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Featuring Bitcoin Suisse and Ammy Edberg this week. (The stackers might know her from the pretty negative MONEY CLASS a while ago... #1264166)

A few months ago, it was announced that Ammy Edberg (BTChick) has joined Bitcoin Suisse as General Manager for the Nordics. Bitcoin Suisse targets private, institutional, and professional clients with trading, custody, and other general digital asset services. And they’re pretty cool: super slick, super profesh. The suitcoiners are here, etc.

We’ve talked about this dearth of activity in the Nordics before (unless you’re in Oslo with BPI Norge at Litteraturhuset tonight, or reading books in Copenhagen), so I reached out to Ammy and asked.

"I wouldn’t say that the Nordics are bitcoin-empty, actually,"

She tells me that what she’s learned in her conversations with clients is that it’s not enough to have exposure or access to an exchange, but that some — especially wealthier, private-banking type of clients — want somebody to talk to, someone who understands the market and can help with the practical questions. As BTCHick, she’s spent the last cycle making bitcoin easier to understand: through lectures and pitches to portfolio managers and general social media presence. Teaming up with Bitcoin Suisse and Kristoffer Nystrøm felt great and appropriate, a missing market where bitcoin knowledge among private banking services is usually completely absent.

READING LIST

READING LIST is dope, but the stackers already had most of it. I'm nice like that. #1612279, #1612338 #1610646

It’s The Money, Stupid: Our friend Lars Christensen is out with a beautiful money-growth vs CPI graph for the pandemic and post-pandemic years. You won’t believe the basically linear correlation, with Iceland bang on the line, Norway and Sweden and Denmark hugging it. It’s shocking, really: you print (excess) money, you get price inflation. 

Indonesia Calling: A beautiful and beautifully made My First Bitcoin/Kyle Huber documentary here. Incredibly inspirational. 

…Or Just Norway: The FT had a beautiful feature this weekend about skiers and ski adventures in the far north of Norway. It’s astonishing; we know. (Gift link here.)

Finnish Sun Shining Bright: Amazing feature/shout-out to SunBit, the Finnish bitcoin-mining/heater startup powering Finnish households. Yes, we all met the team at BTCHEL. They were great, working the crowd and impressing them with their set-up. Go read the CoinDesk article on them. 

Disagree But Worth Reading: I can’t recall if I disagreed with anything in the last two weeks (maybe the rapidly deteriorating light at these latitudes). Like Giacomo, I’m known to be such a calm and pleasant fellah. Also, I’m busy watching the Total Chess tournament in Budapest — Magnus still crushing everyone, doing Magnesian things. Actually, I made a bet market for it on Predyx, the bitcoin-native prediction market. Pretty cool.

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Nordic Node archive:

The Nordic Node #13: "You Should Go to Norway Instead of Hiding Miners at Work"

The Nordic Node #12: "Heatpunkery, Grids, and Iceland's Stunningly Backward Economy"

The Nordic Node #11: "The BTCHEL Hangover"

The Nordic Node 10.5: "BTCHEL Week Is Upon Us, and We’re Painting Europe Orange"

The Nordic Node #10: "KYC Is Dangerous"

The Nordic Node #9: "The Rich Europooreans Don't Want the EU"

The Nordic Node #8: "Suitcoiner Phoenix, Pokémon, and Blockchains"

The Nordic Node #7: "The Day the Token Wars Came"

The Nordic Node #6: "A Dilution a Week Keeps the Saylorbois Weak"

The Nordic Node #5: "EU Overlords, Decaying Cultures, & Treasury Companies Dying"

The Nordic Node #4: "Satoshi Talks, Mining Controversy, and some Suitcoinery"

The Nordic Node #3: "Two Suitcoiners and a Bitcoin Bodyguard Walk into a Bar..."

The Nordic Node #2: "Lambs, Bitcoin Adoption, and Criminals"

The Nordic Node #1: "Welcome to the Nordic Node!"

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