Building a Sovereign Bitcoin Life – Bitcoin Magazine
On August 25th, Plan B Passport hosted the fifth Underground Citadel at Bitcoin Commons in Austin, Texas. If you didn’t get to attend this year’s high-profile event, this article is for you. It had the highest attendance and retention rate we’ve ever seen – the Bitcoin Commons/Austin Bitcoin community event space was full from start to finish, and even beyond the end of the event.
Underground Citadel is designed as the best place for Bitcoiners to connect with like-minded people where they can build their own tribes. Here is a little background on how this event was carried out:
Build the underground citadel
We’ve all been there: you get orange pills and you learn about a fraudulent money system. Then you start to question all the other things you were lied to. You enter a stage where you go down all different kinds of rabbit holes while wanting everything to burn to the ground. But when you get past this anger stage, you find that life can still be beautiful, and you focus on creating the life you want.
The Underground Citadel is the conference where we discuss the solutions that help us build the life we deserve outside of the flawed system we are in. We invite attendees to come find the signal that originates from Bitcoin and learn how to create that beautiful life.
Finding the beautiful life
For this edition of Underground Citadel, we started with the foundations, the basics, physical security and its derivatives – situational awareness, mental tactics and threat recognition. How to increase your ability to be aware of your surroundings and how to counteract potential threats.
We delved into the ultimate supreme individual toolkit, including survival instinct, deterrence/preemptive strike, deception, evacuation, extreme focus and awareness, reality-based training, and perhaps integrating some medical training. In any dangerous situation, you will create the mental model of appearing “big and strong” to deter potential threats and have the habit of “breaking your routine.”
Then we moved on to hunting. Some might say we’ve even regressed as a society, since most people today can’t get their own food other than going to a grocery store, farmer’s market, etc. We explored inside and out why we should hunt, what killing you should learn and why mindfulness is one of the most important skills you can acquire. Funnily enough, host Jon Wayne Taylor actually went on to explain how hunting is inefficient compared to domestication, farming and trapping. This is the case until, of course, you have no other options. He later went on to explain why one should learn tracking, towing, marksmanship and butchering skills to advance your hunting skills.
Afterwards we went on to home birth. This topic seemed to be the most sensational for Bitcoiners. We’ve had this topic in mind since the first Underground Citadel event, but weren’t sure how the male-dominated audience would react. We really appreciate the way Bitcoiners received this talk.
We discussed why we were moving towards not trusting our bodies to do one of the most important things it was built to do. Why have we allowed the medical system to take over and anesthetize women during childbirth? As Bitcoinersm, we preach “don’t trust, verify,” so people should do their own research on why they want or don’t want to have a baby in a hospital and educate themselves about what’s best for their scenario, but don’t allow doctors to scaring them into having this beautiful experience under fluorescent lights in a stressful environment. In the healthcare system, you are the consumer and you are the one who should have the power.
Then of course we had to delve into flag theory and jurisdictional arbitration. At this underground citadel, we delved into how Bitcoin actually enables freedom of movement, and as a group of people who value permissionless money, we should also value permissionless movement. As of now, we are born into a monopoly without consent, and in a fiat world we are unable to hold the government accountable. The money printer and greedy “leaders” are what control the world. But under a Bitcoin standard, the people become the customers and governments are forced to compete with each other by offering the best services at the best prices.
But until then, that’s precisely why we’re focusing on “investment migration,” the term we use in the jurisdictional arbitrage industry to describe immigration programs that involve investment or donation as a basis for obtaining a visa, residency, or passport. This is why we encourage people to implement jurisdictional arbitrage or flag theory into their lives. At Plan B Passport, we define “flag theory” as a concept of limiting your reliance on a particular state by “stacking flags” in jurisdictions that benefit you in various ways. We like to apply a market and capitalism lens to the way governments currently operate and show how Bitcoin brought the jurisdictional arbitrage game to another level, effectively solving the lack of a free market between nation states.
Next, we had our very own functional medicine expert, Dr. Oubre, go over how you can take control of your health by unlocking your “discomfort” genome. I’m sure many of us have done some pretty restrictive diets to get the best possible health when instead we could have found out what we were missing from some tests and found out what the body needed. He went over the five pillars of health: biological, mycotoxins, environmental (man-made), heavy metals and emotional, and went on to explain why you should test for each pillar. Biohacking after healing is much easier than before healing. Once optimized, you can focus on reverse aging by unlocking your “discomfort” genome.
Last but not least, we had the quick start guide to 3D printing your sovereignty. Just as with hunting, for example tracking, killing and treating an animal is not your first choice when it comes to putting food on the table as it is quite inefficient, the same is true for 3D printing. It’s an unreliable source of weapons, there’s a steep learning curve, plus going out and buying your weapons is much more efficient. However, it’s not something you need until you do, and by that point it’s too late. When you don’t have easy access to water, you get a softener, water filter, water supply, etc. But you would only do this when you don’t have access to water. What happens when you don’t have access to water and don’t have a solution either? The same applies to 3D printing. When weapons are no longer on the table, you’ll know how to tap them.
You don’t need a passport when all is well and good, but you also don’t need some cyberspace money and censorship resistant way to exchange value before the fiat currencies go to zero and you lose all your wealth. You will not need another travel document until your original mode of travel is no longer in use, at which point it is again too late. As supreme individuals who are considered “preppers,” anything shared on Underground Citadel was definitely a step outside of our comfort zones, just as any other form of growth is uncomfortable. So our message to all of you regarding everything we covered is: It’s not easy, but it’s definitely worth it.
Luckily, for those of you who couldn’t attend, we recorded the speakers and their presentations. You can visit this link to access the recordings.
This is a guest post by Katie The Russian And Jessica Hodlr. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.
