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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 13h \ parent \ on: Ross Ulbricht received 300 $BTC($31.4M) to his donation wallet bitcoin
In fact wasn't his business... but gov agencies business. He was just used as patsy.
and Yield means scam.
There's no yield in Bitcoin. The yield is YOU, the user of that scam product.
BOYCOTT AMBOSS! They are not anymore the Bitcoin "friends".
You have been warned.
@JoeNakamoto in your Bitcoin journeys around the world, I suggest you to visit all these merchants onboarded by Opago team (see here how many are https://stacker.news/OPAGO_PAY/posts). Will be nice to interview them after a while and see how they are doing it:
- why they start accepting Bitcoin
- how they manage the bitcoin funds (sell for fiat or save for later)
- pay suppliers, employees with sats
- the volume of bitcoin payments
- if the business is affected in any way by accepting bitcoin
We need to show the world more examples like these of how more merchants start accepting Bitcoin and how do they do it. We should have these interviews with almost all BTCMap locations.
There are many interesting details that I didn't mention in the post. Due to the isolated location, I am forced to find quick solutions that I never imagine I would be capable to do.
I have some basic tools like: an ax, a shovel, a fork, 2 buckets, a hand-saw and finally for cutting the trees I bring a small electric chainsaw (but not so powerful).
Right now there's no electricity there so each time I use the electric chainsaw I have to bring with me the charged batteries. And these batteries do not last long. So I have to cut the wood part with the chainsaw, part with the handsaw. So I have to think very careful which one I have to use and when.
And there's no communication signal there. None, not even radio. The place is on the bottom of a valley between high mountains. I am not even sure if a starlink will work there.
For the moment I am not focused on making some electrical installations (solar or hydro) but are in plans for later, when the roof (at least the half of the house) is ready so I can put important stuff under the roof. Yes, the small river next to me is enough to offer me a small hydro-power station, so I will have 24/7 electricity, with no problem. But in this phase I have nothing.
Yes, indeed there are many challenges every day there and my mind goes full blown trying to find the best solution.
For example about that "log on wheels".
It was a fallen pine tree from a year ago, from a heavy storm. I always try to use the fallen trees and not cutting young ones. I try to respect as much as I can the environment around me because is also a protection for me.
So that pine tree was like at 400m distance from my place, but through a long distance full of volcanic big boulders (I will bring a picture with it), not a forest. So I had to drag that big 4m long log through rough terrain. 6h took me to bring it only with my bare hands, to that green clear where I could put the wheels. So the picture is just a small part of the "log journey". And in fact were 2 logs of 4m, so imagine my struggle only to bring them, plus cutting them and clean from branches.
So yeah those wheels were my last "invention" to use for the last 100m to drag that monster log. On the rocks the friction was not so hard, but surprisingly dragging a log on grass is even heavier ! So I had that wheels cart used to carry some big rocks before and came to my mind to re-use it for the log, eliminating the friction with the grass. And worked super nice, instead of dragging it for hours, took me 5 min to move it 100m.
Another example of "find solutions" in place. The handsaw lost its central screw. So I had to make another invention to be able to continue my work:
Just fit some piece of metal inside and hammer it until remain fixed. Is ugly but it works, it serve the purpose.
And many small little challenges like these I have every day. The need is pushing you to use your brain at total capacity. You have no other choice, or give up. But "give up" is not in Darth vocabulary.
Sincerely when I heard 1st time about Pleblab... my mind went back to that series and imagine the Pleblab team like Buckmann's house full of crazy dev guys.
😂😂😂
All my life I've done many jobs. But now, after I see and feel how is building a house (by myself), I could say that is the most challenging and satisfactory job ever.
Seems easy at first sight, but is damn hard. ofc when you are doing it in "darth style", without any machinery help.
Many people asked me why I do not pay somebody to help me or even build it for me, professional ones. Or I can even pay to bring me a whole house with the helicopter and land it there...
But my answer will always be the same: that will not be built by my own hands and sweat. The experience of building your own house change your perspective about the world.
It will be just another toy bought with my sats. My sats are extremely valuable and will be spent only when I cannot do it myself. Yes, somehow, I pushed this project to a unimaginable limit, where very few people will even dare to start such project. I saw many YT videos with guys building a house, but most of them are fake, with prefabricated parts and using advanced tools and machinery. My idea was to feel the pain of construction as our ancestors did hundreds of years ago, building their houses and roads, with bare hands, rudimentary tools and stones. It blows my mind seeing around in those mountains the remains of those roads, terracing walls and old stone houses, built hundreds of years ago and are still in place. But nobody in today modern world come to even repair those walk paths and walls. I will make some pictures of those old constructions near by and post them on SN later.
How is possible that so many people fell for this crap news?
You guys have fish memory ? Ok will remind you how tether is "mining" Bitcoin, using fake news and photoshoped images...
Or you do not realize how actually they "mine" Bitcoin? By printing out 2M tethers and buy BTC from shady exchanges...
@Car did you saw the comedy series "Silicon Valley" ?
Car: "I think before I leave this Earth, I will do something like this..."
EXACTLY the same thought I had in mind when I started this project: to leave something behind, that will be remembered many more years after I am gone. Something that people will say "oh look what that crazy dude did here, impressive work!"
If we do not leave behind something important on this Earth, why do we live on it?
For Bitcoin I will leave behind my guides (that many will be obsolete in few years) that will be remembered.
For me, my friends and family will leave this homestead behind, built by my own hands, with 0 knowledge about construction (just trial and error learn). I learned a lot of things from all this and I will write all of them in a new post on that substack. I still have to learn many more things, this is just the beginning of the project. The 2nd house will be even more impressive.
I’m also thinking about air circulation, which I guess is important for temperature regulation too.
Yes, good thinking. That's why I made a small window
I was also thinking to use the chimney as an air conditioner tool. There's a way to use it in the summer to bring fresh air (especially in the night) inside.
Did you buy directly from the owner?
I could buy the whole mountain if I want... but I don't.
Yes, is a private property, part from a whole mountain (privately owned), but I preferred a 100 years lease for a meaningless price and full rights to use it and do whatever I want on it.
Did you pay the documentation fees?
To who? To myself? What have to be so hard to write a simple contract between 2 intelligent capable individuals, then just put some simple conditions on a paper and having 2 witnesses also to sign? Why would I need somebody else to write it for me?
Do you pay property taxes ?
- Is a lease - less complications
- If is property why do you have to involve a 3rd party in your own contract, that is not part of the contract?
I know each territory has its own laws,
There's only ONE single LAW: Natural Law. All the rest are rules and regulations that are not part of your living man life, only if you want to put yourself under them.
the state mafia doesn’t care about that and can use violence to take it from you.
They could try but they already lost in front of DarthCoin...
If you start from this premise and fear... you already lost. You better just be a slave. The sovereign mindset must be strong if you want to be sovereign. There's no "I could try..." is only "I will always win".
LIVE FREE... OR DIE TRYING.
250 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin OP 31 May \ parent \ on: How literally do I stack sats building a house DIY
has come a long way in 2 years
In fact I started to dig the hill in 2021... here you can see a timelapse gif. It was hell of a job digging up all that dirt and big boulders.
Is that just from walking on it?
No. What you see in this post picture is only the back part of the entire house. Is just half of the house that I am covering the roof now. Later will finish the front part (another half).
The whole house will have 7x3m. On the back will be 2 beds in L shape. In front, watching from front on the right side will come a large 2m long window with a large cozy couch, to watch how it snow outside, relaxing. On the left side, a stove with a wrought iron plate and small kitchen.
View from front now
View from rear top now
As you can see the front side is full of big boulders that will be used for the front wall with the door. On the right side you see the chimney already start building it (will continue more later).
Wrong. The whole point is to recycle in a practical way all the cans from the beer I drink anyways, that are already paid with sats.
If I sell them with what I am going to build the walls? I can do it with small rocks (as you can see in the image) but is a hell of a work to select the right rocks. With cans work is done in few minutes.
I've started from 0 knowledge. I am an old IT guy that never did something like that.
Just trial and error, learning by doing myself.
And nobody helped me with anything, not even with plans or advice.
nope. Once is ready, I will disappear from online.
Maybe I will broadcast some images from a webcam but nobody (from online) will know where is it. I do not want any visitors.
Good question.
The whole house is actually a small hill so the surroundings is dirt that will suck all the water from rain.
But when I dug it, I let also a small space with a layer of small rocks between the sirt and the earthbags. That rocks layer act like a siphon letting all the rain water to flow faster down below all those bags. Very small quantity of water will come over them.
Yes, there is humidity, especially during nov - april when is raining and snowing heavily.
But the earthbags are a very good barrier. I've tested all these years building the walls with them and observing closely how the water is "not) dripping inside.
Also as you can see on top of those earthbags walls, I start to make the cans-walls, that are also another layer of protection.
On top of the can-walls is coming the plaster, the last level of protection. And then a smooth thin layer of impermeable paint.
The roof will be GREEN - the strong beams will sustain 3 levels of coverage:
- a level of woodplates from pallets
- on top of the wooden plates will come a 3mm rubber carpet isolating perfectly from water
- on top of the rubber carpet is coming a small level of small rocks, to let the water flow smoothly underneath the dirt
- on top of the rocks is coming a 20-30cm of dirt
- on top of the dirt will bring some patches with grass and flowers.
The roof also have a small inclination to let the water flow out.