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SOV STACK = - Bitcoin is money. - Circular / p2p economies where BTC actually moves between individuals, businesses, and communities. - Self-custody. - Non-kyc. - Coinjoin. Payjoin. Joinmarket - FOSS. - Illegal. - Personal responsibility. - Threat modeling. - Backups. - Drills. - Inheritance. - OPSEC as normal behavior. - Coin control. - Lightning topology. - Local-first data. - Voluntary, bottom up order. - Contracts, reputation, dispute resolution that doesn't require state law to enforce. no heroes, no saviors. - Bitcoin as civilizational exit. - Bitcoin as the kernel of a parallel civilization. - Peaceful divergence ≠ integration. - Systems that operate if exchanges disappear, if KYC intensifies, or 'Bitcoin friendly states' flip hostile. SYNTH STACK = - Bitcoin is asset. - ETFs. - Corporate treasuries. - Bitcoin only retirement accounts. - KYC. - Broker accounts. - IRA products. - Custodians. - Legal. - Bitcoin = open an account with company. - Stablecoins. - Taproot assets. - Tokenization. - Vendor dependance. - Multi-sig w/a vendor. - Firmware updates pushed by a company. - Playing nice with regulators. - Nation state legal tender. - Securities law compliance. - NGO 'policy recommendations'. - Public company CEO's, ETF sponsors, NGO heads, KYC CEO-maxis. - 'Responsible adults' in the room. - 'Leaders of the movement'. - Bitcoin as system reformer. - 'Bitcoin will make the state more honest, banks more sound, markets more efficient, NGOs more effective'. - Ambiguous totalizing narrative. - "Bitcoin fixes governments, Wall Street, foreign policy, human rights". - Assuming fiat collapse wont mutate into AI + CBDC's + SWFs + ESG control. - Thinking politicians will eventually capitulate. Thinking game theory alone ensures Bitcoin 'wins'. - Friendly courts and treaties. - Nation state goodwill. - Regulated banking access. - New priesthoods. - 'Responsible' spokespeople.

synth stack thinking = 'is this allowed?' sov stack thinking = 'does this work?'

Excited to share this one. This is a recorded and much more detailed version of the presentation given at Bloom Fest 2025 at CMH. The goal here was to get these ideas out in video format as a primer to help explain my operating framework/system. Already thinking about all of the corrections and upgrades for version 3. All of the detail to add. As mentioned in there, most of these slides could be entire lectures on their own, and perhaps this will be my task here for the next long while. One critical thing: on the anatomy of the synth stack I focused slightly too much on the fact that its nature is AI-regulated compliance, and not enough on the fact that fiat is its ontological anchor. Next time, this will be my goal to better compare and contrast the two stacks to each and tie it all in to the lexicon/framework that we already use as Bitcoiners. Critical feedback is more than helpful here. All the best to everyone and thanks for your support. View quoted note →

EP003: Sovereign Stack vs Synthetic Stack: Bitcoin, Simulation, and Exit A deep-dive on the Sovereign Stack vs Synthetic Stack for Bitcoiners and sovereignty builders who want real exit. We map the stacks, unpack how AI, CBDCs, and smart cities capture you, and show how to architect parallel, Bitcoin-native logistics, law, and narrative. After listening, you’ll have a concrete playbook to start shifting your time, money, and relationships from synthetic rails to a live sovereign stack. LISTEN: #podcast #bitcoin #nostr #SovStack #SynthStack RSS: 📃.xml