Going against the tide cuz #YOLO
Teaching Crypto 101, Making a Pearl Necklace, New Sponsor, More Common S3nse speakers and more
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Right now, crypto feels... surreal. Cold suits. Agentic payments. Internet capital markets. Tokenized everything. Is that bad? Not at all.
We got what we wanted. Institutions are here. Family offices, fund-of-funds, and HNWIs no longer dismiss crypto as a scam. The infrastructure works. Decentralized, permissionless, censorship-resistant blockchains quietly settle billions of dollars every day.
We won. So why can’t I celebrate? Why does it all feel... empty?
Why am I still obsessing over teaching Crypto 101, onboarding local merchants, and convincing people to pay with crypto for a coffee? If crypto is becoming the financial rails for AI agents, why bother with humans at all?
On Tuesday night, I did exactly that anyway cuz you know #YOLO (and I don’t have a boss to tell me not to)
As you know, for the past 4 years, I’ve organized crypto events, for crypto peeps. Preaching to the choir. Bringing together builders, hackers, and cypherpunks and I love it. So why go out of my way to reach the no-coiner world? Especially here in the Netherlands, where a cashless, instant, nearly free iDEAL payment system makes the pain crypto solves almost invisible.
The truth is... I don’t know. I’m searching for something.
What started as a marketing campaign to onboard merchants around the Common S3nse venue unexpectedly turned into an existential crisis. It made me question my last nine years in crypto and wonder what still makes my cypherpunk heart beat.
What I do know, is that I’m pouring all my love and efforts into Cypherpunk Week and Common S3nse, to gather the best and because
Privacy is Common S3nse
Security is Common S3nse
Permissionless is Common S3nse
Censorship Resistance is Common S3nse
Self custody is Common S3nse
Making a Beautiful Pearl Necklace 🦪
Flipping the swag model. No waste.
Wear exactly what speaks to you, and come ready and swagged up for Common S3nse. Get your Common S3nse merch now.
Privacy is Common S3nse
Join Common S3nse our annual conference and hackathon dedicated to Privacy, Security and DeFi, which will take place during Cypherpunk Week on the 4-5 of September 2026 at de Hallen Studio in Amsterdam.
🎟️ Get Tickets
🎤 Apply to Speak
💻 Apply to Hack
✨ Apply to Volunteer
🗞 Apply as a Media Partner
🙌 Apply as a Community Partner
New speaker announced
Aaron R. Day
US Senate candidate, CEO/Fellow of the Brownstone Institute and Daylight Freedom Foundation, and returning speaker will join us this September for Common S3nse.
The quiet war on financial freedom is already here and this man has spent 30 years preparing the counter-offensive.
A true freedom fighter with 30 years in blockchain, crypto, AI, healthcare & e-commerce. Bestselling author exposing CBDCs, and advocate living 100% on decentralized finance while championing privacy & individual liberty.
Common S3nse is proudly sponsored by:
🎖Zcash - The first cryptocurrency to develop zero-knowledge encryption for private peer-to-peer payments.
🎖Zano - The blockchain where transactions, assets, staking, trading, and applications are confidential by protocol design, not by option.
🎖Cyber Capital - Europe’s Oldest Cryptocurrency Fund with a 10 year track record.
Right now, crypto feels... surreal. Cold suits. Agentic payments. Internet capital markets. Tokenized everything. Is that bad? Not at all.
We got what we wanted. Institutions are here. Family offices, fund-of-funds, and HNWIs no longer dismiss crypto as a scam. The infrastructure works. Decentralized, permissionless, censorship-resistant blockchains quietly settle billions of dollars every day.
We won. So why can’t I celebrate? Why does it all feel... empty?
Why am I still obsessing over teaching Crypto 101, onboarding local merchants, and convincing people to pay with crypto for a coffee? If crypto is becoming the financial rails for AI agents, why bother with humans at all?
On Tuesday night, I did exactly that anyway cuz you know #YOLO (and I don’t have a boss to tell me not to)
As you know, for the past 4 years, I’ve organized crypto events, for crypto peeps. Preaching to the choir. Bringing together builders, hackers, and cypherpunks and I love it. So why go out of my way to reach the no-coiner world? Especially here in the Netherlands, where a cashless, instant, nearly free iDEAL payment system makes the pain crypto solves almost invisible.
The truth is... I don’t know. I’m searching for something.
What started as a marketing campaign to onboard merchants around the Common S3nse venue unexpectedly turned into an existential crisis. It made me question my last nine years in crypto and wonder what still makes my cypherpunk heart beat.
What I do know, is that I’m pouring all my love and efforts into Cypherpunk Week and Common S3nse, to gather the best and because
Privacy is Common S3nse
Security is Common S3nse
Permissionless is Common S3nse
Censorship Resistance is Common S3nse
Self custody is Common S3nse
Making a Beautiful Pearl Necklace 🦪
Flipping the swag model. No waste.
Wear exactly what speaks to you, and come ready and swagged up for Common S3nse. Get your Common S3nse merch now.
Privacy is Common S3nse
Join Common S3nse our annual conference and hackathon dedicated to Privacy, Security and DeFi, which will take place during Cypherpunk Week on the 4-5 of September 2026 at de Hallen Studio in Amsterdam.
🎟️ Get Tickets
🎤 Apply to Speak
💻 Apply to Hack
✨ Apply to Volunteer
🗞 Apply as a Media Partner
🙌 Apply as a Community Partner
New speaker announced
Aaron R. Day
US Senate candidate, CEO/Fellow of the Brownstone Institute and Daylight Freedom Foundation, and returning speaker will join us this September for Common S3nse.
The quiet war on financial freedom is already here and this man has spent 30 years preparing the counter-offensive.
A true freedom fighter with 30 years in blockchain, crypto, AI, healthcare & e-commerce. Bestselling author exposing CBDCs, and advocate living 100% on decentralized finance while championing privacy & individual liberty.
Common S3nse is proudly sponsored by:
🎖Zcash - The first cryptocurrency to develop zero-knowledge encryption for private peer-to-peer payments.
🎖Zano - The blockchain where transactions, assets, staking, trading, and applications are confidential by protocol design, not by option.
🎖Cyber Capital - Europe’s Oldest Cryptocurrency Fund with a 10 year track record.
