The Interzone API

Evolution Of A Protest by Singularity Institute

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# The Interzone API

A blueprint for building a community that exists inside a state's borders while remaining legally, digitally, and economically invisible to it. The strategy — drawn from James C. Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed — is not to fight the state but to make it irrelevant through deliberate illegibility.

Stay invisible. LoRa radio mesh (cheap ESP32 nodes, ~$25 each) provides encrypted, hard-to-jam local communication. Physical "sneakernet" data transfers on encrypted microSD cards — based on Vint Cerf's Delay-Tolerant Networking research — serve as fallback. Community documents are hosted on IPFS (Juan Benet, Protocol Labs), a distributed file system with no central server to raid.

Stay legal. Organize as a Private Membership Association, shifting internal transactions ... 

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