Would love feedback on this:
The SovStack as it is today:
"Proto-stack" - a scattered set of high-leverage tools, communities, and experiments, some genuinely sovereign, some semi-captured, all heavily dependent on global infrastructure, and already under targeted legal and memetic attack.
Yes, we have: Bitcoin + NOSTR + non-KYC P2P + FOSS OS + self-hosting + mesh + circular economies + crypto-anarchist hubs = the current technical and cultural skeleton of something that could be called a Sovereign Stack
But:
- It’s heavily parasitic on state-corporate infrastructure (chips, clouds, DNS, app stores, overlay networks).
- It’s increasingly criminalized by association in key tools (GrapheneOS, mixing, P2P).
- It’s fragmented (Bitcoin maxis, Monero people, prepper/agro communities, hacker collectives, charter-city VCs) with no unified architecture.
- It is already partially co-opted at the narrative and legal level (ZEDEs, “self-sovereign” IDs, “sovereign stack” brand-jacking).
- And the human layer—skills, trust networks, succession, defense, care, logistics (food, water, shelter, medicine, etc.), law, governance, myth/narrative—is by far the weakest link and least developed.
I'm not much of a self-sovereignty maxi (using and holding bitcoin is about all I do in that realm), but I'm curious what your ideal scenario would be?
There's a lot of people in the world. It's hard to live without bumping up against them. And evidence I see is that most people want the comfort of the state or something -- few are the people who want to choose the harder path of self-sovereignty that is also the path of personal responsibility.
Another observation from my own life: it's very easy to get so caught up in the little details of doing something fully (being fully organic, fully righteous, fully sustainable, fully privacy-protecting, fully self-sovereign) that you end up optimizing for a bunch of really small details and miss the larger picture.
I totally agree with your point of view. Most people are happy being in fiat system. People are simply not being comfortable in choosing the less travelled path, even if it's sovereign.
Education call definitely help grow everyone.
And thanks that we have: Bitcoin + NOSTR + non-KYC P2P + FOSS OS + self-hosting + mesh + circular economies + crypto-anarchist hubs.