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Interview Ep 4 What If We Built Our Way Out? | Permaculture, Crypto, & Self-Reliant Communities
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- Hangin With Mist3rDouglas
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- Aug 10, 2026
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Summary
Welcome welcome back! What would it actually take to build a more self-reliant life, one based on real food, regenerative farming, natural homes, decentralized communities and technology that works for people instead of managing them? In this episode of Hangin’ with Mist3rDouglas, I sit down with Tony “Farmer Till I Die or Get Disappeared” on X a Marine Corps veteran, regenerative farming and permaculture practitioner, natural builder, educator, and the mind behind UniphiHQ.com We get into permaculture, regenerative agriculture, food forests, aquaponics, food sovereignty, homesteading, hempcrete homes, natural building, Bitcoin, blockchain, decentralized communities, work-share programs, sacred geometry, geodesic domes, cymatics, self-reliance, healing spaces and community-owned infrastructure. Tony explains how his journey took him from the Marine Corps and urban gardening to buying land in the Missouri Ozarks and developing a multi acre food forest filled with fruit, berries, herbs and perennial food crops. We explore his vision for communities where residents can grow food, learn practical skills, build their own homes, share resources and create systems designed around greater independence. We also dig into one of the most unusual intersections I’ve encountered yet: Bitcoin meets permaculture. Tony describes plans involving Bitcoin mining, NFTs tied to real-world utility, decentralized organizational structures and community economics, including the idea of using mining revenue to offset community costs. In his vision, blockchain isn’t the destination. Its infrastructure supporting something physical: land, food, shelter and community. Then we get practical. Tony discusses hempcrete, stone construction, A-frames, hobbit homes, tower homes, geodesic structures, off-…