Read a book “A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail” by Bill Bryson

Ad blockers.

But also there, beware of scams. There are as blockers that track your every visit and sell this data, while blocking ads and other trackers okay.

Or better browsers, like perhaps Brave.

Or screw it and let them track his long you stayed on a page or where you hovered your mouse pointer on. After all, the only outcome will probably be, that you see better targeted ads vs random ads.

I mean, I don't like it, but, maybe I'm underestimating the impact, but, who cares. They will classify your device browser cookie or mobile advertising ID into some audience segment such as, people interested in this or that. So what.

I mean, yeah it's a nuanced thing.

Thank you for posting these snippets.

I find them valuable and inspiring.

And so, I felt like letting you know.

Yes, would be great, but, I think, it would require 3 things:

1. We find employers, or other income source, or build a business that generates revenue in Bitcoin.

2. We find sellers that sell us food and stuff for Bitcoin.

3. We find and immigrate to a country or jurisdiction where the is no predatory extortion tax for using Bitcoin as money, or we live in a shadow parallel economy black market, facing a risk of prosection for tax evasion

Hard, no?

I'd love to, but how?

Am I wrong and there is a way and I'm failing to see it? Would be great.

I'm with you on thinking about this.

I don't want to be paranoid but I do wonder if using neobanks within the European Union is safe, from the risk of government overreach perspective. Governments in EU can collaborate on tracking us down.

Perhaps Dukascopy from Switzerland is a better choice. But even there, I would not be sure.

Tough issue. How to drive Bitcoin adoption, which means use it to buy stuff, and yet avoid tax implications, ideally legally.

I guess the best thing works be to live in a jurisdiction where there is no capital gain tax on selling Bitcoin, but this leaves is with Switzerland, hard to immigrate to, or El Salvador, far away, maybe Madeira as well. Any other options people see?

Otherwise, we have to hide behind peer to peer exchanges, coin joins or alike, which all comes with the cost, hassle and risk. Even peer to peer, like Bisq or Robosats, they anyway leave a trace in your bank account history. Sure, it looks like a regular transfer to some individual, but still, if they trace the Bitcoin seller, they will know. And peer to peer cash, impractical.

Interestingly, in the sovereign individual book, the authors predicted Bitcoin, but also predicted a growth of e-commerce and an economy that is outside of the governments ability to tax, which, I think, has not really materialized. Thanks to technology and regulations, is seems to me, governments can easily track our transactions, unless we try to hide, which, like I said, come with cost, risks and hassle.

I'm unsure what to do myself. Today, beyond stacking sats for the future, that is, the digital gold or treasury reserve asset use case, I'm not selling, I'm not using Bitcoin to buy anything, because, from a tax perspective, it is like selling.

Complicated. I'd love to hear perspectives from others.

You mean from https://pocketbitcoin.com/ ?

Interesting take

https://www.mauldineconomics.com/global-macro-update/the-space-wars-are-here

Is there a way to import this list to amethyst?

I thought nym was a short for pseudonym.

I like your point.

At the same time, I'm wondering, even if someone crates high quality content here, and gets zaps, is it realistic to expect any meaningful amount?

I mean, getting 5 thousand sats or so, for great posts sometimes, or nice images, or quality tutorials or translations, yes, this is all good, but,

I'm just trying to be very real, and I don't see how anyone could make a living of it, or even make it a meaningful income stream.

I'd like to be wrong.

Thoughts?

Beyond elite top quality very few content creators, is there a chance for an ordinary person to make a meaningful income here?

Thank you for sharing your story!

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/freedom.html

Much better explanation I found here

Whatever happens to us, we are always free to choose our response, this is our last freedom. I got this from Victor Frankl, via Steven Covey, 7 habits book.

In this context, we always have some level of freedom, in a pause between the stimulus and our response.

But then, of course there is also freedom in like "do whatever I want", which is and should be limited by freedom of other people, i.e. I cannot kill or steal because this would be an attack on the freedom of others, their individual rights, property rights, etc.

There is a great book on this, by Jocko Willink, Discipline equals freedom

Atlas Shrugged

Please add https://www.spiritofsatoshi.ai/

Yes, good point

He talks about deepest philosophical ideas that made it possible: mysticism, altruism, collectivism

Your points add specific issues at a time, that surely could also have contributed

So it's a bit like cash, right?

Sats are fungible.

But I do need to paste my nsec into nos2x, right?

I anyway cannot do this.

I added the extension but nothing happens when I click options, where, according to instructions, I should page the nsec.