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Book ICO title

The Tao of Sailing the Crypto-Seas, a crypto privateer's navigational guide

Author

The Taoist Crypto-Banker

Sharing a message of hope due to newly evolved capabilities of monetary choice combined with personal self-reliance and responsibility regarding custody of our finances.

I am curating this content to formulate industry standard protocols, tools, and strategies when managing digital assets. Playing the money game by the rules written by the rule makers for themselves to use and not to be disseminated to the general public.

Having operated outside of the 'game', boycotting debt, banking, and taxes as a 'war-tax resistor' I bring a unique perspective to the problems and the solutions of our international monetary systems.

I am crafting an easily understandable paradigm using the language of sailing, the Tao, and baseball to help my peers understand the power of decentralization of information that is making the APP more powerful than the Pen that has been using the Sword to control us but no longer provides a return on the investment that violence requires.

My gift and instinctive method of operations is in researching technological solutions with a focus on functional implementation. But the true power of this information can only be realized if my peers also have access to it, empowering us all as we align ourselves strategically to operate in the private realm among ourselves.

The existing War on Cash is an attack on the creative, problem-solving, value-producing, free-will actions of the individual. It is my freedom to create impact in the world to improve it for myself, my children, and my brethren that is at stake!

And I invite those of you that are ready to join me in forming a fleet of international Crypto Captains leaving the old world of a centralized Nanny-State behind. Let us create our own international League of Trusted Crypto Traders as a decentralized autonomous organization that can not be stopped, needs permission from no one, and asks not for forgiveness from the Statists.

By using the rules written by those with the gold, we can blend in with them, keep what we create, and rule the Crypto Seas bravely, leaving the certainty of solid earth to the meek that need shepherds to protect them.

About the author

Bringing a solopreneur's street-level perspective on applied economics, bridging Austrian economics and legacy asset protection strategies with state-of-the-art blockchain and cyber-security tools and strategies, allowing new levels of financial liberty built upon a foundation of privacy, anonymity, and self-reliance.

 

Book ICO Progress

Book ICO ended on 14th of December 2018 and funding goal wasn't reached

ICO structure

Book Token A BOOK token is an indivisible token that represents access to a unique piece of digital content. A token is therefore a unique access key. Each book that is published or crowdfunded on Publica is assigned its own, unique BOOK token.
Symbol BOOK_TTTOSTCACPNG
Total Supply 100000 Tokens
Initial Rate $19.00 per one BOOK_TTTOSTCACPNG Token
Rate After ICO $49.00 per one BOOK_TTTOSTCACPNG Token
if only softcap is reached The visual aesthetics will not be addressed professionally, I shall simply do the best I can as an amateur graphic artist, the focus will be on the information more than the packaging.

It is the message that matters more than the wrapper of the package or the messenger delivering the package. But if we reach the hard cap in next 3 months, or sooner, I do have a professional graphic artist and web designer lined up and ready to go when given the budget to work with.

Most of this curating of content has already been done over the last year, and part 1 of the book is being shared with my Beta-group already to refine the content even further. A basic website shall be up soon no matter what.

About Book

Genre: Owner's manual , Reference book , Self-help book
Language: English
Planned publishing date: 30.09.2018

This path is for those that ask for neither permission nor forgiveness.

Those that are committed to building a multi-generational legacy of impact and wealth.

This path is not designed for followers, it is for leaders, for Captains unafraid of leaving the safety of shore, for those that welcome the waves of volatility, embracing the ever-present change inevitable when sailing the crypto-seas.

Those understanding that real money is the measurement of the impact we have created in the lives of our brethren and is a reward granted to allow even greater impact in the future.

Recognizing that financial privacy is the foundation of liberty and must be defended!

That Money is our Life made liquid.

Now to be clear this information is not intended to suggest anyone should evade taxation nor ignore government regulation, I am not training Pirates that wish to prey upon people and keep their 'booty'. This is designed for those that have earned their wealth through legitimate business endeavors an simply wish to keep as much of the wealth they have created as possible. The strategies and business tools taught here are designed to follow the patterns set forth by existing mutligenerational legacy wealth holding families and businesses. We are 'Privateers', meaning that we have acquired a 'Writ of Authority' from the appropriate jurisdictions for each of our entities and are free to spend it as we wish without fear of reprisal from any Nation-State. As international bankers we can make the most of jurisdictional competition for our business and choose the locations that provide the opportunity for tax avoidance, not tax evasion...

By making informed choices as to where to register our business and what business entities to use for what purposes we can not only keep any centralized authority from claiming it, we can avoid the predatory lawsuits that almost inevitably happen to those with any real assets that are known to be ours. Separating our need to own from the desire to control the assets allows for maintaining our financial privacy and simply avoid having to fight many battles; with the general public, our past and present business associates, and/or family members...

It is a reality of the world we live in that the 'have-nots' often feel entitled to take from those that have worked hard to have accumulated some wealth. I respect and appreciate the effort it takes to create impact in the world as an entrepreneur so have curated this information to allow us to take control of our wealth. These new technologies allow new possibilities for doing so, and applying the tools and strategies that have worked for generations gives the individual monetary freedom as has never been known to previous generations. 

A sample of the topics included:

-Business and Land Trusts, when to use them, where to register them, and how to arrange them in strategic nearly impenetrable layers

-Precious Metal purchasing; Gold and Silver purchased with crypto on as many as 8 different platforms held in at least 4 different countries, and/or kept at home or as a commodity token

-Purchasing crypto Peer-to-Peer; in large or small amounts Over-The-Counter

-Earning as much as 15% or more when buying real goods with crypto

-Creating and managing self-managed hedge funds

-Taking advantage of arbitrage, low-risk, plays either Market-to-Market or Market-to-Main Street

-Volatility management of your crypto holdings

-Growth strategies that earn weekly residual income or allow your company to earn from your marketing rather than pay for your marketing, even allowing for daily compounding of the value created by doing so!

and more...

This information is not being shared publicly by anyone and is hardly known by anyone, even those that have been in the crypto realm for years. Many simply got in early and basically hit a lottery ticket or are promoting their own Initial Coin Offering as a means of jumping on the easy money bandwagon. Many more are simply speculating on day trades or trying to find the next ICO as their next lottery ticket.

I am creating and sharing this information as a means to creating my fleet of strategic allies as any lone vessel is vulnerable, but as a tribe we can change the world.

This evolution will not be televised, it will be tokenized on the blockchain.

I suggest you get on board before the ship leaves the dock...

INTRODUCTION

This is our most recent collection of the Crypto Banking resources we use to buy, trade, sell, earn, create, and store our cryptocurrency in the "Swiss Bank Account" we all now carry around in our pockets. The pen may have become mightier than the sword, but the decentralized APP is now making the economics of violence obsolete as no amount of force can solve a math problem. 

The intent here is to use this resource to keep us all up to date on the functionality the essential cryptocurrency options currently available for taking control of our wealth.

We’ve selected our curated list of options in each Crypto Banking category making 1,000s of hours of research available to everyone so that the time invested by myself and my trusted trading associates need not be duplicated by each of you. With the intent that the entire Crytpo Realm may thrive and grow into a tool for liberation rather than further financial enslavement, as can and likely will happen to the uninformed. There tend to be two sets of rules in the world, those for the informed and those for the uninformed. And it would be foolish to expect this evolutionary information to be disseminated in the Nation-State controlled media educational centers.

The reality is that as long as any of us are impoverished and enslaved then we all are! These tools properly used have the potential to either set us all Free or bring us farther into financial enslavement. I believe that the root cause of humanities problems today stems from imagining that value can be created simply by ‘Government Decree’ and by allowing Corporate “Paper Entities” to remove the liability of the individuals within it.

Only by accepting that real money requires real value be provided to our fellow man and that we are all personally responsible for our business endeavors, can we possibly shrug this Corporate Monkey from our collective backs. The good news is that the monopoly on the issuance of currency has been broken and it is an economic law (Gresham's Law) that ‘Good Money’ drives out ‘Bad Money’. Meaning that individuals will always choose to hold onto and value more any currency that maintains its value over time, making it ‘Good Money’, and to spend quickly any currency that doesn’t hold its value over time eventually falling out of use entirely due to lack of demand for it, i.e. ‘bad money’.

All of this means that each individual must learn to take responsibility for managing, protecting, and growing their own finances, discerning for themselves which currency is “Good Money” rather than delegating that decision to the ‘Nanny State’ and the Corporate Banksters and that exist only for the Love of Profit above all else.

This particular idea is often misquoted, and the distinction is especially relevant within the Crypto Realm; It is not the ‘Love of Money’ that is the ‘root of all Evil’ it is the ‘Love of Money above All Else’ that is the true source of all Evil. Real money is a measure of the impact our creative endeavors have made in the lives around us and is a reward to allow us to create even more impact in the future.

This is the heart of the issue within ‘Corporate Person-hood’, as these ‘Paper Entities’ have no motive but for potential value manifest as currency, (I refuse to call it money as Fiat Nation-State debt notes simply do not qualify as such). Not having any Life these artificial creations have no way to measure the value of the improvement in the quality of Life that matters most to actual Living Beings.

We hear the phrase that ‘Time is Money’, & perhaps that understanding comes from realizing that real money only comes into existence through the investment of someone’s ‘Life-Time’, as that truly creates the value we attempt to measure, store, and transmit as Money. Hence the inevitable collision with Natural Law when attempting to grant some people the right to print wealth into existence through debt creation, real value cannot come into the world just by wishing it so.

It would be wise for all of us to remember that when considering the true value of any, and all of the 1000+ cryptocurrencies already available in the digital marketplace.

And likewise remember that with great power comes great responsibility, as the freedoms we gain when becoming our own Bank carry the responsibility of learning for ourselves how to store, protect, and grow our wealth.

I call this the “Tao of Sailing the Crypto-Seas” because I see the need for us to balance our personae that manifest both publicly and privately in all three realms, that I compare to the various phase states of water; solid, liquid, and gas. It is simply prudent to acknowledge that we have both a public avatar that exists above the table in the Light and a private avatar that operates under the table in the Dark. I use the metaphor of "Sailing the Crypto Seas" to represent the virtual realm, as it is an ever-changing landscape with the majority of our vessel appearing in the Light above the water line with a portion of our holdings existing below the waterline in the dark.

I consider those activities neither private nor anonymous, that due to our activities having both our names and our numbers attached to them, are immutably and publicly recorded on the blockchain for all time. And given enough motivation to spend the time and resources, anyone that chooses to can track all of our monetary activities. And accordingly, the opposite is true for the below the waterline activities that are not attached to our names, our numbers, nor our locations and are not recorded anywhere.

This is most easily accomplished in the physical realm as there are not yet cameras and microphones everywhere to record our physical activities, so physical cash, precious metals, and paper wallet peer-to-peer exchange is most easily kept in the Dark, assuming that proper operational security measures have been taken to acquire these assets privately and anonymously. This book has been created to disseminate those OpSec procedures and to collate the various tools used to transact in all 3 realms, physical, paper, and virtual, strategically managing both our Light and Dark Knight avatars.

Shifting metaphors from the Tao to that of the Sea

Before one can safely navigate the crypto-seas it is necessary to understand what makes for a secure vessel that can weather all storms, how to find and manage a trustworthy and reliable crew that knows how to sail, and how to steer one’s vessel clear of hidden rocks and the inevitable stormy seas. Likewise managing the risks of storing assets with varying degrees: of accessibility, of security measures, of trusted parties, and of which assets to select to carry in one’s holdings, is essential knowledge if one hopes to become a Crypto Privateer that can handle the risks of the open seas; whales, sharks, pirates, agents of the Crown, and of mutiny of one’s crew.

A good Captain of his vessel will recognize all these risks and diversify everything and trust no one completely by isolating knowledge of what is held where, by whom, and will have back up plans in place in case the vessel is seized or sunk; some assets kept in his cabin, the majority in the hold, with backups in the bilge, or keel-hauled, and with deep storage kept in buried ‘treasure troves’ kept on land and/or underwater with hidden maps and ‘keys’ necessary to access them kept safe on dry land with a Trustee.

The most realistic target to strive for is confidence in our finances, as certainty is not possible when dealing with the deep blue sea, and freedom comes not with having a hold full of assets but from having the knowledge of how to move freely about without restriction or oversight; and from knowing how to use one’s stored reserves to craft another vessel, if any one of your ships is taken by a storm, by pirates, or by Agents of the Crown who may choose to ignore our ‘writ of authority’ if given the opportunity to do so.

By managing access to information; i.e., what we are carrying, how much of it, from where to where, the route we intend to travel, and how to access our holdings we can minimize the risks of seizure by any above the waterline groups of predators, with or without uniforms and badges, on or off our ship.

Managing the risks of storms, hidden reefs, and sharks, whales, or killer whales can only come from experience, attention to your surroundings, and careful selection of where to be when and selectively choosing if and when to enter the waters. Having a team of trusted associates that you maintain regular contact with can help keep you up to date as to the weather, fair or foul, the rocks to avoid, the underwater predators to avoid, and the locations the above the waterline predators are prowling.

This curriculum is intended to guide aspiring Crypto-Captains, effectively becoming “International Blockchain Bankers’, in creating their own private crypto-vessels carefully assessing the quality of each possible vessel to take out to sea, the tools, weapons, and supplies to stock the vessel with, as well as strategies to use to weather any storms, supplies to stock the vessel with, to use in defense one's holdings if they come under attack, and to avoid risk of mutiny by carefully selecting crew members.

Together we can create and maintain a current map of known obstacles and safe passages, of what the current weather forecast looks like, and where the known underwater predators like to congregate. But as these are constantly changing scenarios, certainty is not possible and only promised by either the inexperienced or the deceitful

What is a Book ICO?


Book ICO is the next generation way to kick-start books — authors publish their way.

ICO’s took 2017 by storm. Publica Book ICO’s are the next generation crowdfunder-plus-presale for ebooks where authors are free to publish their way.

Authors — You set your own prices for during and after your Book ICO. When your book is a recognized token on a blockchain you’re selling book tokens directly to your followers who support you and look forward to the promised release.

Presale funds can improve the quality of independently published books. Or publicize great books that might never find their true audience without it.Your book tokens work anywhere in the world on any iOS or Android device.

Readers — When you buy a book token, that’s your private access key to read the book in your Publica reader app available now for iOS and Android phones and tablets. Many Chromebooks too.

You can also send book tokens to other people, unlike any conventional ebook. So buy as many book tokens as you want!

You can also sell recognized book tokens on a secondary token exchange so depending on the total circulation of a book’s tokens, tokens in your wallet may grow in value if the book becomes collectable.

What are you waiting for? Oh, the countdown clock...

FAQ

  • How to participate in a Book ICO?

    To participate in a Book ICO you'll need to create a wallet and buy PBL, which is the currency used on Publica’s platform, as well as ETH tokens to pay the transaction fee.

    When the Book ICO campaign is running and you have your PBL tokens, click the "Buy BOOK token" button and follow this tutorial.

    You will receive a BOOK token (or several tokens) that are your access keys to the book's contents and you'll be able to read the book on your Android or iOs device, and send the book to your friends, or even sell a book on a secondary market.

  • Where can I create a wallet?

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  • Where can I read a book?

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    Watch this tutorial on how to install the app and read a book.

    You can download and install the e-reader app for your Android or iOs device.

  • What is a BOOK token?

    A BOOK token is an Ethereum ERC20 token that represents access to a specific book. A BOOK token is therefore a unique access key. You can buy several BOOK tokens (book copies) and give away or sell your books whenever you wish.

  • Why do I need PBL tokens?

    PBL tokens are the Publica platform's internal currency. Readers use PBL tokens to participate in Book ICOs on the Publica platform, or to purchase any book listed in the Publica store.

    Authors receive their revenue in PBL tokens so they have full control over their finances.

  • Why do you need cryptocurrencies and blockchain?

    By using cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology we can now introduce immediate and direct transactions between authors and readers, bring trust and transparency into the ecosystem as well as give authors tools to set up their own business models by using smart-contracts. This allows authors to sell directly to their readers at an unprecedented and scalable level.

    With no middleman, authors are in full control of their author business. Blockchain empowers authors by placing them at the heart of the financial model.