[79387] in Cypherpunks
recypherdomicilization?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu May 1 21:31:08 1997
In-Reply-To: <199705011827.LAA14497@gabber.c2.net>
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:29:09 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:27 pm -0400 on 5/1/97, sameer wrote:
> As far as operating from Anguilla -- it would require
> renouncing my US citizenship, yes.
Hoo, boy...
Make sure you get (buy?) citizenship somewhere else first, okay, Sameer? :-).
Seriously, it would be indeed a drag to have a whole bunch of
cypherpunks-without-a-country out there, no matter what we all say about
the evils of nation-states...
Anyone out there have suggestions about a domicile of choice? Vince's old
"perputual tourist" thing comes to mind, but I'm not conviced that's really
practical.
I heard someone talking about Belize at FC97. The Seychelles have come up
around here, more than once, for those with $10million to throw around...
However, I tend to agree with Tim about this whole regulatory arbitrage
stuff. Nothing keeps the law honest like good software. :-).
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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