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 @Mi Primer Bitcoin - Bitcoin Education for the World @Arnold Hubach @Huxley

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 @Arnold Hubach and @Huxley of the @Mi Primer Bitcoin - Bitcoin Education for the World 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

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

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

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

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

European Exports to USA abd to China

European Union Exports to United States - 2026 Data 2027 Forecast 2000-2024 Historical

European Union Exports to United States was US$571.11 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade...

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

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