Psilocybin Citadel
By Decri
‘Twas a hazy night in Summer of ’22. I stepped out into the fading light to smoke an evening nightcap of a strong indica joint. Bitcoin had dropped like a stone into correction territory dumping 65% from ATHs. It wasn’t my first rodeo, but it was as a Maxi. Still rough seas and no denying there was no turning back.
I had spent late Spring going around the podcast circuits on shows like High Hash Rate, Bitcoin Rapid-Fire, and Bitcoin for Peace. The discussions centered around the similarities between Bitcoin and the decriminalization movement for access to psychedelic natural medicines. I was finding many psychonauts in the Bitcoin Twitter circle. Bitcoiners that had deconstructed the financial Matrix turned out to be more open to consciousness liberty. I needed to make allies.
I looked into my DMs and found an incoming message from Sly, Roundabout Goomba. I owed him a chat on his Why Bitcoin? podcast so I assumed it would be about scheduling the talk. I assumed wrong. “Are you watching this shit? It’s amazing hahaha.” I made small talk about tripping on all the satellites in the sky but these autists wouldn’t have it. “Much more important. There’s an insane thread of a Stackchain going on and we’re all losing our minds!”
So I put out my joint, walked inside, and fell down the rabbithole of the sweet Summer of Stackchain. That evening the #stackchaintip was at US$124 so I immediately got the assignment and smash stacked 125. Then I went to bed. The next morning I would wake up with my notification toast with memes and love from the Stackchain.
I had spent the last four years working as an independent online activist for Decriminalize Nature. The idea for utilizing Bitcoin to raise capital independently for a psilocybin mushroom retreat center had been forging in my mind. Both Bitcoin and psychedelics were severely misunderstood as technologies that gave sovereign access to money and mind. Great educators in both arenas were destigmatizing and teaching people these new autonomous tech.
Psilocybin Citadel had been named during the High Hash Rate recording. On my first Sovereign Individual Independence Day I burned 10 years of bank statements from the Fiat Days, and had a good long chat on the Death & Bitcoin podcast. I knew I needed to change from fighting the system to actually building on Bitcoin. I called one of my burner brothers on Sovereignty Day about the idea behind Psilocybin Citadel, and asked him to come with me to verify the Bitcoin vibe at the Pacific conference in Santa Monica.
Utilizing mycological microdosing technology to help ease the rapid perspective shift, I began the most difficult part, integration, to overcome anxiety and fear of outcome by accepting the resources available to manifest change. I was fortunate enough to align a six day West Coast Mycelium Tour down Interstate 5 with a pitstop in the Bay Area and down to Los Angeles.
After spending several nights in the Bay Area upgrading my internal narrative to the external world, I met up with my brother and followed him up a dark and windy unpaved road. The next morning, I awoke to the most divine view out of his bathroom window overlooking the ridge of the Santa Cruz mountains. After a tour of his citadel, we drove down into the Central Valley, stopping by old Harris Ranch to have a prime rib lunch, back up the grapevine and dropping into LA. We checked into a modest Airbnb in the Beverlywood neighborhood, smoked some, and headed down to the Lincoln near Venice Beach where the Toxic Bitcoin Happy Hour Pleb Party was taking place.
My brother had lost his ID and couldn’t get into the bar, so he wished me luck and bounced. I was on my own. I went into the noisy bar, and walked around trying to find someone I recognized. I finally chose to approach someone that was dazedly walking around like Cheshire in a cat costume, and recognized one of the writers for Bitcoin Magazine I had promised a Psilocybin Citadel hoodie. Met a few more chainers and plebs outside and watched mild celebrities like the Crypto Couple and Joe Nakamoto arrive. I was getting tired, so calling my brother back, we left and waved goodbye to a gang of Stackchainers riding scooters across a crosswalk.
The next morning we would head out to Santa Monica airport for the Pacific Bitcoin conference. We spent the morning checking out the setup and schmoozing around the Art District to meet visionary Bitcoiners. At lunch we stepped outside federal property to smoke, and returned to see Bitcoin Twitter celebrities popping out from everywhere. It was the weirdest experience seeing these people in corporeal form. In front of the Swan Dome, Michael Saylor casually speaking to people surrounded by Breedlove and Brandon Quittem, the writer of the Mycelium of Money I had come across in mushroom circles that brought me over to Bitcoin Twitter in the first place.
Eating our sandwiches, I could hear Saylor’s voice behind me as my brother kept a narrative commenting on Saylor’s belt buckle crowning his manhood. We met other industry people in mining, thanked the podcasters that had given voice to plebs, and networked to introduce ourselves giving nods as if to reassure each other that this was real. We popped in to watch the historic moment Stackchain Magazine was being introduced.
We made our way out of LA in haste after the second morning, listening to podcasts and vision questing ideas for how to incorporate Bitcoin into Psilocybin Citadel. Between the two of us, we had plenty of event management experience, but lacked the technical side of incorporating Bitcoin. I dropped my brother off in San Jose, promising him that I would find some online homies to help us out.
Back in the rainy weathers of the Pacific Northwest, while testing recipes of chocolate tea balls, I hatched mental lily pads. After studying both Bitcoin and the Mushroom Worlds, I began to think of growth in layered networks and categorized the development into Four Mycelium Layers of Psilocybin Citadel. I would get signals back from the Multiverse I had gifted Psilocybin Citadel wearable merch that they would have my back. So I called my brother in Santa Cruz to ask if he would be the Mushroom Advisor, and said I would post to find volunteers for Software, Hardware, Treasury, and Events after the New Year.
The first person to manifest was a lawyer out of Miami who helped advise us on our legal limits. Next on board was a young man that was studying Lightning Layer integration who would become our Technical Advisor for Software and helped to create our website. I then had a call with Mycelial, whom I had worked with before drafting decriminalization flyers, and asked him to help us set up a multisig wallet as Bitcoin Treasury Advisor. We had another Bitcoiner out of Australia join us for an online meeting that suggested we outline our values, which then Mycelial drafted into our Eight Values of Psilocybin Citadel.
By Spring, our lawyer suggested that we have a booth at the Bitcoin Miami conference. We had a series of long conversations where we were trying to figure out what Psilocybin Citadel would represent within fast changing jurisdictional rules for both Bitcoin and Psychedelics and agreed that education was key in both arenas. By now, the younger guys were starting to call our decentralized autonomous organization Psitadel. We would pull together a website with donations linking to our multisig, ordered a pirate flag and some merch, and although I couldn’t attend, we had our homies rep at the Bitcoin Bazaar in Miami.
The Psitadel is an ever evolving community. We strive to bring technology, education and free thinking together to create a sovereign and sustainable future. Our mission is to facilitate real-world gatherings to promote the use of tools and integration which allow the healing of society’s ills in mental, physical, spiritual, social and financial health. We have some exciting goals in 2024 to create an online market for Psilocybin Citadel merchandising and a Psitadel Bounty Board to post jobs. We are always looking for adventurous people who want to learn and explore the frontiers of mind and money. Join us at psitadel.com
The Four Mycelium Layers of Psilocybin Citadel (Psitadel)
Physical Mycelium – Farm & Grow, Event Spaces, Hardware
Human Mycelium – Networking, Events, Membership
Digital Mycelium – Website, Social Media, Markets, Bounty Board, Prisms, Software
Financial Mycelium – Multisig, Lightning Node, Crowdfunding
The Eight Values of Psilocybin Citadel (Psitadel)
Bitcoin Standard – Bitcoin, the hardest money, is our medium of exchange and store of value
Education – Content and events centered around wellness, generational healing, and censorship resistant tech
Sovereignty – Taking responsibility for your finances, health, and actions.
Sustainability – Give more to the world than we take. Use low time-preference thinking to leave a positive impact on the world.
Experimentation – Being on the frontier calls for an adventurous mindset, and the utilization of mind and body to the fullest.
Voluntarism – The Psitadel should only operate on a voluntarist and permission-less basis
Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) – Increase censorship resistance, custody our data, and decrease our reliance on centralized points of failure
Access – Access to natural medicines and integration services for a complete holistic mental/spiritual health solution
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Note from Stackchain Magazine: No Bitcoin (or inferior monies) were exchanged for this article. This article was written by @DecrimNat on Twitter. Decri is a very strong advocate for the decriminalization of natural medicine and the liberation of your health from centralization.