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From the beginning of European Mining Summit (EMS) on Wednesday until I left Helsinki Tuesday morning, it was all one big chop-chop-chop mania blur. Sauna, meetings, interviews, lectures, sauna, yoga practice, writing Nordic Node, dinners, conf...

In exactly 24 hours — 10 am Finnish time, be here (at the Cable Factory) or be square — Giacomo Zucco will open BTCHEL 2026 with a keynote, kicking off the largest Nordic Bitcoin conference and Bitcoin event of the year. Sjukt jävla häftigt!

Your No. 1 Place for What’s Bitcoining in the Nordics! I almost never write about Iceland in the Nordic Node, not because it’s unimportant but because there’s rarely anything Bitcoin-relevant to say.

After fork and Coldcard debacle, we needed a breather. Still, this week we get euronotes pranks, Danes wrench-attacking Pokémon associations (not bitcoin meetups!), Bitcoin miners turning to AI instead, and the moral economy of Norway.

Bitcoin Community Comes Together in the Face of Devastating Self-Custody Heist If you, for some unfathomable reason, have missed it: immediately go check on your Coldcard. Funds secured by Coldcard products (mk3-5, Q) are in grave danger; move them.

Yes, our Bitcoin conference circuit does sometimes feel like a hip band on tour… same dudes, having the same convos, in places of increasingly exotic nature. At 60°N, Helsinki is certainly one such exotic place, right? RIGHT?! You shall be there...

The Nordic Node: Your No. 1 Place for What’s Bitcoining in the Nordics! Bull Bitcoin, the Canadian non-custodial bitcoin exchange that has recently made inroads into Europe, releases its Stop DAC8 campaign today, as reported by BTCHEL this morning.

The “Satoshi-samtale” that the Norwegian BPI (Bitcoinpolitisk Institutt, or Bitcoin Policy Norway) has put on quite regularly in Oslo have consistently been of high quality. The one held last week with two guests from the banking industry...

Our honorary Nordic, Luke de Wolf (Knut Svanholm’s “padawan”?!), last month announced his own 400-page Bitcoin-x-cybersecurity tome, Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid.

For most of last week I was out birthing sheep. Yes, those tiny, fluffy, adorable, bleating creatures that wander the green hills of these lands. The process of birth is breathtaking, the miracle of life and all that. It’s incredible to see...

As the snow melts on our northerly porches and the sun returns with its shockingly warm rays, the BTCHEL team launches a biweekly newsletter! Nothing could be more appropriate in these blooming, thawing, hopeful spring times.