They say the best way to find the answer to something is to be wrong on the internet, so hopefully by saying Bitcoin hasn’t fixed this, I’ll hear some solutions I have not heard of before!
Because if it’s truly freedom money, then it should be helping to build cross-border transport and logistics solutions outside of The System℠, for bitcoiners and other sovereign-minded individuals who want to buy, sell, and barter with their neighbors…on the other side of the planet.
I’m a citizen of planet Earth, and if I have organic saskatoon jam from British Columbia, and you have wild boar tallow in Cambodia, and our mutual buddy has ancestral mezcal in Mexico and we all want to do business, we should be able to without having to deal with onerous regulations and shipping hassles.
You can make excuses and defend the current system - but please don’t waste either of our time. I understand I “can” ship a box of saskatoon jam to Cambodia probably, and they can ship me tallow.
The point isn’t that TPTB so generously “allow” us to send a certain tiny amount of goods across borders through approved shipping providers, with minimal fees. Or even that there may be customs exceptions for carrying it in our luggage.
The point is that I want to ship pallets, LCL, and even container loads and not be stolen from! Taxation is theft, and tariffs are taxation. Even if you think your politician is playing 12D underwater chess with them.
So if Bitcoin fixes this, then where’s the solution? What shipping entity can I use to move tangible goods from place to place across national borders, avoiding bullshit regulations?
Back while society was somewhat civilized I was willing to mostly play along in order to stay out of trouble. Those days are over - today, rapists go free and innocent mothers rot in prison for having criticized them on facebook.
So since we now live in an upside-down world where war is peace and slavery is freedom, and because those in power have a monopoly on evil with no borders or restrictions for themselves when it comes to the free flow of human trafficking, drugs, and weapons…I’m done pretending we live in a civilized world.
You want to turn our once peaceful streets into Mad Max land, ok…lock and load, bitches, two can play that game.
So, if Bitcoin is freedom from their financial constraints, then through BTC we need to find a solution for their tangible goods constraints as well.
We will never be able to have a functioning parallel society outside of the absolute tyrannical control of our overlords until we’re able to move things in larger quantities than what fits in luggage.
Who has solutions? Or who’s with me in wanting to develop them?
There were actually several projects working on this during the ICO craze at the end of last decade, but none of them seem to have panned out. Unfortunately - not for their shitcoin price, but because I wanted to use their services!
I’ve spent my life crossing borders and living in many different arbitrarily defined nations, and while I totally believe in buying local for both community building and to maximize nature’s seasonal wisdom, technology has made this whole planet one big neighborhood.
Sovereign networks, particularly, tend to be physically far apart due to the myriad varied interests of sovereign individuals. Yet within those networks is the capacity to produce really everything we need to survive and thrive.
The problem is shipping, customs & regulations, and State-sponsored theft.
I want to solve this, but not just by signing up lots more global nomads as burros to carry jam or tallow or mezcal in their luggage.
I want ships on the water, trucks on the roads, farms connected to warehouses, and the unhindered free movement of fruits of the labor of your and my hands.
