6173 sats \ 21 replies \ @036644cfc0 9 Feb 2023 \ on: Becoming A Sovereign Individual bitcoin
In terms of digital life, I would set things up as follows:
Phone - pixel 7 running GrapheneOS. Enable airplane mode and don't use a sim.
Mobile Internet - Mudi VPN Router. Stick a PAYG, data only sim card in this. Install Blue Merle to randomise your IMEI every time you change the sim. Use MullVad VPN (pay with lightning)
SMS - subscribe to a number on https://crypton.sh, no email account needed, pay with lightning. You can use this number for banking apps etc.
Public Messaging - Nostr
Private Messaging - use Simplex Chat. Much better than Nostr as there are no identifiers.
Home Internet - set up a VPN router as described here
Laptop - be sure the Intel ME is (or can be) disabled, and booted using CoreBoot. In the US, purchase from Librem. In the EU, Tuxedo.
Laptop OS - if you have linux skills, use Qubes. Else use a free distro like Debian. If you're new to Linux, use Ubuntu or Mint.
Home Server - get an Embassy Pro from Start 9. Can run Nextcloud, BTC Node, Lightning, Bitwarden (which can be both password manager and TOTP authenticator) and much more.
Bitcoin Vault - set up a multisig using at least 2 manufacturers. Here's a good guide: https://github.com/fresheneesz/tordlwalletprotocols
Hot Lightning - Phoenix or Blixt. Not Muun! Every time you spend all your satoshis, open a new wallet for greater privacy.
Purchasing Bitcoin - Robosats
Multiple identities - much easier with Qubes, but otherwise use different VMs for different identities. This helps to avoid accidentally using the wrong one. With graphene you can also multiple user accounts on your phone for different reasons.
Try and keep at least 2-3 months of spending money in Cash. When sh*t hits the fan, the ATMs will be empty. Keep water and tinned food at home. Don't tell people your real name, if you can help it. Never EVER give your number out (it's best if you just don't have one).
If you own your own domain you can create 'catch all' emails which means you can give a different email to every service you sign up with.
Avoid any software from these companies entirely:
- Facebook (use signal with crypton.sh sms over whatsapp, ditch insta / fb)
- Microsoft (use gitlab over github, nostr over linkedin, linux over windows)
- Google (self-host email or use protonmail, nextcloud over drive)
Have a home CCTV system, if your jurisdiction allows. Do NOT use amazon, build one with a raspberry pi or old android, so that the footage never leaves your network.
Always pay in Bitcoin or Cash. If you must use the banking system, start a company, and make payments from the company account.
Don't purchase, or allow in your home:
- Smart TVs
- Alexa or similar
- Oculus headsets
- Anything that can send audio, images, or other sensory information to servers you don't control
Yes, all these are very important and good.
But are totally worthless if you:
- still go and pay taxes
- still go and vote for x politicians
- still use a govID, passport
- still believe that x law will protect you
These tools you are mentioning are tools for "guerilla resistance fighters", hiding from gov forces.
A sovereign individual is not on the run and hide. A sovereign individual is CONFRONTING the evil government and rebut its authority.
By hiding and avoiding you just give even more legitimacy to a evil gov.
- Be the tiny dot that change the world, not the one hiding and waiting that world will change
- Deny the authority over you
- You are not alone - The power of saying NO
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Not worthless, this isn't about going on the run!
- Nobody should evade or "not pay" taxes (avoidance is ok)
- Voting is good. Vote wisely, if you are able to (register to) vote.
- Travelling without passport/govID is risky and dangerous, don't do it
- Laws DO protect if you understand (and follow) them
The tools in my list will protect you from CORPORATE dragnet surveillance systems, not government forces. Let's consider the government is on our side, for now.
Data is most valuable when distributed quickly and widely. We should not pretend firewalls nor jurisdictional boundaries prevent anyone, anywhere, from obtaining it.
Example of 1st party surveillance data being misused: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/
Example of 3rd party surveillance data being misused: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html
To quote from the article:
While the Constitution prevents companies from sharing location data with the government without a warrant, there are no federal protections limiting how they use or share it privately.
(emphasis added)
What does this have to do with being sovereign?
Three things:
1. Safety
None of us want to be on this list: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md
2. Censorship
Censorship comes from what corporations think (or are explicitly told what) the government thinks.
Hence banks will close your account if your details don't "smell" right - eg mentioning "crypto" on the phone / sending or receiving the wrong kind of international payments / being born in the wrong country.
Future censorship will come from algorithms - based directly on aforementioned surveillance data.
Say the "wrong thing, beam GPS from the wrong place, connect with the wrong person - and you may find yourself without:
- your files
- your phone connection
- your finances
Remember that algorithms are probabilistic, not perfect. And the cost of censorship is virtually zero. And the rules change all the time.
3. Legacy
We stack to build a better future. It's a small step from "letting" ourselves be tracked, numbered, and monitored - to being "obligated" to be as such.
Like you say, we need to CONFRONT the oppression (which actually begins in private sector) by refusing to engage in such things as:
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CBDCs
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KYC
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Mobile Phone Numbers (as identifiers, communication channels, or 2FA)
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you can only become sovereign if you realize that the state is a mafia, an organization of the worst kind of people. They have zero legimaticy in everything they do. ZERO. Please, consider reading one of the following books:
- no treason (lysander spooner)
- the anatomy of the state (murray rothbard)
- the most dangerous superstition (larken rose) this is a much more "stronger/realistic pill" than the "orange pill"
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The only (and recommended) protection from state is to move to a friendlier jurisdiction
If everyone did this, we'd have friendlier jurisdictions. Period.
There are plenty of examples of good governments! It depends what you are looking for in that government:
- Freedom & Liberty
- Specific tax structures
- Healthcare / Education
- Infrastructure
- Regulatory environment
Also remember that governments are made up of people. People are not inherently bad. Most are trying to do (or at least, believe they are doing) good.
- The remit of government is to serve the people (social good).
- The remit of corporations is to serve shareholders (financial imperative).
I would proffer that most of the sh!t we see from governments is sourced from private sector.
- Wars fund weapons companies (considerably)
- Pandemics fund pharma (considerably)
- xxx funds XXX
As a result politicians receive significant lobbying and influence from vested interests.
I'm not saying capitalism is bad, and I don't have the answer to all this. We need reform, 100%.
I don't know what such reform would look like... probably not some utopia where there is 100% transparency in every public decision. But it would be nice.
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governments nowadays are for sure not there to serve people, they are a parasitic entity who's primary focus is keeping itself alive. If govs were there to serve people then the world would look significantly different.
Even if there are some individuals that have the inclination to do good the levels of bureaucracy and cargo cult thinking makes them just a cogs in the machine at best.
the incentive structures that exist in modern democracies are so perverted and dysfunctional that there is no way anything remotely useful could come out of government, the least from crumbling empires of the west.
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😯 best thread I’ve read all year boys!
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There's no freedom if you put yourself under ANY jurisdiction.
Being under a jurisdiction is pure SLAVERY
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Then you need to buy a boat and live in international waters, which is do-able, many do it.
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you have no idea what are you talking about. You are clueless into this.
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“No one should avoid paying taxes”. Lol, sorry but my government is stealing my money, devaluing my money, sending my money for wars to enrich themselves,… i can go on and on. My “Taxes” in no way are going to help me or my community,…. Hell if you are American and not in the right protected group, you have to fight to get the help you paid into!!! Fuck their Taxes.
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Nobody should evade or "not pay" taxes
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!
LOL your mindset is pure statist, totally opposite of a sovereign individual.
OMG, this world is really fucked up, if people think like this one.
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Yes I'm serious, lol
If you don't pay your taxes, you will end up in hot water.
The good news is that you can, quite legally, avoid (not evade) the majority of taxes through jurisdictional and regulatory arbitrage.
For an individual, fighting the government (who has infinite patience and resources) is a losing game. Better to play a different game altogether.
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The freedom in the world is not uniformly distributed and jurisdictional arbitrage is your best defense. That is, move to a more friendly jurisdiction. This isn't statism, this is practical self defense. I have hardly paid any taxes that weren't collected by a counterparty my whole life, and proud of it.
Places where the control grid continues to grow in its penetration into our every day lives are also places where you are more likely to end up in trouble that has nothing to do with any of your efforts to defund the government claiming jurisdiction.
Better to live another day and continue to feed things that are good, and minimise what you feed that is bad. Sure, right now governments across the world are descending into deep corruption but the grey areas and places you can live in those grey areas are places your resources go to better things, and better things stack up on top of each other.
It was horrible during the lockdowns of the scamdemic, there was almost nowhere that was free enough of it. But it wasn't the same everywhere. I was in Bulgaria and Serbia during those times and the customs of the people to passively resist tyranny meant that the impact was greatly blunted compared to how it was elsewhere. I barely even did any PCR tests and certainly did not get a jab, and enforcement even then was lax, I crossed borders 3 times during that period without any PCR test results. Even one time by plane quite recently, some airports are more lax than others (Sofia and Belgrade, notably).
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I already explained which is "my jurisdiction".
#132540
Learn this stuff. Don't put yourself under the booth of the gov (aka jurisdiction), whatever would be that one.
Step out from the "state box".
Explain me, from where is coming a "jurisdiction" over me, the living man?
Jurisdiction over a living man is pure SLAVERY.
So you are trying to tell me that I should be a slave?
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I was a law researcher in this subject a long time ago, and it was the results of a court case that led to my decision I had to gtfo. Not that I ever had enough money to get one but in Australia they are really vicious in taxing anyone who wants to ride a motorcycle, most especially a low powered one that doesn't even need a driving licence in most of the world.
Where I spent most of the time since leaving Aust has been far more liberal and relaxed towards most things, enforcement of stupid laws is mostly very discretional in the former communist countries in the balkans. Immigration being a major example of this, I was asked for my ID by cops way more frequently in Aust than anytime anywhere in the Balkans.
When it comes down to it, your freedom is not dependent on other people also having it, and fixing your own freedom to that of the masses is essentially allowing yourself to be a slave.
It's a jungle out there, but some places have less predators.
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Looks like you didn't find the right path in your research.
The whole point is not in researching the "legal" path. But the way around.
Please read and think about all the links I posted in this thread.
All those are my research after years and years of reading and learning.
I myself, I challenged a judge in a court and won.
I simply asked: from where is coming "your authority" over me the living man.
THEY COULD NOT ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
If they would dare to answer, that will means SLAVERY, from their own mouth. And do not want that to get out to the masses.
The whole judicial system will fall down.
I just walk out from the court, and go home, the judge close the case for "no evidences"...
YOU MUST STAND YOUR GROUND AS A SOVEREIGN MAN IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE A SOVEREIGN MAN.
All other "escape paths" are just sneaking out like a rabbit.
Be the fucking lion that stand his ground not a scared shit rabbit.
Lmao.. this is the mindset why shit never changes and you keep paying more taxes. Lmao. “Here, let me keep paying the people causing my life to be hard so its easier for them to keep making my life hard.” Lmao
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govern me harder... indeed, sheeple are begging for slavery. And then cry like babies... "my rights are violated" LOLOLOL
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