we have Linkedin on Nostr?
I got 3653 followers on Linkedin and 500+ connections.
But Linkedin can cancel me anytime. So those followers and connects look great. But they are not "mine". I don't own anything. And I'm still happy.
Jeff Booth says we should give our attention to the Bitcoin world. To open protocols. Because what we give our attention too, grows.
So it seems crazy to give my attention to Linkedin. To follow anybody there. To engage in conversations there.
So here is what I did:
I extracted all my data from Linkedin. And I put it in a local folder. And I started analyzing it. My chats, my posts and my connections and followers.
This move already is a first step.
Then I did that also on Facebook and Instagram and planning to do that on Youtube.
Extract everything and back them up.
Next step is: be more here on Nostr. On Primal. Putting content here first and ultimately move completely to Nostr.
Here I got my pub key and private key. If I don't like a client I can move.
If I want to analyze my content I can do that in python. And nobody can cancel me.
The only thing you can do is follow me or unfollow me. But you can not cancel me.
It already feels a little more empowering.
But I'm telling you honestly. It looks brave. But it also looks a little bit scary. Leave Youtube and Linkedin and Facebook and Instagram completely.
Only going live here on Nostr. Putting all my videos in a decentralized distributed backend.
Could that be possible?
Island Wealth
Runy Calmera
Building on open decentralized platforms

2026-01-15 13:04:38 UTC

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Yes. And I want a merchant interface that can create a nice sales page and not a “shop” with products.
My process is a sales page and not a cart. People have to see the offer, click and pay and enter a room to get the experience.
If you have wallets of all those coins you accept it should easily plug in and let them pay with whatever wallet you have.

2026-01-15 12:59:25 UTC

Building websites and shops on Nostr.
I have seen some shops on nostr.
I think it is called shopstr.
But the shops need to be different if you are helping people by providing online training.
Imagine you are a digital coach and trainer like me.
You want to:
- build a following of people who don’t know you
- then let them raise their hands and tast a little bit of your product and service (often raise your hands mean they subscribe by providing their name and email)
- then you give them a taste of your services (often by sending only the people who subscribed the invitation to the webinar)
- you hold a 45 minute webinar
- in that webinar you paste a link to your sales page (often outside the webinar software , like a wordpress site)
- when they land on that sales page they can pay (in wordpress it is done by plugins as woocommerce). This payment often goes through a payment provider (they process credit cards so you can receive money that goes to your bank account)
- after payment your customers get in a private space where they see your videos of your course or program (this is often videos you have unlisted on youtube and share with them).
This is the general flow.
To get 50 new customers at 1% conversion you need to engage with 5000 new people at the top of your funnel.
This system is used by many coaches, trainers and digital content creators.
Nostr should be able to do this.
We need a way to let people “raise their hands” for a specific content.
The content creator - I - need a way to have the dms of all these people who raised their hands for my content.
Say if I say AI and Automation is my content I need a way to simply dm all those people, say 5000 people on nostr that are interested in #aiandautomation.
So on top of this primal user interface or maybe through python I need to create code that can dm all these people who maybe liked my content, I posted, specifically on this topic.
Is that already available?
Then I need a way to stream my content with OBS or Ecamm software (I use Ecamm) easily to my Nostr page.
I have used Zapstream in the past. But I see I have to keep paying for zapstream to keep my videos up.
What if I host my videos myself? How can I ensure my videos stay visible on Nostr?
There needs to be a way so I can pull up a server that is up constantly.
Next I have the webinars.
I should be able to invite all those 5000 people who raised their hands a dm.
I don’t need their emails.
They only thing I need is sending them some content so they show up.
They need to be able to unsubscribe from my content.
So Nostr needs a way to send mass content to a list of people. It needs to directly end up in their dms.
Is this already available?
Then there is a private page on Nostr where I can hold my webinar.
Only the people who got invited, because they raised their hands and were subscribed need to see that page.
I don’t want to stream to a general page.
So the url needs to be hidden.
In that webinar on Nostr I would deliver my content about the program.
All people clicking on that link to my sales page need to go to a sales page on nostr where they can buy my program.
They should be able to zap say 997 usd and get access to the program.
If they cannot zap they should be bale to pay with lightning wallets.
After payment they get inside a secret room where they see my course say 6 modules during 6 weeks.
Each module has more videos.
This is private content. Hosted on nostr.
During those 6 weeks we have coaching and training calls.
There I can share my screen and people can talk. Something like Hivetalk (opensource) but on Nostr.
The videos need to be recorded and available for the customers.
THIS is a flow that will add value to digital content creators like me.
This will be powerful and let us create outside the Youtube, Linkedin, Facebook social media channels.
How do you start creating this?
How do you build this on Nostr?
Should I create NIPS for each feature?
Should I design the protocol first?
Should I start coding a new client on Nostr in Python, javascript, html and css and nodejs on nostr?
Let me know your thoughts.
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-15 12:29:21 UTC

How can we offer our products and services on Nostr?
Instead of promoting on Youtube I would like to build a community on Nostr.
Bout on Youtube you can create ads and more people see your content!
How can you promote your content on Nostr.
Runy
Island Wealth

2026-01-15 12:10:54 UTC

https://youtu.be/_xwocCtzC0s
The economics of oil say that it is going to take a lot of time to put Venezuela’s oil on the market.
Curaçao has a refinery that needs 0.5 -1 billion usd of investments to upgrade.
After watching this episode I tend to conclude that:
- the business case of oil refinery on Curaçao is not going to be positive.
- oil storage from Venezuela probably is not something feasible as the oil will not be soon drilled in Venezuela.
What else can we do with the huge polluted terrain on Curaçao?
Is it feasible to put solar power and batteries and mine Bitcoin there?
The solar irradiation on Curaçao is high. Has anybody done the math regarding to minimg on solar power on different locations in the world?
Is that business case more feasible than refining heavy crude oil on Curaçao?
Let me know your thoughts below.
Runy
Island Wealth

2025-12-13 14:07:05 UTC

Today we show the Bitcoinize machine and all the ways to accept lightning payments during lesson 8 of the My First Bitcoin on Curacao at the BTC Curacao Institute at Eden Mall.
Powered by Peter Kroll Family!!
#ProofOfWork
#Bitcoin
#Lightning
#MiPrimerBitcoin
#MyFirstBitcoin
@nprofile…d8fm
@npub1w98…cwpx
https://blossom.primal.net/1423495f9d6a896226cb3d348ef156d1ebaed974b86e55e99ff169dab1f8b583.jpg

2025-12-01 19:03:27 UTC

Proof of Work can be simple. Just move some stones from the red dot to a green dot on a piece of paper.
This is what we did in Lesson 6 of the My First Bitcoin certificate.
#Proof of Work.
BTC Curaçao Institute
https://blossom.primal.net/e79b887d4cc3b875c52ee9bd7baf5b58ea1b58fb92b58669d9b989061f54c8a5.mov

2025-12-01 18:57:47 UTC

Attack at Dawn Byzantine Generals
#ProofOfWork
#MiPrimerBitcoin
#MyFirstBitcoin
#Lesson6
https://blossom.primal.net/9d00384ae82264688a5cbe0499bb1f782bba66add4112ff6458fa401a8f596ee.mov

2025-12-01 18:48:48 UTC

The Byzantine Generals dillema
I did not understand it, until I had to do it. With my students of the My First Bitcoin we did an exercise of attacking a Castle last Saturday.
We attached and we failed. Because there were "traitors". Messages were passed to NOT attack, while, I, the King of Kura Piedra (this is Stone Fence) have said we should attack together at dawn.
I created this exercise for Lesson 6 of the My First Bitcoin certificate. I consulted with my mentor Huxley and with my AI, Ava.
Here you will see the whole script and the whole activity, that you can play with your family and with your children. https://github.com/MyFirstBitcoin/Light-Node-Directory/blob/78175bfcaaa56d1ad9384b8e4d14e9576abaef45/Curacao%20--%20BTC%20Curacao/%F0%9F%8E%AC%20Lesson%206%20-%20My%20First%20Bitcoin%20-%20COMPLETE%20TEACHER%20SCRIPT%20_%20VERSION%202%20WITH%20CASTLE%20AND%20SWORD.docx
Because My First Bitcoin is open source. We try to share our knowledge amongst all the educational nodes in the world. So BTC Curacao Institute, the Peter Kroll family, sponsors this event in our beautiful Orange House at Eden Mall.
And then, we added Proof of Work. Simply moving 3 stones from a red dot to a green dot. Putting the messages on the ledger so everybody can see them. And the longest chain wins. So we all attacked. Successfully.
No trust. No cheating. Consensus. From the rules and the Proof of Work, consensus is born. Now I understood it.
Try it yourself. With your family. https://blossom.primal.net/f45c63ad3ff14c0642e720e03c5b15d5cf96f126b40becaa8212e63e49b085d1.png
Attack at Dawn
Runy Calmera
BTC Curacao Institute
#MyFirstBitcoin
#MiPrimerBitcoin
@nprofile…2hav
@nprofile…fry4
@nprofile…tyks

2025-11-22 23:50:05 UTC

Students bidding an a car during lesson 5 of the My First Bitcoin Certificate.
They experienced the Cantillon effect: what happens with the price and the money when you give one student 2000 USD in fake money while allother students have only USD 15 to bid on an object.
Runy
My First Bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/2d5a4e5bfc56551ceba8d6d086caf8324cebb41c15ed0902efdb5eb2d64a0ce2.mov

2025-11-22 23:43:51 UTC

You are now a Cypherpunk I said to one of my students during the lesson 5 of My First Bitcoin certificate.
Welcome.
If you could code you would now start creating sound money, Bitcoin.
He was critical. He was maybe even furious!! He said this is a scam!
All emotions.
I die not expect this when I prepared the lesson!
It was about the problems that Bitcoin solves.
By lesson 5 this student learned:
- that the USA created 4 trillion USD in kust 1-2 years. 40% more fiat currency
- he saw the M2 money supy go steep upwards
- he saw how many fiat money is created and the debt as percenatage of income of countries like USA, Japan, UK, Singapore.
- the ranking of the most indepted countries in the world
And he saw the website of WTF happened in 1971.
The question: what is money pondered in his mind.
What is hard money?
What is cbdc?
Are you saying they can link cbdc to my travel? To my social score?
Is that why you showed me to use keet.io the peer to peer chat? nostr?
But, but?
A new Cypherpunk was born.
If he could code he would have put all that energy, all that new insight into coding decentralized money.
I realized that by lesson 5 of the My First Bitcoin, you can not unsee what you have seen!!
He saw that just by adding some monopoly money to my friends - I played the Kura Piedra Bank again - and gave some extra 2000 USD fake money to my friend to show the Cantillion effect, while all other students had only 15 USD, that the bid of the Porsche went to straight 500 USD!
Nobody could outbit my friend!
My friemd was just one of the students.
This exercise showed them, and the new Cypherpunk, that suddenly, the value of the fiat money you have is decreased when there is more fiat money created.
This exercise of the My First Bitcoin program show exactly how it works.
Thanla to Family Peter Kroll of the BTC Curaçao Institute for sponsoring this program.
@myfirstbitcoin
@miprimerbitcoin
#ProofofWoek
@npub1w98…cwpx
@npub1wyj…2mkf
https://blossom.primal.net/ed79728330d6734ea41e4bbc0eded9d6a2d911d4a3a5743268b533945f52035d.mp4

2025-11-22 23:26:51 UTC

https://rumble.com/v70qdei-live-from-lugano-plan-b-in-switzerland-w-efrat-fenigson-and-prince-filip-ka.html
Efrat Fenigson: awesome!!!!!

2025-11-20 11:38:27 UTC

Global debt is 3 times global income.
As an extention of lesson 4 of the My First Bitcoin 10 week certificate on the Fiat system lets look at global debt.
You will learn more about how debt works. Not only through a bank like Kura Piedra Bank we showed last week but now globally: all thevdebt of the eorld.
https://youtu.be/qOCJH7Rdyn4
In this episode a lecture of professon Wolff on how it works.
Runy
Island Wealth

2025-11-19 18:26:26 UTC

Wa wa wa
Smallest nation to go to the world Cup!!
Curacao: Island of Talents
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DNZ99TpbX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

2025-11-19 00:08:10 UTC

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Can you also screen share when going live? If you have a graph or presentation on your macbook, can you share that?

2025-11-18 23:48:07 UTC

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When is live streaming comming to Primal

2025-11-18 23:38:56 UTC

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I will try Shosho next week.
Are there any other servers than zap stream?

2025-11-17 23:58:33 UTC

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Link to Github repository of Node Curacao of My First Bitcoin Educators network:
https://github.com/MyFirstBitcoin/Light-Node-Directory/blob/c4d0baabd84fcd8d9713f6fd0cf782f9c340968b/Curacao%20--%20BTC%20Curacao/Lesson%204%20Kura%20Piedra%20Bank%20Model.xlsx

2025-11-17 23:48:58 UTC

I did not realize that the banking sector was so fragile...
Until last week Saturday I had to put my final notes to my Lesson 4 of the Fiat system of the My First Bitcoin 10 week program.
How does a bank work? How does it create loans? How do loans relate to deposits.
I wanted to create a great interactive exercise out of the Mi Primer Bitcoin book.
So I decided to create the Kura Piedra Bank Fiat Show.
A show and game where you are not the main actor. The banks, the governments, the ones closest to the government and the central banks. Those are the main actors. And you, you watch the show.
You can have a credit card, a loan, a car loan, a business loan.
So there I was, creating my spreadsheet.
Here is how it worked https://blossom.primal.net/cdf636579026f096b4537261b4299a72041ce991d74108e62db26f14bcab8b33.png
First you have your own balance sheet of your Family (Bo Familia). And you got your assets and your liabilities. You got your house, your car, your business (Negoshi).
Then on the liability side you got your Mortgage, your car loan, and your business loan, and your credit card loans.
These liabilities are all the assets of the banks. You will soon see them at the Asset's side of the bank.
But lets move to your Earnings Statement of your Family.
https://blossom.primal.net/55aa2f58fb0b7938c463cddbf0a09ae004255aeca21fb8d1374a8df0a870e00e.png
Here you see how much money flows in and out because you have either assets or liabilities.
First lets look at your revenues of your Family.
You receive interests because you have a deposit at the Kura Piedra Bank. They pay you a lower interest rate then the interest you have to pay on the credit cards, the mortgage, the business loans and the car loans of course.
Kura Piedra Bank has to make money. We will see that later.
On the Expenditures side of your Earnings Statement you see what you need to pay on interests on:
Your mortgage, your car loan, your business loan and your credit card.
Here you see a very large credit card payment. Why: Because Kura Piedra Bank has maxed out on Credit cards. Everybody can get a credit card at 20% interest rate.
Now lets see how the Balance sheet and the Earnings Statement of our Kura Piedra Bank, the bank we created during the Lesson 4 looks.
https://blossom.primal.net/6f11b0835173adc05aa5d3c00f118a806c75298b4c58d4418d45a244b312692e.png
You can imagine that your liabilities are their assets. An asset is something that brings them money, a liability is something that takes money out of your wallet.
So here you see that your mortgage, your car loan, your business loan and your credit cards is the Kura Piedra Bank's assets.
Yes. they all bring the bank money.
You pay interest so the bank receives money, your money, on all these assets.
When you look at the Kura Piedra Bank's Earnings statement below you see how:
https://blossom.primal.net/fa32214b2a32da52bc395b96b5db5d01660eef0e9d428e16bc3d36213e322343.png
You see that on the Revenues side of the Kura Piedra bank they get interest on your mortgage, your car loan, your business loan and your credit card.
This is exactly the money that flows out of your expenditures side of your Family's Earning statement.
And then on the Expenditures side of the Kura Piedra Bank, Earning statement you see the money they pay you for your deposits.
The bank makes a profit by deducting the money they pay you on your deposits from the money they receive from you from all those loans.
Finally how does this work? The multiplier.
https://blossom.primal.net/518e5345a2bdc60c2ad9c9f9762a3218ba4458a976785ec2aa564e712756abd1.png
This resource we used during Lesson 4 of the My First Bitcoin Education of 10 weeks, sponsored by BTC Curacao Institute of Family Peter Kroll, also has a general overview of the fractional reserve system.
You see how if you put a deposit of 1 million, how with a percentage of 10% the Kura Piedra Bank has to hold as reserves it can create loans of 900.000. The cost is the deposit times the interest paid. The revenue is the loan times the interest received. The profit is the revenues minus the costs.
You see the Earnings of Kura Piedra Bank and you see the multiple, which means how many times the loans created are compared to the deposits.
If you decrease the fractional percentage to 5% or to 1% or to 0% like the USA, your numbers go crazy.
This is when I realized how fragile fiat banks can become.
None of the above is financial advice. Do your own research. This is only for educational purposes. We created this resource ourselves and this resource is not yet recommended or approved by the My First Bitcoin community. We welcome any improvements.
I will share this resource in the github folder of Node Curacao of the My First Bitcoin. If you have any questions or suggestions how we can improve this resource let me know.
You can create your own bank and your own Family Balance Sheet and Earnings Statements.
So your assignment, like our students is:
How does your real balance sheet of your family look like? And your earnings statements?
PS: the reason why these numbers look so large are: they are assuming only one bank Kura Piedra Bank for the whole island. And they assume all the families of all the citizens are shown in two statements.
Runy
My First Bitcoin Educator
Curacao
Island Wealth
Runy
My First Bitcoin

2025-11-17 22:59:13 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/02e8e4c54e5b7f7c617931e1727135d9f327705234efc9693953ea2ce88e29cd.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/343beea1822efd66b555765b2318d217ab33c88b52ec765f7854fffb1e5f6b56.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/a6d58988d74cc543c7b028f0d6cedb5a1dfba4528adba23afdbb817ae3faca1b.mov

2025-11-17 22:57:21 UTC

Proof of Work for the My First Bitcoin project of BTC Curaçao Institute.
In lesson 4 of the curriculum we talked about Fiat money.
I continued with the Kura Piedra Bank (Stone Fence Bank), an imaginary bank I created in lesson 3.
I showed how this bank can create 9 times its loan deposits in credit.
A multiplier of 9. And if the hovernment decides to lower the fractional reserve requirement to 5% the bank can become more fragile by going 19X.
Our students enjoyed this activity.
My First Bitcoin is action based. Every lesson we start with a practical excersise.
And students ask questions and we explain the topic at hand.
I will open source this spreadsheet so you can make your own simulations like our Kura Piedra Bank.
Check the github of My First Bitcoin, the Curaçao repository.
And if you are on Curaçao make sure you apply to join the next cohort.
Runy
#myfirstbitcoin
#curaçao
#bitcoin
@npub17cy…4ml3
https://blossom.primal.net/7786c0f69713f88add33e95fd888f1bb74207eda3d65adf70ce1349f57ba11ea.mp4

2025-11-17 22:48:40 UTC

It is good to see the Central Bank of Curacao and Sint Maarten lead in monetary research and organize such a conference.
Caribbean economists also need to research what the Digital Asset Sector with Bitcoin as the new monetary layer means for the Caribbean, Curacao and Sibt Maarten. A 2,3 trillion USD market cap of Bitcoin is parger than all the economies of the Caribbean together.
As a Bitcoin educator, investor and macro economist focussed on creating Island Wealth in the Caribbean and all the 57 big ocean islands in the world I will study all these presented papers to see and learn more about these peer economists and researchers.
I know these islands are very linked to the USA, the policy of the Federal Reserve and to the USA economy which is currently not strong.
Let us share knowledge, improve our Caribbean capital markets and bring more innovation and growth to the Caribbean.
Runy
Island Wealth
https://blossom.primal.net/76d0a25f129539b8d50693fdd396402ad7f9e6b8ac81dee65cdc33404109e9c2.png

2025-11-09 21:05:49 UTC

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@npub17cy…4ml3 #ProofofWork Node Curaçao BTC Curaçao Institute

2025-11-09 21:04:47 UTC

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@nprofile…ryx4 thanks for your train the trainer MFB trainings and coaching. Look at what we created on Curaçao thanks to you!

2025-11-09 21:03:41 UTC

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@nprofile…ryx4 here it is

2025-11-09 19:53:41 UTC

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@nprofile…9fea here it is!!!! Enjoy.
@nprofile…2hav

2025-11-09 19:52:04 UTC

https://github.com/MyFirstBitcoin/Light-Node-Directory/blob/5990c6fb8c56fb589d78333e6e0106a1b2bfaeee/Curacao%20--%20BTC%20Curacao/Lesson%203%20My%20First%20Bitcoin%20History%20of%20Money%20-%20small.pdf
Here is the link to the resource: The History Of Money.
Disclaimer: only use this for educational purposes. This is not financial advice.
Don't Trust Verify Yourself.
Let me know if you used this resource. Take some pictures and show them on Nostr.
In the future I might create a Business version and a Youth version of this resource.
Enjoy,
Runy
Island Wealth
BTC Curacao Institute Teacher/My First Bitcoin

2025-11-09 19:17:19 UTC

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@nprofile…9fea I will soon put it on our github repo on My First Bitcoin. Have to turn everything in PDF and write a short manual. But the manual is already the video. So a 17 min manual.
You only need a colour printer and some papers and a scissors to cut the cards and it is done.
See the video on my profile.

2025-11-09 19:12:12 UTC

My First Bitcoin - Mi Primer Bitcoin is a decentralized network of educators teaching the Bitcoin certificate in 10 weeks. I’m a Bitcoin trainer and coach in this global open source network.
In lesson 3 we teach the History of Money.
Watch this video to learn how to use cards and a game with your family of 9 (kids included), to teach your family about money.
Share this with as many people you know that need to understand barter, why using a commodity like spagetti as money won’t work on the long term, why we moved to golden and silver coins, how banks create credit and money, how that leads to inflation, what happens when a bank goes broke and why the people introduced Bitcoin as decentralized hard money.
Use chapter 3 of the My First Bitcoin as background for this exercise.
And let me know how it went.
I will soon post all the cards you see here as open source on the github repository of BTC Curacao Institute, which is a node of the Mi Primer Bitcoin network and sponsoring this project. Thanks to the Kroll Family.
Runy Calmera
PS Kura Piedra means Stone Fence.
#MFB
#MPB
#ProofofWork
#Bitcoin
#Education
#IslandWealth
#Curacao https://blossom.primal.net/5f03f1430956a70cec131a3de418724586032b929cca3b0ea2c728da88ea1dff.mov

2025-11-09 17:27:59 UTC

2025-11-09 12:11:49 UTC

With the help of my AI and direct report of my company Island Wealth, I created an educational game for lesson 3 of the Mi Primer Bitcoin (My First Bitcoin) 10 week’s certificate.
Students experience live the history of money.
We have interactive exercises and we gamify the history.
I introduced a King that clips some of the golden coins to pay for his soldiers.
Students saw how difficult it was to barter with goods because there is no coincidence of wants. I have bread but I want fish, you have fish but you want a guitar.
So no trade.
But if we introduce spagetti as the general accepted good then trade is posible.
But spagetti won’t last long.
So we move to silver and gold. But when someone clips the coins and these clopped coins enter the market, like my students , the people lose trust.
That is inflation. The coins buy less.
You could continue the history of money with plastic exclusive cards, like the one of my fake bank- Kura Piedra means Stone Fence - and was one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Curacao - so I honor that name of the community where I was born- and know that with Bitcoin and believing in your dreams you can jump the stone fence of poverty .
So now I use the same Kura Piedra to teach Bitcoin, and to make films that create memorable experiences and change tge lives of people.
Watch my last film - Corporate Protocol.
I will open source these learning materials on the github of My First Bitcoin - BTC Curacao Institute (node Curacao).
Finally you see how the people become their own banks with a raspberry pi running Bitcoin and lightning.
Runy
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2025-11-09 11:56:02 UTC

Lesson 3 on History of Money of the My First Bitcoin Education, sponsored by BTC Curacao Institute.
This exercise is from the barter economy, to paying with Spagetti money, golden and silver coins, to plastic.
And the emergence of Banks. So as I have a Kura Piedra Films Production gig going on I decided to create the Kura Piedra Family bank.
And teach the students how banks can make loans and increase cedit and Money on top of the golden standard.
This was the most interactive lesson so far. 7 lessons to go to finish the first cohort at the Orange House of Bitcoin Reef at Eden Mall.
Proof of work
#mfb
#mpb
Runy
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2025-11-09 11:49:49 UTC

@nprofile…20wr published his trip to Curacao!!!
Awesome on what we are doing here with Bitcoin
https://youtu.be/TauW_pLnstw
So glad I’m part of this and of the Mi Primer Bitcoin Education.
@npub17cy…4ml3

2025-11-07 02:21:22 UTC

Today BTC Curacao Institute talked about the My First Bitcoin at a business radio Hoyer in Curacao. We talked about this great open souce, decentralized, educational networktp spread Bitcoin education
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AKuS9wMtW/?mibextid=wwXIfr
We showd an online form where businesses can apply for our second cohort of 10 weeks.
So our goal is to fill our next cohort with 10 businesses that take the MFB 10 week certificate.
We also want to have 10 youth between 12-21 years.
Thanks to the My First Bitcoin community for helping us teach businesses about Bitcoin
Runy
BTC Curacao Institute
My First Bitcoin node
Mi Prome Bitcoin
@npub17cy…4ml3 #Proof Of Work
#MFB
#MPB
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2025-11-01 19:06:43 UTC

Paying for the My First Bitcoin time on Curacao. Students experiencing the Mi First Bitcoin Education
@myfirstbitcoin
Runy Calmera
Teacher Mi Prome Bitcoin Curacao
At Eden Mall, Curacao, Sponsored by Peter Kroll family.
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2025-11-01 18:58:41 UTC

Buying groceries for Lesson 2 What is Money at Esperamos Supermarket Curacao.
My First Bitcoin teacher Runy Calmera started this lesson by handing all students 5 USD on their Wallet of Satoshi and giving them a list of groceries. These groceries were used in the excercise on What is money.
The MPB Education of cohort 1 is sponsored by the Bitcoin OG Peter Kroll’s family
Runy
BTC Curacao Institute
Island Wealth
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2025-11-01 18:54:17 UTC

Students of My First Bitcoin at teh Orang House of BTC Curacao, Light Educational Node at Eden Mall Willemstad.
Teacher Runy Calmera went shopping for the second lesson about What is money.
You see all kinds of money on the table.
#ProofOfWork
#BTC
#Curacao
#MFB
#MPB
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2025-10-31 19:27:35 UTC

At Mi Prome Bitcoin we are practical, doing exercises eith the students.
This is during lesson one of Mi Prome Bitcoin Curacao walking from the Orange House at BTC Curacao Institute at Eden Maal to Esperamos Supermarket.
Buying some orange goodies with the students.
Runy
Teacher Mi Prome Bitcoin Curacao
Host Island Wealth
Exercise 1: spending sats at a local Supermarket.
Next exercise 2: students receive 7000 sats to spend themselves and buy groceries for next lesson 2 of Mi Prome Bitcoin Curacao Diploma…. Stay tuned for Proof of Work of Node BTC Curacao Institute.
#BTC #MFB #MPB # WalletofSatoshi #Blink #Runy
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2025-10-31 18:50:14 UTC

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@npub17cy…4ml3 Proof of Work of Mi Prome Bitcoin Node Curacao : BTC Curacao Institute talking about the Bitcoin cenrtification at Radio New Song in Curacao.

2025-10-31 18:47:49 UTC

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The invited us because one of the students the the Lead Radio Show man: Mr. Dearly Constancia is a student in cohort 1 of Mi Prome Bitcoin at the BTC Curacao Institute in Eden Mall. Thanks for Family Kroll for sponsoring the orange house (= training room) and this educational experience!!

2025-10-31 18:45:28 UTC

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@myfrstbitcoin see proof of work of Node BTC Curacao Institute, on my nostr page. Where I talk about ami Prome Bitcoin Curacao on the local radio New Song.

2025-10-31 17:55:37 UTC

Prome ku e edishon aki kita for di aire, wak e pa bo kompronde dikon mi a bira trainer na Instituto Bitcoin Curacao, na Eden Mall.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EMnubxF5t/
Hopi danki na senior Dearly Constancia di Radio New Song y Senior Robert Stricks.
https://bit.ly/mi-prome-bitcoin
Yena bo nomber akinan pa bo tambe por hanja les gratis y risibi bo diploma di Bitcoin
In papiamentu:
This is the first edition, watch it (in Papiamentu) before it is taken of air. Why I became trainer of My First Bitcoin, through the BTC Curacao Institute at Eden Mall in Curacao.
Last saturday I started as the first My First Bitcoin trainers on Curacao, giving the 10 week Bitcoin certification training. We want to thank Arnold Hubach of Mi Primer Bitcoin and his team for guiding and supporting Curacao, and I personally want to thank my Bitcoin mentor in the MPB education, Huxley, for onboarding me and assisting me as a BTC teacher in the network.
One of my students was mr. Dearly Constancia, who happened to be a radio host at Radio New Song in Curacao. So he invited me to talk about the My First Bitcoin certification.
Here is Proof of Work that it was delivered. Please watch this - in Papiamentu - fast before it is put down. In the future I will translate what we discussed into English, so you can see what is happening in Curacao.
We went live on the Radio, with... Mi Prome BTC Radio, powered by Radio New Song on Curacao.
Help me share this.
Runy Calmera
Island Wealth

2025-10-26 20:16:50 UTC

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Hey
Watch this 48 second reel on how Kura Piedra Films Production created a film in just 48 hours...
In the Cinemas Curacao on 28 and 30 of October on Curacao
Runy
Kura Piedra Films Production
Island Wealth Channel

2025-10-01 13:03:43 UTC

https://youtu.be/5KmopXwjXik
Watch this and you know what is coming for AI.
Ans you will learn why you better can be a plumber and not a legal analyst.

2025-09-26 00:23:05 UTC

Nostr and Keet
Two social media apps I use!!!
https://keet.io/

2025-09-20 19:21:21 UTC

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I used it. But suddenly all my streams were not visible anymore and it said: please add sats.
So what you need to add is make it clear how much it costs to keep your streams up.
Youtube never asks me to refill so my streams are up.
I just want to move away from youtube completely. But after I saw that zapstream wants me to keep refilling sats I dropped out completely.
I’m thinking about putting all my videos inna keet.io room. Keet is peer to peer and it won’t cost me anything to stream my content.
So advice: what is your business model?
State that clearly. Put more of your time into that. No more features needed. Just streaming.

2025-09-19 11:34:46 UTC

Big Brother
This is both the source of all power in the novel but also the symbol of the “benevolent dictatorship” of the party. It is a source of fear and the symbol of brotherly affection the Party holds toward the people. This is Orwell’s condemnation of central authority and the abuse they represent. Big Brother is the government, religion, and the police all in one image.
Source: https://www.aresearchguide.com/1984.html
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2025-09-19 11:29:06 UTC

In 1984 of George Orwell, the Ministry of Truth determines what can be said online or not!
If your truth is not their truth you get cancelled and killed.
That is the authoritarian script!
So when you see a host of a show cancelled and you think it not relevant, know that you are slowly slipping to ignorance and truth.
Peace!
Runy
Island Wealth
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2025-08-22 10:04:50 UTC

The price of everything, even gold, falls in terms of Bitcoin.
Jeff Booth says Bitcoin is reprising the workd. Everything. Because it is the first free global market.
I’m bringing Bitcoin to islands. All islands in the world should build on top of Bitcoin.
We will connect all businesses, all homes, all people on islands through #Bitcoin. Peer to peer. Globally.
That is our mission of #IslandWealth.
Runy
#islandwealth
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2025-08-19 01:20:11 UTC

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Don't be like mompreneurs 💋 who juggle 😰 between business 🤑 and their kids. 🥰 Click here and join.
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2025-08-17 15:04:57 UTC

https://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40
Remember!!!!
Just remember!!!!

2025-08-16 12:03:59 UTC

You might want to take a look at the RGB ecosystem.
It builds on lightning and Bitcoin protocol.
It enables smart contracts.
It is peer to peer.
There are already wallets imementing it. I’m currently studying how to use some open source wallets.
You can create any digital asset and manage it.
It opens the layer to build a decentralized global ecosystem of value transfer.
Imagine digitizing:
- assets
- deeds
- stocks
- bonds
Imagine what island nations could do diversifying their tourism dependent economies away from tourism. Imagine defi but now built on top of Bitcoin!!!
Like Jeff Booth says: give your attention to Bitcoin. Build on Bitcoin.
https://rgb.info/use-rgb/
You can see some use cases here.
Let me know what you think.
This is another way to create #islandwealth.
Powered with #ai, automated through #python.
This is why you need to learn automation and AI. To create #digital #assets!!!
Runy
Island Wealth

2025-08-16 00:08:40 UTC

Achieving Work-Life Balance
As I said, you deserve both success at work and at home. Want my game plan? Hit that Follow button so you don't miss out.
#success #work #home
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2025-08-15 00:01:09 UTC

How To Leverage AI to Increase Your Earning Potentia?
We discuss how to use AI to your advantage and get a higher wage, rather than letting AI take your job.
#AI #JobAutomation #HigherWage
#IslandWealth
Listen up, bro. Are you going to let AI take your job, or are you going to step in and use AI to get a higher wage? It's up to you. Follow me to learn more.
Be honest: are you using AI in your job or business every day?
Give me a Yes or a No in the comments
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2025-08-14 01:34:23 UTC

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If you want to get the same transformation as Sarah, click here and join for free: https://event.webinarjam.com/register/31/6w95pc5x

2025-08-12 21:11:48 UTC

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2025-08-11 17:50:03 UTC

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If you are managing your stocks in Excel and have to copy and paste just to monitor your wealth.... this is for you...
Runy Calmera
Island Wealth

2025-08-10 09:05:11 UTC

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Here it goes.

2025-08-08 08:46:55 UTC

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Thanks for the zap

2025-08-01 10:51:56 UTC

Python, AI, Datacience, Global Macro Investing and economic analysis, Bitcoin #mpb #graduate #finance

2025-07-28 20:11:41 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_0ljdCX7U
In today's Island Wealth Strategic Report you will get a summary of this video with Alasdair MacLeod below.
You can take this to your next Family Office meeting, with your wife or husband and your kids, where you discuss how the kids are going to manage your wealth in this Credit bubble we are in.
Nothing is financial advise, for educational and entertainment purposes only. I'm not your financial advisor. I only care about your wealth.
🧠 Strategic Economic Intelligence Report
Based on Alasdair Macleod – WTFinance Interview: “1929 Repeat As Credit Bubble Collapses”
📅 Date: July 28, 2025 | 🎙️ Duration: ~42 minutes
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🔟 Top 10 Summary Insights
1. ⚠️ We are at the peak of a global credit bubble — unsustainable debt levels mirror 1929.
2. 📉 Bond yields rising = massive repricing of debt, crushing bond and equity valuations.
3. 🔁 Debt trap dynamics — higher interest payments lead to higher deficits, lower growth, and a vicious spiral.
4. 📉 Global recession already underway — small and mid-sized businesses are struggling, official stats are misleading.
5. 💸 Fiat currencies are rapidly devaluing — it’s not gold rising, it’s fiat collapsing.
6. 🏛️ Central banks are trapped — no room to cut interest rates in a stagflationary environment.
7. 🏚️ Property values will collapse in real terms — even luxury villas can become net liabilities.
8. ⚒️ Base and precious metals remain deeply undervalued (lowest since 1900 in gold terms).
9. 🧨 Crisis is inevitable — timeframe: within the next 18 months or sooner.
10. 🛡️ Preserving wealth is now more important than growing it. Get out of credit. Get into corporeal money (gold/silver).
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📊 List of Economic Variables Mentioned
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🔗 Variable Linkage Flow (Simplified Macro Chain)
Debt Levels ↑ → Bond Yields ↑ → Credit Cost ↑ → Business Defaults ↑ → Equity Prices ↓ → Confidence ↓ → Investment ↓ → Recession ↑ → Tax Revenue ↓ → Budget Deficit ↑ → Currency Confidence ↓ → Inflation ↑ → Fiat Value ↓ → Gold/Silver ↑ → Real Estate (Net Real Value) ↓ → Capital Flight ↑
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💥 Risk & Opportunity Snapshot – Your Asset Overview
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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Home Wealth Meeting – What to Discuss 🗣️
🛑 1. “Get Out of Credit”
— Move savings from banks, debt instruments, and leveraged property into assets with no counterparty risk.
🏡 2. Don’t Count on Real Estate
— Reassess long-term assumptions. High maintenance and low liquidity make it risky in currency collapse scenarios.
🪙 3. Increase Exposure to Physical Precious Metals
— This is the only historical store of value across systemic collapses.
🚫 4. Reconsider Crypto as a Hedge
— Bitcoin is not functioning as true money in this scenario. It’s speculative and power-dependent.
📉 5. Expect 18-Month Crunch Window
— Prepare liquidity buffers and escape routes (i.e. residency, backup plans, physical asset access).
🧠 6. Teach the Next Generation
— Introduce basic concepts of “real money vs. credit,” the history of fiat, and importance of independence.
💰 Capital Allocation Recommendation
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🧠 Final Message from Alasdair (paraphrased)
“It’s not about growing your wealth anymore. It’s about protecting it.
Get out of credit. Get into real, physical money.”
🎯 TL;DR
Preserve > Grow.
Get out of debt-backed assets.
Gold is not going up — your money is going down.
Runy Calmera
Island Wealth

2025-07-28 17:23:12 UTC

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Where can we find more info about Dave? And how it works? Somebody I know wants to experiment with Dave with local llm

2025-07-28 15:32:46 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbFwKyDxRV4
Here I explain the Bitcoin24 model. You can use it like I did to:
- Calculate the impact of saving in Bitcoin for your family, your pension fund, your school, your business and
- your country/island.
- I have used it to show what would happen if Caribbean islands/countries like Curacao, Sint Maarten, Suriname and all the rest of the Caribbean adopt a Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, like Michael Saylor's Strategy did.
I will redo this exercise again and create a shorter 10 min video with the main parts. This one is long.
The sound will be improved and I will cut it to the basics.
Download the Bitcoin24 model from github for free, it is open source, and start making your own calculations.
Let me know below if you have any questions.
PS: what I did is I added my whole macro investment models to this spreadsheet. In these macro investment models for small island economies - and soon for the USA / China / BRICS+ countries - you can simulate the whole economy, discuss it based on facts and real data. You can change assumptions on how the economy will work, and you can discuss future scenarios.
So you know the impact.
No financial advise. For education purposes only.
Runy
Island Wealth

2025-07-27 09:37:04 UTC

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You should try Keet.io decentralized, unstoppable, peer to peer. Even more exclusive.

2025-07-24 21:49:50 UTC

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Hey is it possible to make this setup work with a raspberry pi 5? Then we can teach schools to convert solar power into Bitcoin.

2025-07-24 21:38:28 UTC

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We need this in the Caribbean, in Curacao, where there is 8 hours of sun every day. Where can we buy this?