An early Bitcoin investor and self-confessed libertarian has built the first “seastead” with his BTC profits. For those who do not know, a seastead is a floating home designed to stay in international waters, thus allowing its inhabitants to live outside of the laws of any nation.

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https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/03/01/bitcoin-seastead/

The production version will certainly be circular with foam insulation. The bottom rounded slightly and the small cylinder longer so that there is less surface area for the waves.
We have learned a lot through this process that we are putting into the next version. The next one will be twice as deep with much much more living space. While sticking with the proven parts of the design.

Cost will be around $150k for the basic design with nice add ons up to 200k or so. We even priced in an underwater viewing room but that puts it up to 400k.

A very barebones DIY structure with just the spar and a steel plate will be available for 45k. Sort of like just buying the land.

As I saw the bitcoin price go up over $4k I thought 'good, we're out of the slump on our way back up (a little soon but that's ok)'.

Then I was like...'oh shit, I'm buying $200 a day on Coinbase, now I'm getting less BTC...wish it was back under $4k again'.

I wish I wasn't limited to $200 a day at these low prices.

I think we either have seen the bottom or will see the bottom this month before the long climb upwards. Something about 14 months before the halving the price begins to rise..

I started working for the government right out of college. I've had no chance at privacy since then.

Well, our friend is working on this project so until we get our boat he is our main source of transport.
We had a kayak for emergencies but I lost it in a storm. Sort of my fault, but didn't want to risk getting in the big waves to save it.

We have Internet. A cell tower can reach us and we have a repeater to reach back to it. Phone Internet is around 10-20Mbps.

Thanks.

First video is now available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTXhgcXA1pM&feature=share

Thanks. Second video coming out Monday.

Hey all, sorry for posting and disappearing. I've been so busy since getting the seastead up that I hardly have any time to get on bitcointalk anymore.

Been answering many queries from a lot of different sources (Facebook, seasteadtalk.org, ocean.builders, etc.) as well as preparing the next 20 seasteads.

Most of your questions are answered here: https://ocean.builders/faq (yes, even the pirate question)

It has been myself and my gf Nadia living on the seastead for the past month though we are currently taking a break in Phuket to buy a boat and have the bottom painted. Life on the seastead is great and always full of adventure. If you've ever lived on a boat you may know how things go. The prototype we are on was at about the 90% completion stage so that last 10% is me working on things. The water maker was a challenge since they are meant to be gravity fed which tends to mean they are usually installed under water. But ours is about 2 meters above the water. Buying a pump and then finding out you have the wrong sized hose and such minor problems turn into a longer process when the store is a boat ride back into town. Without our own boat we have to rely on my friend to come out periodically.

We did experience some big winds one night up to 25 knots which rocked the platform a bit. Our engineer noted that the seastead is not "rigid" enough. Meaning that a small movement on the bottom turns into big movement at the top. We are in the process of adding some steel frames where before we had steel cables (which can give a small amount of flexibility). Last time we were working on that our welder lost his mask to the ocean and we didn't have a spare. With our own boat we can make more regular trips but relying on our friend makes things take a bit longer.

But it is, afterall, just a prototype which has taught us quite a bit. Our production version will be quite amazing while still keeping the costs low. It will be twice as deep, have rounded walls for the wind factor, smaller area at the water line for the waves and the spar underwater will have rooms (with windows if you want).

There is a lot of interest, a lot of people want time shares so we're working to accommodate that option. We are setting up a seasteading adventure to show people the seastead while teaching them the ropes of being a seasteader (literally...ropes).

As for the title of this thread...it's a bit on the joking side since there are only 2 of us living there so accepting bitcoin for anything is a bit unnecessary since we're not selling anything. But we'll accept them if you want to give it to us 

But the company selling seasteads, Ocean Builders, will be accepting bitcoins for orders. We are a bunch of early adopters that are finally able to afford building some pretty cool stuff. We fully support Bitcoin. We hope to begin producing the next set of seasteads in the next few months (at least get the ball running as far as giving contractors the green light to start setting up their production). Next week we get the final cost estimate from our last contractor then we set up our company and start taking deposits (20% down).

Adding to the activity, we are releasing the first video in a series of videos about getting the seastead up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTXhgcXA1pM&feature=share

I have checked a few of them and would love to play with one. We are curious about the bottom which is 60 meters down. At the very least I can see if a few dropped wrenches and my GoPro are down there.

I did dive down to the bottom of the seastead for some pictures.

https://ocean.builders/a-view-from-below-the-seastead/

Here is the first video in a series of videos we're doing about the seastead.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=tTXhgcXA1pM

Hey all. Been busy lately with the seastead and I just bought a sail boat as a commuter (my friend was our taxi while we waited to get the boat). Having the bottom stripped to bare metal (steel hull) and painted.

Here's the first video in a series about us getting the seastead up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tTXhgcXA1pM

Looking forward to the day that I can sit back and relax and hang out on the forums again. But we have seasteads to build.

They are fans of western men. And they want to be a woman...not a man (unlike in the west). If you don't want to see trannies, avoid any leftist female in the US.

Either way, your bitcoin goes a long way here.

Beer run is about 12 nautical miles to the closest 7-11 (this is Thailand, I am sure a 7-11 will pop up here any minute. Maybe 3).
Just had our first visitor yesterday. He brought a case of beer and left with our trash. We polute landfills responsibly like everyone else.

As for major storms, hurricanes, tsunamis...

The highest waves all year might reach 2 meters in the roughest storms. 10 year high is upwards of 4 meters and the 100 year freak wave rating here is 5 meters. We are able to take a 5 meter wave and would likely get a wet kitchen floor but that's it.
There are no hurricanes here and as far as tsunamis which killed thousands of people here about 15 years ago...we are the safest place to be. We would just rise with the swell and go back down without really noticing. Meanwhile everything on the coast gets wiped out.

The whole seastead is able to raise and lower with the press of a few buttons. About a 2 meter range.We are sitting pretty low because the seas are calm this time of year. Worst waves this month are around .5 meters.

You can tell it's not true because only dems use the term MAGA while Trump supports actually say the words "make America great again"

Community? We're building homes on the sea. Who said anything about building a community?

And here everyone's worried about how a seastead will deal with some bad weather.

You live in a place where your exposed skin freezes if you go outside for more than a minute!

It is already a large 2 meter tube 20 meters deep. The water level should not come up to the 7 meter mark.

All of that 7 meters can be utilized. For storage or...I've really got my sights on a very large smoker...for smoking all of the fish I catch. And buying large amounts of meat and smoking it so it lasts longer. Another suggestions was a micro brew.