Topic: First seastead is now in international waters. Only currencies accepted..฿ & BTC (Read 425 times)

Hello Elwar! Glad to see you're up and about again, and drone delivery! I saw some pretty nifty videos recently (pizza, and contactless mobile pay). Wish we could do something like that in some parts of my hometown and home capital where congestion is a nightmare. I think if we took delivery off the roads, we'd see a lot cleaner stuff.

PM-ing you, hope you respond!

yeah we need off this rock.

that sea based catapult launcher..

Without the option of getting off-world using spacex or virgin galactic right away with world wide infection fears at an all time high,
this is the next best thing!
Thanks for the innovation one year in advance to have it up and running for deployment now!

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

Congratulations, this is an amazing development, and we expect more progress in accepting digital currencies and dealing with them on a large scale.

No doordash though.

As we're bumping the topic, I guess it's worth mentioning seasteads would be a fantastic way to self-isolate, heh.  They'll be the latest trend after all this drama.   

Just bumping this thread from a year ago to say... "called it!" 

Though I was thinking more along the lines of pirates than the Thai government.

If things had turned out more dire than they did, I wouldn't be callous enough to make this post, but its right on the line, so I think its OK.

I heard Elwar's new venture is going to be off the coast of... Panama, was it? In any case, I wish him the best of luck with it.

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.

Man, I would panic like crazy, if I had to rely on someone else to transport me back and forth from my home to the shore. What happens in an emergency situation or if you quickly need something from the shop.

What kind of internet connectivity are you getting there or do you want to be "away" from the internet too?

I watched a documentary on deep sea drilling and the construction of massive oil drilling platforms and they also had the problem with buoyancy, but they constructed ballast chambers that can be filled with sand or water, depending on the amount of buoyancy that you need. So in rough sea conditions, they fill it more to reduce the buoyancy.   

Good luck out there!

I would think there is a 95% probability you will be attacked at some point. Its not like you can keep your location a secret. In your other thread you said you have guns with plans for bigger guns on the way, but being psychologically prepared to have to kill people is another thing! Takes some giant balls, that's for sure. Kudos.

Thanks.

First video is now available.

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

Very much impressive idea
But i think it is place for short break during journey
I can't imagine to live there for long time with so limited space
And what can happen during stormy weather
But if there are people who want to spend few nights  on the ocean why not then

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

Wow, it's really neat that you have the first structure up!
Do you have some sort of ETA for when the next structures are going up?

I'd really be interested in seeing pictures of at least 3 capsules, together in a cluster.

Imagine living on a buoy that is doing this all day. Vomit alert!



Another thing is mooring your fleet of boats to the house. You will need boats to be able to go to shore and back and I'd imagine these have to be secured for the night or they will become the first target for thieves. I've read a story once of people who took their yacht to a nice island for holidays and one night they woke up to the sounds of some natives trying to steal their lifeboat.

The whole thing reminds me of the platform colony of Sealand, who is actually ripe to have its own cryptocurrency (why not), as it already serves as an off-shore data processing center. I think if someone was to have their own such residence in international waters, only bad things could happen. Its truly like a wild west-type of environment. But you know, all the more power to them.

I would assume there would have to some sort of self sufficiency with
electricity, fresh water and some form of food growing?

Security would be a thing to consider and what would the rights be about
sinking aa pirate boat?

Cool idea all the same, different/challenging way of living

Most lines of wire were connected down under the sea with some tube and it is not necessary to put a floating node or some post to connect to the internet. The only problem there is the tidal wave that could interrupt the connection of the internet, but i guess it's not really a big deal since they were just outside of their city that is still visible to other people.

I think it is not yet finished constructing the way i see it was just a start of the process they will eventually expand with some land to stand.

Wow, it's nice that such an innovative and intriguing project makes a point by accepting bitcoin. Sea covers most the the Earth. Learning how to live there might be an essential part of solving issues in the future. After all, it's probably easier than colonising other planets and yet also helpful. International waters really make sense in this case, because it should not be something that belongs to one country. Bitcoin is a natural and symbolic choice of the currency, as it's also non-governmental, global and innovative. Just like seasteading!