I'm feeling a bit nervous about having my bitcoins on the exchange right now. If they suddenly "lose" everyone's bitcoins...what would anyone really care? Everyone has enough problems than to worry about a bunch of rich folks losing money.

I am also a bit gun shy on many cold storage systems I have used. I barely got out of Thailand with my bitcoins intact.

Keeping anything physical requires thinking of different scenarios. Bugging out I can carry it with me. What if I'm arrested for tyranny reasons and they confiscate my home again? Centralized servers don't seem very secure at this point (encrypting it and putting it on AWS, etc.). There's a brain wallet but many of those were hacked due to humans not being as crafty as they think. I had troubles with my trezor in Thailand, I had the trezor but the backup codes were on the seastead. That's part of it, you need backups but what to do with the backups?

I get pretty extreme when doing cold storage for extra security. Last time I bought a cheap computer to create the private keys, then put them into my cryptosteel in an order that only I knew, then I destroyed the computer with a hammer and burned the parts in a fire. Fortunately I had a backup that I split among family members because all of my cryptosteel was on the seastead.

Coming up with a new cold storage solution is not simple when you don't trust that your home won't be over-run. If I was thrown in jail I'd like the peace of mind that every day I'm in there I'm getting richer and richer and nobody can steal my bitcoins while I'm in there.

My only question is...what are 'essential' sexual activities of 3 or more that are allowed?

This reminds me of "The Beach" at Phi Phi island in Thailand where they shut the beach down due to tourists destroying the coral.

But they still allowed the park rangers to have access...and likely the ministry of the environment was able to go there with their family and friends for "research" or whichever.

They close things off to the pleebs but then they are free to enjoy it as they like.

https://jitsi.org

It's a p2p video conference software. Works very well.

CV is making things a little difficult here in Panama but we started preparing for it ahead of time.

We pour our concrete floor this Saturday so we will be waiting on that for a month anyway so we can let the workers have their breaks and stay home as Panama is recommending. Not sure if they'll allow the pour though. Should have done it yesterday.
I have a video update here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Mz9bqVhS4

Had to send 2 Americans home yesterday before they close the airports tomorrow.

Tattoo with the person's SS number and maybe sew a symbol on peoples' clothes. Like a big star to show people that you're a shining star in the darkness.

Perfect. Hopefully a nice GUI gets built for this. I wish I had the time to work on it myself, maybe we can integrate it into the Ocean Builders smart home app.

Looks like Bitmessage is still going. Their reddit page is active.

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page

If things get really bad and they start shutting down centralized messaging services, what are our decentralized options?

Just dropped two people off at the airport to head back to the US from Panama. As of Monday all commercial flights will be canceled.

Roadblocks everywhere.

Yep, I'm flush with bitcoin...but...I need to help fund our business of getting people off of land and safely away from the psychos that believe they control every bit of dirt.

I'm glad I only cashed out like $30k worth of BTC last year. It will put me among the poor folks when it comes time for some of that sweet free money they're handing out. Especially now that I'm married.

Thanks socialists. I'll put it to good use protecting my own individual freedom.

I hope this is true everywhere.

They just issued a level 4 Global Level 4 Health Advisory in the US calling all US citizens to return to the US.

Does anyone remember the name of the TV show that came out about a decade or so ago where the US is attacked (China?) by something where everyone has to wear a wristband that kills you if you try to take it off or do something bad. In order to get food or leave your home you need to wear it.

Also...Hong Kong is making all travelers wear a wristband that helps assure you are self quarantined.

What color wristband do you want?

This was not news. Minutes from the meeting.

I agree, take it with a grain of salt, they will be having more meetings between now and June. Just putting it out there.

So I have some information from a meeting of the French government, I have confirmed its authenticity. I'm not into spreading craziness, just putting it out there.

They are assuming 30-40% of their population gets affected. They are planning on a peak in June. They believe it is a single event, not seasonal.

They do not believe the EU will last another 5 years.

The key part is that they believe the economic outcome will be so bad that they will have to enact martial law. The discussion regarding this is that they will need to give special treatment to the families of the military because the threat is internal as opposed to external. So they will be asking soldiers to do bad things to its own citizens and need them to think about the well being of their own families as motivation.

Just an FYI, I'm sure governments are having similar discussions.

Here in Panama everything is fine where I live since we're so far away from the city. I stocked up for a couple of months and have a fishing pole.

Actually we are working closely with drone companies for drone delivery. As well as drone pick up of garbage and other waste.

https://twitter.com/ChrisPacia/status/1237821675728777221

Ebay not allowing people to sell masks or hand sanitizer.

OpenBazaar users not affected.

Americans have very short attention spans so I suspect that this Corona thing will end in a couple of weeks.

The longer it lasts the more they will be willing to sacrifice whatever they can to make it just finish already.

The media hype will get desperate for attention but likely they will find some new shiny story to focus on.

Had a chat with my Chinese supplier last night.




Of course, she is getting her government information the same as everyone else. But her factory is up and running shipping our stuff. I have other orders going through now too. China seems to be back on track.