In our list of essential daily needs, shelter supersedes the need for air, food, and water, because without it none of the rest matter and you will still die even IF you have those daily consumable items. Shelter is also the only need that businesses share with living beings. Decentralizing manufacturing of small, appropriately sized, tooled, and resourced shelters is essential for us to remain sovereign in our personal and professional lives.
The costs for providing shelter to ourselves, our families, and our businesses has been driven up by fiat monetization of real estate. Compliance and fees increase costs of building by at least 25% and for many families these days the cost for shelter is 50% of their monthly expenses. In large part, ALL of this is because what gets built is what will be financed, inspected, and insured.
I've designed and built this appropriately small structure with off the shelf tools, largely upcycled, durable materials. Built with easily acquired skill sets that many already have, or can easily acquire. Having already acquired the tools, learned the required skills, and learned on my own dime while building this prototype proof-of-concept I'm now making it available for physical inspection in the Austin, TX area.
I will ONLY be accepting Bitcoin for payment to build these micro-dome igloos, that require no permits from centralized bureaucrats. Soon I'll be sharing the Pattern Language Design recipe in a long form Nostr note for those interested in portable, semi-permanent, or permanent handcrafted installations combining ancient and space age technologies.
This is NOT the cheapest option, as I've designed and built this for my own use as the pre-manufacturing plant to allow me to build more of these as a nomadic builder. But, I can still keep the entry level product down to $55/sq ft, while delivering a far superior product than almost anything currently available in the #tinyhome and #glamping markets. The version pictured here is a semi-permanent version, as I've assembled this on a rental property knowing that I'll have to disassemble and relocate it someday.
Reach out in my DMs if you're interested in "permit-less" shelters for youself, your family, and/or your business.
These ideas apply to our Bitcoin operations as well. On chain publicly viewable internationally distributed transactions on one pole and off chain privately validated locally custodied balancing of accounts on the other. Security, decentralization, and privacy are never absolute, merely good enough. Perfection is the enemy of progress, extremes at either pole become impractical, balancing polarized sides of any coin is done by residing on the 3rd side of the coin, the edge. Riding this edge over time requires situational awareness, discipline, and focus to maintain a dynamic balance.
This is how we manage risk, in all realms, the physical where we live, contractual where we coordinate, digital where we communicate, and the virtual where we transact with our peers. Part of this balancing act is knowing who YOU are and where you are in order to know who your true peers are and what attack vectors create risk. ONLY then can confidence, not certainty, be captured, as we follow the Tao of Bitcoin.
Part of this balancing act is realizing that these polarities are fractal, scaling both up and down. For instance, eCash becomes the centralized point of interaction within the decentralized LN network, which is itself the more centralized version of Bitcoin. While, Bitcoin itself is pure potential, in the form of purchasing power, that only "realizes" that potential when turned into realized assets that support our life by spending it.
Remember, tomorrow is a fiction, we live today, but must balance today's consumption with tomorrow's productive capacity. You can't eat your satoshis, they won't keep you dry in a storm, and your self-custodied hardware running your self-hosted software requires shelter to protect in the real world.
Sovereignty over ALL our daily basic needs is the goal, over as much of our supply chain verticals as possible. Freedom is NOT having nothing left to lose. Freedom is having no-thing that can be taken from you, which requires ownership of the ideas, the knowledge required to support and cultivate our physical lives, to be manifested into form as needed. Thieves may seize my house, but they cannot steal the knowledge, skills, and satoshis I used to manifest it into form. My intellectual, experiential, and financial capital is beyond reach of those willing to use violence in an attempt to place my capital under siege.
Soon, I'll be sharing the knowledge, skills, and resources I've used to build my own self funded sovereign shelters using local materials and basic construction skills. Decentralized solutions for providing shelter for ourselves, our families, and our businesses are coming soon.
The journey IS the destination.
Seeking is its own reward, celebrate not the peaks of pleasure as much as the depths of pain.
It's not just "more pain, more gain", progress is maximized by "correctly applied pain, stimulating greater gains".
Do 'The Work', reap the rewards. Just realize that the Work, and not the Win, is the true goal. So, celebrate the work when wading through muck in the pit more than the leaping for joy at the Win in the peak. There's always another mountain to climb, more impact to create, and more sats to stack.
This strategy creates long term resilience, in our physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial bodies.
Stack value daily, diminishing consumption and maximize production of ever greater value for yourself, your family, and your community.
This IS The Way!
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I just added a new link to my Nostree list My written work! 🎉. This nearly 5 year old resource has held up pretty well. Back then I saw the need for more privacy and transactability, so allowed for the alt-coins as a possible solution.
But Bitcoin has matured and ALL of them have become what I refer to as Zombie coins, dead projects walking looking for other's brains to feed on.
I'd made the 1st Chapter on Communications because I saw the need for uncensorable communication to defend money that had become language.
If Amazon would let me, I'd make this free in ebook form.
I may soon use Nostr to publish and update it chapter by chapter. So look for more coming soon...
I realize I am Doxxing myself here, knowingly doing so as I'm about to begin sharing educational video content here soon, too.
The Tao of Bitcoin Banking,
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