It’s time to move into your citadel. What items do you bring?
343 sats \ 29 comments \ @k00b 13 Jul 2023 bitcoin
The fiat collapse has come fast. You have 24 hours to get to your citadel and who knows when it’ll be safe to leave again. What items will you be sure to bring?
Your bitcoin (and related key material), family, and day to day clothing are assumed. Assume the citadel provides basic essentials, utilities (water, electricity, internet), and has a limited supply of other natural resources.
Mine:
  1. Many easy to repair laptops
  2. Books
  3. Tools
I might be bad at prepping but I can’t think of much else.
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121 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 14 Jul 2023
  • Food and water
  • Medical supplies
  • Defensive equipment
  • Any tech I can transport
  • Alternative COMS. (Radios)
  • Tools
  • My RV
  • paper copy of important addresses and phone numbers.
  • Fuel (Gas / Propane)
  • Portable generator
  • Camp stove
  • Griddle
  • Fishing gear
  • Clothes
  • Sanitation supplies
Probably forgetting some things but I'd recommend the Survival Podcast to anyone interested it being prepared for actual emergencies. Jack is a Bitcoiner and a no BS teacher on this stuff. Most of it comes in handy in good times as well. Learned a lot from him.
http://thesurvivalpodcast.com/
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 14 Jul 2023
If you want one podcast episode to listen to for getting your house in order for emergencies I recommend this one Episode-2835- From Zero to Prepped Fast, Cheap and Easy
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 14 Jul 2023
To be clear, what I mean by actual emergencies is things that are you are likely to encounter where you live. This is different depending on where you live. Preparing for power outages, flood, fire, etc over preparing for nuclear war. Not that there is anything wrong with preparing for nuclear war or zombie apocalypses but this is a stereotype of the "prepper" space that is dumb. There is nothing wrong with being prepared but it is rather foolish to prepare for an unlikely event while not preparing for more likely events like losing your job or water for a few days.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 14 Jul 2023
I'd also add that it would be better to live in your citadel now. You really wanna avoid having to ditch out of your home in an emergency. Should be a last resort. Don't get me wrong, its great to have a plan B if your plan A fails. My list is if I have to leave my property.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @fanis 14 Jul 2023
Toilet paper.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 14 Jul 2023
Even if every toilet has bidet?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fanis 15 Jul 2023
I'm more of a seashells guy...
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12 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 14 Jul 2023
a couple guitars
nice camera
lots of frozen meat
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 14 Jul 2023
Lots of guitars. We are going to need a drummer
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 14 Jul 2023
I can play a little bit of drums :) Or piano
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @02e2c9e0da 14 Jul 2023
More than one passport just in case you need to cross a border
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 14 Jul 2023
Wife Bitcorn Clothes on my back
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 14 Jul 2023
Medical supplies and equipment
And maybe drugs. Lots of drugs
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 14 Jul 2023
i'll fix your equipment for some of your drugs
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsCats 14 Jul 2023
Extra socks and shoes
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @designsats 14 Jul 2023
Its all good, excpet internet. There is no real good solution to have reliable and uncensorable connection. You are a bitch of big telecoms or Elon, no decentralized option. You can make electricity yourself, but not connection.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 14 Jul 2023
Is TCP/IP over radio not a thing?
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63 sats \ 1 reply \ @l0k18 14 Jul 2023
Ham radio is a thing but it's at best dialup speed and not a wide band available. I would suspect digital signals are allowed in some parts of CB band which is your VHF/UHF and good for scores of kilometers of range, with enough bandwidth to carry, well, in the old 12 or so channel VHF of the pre-digital, now carries about 100 channels.
In theory there might be "legal" frequencies that you can set up long range low bandwidth shtf connections, and worst case you can just build the tranceivers anyway and use waveguides to reduce the chance of the signal being picked up by FCC or nutters who literally spend all their time listening to scanners.
There really needs to be more work on this. Like, there is loads of routers out there that just need some extra parts and you can turn them into wifi line of sight connections maybe up to a kilometer range if you are lucky, per hop, hard part is placing them where no do gooder is gonna interfere with your gear. There's a shitcoin project that involves running these things in low coverage areas. Wifi bands are entirely free, and if you can get good antennas and hide them well it would be the citadel uplink for sure.
And there is bitcoin satellites, thanks to Blockstream. I expect this will continue to develop until you can literally read and write to the chain from anywhere in the world with a little satellite modem.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @designsats 14 Jul 2023
Mesh network is the only chance for decentralisation
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @designsats 14 Jul 2023
dunno
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 14 Jul 2023
iPod and friends
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ae52f929c 14 Jul 2023
I have no resources for this so I will happily be unalived.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 14 Jul 2023
  1. Nintendo Switch
  2. Books
  3. My favorite greeting cards
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 14 Jul 2023
What do you play on switch?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 15 Jul 2023
Right now advance wars re boot.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @f6287b82CC84bcbd 14 Jul 2023
Tools for providing happiness to everyone and sat stacking opportunities (proof of work needed):
mushroom spore prints for psilocibin and lions mane marijuana seeds 3D printer
I didn't mention computer because that is a requirement to interact with bitcoin and also verify and keep a copy of the block chain.
Books assuming internet or what ebooks was saved on the computer.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @premitive1 14 Jul 2023
if you're bringing those things, does that mean I can bring OTHER things? :)
I definitely need tools. wrenches, ratchets, hammers, cutting utensils, sockets, chisels, punches, pliers, pry bars, drivers, and pretty much my whole tool cabinet. but if you already brought those types of things...
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 14 Jul 2023
:) I guess what would you bring if you didn't know exactly what everyone else was bringing?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 14 Jul 2023
tools, electrical diagnostic equipment, acoustic guitar
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