Don’t advertise your wealth or income. Keep this information private.
Reduce your costs and maintain a frugal lifestyle.
Keep records of every time you trade a ‘sound money asset’ (gold, silver, bitcoin). Collectibles tax or capital gains tax may apply.
~ Pay taxes on your gains every year, as required. (Better than going to prison or being audited!)
~ Minimize trading and minimize your tax burden.
~ Where possible, consider borrowing against your assets as opposed to selling them to cover large expenses.
Keep at least half of your assets outside of the traditional financial system.
~ Move bitcoin into cold-storage, multi-signature vaults (Sparrow).
~ Keep some cash at home.
~ Keep some physical gold or silver bullion at home. And get to know the people at your local coin shop. (Do they pay cash for bullion?)
Use non-custodial coinjoin (samourai, sparrow) to anonymize your bitcoin (breaking the link to its past history) prior to spending it, and prior to sending into cold-storage.
Use a VPN or the Tor Browser as much as possible while interacting with finance apps and websites, or while transacting in or coinjoining your bitcoin. Change your IP address regularly.
Run your own Bitcoin Full Node at home (Raspibolt). Broadcast your transactions via mempool.space or blockstream.info Tor Hidden Service where possible.
Be Street Smart. Learn Self-Defense. Learn how to safely use and store a handgun (or larger).
