While taking apart old containers, turning them into homes is nice, why not turning them into homes on a container ship instead?
Pros and Cons for the bitcoin island solution (versus a container ship)
Pros:
An island is a simpler and cheaper solution. An island is a... simpler and... cheaper solution.
An habitable island will provide you with food and water, from land, sea and even from the sky
An island has fixed geographic coordinates. You cannot steal it with a couple of tugboats
Cons:
An island has a random shape. Some parts are even hostile to any form of human habitats, leaving a lot of space out of reach
If a part of the island gets damaged by an event, you cannot swap that section with a new part
Most if not all islands belong to a country already. You end up renting the space until that particular country got tired of you and start taking away everything you spent years building
An island has fixed geographic coordinates and is never in international waters
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