Am not a techie but have only used linux (mostly debian) since about 2000.

It is the way to go imo.

Salty no coiners just keep digging.

US Imperialism is the primary driver of US wealth and power. Its not the free market you moron- its monetary and resource hegemony backed by brute force. The extraordinary privilege of the US Petrodollar hegemony backed by military threat and often outright violence (ongoing unlawful use of drones strikes by US since the early 2000s for example and kidnappings and murders via extraordinary renditions) is what your financialised wealth and privilege are built upon- the major exports of USA today are Death and Debt. Politics is the means by which human groups decide how to allocate and organise labour and resources- neoliberalism and crony capitalism have failed. Fuck I guess you think the banks owning your government is good thing! Get real and look at history- the best economy and society is where rentseeking cartels and monopolists are restricted and resources are allocated fairly. Chinas mixed economy is way outperforming US crony capitalism but you cannot see it. Death to US Exceptionalist delusions and the banksters and murderers who orchestrate US hegemony - wake up to mixed economies where resources and wealth are fairly allocated with free public transport and education and affordable housing are priorities.

Don't forget Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations.

Yes TBS is a classic. The true worth of Bitcoin can only be understood by first understanding what money is and TBS enables the reader to do just this. How many people understand fiat money? IMO less than 2% of the general population and perhaps 20-30% of Bitcoiners.

Fair enough although I would be wary of Bitcoin used to secure debt where you must surely surrender the keys to the usury.

Never spend it, do anything with it? Just hoard it forever? It is great to have the security/savings for a rainy day, but I hope there is a point sometime where there is something you want to do that Bitcoin enables.

Have not paid rent since 1982 and love building and farming but yes mobility is reduced when you are tied to the land. I pay $25/week local government tax on the land which keeps the dirt road serviced and provides a water race through the property which is good to have.

Phone and internet (slow but unlimited data) is NZ$26/month 4g. No power bills- solar plus woodstove - plus small sats income from mining. You are paying tax when you rent too, via a rentseeker landlord, who is often fiat debt leveraged to a fiat bank overlord.

Bitcoin can empower whatever lifestyle we want whether it is digital nomad or homesteader offgrid. I enjoy working, growing food, working the land - having the BTC capital to get things done makes it much more fun. Bitcoin can and does enable us to live our hopes and dreams - it is already!

Order 6102 was in large part so successful because most peoples gold had already been entrusted to bankers. ETFs and corporate Treasuries plus Coinbase are achieving the same high ratio of corporate custody for Bitcoin. ETFs in particular gain custody without paying anything but rather charging the alleged owners of the Bitcoin fees for doing so. Banning private custody can be even more effective when the majority of 'Bitcoiners' are holding for speculative gain purposes an will surrender custody (if they have it) in order to gain the government buyout price rather than being left with an asset that is illegal to trade and can only be traded on a black market. How much Bitcoin is still held privately free of KYC? 5%? The preparation for Order 6102B has been underway for a while.

Have built three debt free homes for self and family. Developing offgrid self reliance farm with offgrid power. Aim is to grow own meat as well as already growing own vegetables. Will sell surplus meat, for sats hopefully!

Use LN whenever possible which is not as much as I would like as so few merchants accepting but I definitely preference any merchant who does take sats. Due to the massive state and bankster obstruction of sats MoE utility I am forced to mostly use sats for saving. I keep enough fiat shitcoinery to pay bills as most can only be paid with fiat shitcoins...but most of my savings are in sats...increasingly so as fiat shitcoins constantly debasing toward zero! Use your monetary power to support sats accepting merchants wherever they are available as it is still a challenge for most merchants to accept due to general population ignorance, msm fud, bankers threats of debanking in many places still and almost universal state obstruction via imposed tax complexity and inequity.

BTC MoE use is outright banned in virtually ALL autocracies. 70% of humanity lives under autocracy.

Wouldn't go quite that far- does anyone really know how much trade is now being enabled via Chinas CIPS and mBridge digital payments?

We do know that Iran, Russia and N.Korea have been making most of their trade payments via Chinas alternative arrangements... And we do know that Saudis have signed up to mBridge...

Yes if the BRICS gang were not mostly corrupt insecure power hungry autocrats but instead genuinely wanted freedom/neutrality from US imperialist USD/SWIFT hegemony they might just 'get' Bitcoin as a potentially very effective way to go, but as they say - you get BTC at the price you deserve!

Agree on 100% food hospo being a great fit with Bitcoin- with food and bars there is a strong social and human element- sharing food is (or should be) a joy and paying with Bitcoin makes the whole thing feel more special - I have a theory that in food/hospo feeling and care are very important and that Bitcoin accepting venues are probably more passionate about what they do and it shows in their food/service...for most businesses to offer Bitcoin payment requires a level of commitment above the average imo. When I go to a Bitcoin accepting bar or food outlet I feel at home and among like minded people!

Sounds like a good situation for you to mine off solar and if the sun does not shine for a few days you can close the miner down for that time - that is what I have had to do this winter here a lot because it has been extraordinarily wet and cloudy- the last 6-9 months have been the wettest and least sun for many years. It's great to be earning sats while the sun shines. In peak summer here when it occasionally gets over 40 degrees Celsius I can run a small air conditioner off the solar power too.

There's a great BahnMi Vietnamese Bread roll shop here in Christchurch that takes BTC and at every opportunity I take friends and family there for lunch. They make the best BahnMi pulled pork filled bread roll and Iced coffee. It is currently the only restaurant for hundreds of miles accepting BTC. It is fun to take people there and show how easy paying with Bitcoin is especially if they are skeptics, like most people I know irl. In my experience food and hospitality outlets that accept Bitcoin are tend to be well above average in terms of quality so always and especially when traveling I give them high preference. If we preference the currently very few BTC accepting bars and restaurants we are at least supporting those businesses and encouraging Bitcoin MoE utility to expand...and it is a great way of showing family and friends how capable LN has become.

Never become a nicotine addict.

I run very small scale solar mining as living offgrid and in summer have surplus electricity but would say consider how close you are to the equator, as currently, mid winter here in South Island New Zealand, I have had to drastically reduce mining just to keep the lights, fridge and internet running! That 3kw solar plant will probably be peak output mid summer. The seasonal variance in solar power produced by PV panels where I am roughly midway between equator and poles is considerable...maybe 3-400%. That said with 3kw you could run one serious mining rig of perhaps 100 plus TH...but only while the sun shines. I dont know how small scale mining can be profitable in a real time sense unless you are using solar power that would otherwise be unused as is the case for me in midsummer, but even there it will be years before I've covered the cost of the 4 Tb Nano3 and 1Tb Lucky miners. In the longer term who knows how much sats will be worth, but realistically home mining is more a hobby than a business...it is fun converting solar energy into hard, kyc free savings liquidity.

Its already happening here in New Zealand and globally.

Do you expect to be taken seriously on anything you write when you appear completely deaf dumb and blind to the massive disasters that have already occurred and occur with increasing frequency and ferocity involving loss of lives and homes globally?

Or use duckduckgo?