In the previous issue, I told you that the clearing of the future libertarian village plot from overgrown brush had begun. As of today, all the brush has been cut down, leaving only a moderate number of useful trees.
Now all the resulting debris in the form of branches that are poorly suited for firewood must be burned; fortunately, the rains have started, so the probability of starting a fire in the process has sharply decreased.
So far, only a small test pile has been burned, but there is an idea to organize a festival on the plot to combine business with pleasure—lighting bonfires accompanied by drinks, music, and other cultural programming. An agreement has already been reached regarding this with the local Russian-speaking art community from Budva.
In order to organize any events on the plot, it is useful to finally make the road to it passable. A construction company founded by the participants of the Montelibero project has acquired a tractor and is working on the road: building retaining walls, filling unnecessary slopes with crushed stone, removing unnecessary mounds, and preparing to concrete the road surface in key places.
Once the road becomes passable, it will be possible to bring in equipment for the festival, drill a water well, and install poles for electricity—in short, ancaps desperately need a road.
As for me, overjoyed that Bitcoin has once again started to be worth a more or less decent amount of money, I have finally bought out the land tokens that had long been reserved for me. After the debris is cleared from the plot, a land surveyor can be called in to perform the demarcation, during which I will officially obtain ownership of my two hundred square meters of land and can begin building there.
On October 16, the conference Liberty in our lifetime will take place in Switzerland. This gathering is organized by Titus Gebel’s Free Private Cities Foundation; representatives of several Honduran charter cities, a speaker from the System Design Institute, the ubiquitous Liberland info-gypsy Vit Edliczka, and several other speakers representing projects unknown to me will speak at the conference. Igal Hofman will go and speak on our behalf. We all hope for his extraordinary communication skills in the matter of establishing connections with colleagues in the sacred cause of building pockets of libertarianism in the world.
The Montelibero Foundation has decided to accept Bitcoins on its balance sheet in addition to Euros, so there is currently a sale of foundation tokens for BTC—the final tokens at a price of 1 Euro each. When the share of Bitcoins on the foundation’s balance sheet grows to 30%, the sale at this price will end, and in the event of new emissions, the token price will be set at 2 Euros. Bitcoins are stored in a multisig wallet held by the majority shareholders of the project, so we continue our shared policy of slightly cumbersome but secure distributed decision-making. We are also studying the possibility of moving all our tokenomics from the Stellar blockchain to the Bitcoin sidechain Liquid—in this case, settlements in BTC would be integrated more natively into the project’s economy. Additionally, the launch of a proprietary Lightning node within Montelibero is not ruled out. This would allow us to exchange Bitcoins among ourselves quickly and with tiny fees, by opening channels not to each other, but to a common hub, as this is cheaper.
As usual, I invite everyone to start participating in the project: join the main chat, ask any questions that interest you, get involved in online activity, buy tokens, come to Montenegro to see all this action from a close distance, and if you like the country—move here for good.