OK so let me get this straight. I save $x of my after tax income twice a month in BTC, and if I sell any to peel off some profit to fix my furnace so we don’t freeze to death, I create a capital gains taxable event? Government of Canada, GFY. Man I wish my ColdCard was smaller so I can hoop it when I finally leave this country.

Information for crypto-asset users and tax professionals - Canada.ca

Cryptocurrency is a relatively new innovation that requires guidelines on taxation so that Canadians are aware of how to meet their tax obligations.

Hey I’m starting a library on a couple of duplicate thumb drives of all of the self sufficiency skills, books and manuals that we will be lacking once internet access hinges on digital ID. Has anyone already made strides in this area and want to share resources? I’m just building the framework right now but I’m thinking about topics like: - permaculture - animal nutrition and veterinary skills - herbal medicine - first aid, trauma care and surgery - improvised shooty things - food preservation - home/farm security - solar and home power generation systems - literature and books - etc Headings, or content in pdf or plain text format are welcomed. Thanks.

Now that’s more like it. Time to get those UTXO’s cleaned up.

Preparing

Awesome Christmas Eve outside. -10 and no wind.

Finished product. Pressure canned venison and smoked turkey. Ten more days of shelf stables rations in a pinch.

Today’s pressure canning project. Whitetail backstrap and smoked turkey with onion slices and self cured salt pork belly, garlic powder and a touch of crushed chili pepper.

Today’s pressure canning project. Whitetail backstrap and hot smoked turkey.

I think that despite there being wolves and sheepdogs among us, the main qualities most humans possess that permit us to be collectively tax farmed and treated as sheep are 1) fear of death and 2) fear of future loss. The problem is that, due to our so effectively captured public education system, by the time most people who do “wake up” manage to shake off the indoctrination and begin to question the thinly veiled crimes that our governments and the banks are perpetrating against us, they have acquired a meaningful list of things to lose in addition to their lives or their physical freedom: A spouse, children, a home, a career, and a means to feed and fuel them. Not to mention debt. All things that would immediately be at risk or create a liability should every man and woman mount what I believe to be the only effective and peaceful means we have left to get the parasites off our backs: stop going to work for three months and see how our representatives suddenly start to pay attention. The trap we have been led into has taken generations to achieve its airtight level of full spectrum control. It’s going to take some time and a lower standard of living to initially unplug ourselves, and then educate at least half a generation about the nature of this trap, to keep them from entering the mouth of it. The importance of the four actions that I believe will set us up to eventually unplug en masse, and mount a meaningful resistance to the tyrants, need to become cultural for them to ultimately change the game. I believe these four things, enacted over the course of a couple generations, are: 1) homeschooling our kids and educating them about the traps of fiat currency, debt and taxation while teaching them skills of self sufficiency 2) arming ourselves, for defensive purposes only, and resisting any regulatory attempts to disarm us 3) obtaining land, or at the very least, cultivating whatever available space we have access to, to produce and store the things we need to survive. 4) growing and preserving our own food, and trading labour or goods LOCALLY for the things we still lack

Really wanted to take advantage of the relatively low fees today and send my first TX to my new Cold Card from Gemini. But alas, there's a 7 day wait period for new receiving addresses on that exchange. Hopefully with the new setup that'll be my last KYC purchase. I wish I had a month to just do nothing but elevate my setup to fully sovereign computing. Stayed up till 3am last night getting the Cold Card set up and getting it talking to Sparrow, BlueWallet and Nunchuck. I honestly don't know how the married premiere educators in the space stay married. It takes a lot of time to become native to everything that works, and it changes every week. I am noticing that a lot of the how-to's online have just enough differences to make it unclear, based on UI and firmware changes since they were posted, including on ColdCard's website. Case in point, the wording on exporting a wallet now in Cold Card settings doesn't say Native Segwit anymore. It's slightly different. There's 3 options and two of them refer to Segwit..

Nice day out on the ice in unusually warm temperatures. About 34F in northern AB in late December. Never happens. Last year it was about 5 Fahrenheit this day.

Ok guys I think I have finally bypassed the zap blocking ios and got a wallet working on desktop. Can someone please send me a small test zap? The one I got earlier from a kind soul onto an Alby address is inaccessible is seems unless I have a lightning node set up. Which is a hundred man hours away for me right now considering I have to reflash my mini pc with StartOS and get everything set up and channels funded in and amongst working lots of hours every week. Thanks. All I have to do is be able to send. Thanks.

test1 on desktop client