Bitcoin makes you question everything. Rightly so. I have learnt a lot from designing and running the numbers to set up a relatively tiny egg farm, a clmmunity support project I hope will flourish before I reach my dotage!

I am certain that Bitcoin solves a lot. But beng sovereign as individuals goes way beyond holding or using bitcoin.

I bet most Nostr user's don't know what cycle the moon is in right now. Do you know how much water you consume? UK citizens think it is 100 litres a day. The overall number is 3200 litres per day per consuming human!

When you know how much water falls out the sky in your locality, you should start to appreciate what you can sustainably consume. Water is a scary rabbit hole!

 Sovereign thought of the week. Harvest your rainwater, folks! And appreciate the value of the water being piped into your property.  Then you might start to comprehend how much water is embedded in every thing you use, but, throw away. Change starts on a personal level though

Just like the Rockefeller saying that if people understood the financial system there would be revolution...,  the same would apply to understanding the water utility company approach to convenient water delivery. You would weep at the crazy costs of municipal and agricultural water infrastructure and be ashamed at your level of water consumption. And ideally, do something about it, proactively and peacefully

Like most resources on this wonderful planet, potable water is abundant, in theory. Trouble is, most consumers in the West are part of a super wasteful supply chain. Core issue to over consumption seems to boil down to lack of education. When consumers have no idea of the work that goes into providing say potable water in the home, water is taken for granted and wasted.

Living on a boat, 2 adults used 120 gallons every two weeks, while the homeowners outside the marina, frowning at the polluting boat people chugged through double that per day!

Tucson sees just 12" rain a year. The river and aquifers are decimated, even though that tiny amount of rainfall, efficiently harvested, and appreciated, is plenty enough for the good people of Tucson to drink, wash and nurture their gardens - and leave their precious rivers and aquifers intact reservoirs of life giving water.

 Agriculture consumes about 70% of potabld water, mostly in a wasteful way. The waste is often before it reaches a farm

 I have learnt a lot from designing and running the numbers to water a tiny egg farm with no city water connection. Egg laying chickens each require 0.5 litres a day of clean drinking water. An egg therefore "contains a pint of water.

 400+ hens,  enough to keep a few hundred local families  in nutrient rich eggs, need 200*365 litres a year.
Harvesting rainwater, storage, filtration, distribution... it's a chunk of change, but still works out practical, resilient and cost effective in the long term compared to tapping into city water 1km away. And boy,bdiñl I ever appreciate the value of water now.


Hi Nostr folks. Non dev, non cypherpunk, non Twitterati.

I was always very enterprising, set up a good innovative business in 2009 when the wheels were falling off the (non-financial) industry I was in. After 10 years constant growth we saw mega danger signs in 2019, but didn't understand why.  The sledgehammer hit in March 2020. Luckily inspiration struck, all the years of episodes of Keiser Report finally hit home and I started a saving plan, dca-ing into bitcoin.

Without Bitcoin, no exaggeration, I would see no hope of a solution to the godawful mess that is the global economy and leaderless "headless" mainstream mindset. Not gonna lie, bitcoin doesn't solve everything! But this year, finally feeling ready for a new chapter.

Bit late in my life cycle to change the world but I think the next few years I can open a few closed eyes to bitcoin's potential, mine included. I'm going to use my knowledge to build a community-supporting farm accepting bitcoin, driving a circular economy.

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I'm a European now in hot, dry southern Europe. I spent a lot of past years in America. My most formative years however were spent in the least developed parts of the world. No disrespect to smart Westerners, but that experience leads me to believe that the African continent - and African mindset - hold the biggest key to bitcoin success.

Where pockets are relatively empty, don't doubt the ingenuity and potential for positive change waiting to be unlocked.   "Rich" everyday Westerners can drive change in other lands with loose change, a mobile phone and tools  like Strike. A far cry from the physical risks we ran unleashing human potential in the Sahara decades before bitcoin.

My plan is for a regenerative chicken farm  in an arid environment, where olive trees abound. It's not normal practice in the monoculture olive growing world , 64 countries grow olives increasingly in an industrial way.  but I know ground cover and intensive grazing works, so I hope to open a few eyes to what's possible, starting with just an orchard of fruit trees and a tiny stone storeroom building. I'm going for what works, with little mechanisation, ingenuity and judicious use of funds to install core infrastructure, IE water, housing, feed storage, rather than relying on bottomess fiat pockets that start you indebted and keep you there.

And start with guaranteeing 60 families on hard times a regular supply of nutritious fresh pasture-raised eggs.

I'll keep posting progress and plans, if anyone's interested.