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Meditating. Looking to do things that matter. In search of the truth. Living the married life. This page is inspired by nownownow .
Ville Kokkomäki
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I built analytics with Umami
I came across a blog post by Orhun Parmaksız, where he lays out how he setup his blog. Kind of like how I wrote about how I updated my blog style and infrastructure . Similarly, he is using a Static Site Generator but named Zola. I almost used it as well, but I didn’t find any great starter themes. They were too “terminal” and computer-styled. What caught my attention was…
Into the stillness
Six months before the fifth retreat. I arrived at my first retreat carrying a lot on my shoulders. A firing from work that made me bitter and sad. After first retreat I understood my part in it. Heartbreaks that had left grief behind and something physical. Also later I understood my role in it. I could feel the grief in my chest, not metaphorically but literally, like shapes with edges. I…
At Thirty
Mummo, Kukka, liinapäässä, Perhos teepaita yllä. kesäk. 2001. Piirtänyt Ville Kokkomäki. * Grandma, Flower, wearing a headscarf and a butterfly T-shirt. Summer 2001. Drawn by Ville Kokkomäki. Thirty life advice by a thirty-year-old, in somewhat order of importance. This is life advice and wisdom that I can’t really give and remind to anyone but myself. It’s what I’ve learned is…
Correlation is not Causation
I couldn’t think of a better title, I am sorry. It’s quite cliche, certainly. Anyway, I think correlation is witty. In my bachelor studies I studied a lot of advanced statistics and theory. Professors and teachers tried to nail the slogan ‘correlation is not causation’ to our brain. Granted, correlation is one of the best things we have. Correlation gives even just faint…
I built a Lightning Network paywall
Update. 20th, March. I believe a shrewd hacker somehow redirected the Lightning Network invoices to their wallet, making them just a few cents richer, and me more wiser. Quite fun, actually! Not my first rodeo. It makes a great story. I also made the paywal just for a specific subsection, instead of the whole article. I suppose not everyone has a LN wallet in their computers. Enjoy! Update. 24th,…
Fifth meditation
I am now aware. I am aware of myself and breathing, the sensations on my nostrils and between my toes. A new world has opened up to me and there is no going back. This is the fifth meditation retreat. Every other gimmick failed, but vipassana opened my horizons. It showed me what is, versus what I want things to be. It showed me, me , in the latest and truest form. Vipassana showed me joy and…
Tears of God
Before the 10-day retreat in August 2025, something had already cracked open. A month earlier, I was meditating alone in my room at home. After about half an hour I said certain words — three times. I don’t know why three times. Only later did I notice that in Gethsemane, Jesus also turned to God three times before his death. Then I said those words, something happened that I still…
How I surf the Web
The First Click Windows 98 I clicked a glimmering power button on a light-gray box for the first time when I was five or six. This was a computer with Windows 98 installed in it. It was attached to a big, fat monitor, which I thought was “the computer”. All the other things didn’t matter; after all, I didn’t really “use” them. Mouse I held, keyboard I clicked…
I updated my blog style and infrastructure
My blog across the years I have been blogging for eight years now. I have written about many things that interest me, and things about me that I have discovered. This blog is not so much a niche place for a specific subject, although lately I have been writing a lot about Bitcoin. (I am not called Bitcoin Ville for nothing!) This place is not my curriculum vitae, but a collection of opinions. This…
How Bitcoin relates to peace?
Miten Bitcoin liittyy rauhaan?
Does money grow on trees?
Bitcoin as a 'digital gold' analogue
Avoin kirje Euroopan parlamentin jäsenille Chat Controllista
Bitcoin is not 'freedom tech' by default
Crypto confuses me
Millaista on olla työtön
Puolalaista rauhoittavaa maisemaa. 9/2024.
About
Pöö pöö dear friends and friends’ friends, I don’t know where to start honestly. There’s a lot to say about me and as much not to say. I keep juicy secrets, like you, that’s for sure. I’m not going to tell every little detail about me to internet strangers. I have to play it cool, if you know what I mean? So all I could tell is a curated narrative, skewed by my…
Why do we cut grass?
what a beauty
Neuroscience Glitter
How Russia is Erasing Ukrainian Memory
Arch of the Peoples’ Friendship Between Ukraine and Russia is now broken. A grand example of nonviolent approach in re-framing the monument, instead of destroying it.
The Mind We Train Without Knowing
I ate psilocybin mushroom
Omg but psilocybin is a drug! And? So is caffeine and alcohol, the ones that you are so dependent of to have fun at celebrations and to start your day in the morning. My grandma told me once that “Do not eat those white mushrooms or else you end up in damnation!” She was probably just protective. And I wonder if she had tried them and had a bad experience, or “a bad trip”…
The Hyperbitcoinised World
Hyperbitcoinisation
See you on the path of Dhamma
The Little Voice
Inward
Inward Kendall Kessler
Thing About Stories That Make Society Work (And Bitcoin)
Andy Satoshi Nakamoto by cryptobadass
Bitcoin as a Feminist Tool Against the Patriarchy
hi, dear love
The final morning.
hei, rakas
Viimeinen aamu.
Punaista väriä, vihreää viestiä
Elokapina, 25. syyskuuta, Eduskuntatalon värjätyt pylväät.
Miksi pasifismi on tärkeämpää nyt kuin koskaan aiemmin
Vuonna 2022 lähdin Suomen armeijan reservistä Venäjän hyökättyä Ukrainaan. Tämä ajoitus oli sattumaa. Syy lähtööni ei liittynyt Venäjän hyökkäykseen Ukrainaan, Suomen puolustus-strategiaan tai mihinkään välittömään ulkoiseen uhkaan.
How Yle Portrays Bitcoin in News Articles
Abstract
Story of Riga, Nostriga and Baltic Honeybadger
TL;DR. I visited Riga and attended the two conferences: Nostriga and Baltic Honeybadger, about Bitcoin and Nostr. My week involved exploring the city, meeting new people, and ending with reflecting on the challenges of using Bitcoin to address economic inequality.
On Being the Operating Officer of a Crypto Custody Provider
tl;dr.
This Is Not A Democracy
tl;dr.
Becoming the “Crypto Bro” and the Dystopian Future
My journey to this point
On Being Powerless About the Genocide in Gaza
The Sustainability of Crypto-Assets: How to Stigmatise Bitcoin
Background
My Transition from Soldier to Advocate for Peace
A long time ago in a neighbourhood far, far away, between playing war games with carved wooden guns and printing a 10-page manifesto for my parents explaining why airsoft is safe to play, the idea of shooting guns and the concept of ‘military service’ started early on. I wanted to be a high-ranking officer and “level up” as in the war games. I would be at least a second lieutenant!…
Reflections of a Peace Student on the Baltic Sea Region Forum 2023
The first of the three panels
Bitcoin as a Nonviolent Tool Against State Financial Censorship
Click here to download thesis. Discuss at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430596
Does Bitcoin Promote Human Rights? Analysis
Introduction
Lawn Mower Manifesto
Suicides in Finland Are Decreasing
My childhood friend committed a suicide not so long ago. I still remember the last day when I met him and my other childhood friend. I arranged a gathering and we drank beer and reminisced the good old times. I did not see anything suicidal in his behavior or in the way he talked. He had changed for sure, but everybody changes in ten to fifteen years. And so when I heard the news, I was without…
Second Semester of Peace Studies
16 July 2022
Should Finland Ally with NATO or Remain Militarily Non-Aligned?
I argue that Finland should ally with NATO.