Replying to Avatar Tommy "The Purchase"

Ive been reading - and thinking - about the idea of "opting out" that is referenced regularly in bitcoin circles.

The monetary side of things is rather straightforward: Get rid of garbage paper money and preserve value in stable currencies like bitcoin and gold. No trouble there.

But what about the more practical aspects of life? Technically I know how to grow food and raise animals but without way above average financial means, in bitcoin or otherwise, there's no chance of that happening where I live.

Also, the state will always come for its pound of flesh, I'm not asking anything of it and don't depend on it in any way but it will of course never let me be until quite a while after I'm dead.

Is there any kind of advice, big or small, the kind people of nostr have to share?

#asknostr #optout #GoldGoatsAndGuns
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Kevin's Bacon 7mo ago

Just engage in the ever growing bitcoin circular economy on nostr. There are a lot of plebs here, ask around. Beware of fed plants though. Trust only the npubs you really are confident in and the people they recommend (on like a diminishing probability scale), for safety. Local community is best but networks of paranoid cryptoanarchists will fit the bill when you are not yet ready to build that local community of self sovereign citizens yourself.

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Kevin's Bacon 7mo ago

A fellow pleb, nostr:nprofile1qqsza748zkamgmw4he4hm2xhwqpxd5gkwju38wqh3twmtshx8kv8xvgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs5r59tk is building out a contracting platform called Catallax that will enable arbitration, escrow, and privacy preservation usecases as needed, to make this marketplace more regulated (via the free market).