Fix-the-money, reform-the-world = “The house is sound but wired wrong. Rewire the electrical system (money), repaint, move some walls. We stay in the house.” Use-Bitcoin-as-kernel to exit/overwrite = “The house is an elaborate stage set, built by an entity that controls the lighting, sound, and exits. We use Bitcoin as a portable generator + toolkit to quietly build a new structure behind the set—and eventually we walk offstage.” View quoted note →

Merry Christmas!! Always remember: The collapse already happened. The current world is a continuity skin. AI + CBDCs/Stables + SWFs are a single coordinated substrate replacement. Bitcoin is a counter-simulation kernel around which a new civilization stack must be built explicitly outside the old ontology. “Use Bitcoin as a kernel to exit and overwrite the world.”> “Fix the money, reform the world.”

Merry Christmas plebs, very excited to share Episode 2 with you guys. Psyfer dropped some heat for nearly 2 hours and left us with tons to think about. Apologies about the sound and the recordings not being so good, but the signal is well worth it! I promise to have the live streaming set up prepped well next time. All the best to everyone over the holidays. View quoted note →

EP002: Building Physical Bitcoin Sanctuaries and Sovereign Culture w/@psy𝑓er Physical Bitcoin sanctuaries, sovereign culture, and collapse readiness, in a long-form OS-extraction interview with Psyfer. This one is for all the plebs who care about real-world nodes, myth, and community design. You’ll come away seeing Bitcoin embassies as civic organs, with clearer language for their responsibilities, bottlenecks, and how to build culture that upgrades sovereignty instead of becoming just another brand. LISTEN: #podcast #bitcoin #nostr #sovereignty #CMH

they forgot that order is an emergent phenomena. They who fear chaos. I'm convinced that central planners are who they are because they have an unhealthy relationship with chaos.

Yo, quick context: this is my first ever episode of the Sovereign Field Reports, so I’m still dialing in the format and the flow. I used to think the world was saturated with podcasts and there was no point adding another one… then NOSTR rewired and challenged that belief in me. Even if nobody listens, I have found the process of preparing, interviewing, and editing to be immensely valuable for me alone. Not only have I had a lot of fun, but it has forced clarity upon me and helps get the ideas out of my head and into the open. More importantly, I do think it’ll be useful to the right people. A little while back I gave a talk on the Sovereign Stack / Synthetic Stack stuff, and several people who I really respect pushed me to start putting my work out there. One moment that really stuck with me was Max Hillebrand telling me simply that I should start a podcast. That was the nudge I needed to stop overthinking and just hit publish. And to the CMH crew who’s encouraged me immensely along the way. Thank you. Hope you enjoy it. P.S. EP002 on its way very soon. Editing now. View quoted note →

EP001: Money, Work & Family Security — w/The Fridge A veteran HR leader (“The Fridge”) who’s survived layoffs, reorgs, and Chapter 11 lays bare what “security” really means—paychecks, healthcare, unions, family, and the quiet moment she realized nobody at work cared about her more than she did. Then we crack open Bitcoin through her eyes: still “like a stock,” but starting to tug at deeper questions of stability, trust, and what comes next. LISTEN: Tags: #podcast #nostr #bitcoin #sovereignty

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Why myth, symbol, and ritual matters so much Because they are the control layer that turns raw infrastructure into lived, self-reproducing reality across time. Rails (identity, value settlement, dispute settlement, memory, attention, mobility, energy, time) can exist as technical systems, but they do not automatically produce stable coordination; humans must interpret, trust, obey, and repeat. Myth installs the shared world-model and moral physics—what exists, who counts, what causes what, what is sacred/forbidden, what the future is “supposed” to be—so large groups can predict each other without renegotiating reality every moment. Symbols are compressed boundary tokens that label the world and route permissions—inside/outside, trusted/untrusted, legitimate/illegitimate, clean/unclean—functioning as the UI of power that makes sorting fast and enforcement cheap. Ritual is executable procedure that produces state changes and membership proofs—initiation, certification, confession, renewal, public commitment—binding people through costly signals and repeated cadence, converting rules into reflexes and legitimacy into habit. Together they manufacture common knowledge (not just facts, but “everyone knows everyone knows”), create legitimacy (control without constant force), enable fast sorting (who gets access, who gets blocked), internalize enforcement (self-policing via shame/pride/belonging), and—most critically—govern time sovereignty by setting horizons, urgency, and memory (what must be done now, what can wait, what future is imaginable, what past is admissible). When a stack is threatened, it edits this layer first—tightening myths, inflating symbols, intensifying rituals, compressing time—because whoever controls myth/symbol/ritual controls what the rails mean, what actions count, and what reality persists.

Stack = total reality infrastructure A stack is the full, layered reality-production and settlement system that decides (1) what entities are legible (identity/personhood/categories), (2) what actions can “count” (ownership, payment, contract, speech, movement), (3) how disputes settle (evidence, judgment, enforcement), (4) what becomes memory (records, search, archives, admissibility), and (5) how time is owned (cadence, urgency, horizons, discount rate, the right to be unmeasured); it persists by rails (identity/value/dispute/memory/attention/mobility/energy), and it reproduces itself through myth (authorized causal story), symbol (status/boundary markers), and ritual (repeatable membership proofs) that keep people inside the rails even when individual beliefs differ. Synthetic Stack = representation-as-reality; governability via legibility The Synthetic Stack governs by converting life into administrable representations—database identity, permissioned money, policy-text law, metric truth—so the map becomes enforceable and the territory matters only when it can be measured, priced, and categorized; its rails are institutional identity (registries/credentials), institutional value settlement (fiat banking/payment/KYC), institutional dispute settlement (courts/regulators/HR), institutional memory (searchable records + controlled archives), institutional attention (platform distribution), and institutional time (deadlines/news cycles/quarterlies) that compress cognition and steal horizon; its myth is “safety/progress/order through expertise,” its symbols are credentials/status/approved identities, its rituals are onboarding, audits, filings, compliance performance, and self-reporting, and its core weapon is horizon theft: shortening time until only the institution’s clock feels real. Resistance/Mimicry Stack = legible dissent capture; pressure valve that stabilizes The Resistance Stack is the dissent-capture substrate that metabolizes opposition into legible roles, markets, and cycles that don’t escape the rails—rebellion becomes identity products, moral rankings, content ecosystems, and sanctioned conflict whose output is attention and affiliation rather than independent settlement; its rails are attention distribution (amplification/throttling), reputational enforcement (purity tests/cancellation), donor/NGO funding gates, and emergency time (perpetual now) that prevents compounding; its myth is “awakening/fighting the system,” its symbols are purity badges and enemy-icons, its rituals are outrage liturgies, denunciation, schisms, petitions, marches-as-spectacle, and endless discourse, and its time weapon is mobilization without closure: permanent urgency that burns energy while routing would-be exit back into the same platforms, institutions, and narratives. Sovereign Stack = exit-capable reality; voluntary settlement + proof The Sovereign Stack is the exit-capable reality infrastructure that minimizes imposed legibility and maximizes voluntary settlement: identity anchored in keys/reputation/embodied trust rather than registries, value anchored in scarce/verifiable settlement rather than discretionary issuance, disputes anchored in explicit contract/property boundaries and local adjudication rather than policy drift, and memory anchored in independently held records rather than institution-curated archives; its rails prioritize custody, redundancy, competence, mutual defense by consent, and direct settlement pathways, so participation is chosen rather than coerced by survival dependence; its myth is authorship (origination of meaning/obligation), its symbols are boundaries (keys, contracts, titles, oaths, tools, maps), its rituals are custody/verification/upkeep/redundancy drills/competence proofs, and its time signature is time sovereignty: reclaiming slack/lag, patience, and long-horizon compounding that cannot be paced by external calendars or attention markets.

SOMATIC SOVEREIGNTY. HEALTH, FASCIA, BREATH, TRAUMA... what else? The synthetic stack has you in more ways than one

Its an interesting paradox and a nuanced problem to work through, but I use AI pretty heavily despite how much of my 'thesis' or framework revolves around this idea that the fiat system is essentially an autonomous AI governed surveillance simulation. I've found that LLMs helps immensely with idea generation, pattern recognition, and grunt work, and more. However, I do recognize more and more the detriments that it has on my writing and thinking skills. I plan to talk more about this in the future, its a big topic. But I will say this now: if you use AI, I recommend that you try to find more ways to increase lag in your life. AI is compressing our time, its speeding everything up to the point where we hardly have time in our lives to truly sit and be human, to grapple with ideas, to think, be still, fail, and be bored. These things are immensely important to our inner-well being, and AI has almost entirely removed these things from our lives under the guise of efficiency and optimization. Consider the ubiquity of algorithms and LLMs in our society and you should have a better idea of how much AI is running the show. Like I said though, it absolutely helps in many ways, but it also seems to be destroying in others. There's so much to talk about here, so I will say more at a later time. But with all that said. I do think I have found a pretty slick Sov-stack 'lite' set up. Perhaps still too deeply synth stack for my own tastes but I think I've done an alright job moving towards real [ontological] sovereignty here.: 1) Linux 2) ppq.ai. Pay with sats. Get an API key 3) Open-Web UI 4) Custom Sov-Stack 'System Prompt' (I would love to share these but I am hesitant due to the slightly psychopathic nature of these prompts, not actually psycho but kinda) 5) Pick your favorite model. This last step is where it gets tricky. Most of the powerful models are completely biased, with safeguards, synth stack coded, etc. Including Musk's Grok which is supposed to be 'truth seeking'. And the uncensored models or less biased/safety coded models are not nearly as powerful/smart. Some are better than others. I usually switch between gpt-5.1 and kimi-k2, and the perplexity models for internet search. GPT (OpenAI) actually seems to be less biased and safety coded than you might think, albeit still very much so. And the open weight models (Kimi K2, Deepseek, and Qwen) are mostly from China which are required to uphold socialist values. Mistral has some decent models too which are worth looking into. But, all that to say: there are plenty of trade-offs, which is why I can't wait to play with a real powerful self hosted model (mentioned below). Note: I really like what MapleAI and Routstr are doing. As far as I can tell and understand they are great projects. But PPQ really works well for me. I haven't tested Maple yet, and Routstr was a bit too advanced for me. Also I really look forward to the day when I can get some nice GPUs running to get my own local AI with a fairly powerful model, or even better when I can fine tune and/or RAG my own local AI. That's what I really want when I think of getting towards Sovereign AI. Also also, I'm really looking forward to seeing what the AllenAI team builds in the coming year(s). From where I stand they are by far doing the best job leading the way towards truly open source AI. If you haven't heard of them, I recommend you check them out. Their models aren't there yet in terms of raw power/intelligence but they've got the closest thing we have today to real open source glass box (open weights, open data, etc) AI. DeepSeek, Qwen, Mixtral, etc. don't even come close on that front. Would love to hear your thoughts.

“[CMH is] the most impressive physical [Bitcoin] embassy…” - Avi Yessir!!! View quoted note →

"Computerization is robbing individuals of the ability to monitor and control the ways information about them is used. As organizations in both the private and the public sectors routinely exchange such information, individuals have no way of knowing if the information is inaccurate, obsolete, or otherwise inappropriate. The foundation is being laid for a dossier society, in which computers could be used to infer individuals’ life-styles, habits, whereabouts, and associations from data collected in ordinary consumer transactions. Uncertainty about whether data will remain secure against abuse by those maintaining or tapping it can have a “chilling effect,” causing people to alter their observable activities. As computerization becomes more pervasive, the potential for these problems will grow dramatically." - David Chaum 1985. Without privacy, you are not truly yourself, arguably not even entirely human (in essence). Chaum recognized this 40 years ago!! Imagine how much of our society has been affected by this since then.

@simplex although I am fairly new to this world, I have been using Simplex for some time now as a privacy / sovereignty maxi, so I’m writing this in good faith but from a hostile threat-model. I also do not claim to understand all the technical details here. I am clearly using AI to help me understand and get my point across, still that shouldn't take away from the message I am trying to convey. First, respect where it’s due: – Novel protocol, no protocol-level user IDs. – Serious work on metadata resistance + private routing. – Clear stance vs MLS and client-side scanning. – Audits + willingness to say “we’d shut down before ChatControl.” All that said, the new Community Vouchers / SMPX / zkEVM plan raises big red flags from a sovereignty & Bitcoin perspective, and there are some contradictions I want to put on the record. (1) “No shitcoins” vs SMPX + NFT + zkEVM On Nostr/X you’ve repeatedly said “we’re not doing shitcoins” and answered “No” to “are you adding shitcoins to SimpleX.” At the same time: – Your own docs say Community Vouchers are implemented as a utility token on an EVM/zkEVM chain (SMPX, ERC-20 compatible). – You’re issuing a non-transferable NFT on Ethereum mainnet as an access pass to the testnet. – The token underlies names, server registry, payments and revenue sharing. From a Bitcoin/sovereignty POV, this is an altcoin/token stack, regardless of pre-mine / speculation / fundraising. Q1. Why not just say plainly: “Yes, we’re building an EVM-based token layer for network economics, but we’re trying to keep it non-speculative”? Right now it feels like a semantic dodge. (2) “Not tradable” in the banner vs “maybe transferable” in the FAQ Public copy and Nostr replies say: – “Community Vouchers are not tradable, cannot be sold, expire in 6–12 months; no pre-mine; no public sale.” But your own FAQ also says something like: – Transfer may be possible with strict limits on number of transfers and holding time, enforced by smart contracts; details TBD. So at the spec level: – Vouchers = SMPX tokens on an EVM L2 – ERC-20 compatible – Transferability not fully ruled out; parameters undecided. Q2. Can you clarify this honestly: are SMPX vouchers structurally untransferable, or are they transferable with restrictions? If the latter, why keep “not tradable” as your headline? Q3. What is your explicit stance on secondary / OTC markets for SMPX (even if contracts limit transfers)? Do you expect them, and what do you do when they appear? (3) Operator “trust evaluation”, identity, and regulatory capture In the vouchers design you say: – Operators who confirm identity and accept legally-binding terms get higher revenue share. – “Trust evaluation” (uptime, longevity, etc.) feeds on-chain metrics. – Funds are released from the contract only when capacity is proven, then split between operators and a SimpleX “network treasury”. That means: – The economically meaningful operators are the known, contract-signing ones. – You are building a regulator-friendly class of service providers, with KYC-like characteristics and on-chain trust scores. Q4. How do you prevent this from sliding into full-blown regulatory capture (OFAC lists, EU ChatControl-style terms baked into the operator contract, etc.) once significant money flows through this system? Q5. Do you commit, in writing, to never making “known, contract-signing operators” a requirement for preset/default servers, even under EU pressure? (4) Altchain / L2 / stablecoin dependency By design: – SMPX lives on a zkEVM/L2. – Purchases are done via cards/app stores or via crypto (Bitcoin/Monero/etc.), but the settlement & accounting sits in the EVM universe. – Names, server registry, and payments live in that same stack. That imports: – L2 governance politics, – sequencer centralization, – stablecoin issuer risk, – and the full regulatory blast radius of Ethereum-land. Q6. What is your contingency plan if the chosen L2 starts censoring, gets captured, or dies? Does the network degrade gracefully (names/registry/payments decouple), or are you effectively locking these core functions into that ecosystem? Q7. Why was an EVM + token stack considered more acceptable than a Bitcoin + Cashu/Fedimint/Lightning approach, given that the latter could also provide unlinkable payments and revenue sharing without creating a new asset? I understand the “trust in a mint” concern, but you’re now trusting: – an L2 sequencer, – complex smart contracts + upgrade keys, – and an entire altchain governance process. For some of us, that’s a bigger trust surface, not a smaller one. (5) “No identifiers” vs IP reality & infra concentration External analysis (maqp, PrivacyGuides, etc.) has pointed out: – Default preset servers being concentrated on a small number of infra providers (e.g. Akamai + Flux). – IP addresses still being long-lived identifiers unless people consciously route over Tor/VPN (which is not default). Yet your marketing often leans very hard on “no identifiers” and suggests a stronger anonymity set than most people actually get in practice. Q8. Are you willing to update your public messaging to reflect the real IP/threat model more precisely (especially around preset servers + no default Tor), instead of letting people think SimpleX has “no identifiers” in the strong sense? Where I’m at: From my perspective: – SimpleX is still doing serious work on protocol & privacy. – Self-hosted SimpleX for 1:1 / small groups is still interesting as a tool. – But the SMPX/zkEVM vouchers + KYC-tilted operator economics make it impossible to treat SimpleX as a sovereign-grade anchor for comms. What I am asking for: – Clear acknowledgment that this is an altchain token + governance layer. – Honest accounting of the regulatory and centralization risks. – A concrete answer on why you chose this path over a Bitcoin/ecash-based model, beyond “smart contracts are convenient.” If you’re willing to engage on those points directly, it would go a long way for those of us who care about both privacy and monetary / governance sovereignty.

this ones a doozy. One day I will explain myself with eloquent writing and details, but for now I am perfectly happy being cryptic 🐇 View quoted note →