i got sick to death of living in the city and started staying at my sister's place in a small town in the mountains west of the gold coast. i pivoted slightly to add general laboring (gardening, cleaning) when i got up there but due to the outrageous cost of mandatory insurance and registration of my piddly 50cc motorcycle, and trying to maintain my relations with customers 200km away they stole my bike on two occasions, and without that, my new customer base in the country town was not enough and not long after, i met a woman on facebook, cooked up a plan to get the money to go to the UK to be with her, by exploiting taxation systems to get some of my stolen potential back to give me a chance to do something else.
the woman was crazy, and the plans we made totally didn't pan out and i fled again, this time to Bulgaria, where i tried getting a regular job - call center operator, which first go around 10 applications 2 weeks and i had income again. unfortunately the supervisor in my section was a psychotic albanian cow who eventually i blew up at after doing 6 shifts in a row, looking for more income (big mistake under bulgarian employment law, they just ride you and don't pay you any extra for hours beyond the contract), swore at her as she was demanding me come into work to make 7 days running and i was exhausted.
my failed darkweb dealing business was what led to me doing that, and then desperate to get back into the black, so i could pay my fucking rent, i ended up being arrested violently, spent a year in prison, and the next 4 years mostly homeless, first in amsterdam, and then after i got sick to death of the total lack of upward mobility from homeless in the netherlands, in sofia, and got some more tech support work at a remote app provider, which i made the same mistake again on working night shifts, and in the meantime, cryptokitties hack and me trying to do leveraged trading on bitcoin on bitfinex, i got wiped out. back to amsterdam, where i got into steemit blockchain forum, partnered up with a crazy go dev - where i first finally got experience with it after hearing about it in 2013, and from there, in 2017 a montenegrin friend knew a guy in novi sad who wanted a go dev to build a bitcoin fork called parallelcoin, an upgrade of its protocol and software from the barely changed original bitcoin code, but in Go, and after 2 years working on that, i was very confident in my ability to code and developed a lot of architecting and cryptography/statistics coding.
after that, i eventually landed jobs working remote with shitcoin projects late 2021, then 5 months after that all went to shit (because shitcoin dev shops are cults, especially dusk.network) and i discovered concurrently that the assholes i was staying with were using manipulation tricks on me to make me feel obligated to pay more than my share of the bills with this new income, again i disappeared from that scene (i've been a refugee from bullshit for too long) and that led me to an internship developing indranet, and after that was finished, i managed to get a nostr-related job building a relay with a shitcoin project that wasn't assholes, worked that for 2 years, and then their runway ran out, i had been unable to get repeat business from any of the contracts i worked on, i found plebeian.market and that's where i am now.
since adopting agentic coding tools, my output has dramatically increased in both volume and quality, and even if things get rough and i have to branch out to elsewhere, i have everything i need to get bigger income at a fiat mine, if i really must, i'm stacking hard, so i have breathing room if anything goes wrong.
anyway, a lot of this is somewhat orthogonal to the topic but the very subject of the aggressive theft of the fruit of my labors, as well as the theft of my productive potential by labor market price controls (why i left australia) was a recurring theme and why i am so glad to be working at what i'm working at now.
i have aspirations to finally own my own property, get into farming and all kinds of low tech production, and i'm near the location i am going to go try and do that, and for now, my goal is to put the pedal to the metal on nostr technology, invent new things, and get the worst missing things from nostr client/protocol development to become normalised (i was definitely involved in getting nip-42 support more widespread). i want to make this tech so smart and so simple to use that businesses adopt it as a way to save on costs and boost their reach.
the work never ends, but at least i get to keep all of it except for EU VAT 20%. no fucking way i'm dealing with taxation or accountants ever again, after my experiences with the bulgarian and serbian extortion racketeers.
technically, not paying taxes is not a criminal offense, even if sometimes they make laws to claim it is, under almost all national constitutions this trust violation of the "general fund" of governments is in contravention of the actual word of the law, they just presume you into it. you have to come forward and confess to get tangled in it.
DO NOT REGISTER CORPORATIONS OR WASTE YOUR TIME WITH ACCOUNTANTS. they don't have the resources to do other than probabalistic, exemplary punishment. you are less likely to get caught earning money without paying taxes, than getting caught selling drugs, and the benefits are greater, the risk much lower. live free or die.
