I need to tell you where this comes from, because it's not a startup idea I had in a shower. It's really the intersection of everything I care about.
I've been dedicated to Bitcoin since 2017. I did my Permaculture Design Certificate in 2018. At that PDC (about 40 people in the room) I gave a talk about why Bitcoin mattered. The price was around $3,000. I stood in front of a room full of old and new permaculture practitioners and tried to explain why sound money, sovereignty, and decentralized systems were as important to resilience as soil biology and water harvesting.
I was laughed at. Genuinely ridiculed. People who understood that centralized food systems were fragile couldn't see that centralized money was the same problem. I knew I was right. Not about the price - about the principle. That sovereignty is indivisible. You can't be free in your food but dependent on your money. You can't be free in your money but dependent on your food.
Eight years later, the people in that room probably understand Bitcoin a bit differently. And I still believe the same thing I believed then: that the most important work you can do is build systems that make people harder to coerce. Hard money. Hard food. Hard knowledge.
PatternBase is where my three deepest convictions meet: Bitcoin, sovereignty, and food. It's not a side project. It's not a portfolio piece. It's a life mission - building the tool I wish existed when I was sitting in that PDC classroom, trying to explain to people who grew their own food that they should also own their own money and their own data.
I'm not building this to flip it. I'm building it because someone has to, and I've spent the last 8 years becoming the person who can.
