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Title: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: eXme on December 18, 2013, 01:54:42 PM
Hi, lets buy sealand :) http://www.sealandgov.org/ call it Bitcoin Castle, hire Arnold Schwarznegger for the goverment, make law for topless girls and bitcoin going to stabilize! aa how is that?


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: takagari on December 18, 2013, 02:29:35 PM
Can you say Cabin fever?

Wasnt Pirate bay going to host their server's there? lol


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: bitpop on December 18, 2013, 02:37:00 PM
Wrong forum


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: LiteCoinGuy on December 18, 2013, 02:47:30 PM
http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/r/s/300x/assets/images/phpiqc1gy.jpg


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: davedx on December 18, 2013, 03:13:45 PM
Hi, lets buy sealand :) http://www.sealandgov.org/ call it Bitcoin Castle, hire Arnold Schwarznegger for the goverment, make law for topless girls and bitcoin going to stabilize! aa how is that?

Tidal & wind power for electricity? It'll work!


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: jarhed on December 18, 2013, 03:15:52 PM
What about a Crypto-currency floating datacenter?   ;D

Something like what google is up to. Vip would have their own lounge area while drifting in international waters hiding from pirates.

Bitcoin should buy a cruise ship and install a datacenter.


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: dan123 on December 18, 2013, 03:58:58 PM
If you did buy it and make bitcoin the national currency, would bitcoin then have to be treated like a currency by governments?


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: Kluge on December 18, 2013, 04:02:21 PM
If you did buy it and make bitcoin the national currency, would bitcoin then have to be treated like a currency by governments?
No. Other countries would have to recognize an island full of eccentric weirdos as a legitimate nation, which they won't do.

If enough of Cyprus were purchased and the government controlled, it's possible. IIRC, the international community's more sympathetic toward the Greek side.


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: ljudotina on December 18, 2013, 04:02:29 PM
Ok count me in!


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: bryant.coleman on December 18, 2013, 04:42:02 PM
I have a better suggestion. Let's bribe some warlord in Somaliland or Puntland or some other Somali breakaway region and offer him a few tens of thousands of Bitcoins. All we need is a few thousand square kilometers of sovereign territory with sea coast. And Somali land is cheap, as most of it is desert or semi-desert.


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: Kluge on December 18, 2013, 04:52:27 PM
I have a better suggestion. Let's bribe some warlord in Somaliland or Puntland or some other Somali breakaway region and offer him a few tens of thousands of Bitcoins. All we need is a few thousand square kilometers of sovereign territory with sea coast. And Somali land is cheap, as most of it is desert or semi-desert.
Neither Puntland (which I think very recently severed ties with the federal government) nor Somaliland are internationally recognized as legitimate governments. They have the status of someone claiming their backyard as the New Federal Republic of Awesomistan. You'd have to buy Puntland or Somaliland from Somalia, then bribe the warlords.


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: barbierir on December 18, 2013, 04:54:39 PM
I like the idea ;D I am promoting something similar in my country tough I know it will be very difficult, if only I were an early adopter... I could have bribed it by now: http://www.liberocomune.it/en/index.xhtml


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: shadowninjax on December 18, 2013, 06:02:27 PM
all right bitcoiners gather around, we're in for a big party  :o


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: bbit on December 18, 2013, 06:06:18 PM
Should Bitcoin Crowdfund it with reward tiers being who gets housing first...
http://www.bitcoinstarter.com


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: bsnmine on December 18, 2013, 06:10:40 PM
I'm in. Though I think Cyprus might be not only more welcoming and spacious, but maybe a bit warmer?  ;D


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: bythesea on December 18, 2013, 06:14:16 PM
Il pass :)


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: jeppe on December 18, 2013, 06:15:37 PM
im in how much do we already have ???


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: eXme on December 18, 2013, 07:22:44 PM
I know a guy who could help us, he bought his own country too some time ago. His name is Peter Griffin you may know him too.
http://www.familyguylol.com/Watch_218

diarrhea.. hehe Giggiddi :D


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: bryant.coleman on December 19, 2013, 10:09:12 AM
I'm in. Though I think Cyprus might be not only more welcoming and spacious, but maybe a bit warmer?  ;D

I can't believe this. Are you serious?

Anyway I am not going to Cyprus ever again in my life. Who knows what they will do next? May be they will seize your Bitcoins and take a haircut out of it.


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: Snail2 on December 19, 2013, 01:09:58 PM
A floating one would be nice. Take a look at this old WWII stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: gortonc on December 19, 2013, 01:32:00 PM
Here is a shortcut. Closer to home (for many) and not prone to seasickness.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasperhamill/2013/12/19/native-american-activist-wants-to-swap-the-dollar-for-bitcoin/

I just posted this to its own thread before I saw this one. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=377238.0

I really do think this has tremendous potential--both from practical and public relations points of view.  We need to help these folks out.


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: bryant.coleman on December 19, 2013, 02:44:24 PM
A floating one would be nice. Take a look at this old WWII stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

I think that is the only plan which can be implemented. Building a sovereign nation on already existing land is against international laws. And as technology advances, we might be able to expand the size and population of the floating piece of land.


Title: Re: (Group-Buy) Small Country in Europe or sealand
Post by: gortonc on December 19, 2013, 04:36:15 PM
There is already an existing sovereign nation with territory willing to be of service.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=360549.0

We should try to work with them--no need to reinvent the wheel.