The Way of Bitcoin Banking is to bypass the government compliance concerns by using their own weapons against them. Those who write the rules value their own financial privacy more than anyone and will fight tooth and nail to protect their own wealth. By using private contract business and asset protection Trusts, along with Private Membership Associations, even the 5% of world population that are subject to US jurisdiction can capture and retain financial privacy for themselves.

Structuring our Private Bitcoin Membership Associations as NodeRunners, LSPs, Relay Operators, AND eCash Mints will bypass these regulatory attacks being made by the Naked Emperors. By never touching their corrupted monetary systems, those who've left the plantation need not worry about the rules the Slave Owners force upon their chattel. The rule is "He who creates it, controls it." Using government IOUs at all gives them subject matter jurisdiction, so we simply apply Bucky Fuller's wisdom and build a better system entirely outside of the existing monetary system, and let the outdated systems atrophy and die on their own.

Governments cannot stop people from growing and using cannabis, or even prevent us from 3d printing our own firearms, they will be no more effective at controlling NodeRunners. The more they try, the stronger our defenses will become and the more energy they waste in an ineffective game of Whack-a-mole.

I've been dry fasting for many years now, going over 100 hrs dry more times than I can count now. It helps get the body "fat adapted" to go on a "fasting mimicking diet" for a few days on either side of going dry. Myself, I'm going thru that process at the moment, on day 3 of nothing but liquid fats for fuel, i.e. bulletproof coffee in the mornings, bone broth in the afternoons, and a non-caffeinated Dandy-Blend hot drink with some coconut oil added in the evenings.

Tonight at midnight, after properly hydrating and mineralizing with plenty of water, baking soda, and some fresh squeezed lemon juice, I'll stop all fluid intake at midnight. Consuming nothing but air over the next few days at least, it gets easier when I wake up the 2nd day, about 32 hrs dry, as I generally feel great and have no desire to consume anything at all. After 3-5 days, depending on my activity level and local temps, I'll start back on the liquid fats diet for a few more days.

Going "dry" lowers all inflamation throughout the body, resets and boosts the immune system, and eliminates many of the fats that may have been storing toxins. Breaking down bodyfat for water provides the highest quality "living water" we can find anywhere and regularly using the ketone energy pathway helps make me "metabolically flexible". My relationship with food/hunger and water/thirst have changed drastically, as my Will now rules over my Body, rather than the other way around as for most of the human population. The impacts on my personal discipline, immune system, and overall health have made this a lifetime practice that needs no outside sources to validate the benefits of to my health.

This does tend to have an impact socially, though, as so much of socializing revolves around food and drink and we tend to not notice until we stop altogether.

Good luck. Fear not, trust your ability to listen to your body, we are not nearly as fragile as we're made out to be. Unless you're under 10% bodyfat, there's little risk of dying after 3 days with no water as we're taught. Muscle cramps and potentially kidney stones are the main risks and proper preparation and discipline manage those easily.

When it comes to privacy, using the herd as camouflaged obscurity depends on the size of the "anonymity set", the communication channels, and access points used. Private money, whether LN, XMR, and eCash can be made ineffective IF not used with disciplined OpSec. Using a KYC'd phone, a KYC'd internet provider, and communicating over unencrypted channels will eliminate the anonymity of your transactions. The 1st thing to understand is that Anonymity means not knowing who you are and Privacy means knowing what you are doing, where you are, and who you are interacting with. Each of these variables must be managed for proper OpSec, especially when using DNMs.

Also, liquidity and provenance matter. As in, how big of a marketplace exists for moving into and out of these currencies. Almost ALL digital currency liquidity exists between fiat & BTC, with very few options for moving fiat into and out of XMR in cash. These on/off ramps cannot handle the volume of flow that big money requires and will take time to be built for both LN and eCash. But, public entities that control by far the vast majority of the world's wealth cannot and will never use private-by-default currencies. We must in a "sly roundabout way" bring privacy for ourselves, our families, and our businesses in through the back door. This is what LN and eCash are enabling, for those willing and able to put forth the effort to learn and to act with discipline.

Once eCash mints begin popping up with every employer/employee relationship, as the already have semi-trusted ongoing financial relationships, THEN "mult-nut" payments and eCash herd obscurity and liquidity will arrive. The size of both the herd and those joining/leaving it must grow over time before they'll become effective forms of financial camouflage.

Ecash is a proven protocol, but integrations with LN, Nostr, and businesses will take time to spread enough to grow both the on-off ramps and the anonymity set.