U.S. bitcoin trader facing death penalty after Thai navy boards cabin of fugitive 'seasteaders'
"I was free for a moment. Probably the freest person in the world," Chad Elwartowski posted on his Facebook days before the Thai navy raided his floating home.
The cabin has been promoted as"the world's first seastead" by the group Ocean Builders, part of a movement in tech and libertarian circles to build floating communities beyond the bounds of nations as a way to explore alternative societies and governments. The Royal Thai Navy task force had planned on Saturday to seize the structure and tow it back to shore for use as evidence, but by the afternoon it was still studying how to move it without destroying it, the navy said.
The navy said they have evidence that the floating home was built in a private boatyard in Phuket and said the couple wanted to establish a"permanent settlement at sea beyond the sovereignty of nations by using a legal loophole". The group said that the pair, both active bitcoin investors, did not build, invest in or design the floating home themselves but were"volunteers excited about the prospect of living free," documenting their lives as"pioneer seasteaders" off the coast of Phuket.
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