No mansion for me, more like a a hobbit house
but off the grid, hell yeah
You saying that because you don't have enough bitcoins or because you don't want to draw attention to yourself?
By the way, we all gonna be fucked if prices reach $111k, so better have enough coins.
I mean, we gonna be so fucked in the head from RICHes that we gonna have some difficulties figuring out spending, diversification, security.. and some fucking ass new standards that are out of our regular comfort zone... so gotta kind of tentatively start planning, so we not be so shocked...
Have any of you guys actually lived of grid?
It's not as fun as it sounds. When I was a kid we would often spend time in my grandparents summerhouse, with no electricity. You had to get up in the middle of the night to keep the fire going, you had to pump the water by hand, you had to heat the water on the fire, no shower, just a quick hand wash.
They later installed electricity and it was bliss, electric water pump and heating, and all that (but still no shower, they were the old generation who took a bath twice a week or so, the rest was hand wash).
I would love to live of grid, but you simply cant make enough electricity for electric heating, you would have to have a wood burner or oil burner for that. And that's not my cup of tea, except as a backup. Hopefully though, they will soon come up with some kind of high capacity battery that makes wind/solar possible as the only energy source.
Off grid doesn't mean roughing it. That's off-rocker. It's not terribly expensive to build a fully self sustaining dwelling that provides all of your water and some of your food. Investigate Earthship building. No, it doesn't have to be as hippie ugly as most examples. Also, good solar has been around for a few years. It just costs more than walmart solar. Add geo, wind,hydro and hydrocarbon as location dictates. Personally, I'm not counting cost as a major factor these days anyway. Just have to find the right location. Within the next 2 years,