Seasteading and Bitcoin have an interesting shared memetic history. In 2007, ship prices were down to almost nothing. An almost-new first-rate cruise ship could be had for about 10% of original purchase price. I saw a 400-person seaworthy vessel selling for $500k, which was ~100x my wealth, but still interesting. The Seasteading Institute popped up around then, founded by Peter Thiel, whose libertarian bent was previously SV mainstream and now openly reviled by journalists, led by Milton Friedman’s grandson iirc, and rose to popularity with the Tea Party. But of course there were big gaps in any plans for offshore viability. For completely different reasons, I had spent a year learning about the ocean and how to live on it indefinitely (see “A Sea Vagabond’s World” by Bernard Moitessier), with less success actually doing it. But theoretically, it was freedom, and cryptocurrency was a big part of that. The big issue was connectivity to prevent double-spending. Okay, maybe this is more of my personal history, but I was making cubesats at the time, and in 2008 I met the NASA Ames center director (at a golf course bar I was told to go to), who was looking for nanosatellite concepts to fund, and I pitched a simple bent-pipe re-transmitter to the bitcoin gossip network enabling access to remote or censored users. The design itself was simple, but imagine the confusion about the concepts around that idea that one would have to explain when BTC was just an idea. He didn’t like it, but it was probably not a good idea anyway, because ground-ground HF is probably better than ground-LEO-ground ISM for the use case.