So how would you start building your Citadel?

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All right, you ungovernable misfits. I'm your host, Max. Everybody knows that Bitcoin is useless, worthless, and doomed to fail. But what if everyone's wrong? What if it's the system that is doomed to fail?

Join me as I speak to some of the brightest people in the space and say that to the deepest, darkest depths of the Bitcoin rabbit hole.

Welcome back, everyone. Today's episode is with Sol X and Sol X Boy. They're two of my favorite Bitcoiners. And this is an awesome episode. It's a reading from the article that's been published in Citadel 21.

And for all you dyslexic fucks like me who hate reading and find it very difficult, it's a nice audio book version for you, narrated by Sol X and Sol X Boy. I really think you're gonna enjoy this, especially if you've been listening to the Mestradell monthly series that would not be here without these two.

And it gives you a little bit of an insight in the way they're thinking and why this has all started. I hope you enjoy. And if you have any questions, please reach out.

Mestradell by Sol X Boy. And Sol X Boy. May 21st, 2021, in Citadel 21, Volume 11. So how would you? During a well-needed holiday and in aspiration to increase critical thinking, two people, father, that's me and son.

Called Sol X Boy? Came up with the Mind Adele. A simple mind game starting with the question, so how would you? The idea of the Mind Adele is to philosophize on different scenarios. Anything is possible, everything goes.

But that means that each more or less realistic argument can be met with a similar counter-argument. While playing this game with the simple subject, so how would you start building your Citadel, the game became a lot more serious?

Exploring scenarios. Several scenarios were discussed over the consecutive days. How to save Ben Gunn from a totalitarian coup by the Church of Fiat in the UK? How to defend Citadel Island?

In this scenario, some very wealthy bikoners had brought up Cyprus? The solution amounted to stack more convincing half of the Turkish Meritian force into joining us instead of attacking us.

A lot of strategies and tactical situations were explored between the two of us. A strategy is putting down the long-term goals and how to achieve them. Tactics are much more concrete oriented towards smaller steps, tackle specific situations that come up along the way to the goal outlined in our strategy.

Bitcoin plebs often talk about name like Citadel when thinking about the strategy. A safe haven of self-providing and self-sovereignty alone or with like-minded people. We both love to see and talk with bikon plebs that are building in that direction in their own way.

Some just stack sets, others are creating a business, others just try to be more independent in their fruit production and so on. So the one scenario we wanted to dive deeper into started with a strategy scenario.

So how would you start Citadel? The physical aspect, the building of a place. But we can truly be sovereign bitches. But also withstand any theoretical adversary, even state players. The fun part with my little game is that since we were hypothesizing about the future, we can change the fictive past.

Correct the first action taken. It's possible to mind raise any capital needed such as in the scenario where we bought a sacrifice. In real life, my stack isn't big enough to buy a parking spot that's still working progress.

The first idea, Solax Boy, that's you, came up with was to build a physical Citadel with a bunch of people. A one-man Citadel is not really feasible. The walls should have to be manned, food production overseeing and so on.

So we dove into a whole social analysis of how such a cooperation could work out. It was a fun exercise, but once adversaries started to show up in equation, things started to change dramatically.

As fictive adversaries kept appearing, the defenses and architecture changed frequently. Evolution went from a ridiculous to a reinforced fortress built into a mountain. But however well-built our defenses, we quickly saw how even with an unlimited budget a Citadel in hostile territory quickly escalated into an arms race.

Since you have to plan for the worst and hope for the best, the worst quickly becomes a country turning upon the Citadel. We concluded that any country can always mobilize more military or police power than whatever budget a private entity could generate.

This didn't keep Solax Boy from thoroughly enjoying thinking of strategic elements and weapons. But unless you can count on help from other states of Citadel, small or even the size of a whole community, does not really stand a chance against defending itself using force.

Being the tactician in this game, Solax Boy explained that there are, according to him, four different important warfare strategies slash tactics. One, please create offensive. Two, hit and hide offensive.

Three, gorilla slash asymmetrical defensive. Four, trench warfare slash additional defensive. Since we want to live our life in peace, we were only looking at defensive strategies and tactics.

The trench warfare. Putting all the plebs in a centralized location, even if it was an island, ends up in a type of trench warfare. A battle of attrition, where the defenders can be outclassed, outnumbered and even start.

Also, no matter how we planned it out, whenever you are a minority, you might not like democracy. The gorilla approach. Gorilla tactics focus on avoiding head-on confrontation with enemy armies.

Instead of engaging in limited skirmishes with the goal of exhausting adversaries and forcing them to withdraw. Gorilla groups often depend on the logistical and political support of either the local population or foreign backers, who do not engage in an armed struggle that sympathies with the Gorilla groups efforts.

Gorilla warfare is a type of asymmetric warfare, competition between opponents of unequal strength. It is also a type of irregular warfare. That is, it aims not simply to defeat an enemy, but to win popular support and political influence to the enemy's cost.

We took four main points into consideration when discussing this approach. One big coiners are scattered around the world. A lot of us feel alone in our house adults. Our own small place we occupy in the world, beat an apartment, a house or even a big estate, unless you have a whole bunch of plebs nearby.

The chances are you feel out of tune in your personal needs base. Some Bitcoiners are preppers or gun fanatics. Hexomite even have a small armory, able to fend off a mob. But even that wouldn't last long against a bigger organized force.

Too big enough area. Our planning for strategies and tactics means that we are in a state of defense against physical attacks. This defense has to protect our daily life, not defining. We don't have a standing army and we have lives to live.

If we grow our own food, that food would have to be grown on a big farmland and/or employ technical equipment such as aquaponics or hydroponics. How is possible to both protect and maintain this?

Short version, it's hard when you're alone. Three, don't be aware an attacker expects you to be. This is a bit of a scary one, but preppers know this. When shit hits the fan, you have an option to block in or bug out.

The plan with the armory might very well build his bug in, bunker. But when World War III breaks out in your own backyard, this might not be sufficient. Even when it's only a police force representing a corrupt regime, the chances that we would outlast the siege seems minimal.

Four, intermediary tactics. Even if the guerrilla approach is the only tactic we considered between the two of us, we did recognize that this could be only an intermediary solution. All we want is the living piece.

The mesh model. So after having discussed many strategies, we came up to the conclusion that one centralized location is good, that only when its size is big enough to sustain a high strategic advantage.

It became apparent that we needed to come up with a system where decentralized tactics are used. We needed more and smaller citadels connected like a mesh network. And thus, the mesh stall was born.

The mesh stall was the next logical step for our house adels scattered around the world. The smallest unit of a citadel, a Bitcoin household. We realized when the walls you react around yourself, for protection are built because of the fear planted in your mind, those walls form a prison and you hand the fear mongers the only key.

Build bridges, not walls, playing out some scenarios. In our hypothetical game, a group of Bitcoiners decided to work together, spread out over a whole region, each forming a backup base for the others.

In a scenario where there was a complete meltdown of society, some house adels grouped together as a street adult, using tools to move from one house to another, to flee or help defend. In a scenario where a whole country decided to prosecute all Bitcoiners, the quest for refuge played out over an even bigger distance.

So ideally, our mesh stall consists of locations across national borders. A third scenario involved a communal mountain base as a bug-out destination. A cooperative buy of a holiday destination where all of them passed by at some point in a normal year to spend their holidays

and help build up their safe haven for whenever disaster could strike. Complete with a bunker system built in the mountain with aquaponics and redundancy all over. We played out different scenarios and for each scenario, we were able to dive into the past to prepare the best mesh stall for each of the situations.

We had scenarios with little money and ones where we are sailors. For each of these mesh stall scenarios, we dove into strategies, tactics, architecture, food production and even politics.

Politics is not about how to make sure to get elected as a leader, but rather how you make sure that those who are in a mesh stall can stay organized without a hierarchy. Trust. This presented a perfect time to explain the concept of Dunbar's number 2 solx boy.

It's only in writing this article that we found a diagram, but it really calls to the concept of what we were thinking. So in all honesty, we only now started using the label's "kin, superfamily, clan or tribe".

Ideally, mesh stallor reaches a maximum of 150 people. If the population is getting close to that number, clients or super families should decide for themselves if they would like to start a tribe on their own or with another group of plants.

Splitting up is not saying goodbye forever. Mesh stalls would still interact with each other. Some mesh stalls could just be clans. Each group of people that wants to form a mesh stall would make up their own rules or agreements.

In the end, it all comes down to the level of trust. The further you move away from the core relationships towards the casual relationships, the less trust there will be. Trust is extremely important, because this is where the first three points mentioned earlier come together.

Pit corners are scattered around the world. This is why we want to organize. Big enough area. Apparent from previous point, pit corners are all over the world. Don't be where an attacker expects you to be.

With sufficient trust, you can leave your home behind when the need arrives and flee to another trusted place in mesh stallor. But why not just unite and fight, you might ask? Well, in our reasoning, because of two reasons.

We established earlier a single place of defense will become a prison if facing a big attacker. Even if you could win the first few confrontations, any violence, even in self-defense, will turn the narrative against you if the masses don't understand your reasoning.

Intermediary tactic. The long term goal is to gain support of a critical mass of the total population. Even if people see that Bitcoin is as peaceful as it gets in the long run, some nations could become friendly/supportive enough to create a Bitcoin safe haven.

But what happens if all hashing power and tons of pit corners are located in the same place? This would be an ideal target for, well, let's call it, an accident with fertilizer or a misplaced ENP, or just an oopsie with a nuclear launch code.

Yeah, we ran into this scenario in our mind, little game. To be honest, we consider ourselves already in a state of war, but not with conventional weapons, we are fighting for the moral high ground.

Fighting with memes, medium articles, and twitter threats. We leave those battles for the toxic maximalists, the Nick Carter's, in short, those with smoother pen and hours, but any guerrilla tactic should make sure to not lose any foothold in these areas.

A good example is the booby traps, the Vietcong used in Vietnam. Solax boy described some of those in the defense discussions, and Solax boy realized when hearing those stories that one of the strongest weapons in existence is demoralizing factors.

In a war where the narrative and perception are the most important, violence should really be the dust resort. For this reason, our machete del would be equipped with a well-planned violence escalation.

Violence is almost never the answer, until it's the only answer. Then you go all in. In a mind del we came up with a sniper cameraman, which would thus be one of the newer military functions in a machete del preparedness.

Instead of snipers taking out people, as evil they might or might not be, a sniper cameraman would make sure to document any violent act committed towards peaceful machete del. When the moment that violence does become the only answer, the narrative cannot so easily be turned against us.

Conclusion Although these dramatic scenarios are fun to play out, I hope we'll never have to put them into practice. It's better to have an option. It turns out you never need the needing an option.

It turns out that you never had. Do we all have to instantly set up a bug art plan with pleb locations met out? No, not necessarily, but we should start building our machete dels. Real-life connections to fellow plebs.

You can start building on your circular economy, meaning network. Make a chain of trust. When you get to know a pleb with whom you feel like finding a long-lost friend, your base for a machete del set.

We are busy building our own mini network of pleb friends, and we are participating in an experimental effort to let self-organize groups work together with their own lighting notes. Rain's a fudge.

In the meanwhile, Max, Max bit by bit, was recently looking into a concept for his podcast with the aim of exploring with other Bitcoiners the skills needed to be self-sovereign. Zeno mentions the machete del concept, and Max loved it so much that he baptised the concept machete del monthly on his podcast,

with SoulExpoi blessing, of course. We strongly believe what makes Bitcoin to be Bitcoin is the people, the plebs. And when plebs come together, together plebs strong.