I have learned the hard way as an independent contractor to ALWAYS get paid at the time services are rendered. I've literally had clients call and stop payment on checks before I could drive straight to THEIR bank to cash them. Experience taught me to NOT deposit into my own accounts, to just eat the fees for non-account holders, AND to offer a discount for paper cash payouts to avoid these risks and headaches entirely.

I foresee LN redeemable NFC 'payroll' Nutstashes evolving as reusable expense, stipend, and payroll payment keychain doggles.

For those currently working for someone else as an employee, their labor is already held hostage in your employees custody. Trusting an employer to manage a mint doesn't add any new risk vectors, it eliminates banks from the equation.

'Payroll Mints' seem a potential product/market fit, hopefully shortening pay periods once the toll booths operators are gone. i.e. hourly/daily, rather than weekly/bi-weekly payouts.

'Redeeming' earned eCash through LN, topping off LN spending wallets on its way into on-chain savings. Obfuscating our public earnings thru eCash & LN, before privately allocating savings into the public on-chain ledger.

This IS The Way!

Not surveillance, necessarily, as much as provenance. Privacy comes from OpSec, NOT from any single tool.

Properly handled, even on-chain transactions are don't reveal personally identifiable information. While, improperly handled thru KYCd devices, phone numbers, IP addresses, etc., make surveillance easy and privacy an illusion.

I hate to break it to you, but IF you don't also use VPN/TOR, have an anonymous burner phone, and a de-Googled phone you're simply Larping when it comes to privacy. While you may be one of the small minority willing to, or having to sacrifice convenience for privacy, by far the majority will not make the same trade offs. I guarantee that more than 95% of privacy coin users don't have any of these OpSec disciplines in place.

For public entities like corporations and governments verifiable audits of balances and transaction history is a HUGE upgrade over current systems. For most people, their everyday pocket change for spending the privacy vs. convenience trade offs when using LN and eCash are a reasonable tradeoff.

Unlike Man's Laws, Natural Law cannot be broken, one can only break one's self, company, or country upon it.

Fiat = value by Man's decree & might making 'right'

vs.

Bitcoin = value by math & Conservation of Energy

I include the link to the book, 'Latex Concrete Habitat', the technique is adapted from in the blog post, in case you want to learn more. It's an amazingly adaptable approach, in the pics of my prototype, I actually used some bedsheets for the rectangular roof/walls, that I bought by the pound from a Goodwill warehouse. I especially liked the texture I got from the flannel bedsheet.

Go has always been one of my favorite boardgames, but I've only a couple times gotten to play someone I've had to teach the rules to. The one time I played someone at the UT Go club, it was gloriously humiliating how I could see exactly when I'd lost effectively 3/4s of the board, yet could do nothing to stop it.

There are worlds of difference between even medium level players and beginners.

Nowadays, I bet there are great AI agents to play and learn from. Would love to know if anyone has any leads on that...

I find both the etiquette and the rules very interesting as well. As courtesy calls for notifying the opponent when they have only one 'Liberty' left. That the whole point is to maintain liberty for ourselves by aligning with our neighbors and we all lose if we get completely surrounded, a useful framing for Citadel Building, too.

Only IF I'm smart and capable enough to self custody everything on a sovereign server in my closet.

I don't know what you mean by the "green" parts. If you mean the color green, the "skin" is stretched re-purposed medium weight canvas drop cloth, applied with ~7k 1/2" staples, then coated 3 times with a wet slurry of Reblended paint, water, and portland cement, before the final coat of just paint with boro-silicate microsphere insulation added with 2 more coats (by far the most expensive material in this whole project at ~$1/sq ft of coverage).

IF, you are referring to "green" as in environmentally friendly, that comes from the majority of the paint, canvas, steel, and wood having come from free and salvaged sources. The two 14' trampoline frames took less than 2 weeks to find for free locally in Austin, but even new ones from Walmart are only $179 each, and is far superior than wood framing for the circular vertical walls.

Eventually, I intend to set up a styro-foam re-pelletizer so I can embed more diverted "waste" products into the vertical walls as insulation.

The blog post goes into more details and provides resources to lookup even more info on the materials and processes I used, ranging from custom designed 3d printed ASA brackets, to Japanese style woodburned treatment finished out with 3 coats of shellac, and a variation of latex cement canvas stapled like upholstery out of used painters drop cloth and free up cycled paint from the Austin recycling center.

The natural airflow and the hollow micro-silicate insulation paint (providing an effective r20 insulation value) will make this much more comfortable in warmer and wetter climates. Where I'm building this one in FL, I will be adding a split AC unit and a BTC space heater that I expect to be all the additional climate I will need.

For colder climates, the steel provides a curtain wall that can be filled in with whatever you have available, hempcrete, cordwood, cob, or super adobe will all perform better than drywall and siding. The dome is essentially just 5 large pentagons, that can be prefabricated with aircrete. I've found foam-crete (w/re-pelletized styrofoam as aggregate) to be easier to work with. I can easily use the latex cement canvas on both sides, making the framing as thick as I choose, to prefab custom pentagonal structural insulation panels, or square/rectangular, as needed.

I 3d printed custom brackets, attached the dome to 2 trampoline frames, and used a compound miter saw to custom fit the skeleton together.

That's EXACTLY what I'm doing here, unlike most residential builders and architects, I'm designing the home I want to live in myself. I'm simply too informed to be able to settle with living in dead boxes. So, I'm building myself a living ecosystem in the form of a Biodome Igloo, and open-sourcing my plans I begin sharing in this post.

https://primal.net/e/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqqpg7yhcxkdt8q4cj466k45rsrhj9tacx2mp4m2jam6dfefjc8r8qq2nz4662dmhgk2xtac4g42jt9qnxc6tgdckuyu4x32

Decentralizing food, shelter, and energy, producing them for ourselves onsite means we have to part with fewer sats to buy these things from centralized providers who's supply chains and inputs we have no control over.

This reminds me of Sidhartha's 3 skills, Knowing how to:

1. Think

2. Fast

3. Wait

Comparing them suggests that right thought is gentle, frugality's ultimate expression is fasting, and waiting requires humility enough to surrender to divine timing.

By far, the majority of capital held worldwide is in public entities, not private individuals accounts. As they are all highly regulated, surveilled, and controlled by current KYC/AML regulations, they cannot send and/or receive funds without documentable provenance as to the source of, and the identity of the receiver of funds without risking everything they own in their existing accounts, their titled physical assets, and their personal freedoms.

Until the Banking Secrecy Act is repealed, then public entities (i.e. corporations & governments) can ONLY engage in commerce on public ledgers. Using smaller "anonymity sets" for herd camouflage in the much smaller "privacy coin" markets is also completely unneccessary, when more privacy can be captured by simply funneling satoshis through LN channels and thru eCash mints as a means of breaking chain analysis. By far, the most private UTXOs are acquired through mining or through in-person paper cash => BTC (for larger amounts) & LN/eCash(for smaller amounts). Earned sats expose oftentimes only partially identifiable personal information to only those paying for our goods and services, if/when providing our goods and services directly to the market, rather to an employer.

By far, the easiest way to acquire 'privacy coins' is to buy them with bitcoin, as there's almost zero liquidity in local physical cash OTC into any of those anonymous spending coins. Smart money won't bother with those added risks and will always choose to clean their transaction history within the Bitcoin ecosystem. There's simply no need for them for almost everyone, with almost no way to acquire them without going thru BTC 1st, and the risk/reward tradeoffs for public entities will never entice them to place their entire existence at risk by raising red flags for using privacy coins.

I'll build an off grid accessory dwelling unit for sats, or better yet, teach you and your neighbors how to build these for yourselves.

I'll build an off grid accessory dwelling unit for sats, or better yet, teach you and your neighbors how to build these for yourselves.

Likewise, eCash exchanged between already known and trusted parties with either temporary or ongoing relationships also is an acceptable risk scenario.

For instance, settling of payroll accounting between employees/employees, as well as, ephemeral market cash bearer instruments purchasable & redeemable at the entrance of private poker clubs (i.e. LN redeemable eCash Casino Cards/Chips/NFC tags). In both those instances, The House/Company has a reputation to protect & Users know who the Mint is and already trusts them to maintain an internal ledger of custodial funds. No new risk vectors are created and liquidity as well as redeemability becomes more convenient for both Users and their Hosted Mints.

Restoring the fundamental human right to financial privacy solidifies the foundational freedom upon which ALL other freedoms are built. Simply bringing humanity back to the place where it had been in all places throughout all time, previous to the Bank Secrecy Act, will be a major win in the war upon individual freedom and autonomy.

The Art of War teaches us to attack the enemy's strategy, their most effective enslavement tactic these days is financial surveillance. The weaknesses of the legacy system against preventing fraud has been to force half of humanity to Dox itself, while locking those unable to provide the 'papers' out of international markets entirely.

The solution is found in the problem, KYC regulations, aren't necessary with a 'push' payment protocol like Bitcoin, only for 'pull' payment protocols that force spenders to leak full withdrawal data every time and everywhere money is spent online. I.e. rather than handing your entire cash wallet to vendors who hopefully only pull out what they're supposed to, we hand only the cash to them necessary to complete payment out of our own wallets.

Imagine handing your entire bank account to every bartender in order to open a bar tab, this is effectively what everyone does when handing over a credit or debit card. So, of course, such a weak security protocol requires charge backs to validate claims of fraud. Their weaknesses have been used to enslave their users, leaving us the only option of refusing to use their fiat ledgers entirely, by operating on a personal and professional Satoshi Standard (a more accurate framing as most of humanity will NEVER become whole-coiners, merely chasing sats from the few who control a full Bitcoin's worth of satoshis)

Disease is almost always a result of congestion and parasits in your system. Once I began regular long term fasting when I discovered the 'Master Cleanse' back in 1991, I haven't been 'sick' even once! I credit this to my regularly going 7-10 days ingesting nothing but water and cayenne lemonade twice a year.

I've evolved that discipline into dry-fasting and am now about to try the Snake Juice Diet that replaces the water/spicy lemonade with ONLY salt water. I expect this to balance and regulate my electrolytes making it easier than going dry. I'm already implementing multiple anti-parasite protocols right now too. These benefits of these practices as preventative care, once experienced first hand needs no outside validation.

Yeah, I tried writing this and posting directly from Obsidian. Gonna have to try to import this another way to get the pics to work. Maybe Yakihonne will work...