Tanks inside aren't subject to as much stress as the hull of a ship, since they are usually made to be pressurized or work in tension. With stainless you have to be a lot more careful of temperature gradients placing stress on joints/fastening.

I'm just not a fan of stainless as structural parts. I weld enough stainless used in various safety related systems to just hate it. Customers wonder why the parts come out so funky, when they are requiring at least 5x too much weld on pieces and don't understand that stainless warps way more than carbon steels. I think you could make it work, though, but it would require better engineers than I'm used to working with to pull it off.

Proper venting would reduce/eliminate any hydrogen concerns, especially if you double or triple seal the batteries, or use sealed batteries for a majority of your power storage.

316 is not great for structural stuff. Skinning? Sure. I would not rant to try to design a while ocean going vessel relying on 316 to withstand the rigors of years of being pounded on. IIRC, it's also going to work harden. If I'm correct about that, you will be chasing cracks that will continually propogate and there's nothing you can do about it except possibly heat treat the entire structure, and that is not practical.

More (exponentially more) expensive but the "best" metal would probably be Ti. But, this would be lighter than steels, more corrosion resistant than most stainless, might be prone to work hardening, but alloying and proper design can mitigate most of that concern.

316 is not great for structural stuff. Skinning? Sure. I would not rant to try to design a while ocean going vessel relying on 316 to withstand the rigors of years of being pounded on. IIRC, it's also going to work harden. If I'm correct about that, you will be chasing cracks that will continually propogate and there's nothing you can do about it except possibly heat treat the entire structure, and that is not practical.

More (exponentially more) expensive but the "best" metal would probably be Ti. But, this would be lighter than steels, more corrosion resistant than most stainless, might be prone to work hardening, but alloying and proper design can mitigate most of that concern.

I’m not an engineer but I do have thoughts on designs.

Most seastead concepts I’ve seen are some kind of futuristic city. I think liberty is better served by customizable, attachable / detachable crafts capable of supporting a small group like a family.

If you like a community, bring your home over. If things go south, you can head out.

Depending on your particular industries, slip in or create modules for farming, aquaculture, manufacturing, etc. keeping the option to specialize or generalize.

What's on your roof?

Rooftop real estate is going to be much more valuable on a seastead. Depending on which 'public' utilities are offered to the community, your roof will likely have one or more of the following options on it:

Sun Deck:

Some may simply want more square footage to stand on, such as a sun deck, like we saw on the first seastead in Thailand circa 2019. A nearly free option, this would require building your roof to support as much weight as your floor.

Personal Garden:

Like a Sun Deck, a year-round garden would make an excellent rooftop addition but would not be cheap to install. It would need a walkpath around it, a drainage system so it doesn't get washed away every downpour, and as much or even more floor bracing than the sundeck did to hold up the weight of all that soil and water.

Storage Shed:

Pack rats may opt to simply throw a storage shed up there, not unlike the $300 backyard barns you can buy at your local hardware store today. Again, roof bracing needs to hold it's weight.

Solar Power Generation:

Solar panels would be a major, common choice for most, because decentralized energy, even if available only half the time, is free after the cost of the panels. Batteries like Tesla's power wall would be ideal for keeping a home powered 24-7 from such panels if no central power options were offered. That does come at a pretty expense, however.

Freshwater Gathering:

The most cheap option is likely a simple rain cachement tray over your homestead, which decentralizes your fresh water source making that nearly free. Of course the H2O has to be stored somewhere, so anyone deploying a rain cachement roof will have to include a large water tank at least 1 floor beneath it. (Sucking up more real estate footage.)

Wind Power Generation:

If a seastead sees near-constant wind, a few small vertical poles could hold up windmills. One on each corner of the dwelling, in fact, perhaps more. While this isn't a cheap option it can be combined with any of the above options, because these windmills will sit higher up, on poles.

So which will it be?

Your own roof will likely be the same as every other roof around you for one good reason: The availability of lower-cost services on your seastead. If there were no cheap power or water options available, then most seasteaders would need to both cache rain and generate power upstairs, which would most likely be the rain cachement tray with a few windmills. Since rainwater is very clear, I could see a cachement tray made with solar panels at the bottom of it as well.

If your community supplies cheap power but not water, then everyone would have to do cachement but might reserve up to half the room for gardening or storage.

If your community supplies desalinated water but no central power, then few would use any cachement (again, takes up room downstairs) but everyone would likely have both solar panels and wind turbines vying for space up there.

Only if your seastead offers both, would a variety of choices prevail, giving people the option to use the space how they see fit. This would make the seastead far more interesting & able to be personalized.

My greatest bitcoin fear: In 2035, I can by as many goods and services with my BTC as it can currently buy me today, but a simple loaf of bread takes the average person 16 hours of labor to earn.

Don't give up on carbon-based so easily - we have a solid lock on self-replication technology, and we're so cheap!

Develop your neural network in carbon over decades, then later "distil" its outputs into silicon-on-insulator for the long haul. We already have the technologies for that, we just don't call them by the right names.

What we don't have and should develop is the "technological toolkit" to colonise icy objects outside habitable zones. Probably needs to be fission-based since we cant seem to make fusion work. Building a society inside a KBO and putting it into an extrasolar trajectory is our only hope of teaching other stars without new physics.

I would still think that there is no other way for us to make it in the long term than colonizing as many stars as possible, and that this requires transitioning from carbon-based self-replicating chemistry to an inorganic-based form of consciousness vessels that can withstand long-distance space travel.

In any case, it's quite possible that others have already done the same. We may be unable to find "life" in the universe, and that at the same time conscious beings are out there.

Users often joke Monero is the real stable coin. Hovers around average of ~$150 for years.

Maybe you already know this, but ring signatures are only 1 of 3 of Monero's privacy layers and only apply to the sender. It is the relatively weakest part because it is "just" obfuscation.

The real magic is Monero's encrypted amounts and receivers (confidential transactions and stealth addresses). Completely hidden - can't be derived by looking at the blockchain. Meaning the transaction graph (sprawling connections of senders and receivers) doesn't even exist on Monero, unlike 99.9% of cryptos.

Have a plan to join the raiders!

Learn simple phrases in likely raider languages. Make friends with people with ties to likely raiders. Know where local political leaders live, and know their faces so you can be the first to turn them in!

Your government fears and hates you, and would happily sell you as dog food if they could find a way to do so profitably while continuing to collect taxes from your estate. So when the time comes, sell them out first before they can flee!

I would agree with you if any of the altcoins were of similar quality in terms of fundamental soundness. None are even playing the same game much less on the same field.

I mean no offense but your strategy of let's see what hits and diversifying your portfolio is a long term strategy based on a flawed premise that more than one coin will emerge. But alts will all go to zero in the long term because none are truly solving a problem they aren't creating for themselves or doing it better than something else that already exists. Fundamentals matter in the long term.

Maybe there will be those that limp along. Some will pump, all will dump. Plenty of scalping to be had, no doubt.

But you're going up against forces stronger and more connected than you. I've been on the inside of both the crypto and traditional hedge fund worlds in a professional capacity for my entire career. I know how it works and the little guy rarely wins.

One thing that sucks about traditional revolution, is that you rarely get the opportunity to shoot the people who really need it.

There has to be a better way. One that doesn’t involve shooting a bunch of low IQ order followers. One that shakes (or replaces) the system itself.

Just seems very inefficient, we really need zk primitive opcodes rather than the way they are doing it here.

Side note: organizations can only be trustless if they are algorithmic, which means they are no longer human organizations.

As soon as other humans are making decisions, you have to trust them to some extent. But if other humans are not making any decisions it's not an organization.

So if you're going to build an organization of humans, the only thing really need from Bitcoin is unfuckable money and unfuckable timechain (proof that this data existed at this time). For everything else you can just use nostr.

Many people acting separately but with similar intentions could appear organized.

Don't understand the hype around BitVM.

Not good enough.

If anyone here is still shitcoining, go value your trades against BTC not USDT because it's all about opportunity cost. Do this and you will shitcoin no more.