hey, i'm cowboy bill

I don’t sell coaching, content, or “growth.” I work through a small number of structural modes that can be tailored to your scale.

• sovereign intelligence dossier Adversarial map of where you’re structurally captured – financially, legally, infrastructurally, narratively, and somatically – with ranked leverage points and minimum viable sovereignty steps.
• sovstack blueprint Architecture for your sovereignty-native operating system: Bitcoin custody and treasuries, contracts and governance, myth/ritual layer, and somatic baselines.
• cell / citadel deployment Standing up or hardening local cells with 3-month resilience in food, water, energy, care, and communications, backed by clear agreements and drills.
• perpetual audit & immune system Ongoing review and adaptation so your stack doesn’t slide back into convenience and capture as the synthetic stack evolves.

Underneath the work is a clear operating framework: multiple overlapping stacks of reality, collapse as continuity simulation, and Bitcoin as an ontological anchor for time, value, and law.

• The Synthetic Stack – AI-mediated, fiat-denominated, narrative- managed reality where institutions act as behavioral illusions.
• The Sovereign Stack – Bitcoin-native, voluntary, locality-aware infrastructure that encodes law, property, and myth as executable systems.
• Fractal sovereignty – autonomy scaling from individual to city through clear boundaries, contracts, kill-switches, and succession.

I grew up inside motion, noise, and rhythm – ballfields, instruments, and crowded family tables. Sports taught me pressure and public failure; music taught me timing and harmony; family taught me how people actually are: loving, flawed, generous, petty, loyal. I also learned early how easy it is to misuse agency – lying, stealing, hurting people I cared about – and how fast misapplied power corrodes reality.

My first attempt at “the path” collapsed: big university, athletics, fraternity, substances, academic failure, and a drug-induced airport meltdown that made the absurdity of my life impossible to ignore. What followed were years of low-status work and night classes – kitchens, construction, grounds crews, fast food – rebuilding under one rule: every grade from now on is an A.

From there the arc moved through city as organism – mapping streets, crime, and downtown dynamics – into money and markets: trading through COVID, then interviewing small traders in a high-inflation West African market where “Bitcoin” sounded like someone’s cousin losing everything. Bitcoin stopped being “interesting” and became the question of who eats when the currency rots.

In London, living around Cyphermunk House – a Bitcoin art and hacker space – the Synthetic vs Sovereign Stacks snapped into focus. There I shut up and learned: privacy tools, nodes, open source, Nostr, AI as enforcement lattice, Bitcoin as ontological anchor. Eventually I started presenting that framework back to the same people I was learning from.

I turned down institutional “apexes” to work in a field that doesn’t officially exist yet: Sovereign Systems Architecture. The full myth is less about credentials and more about why I treat systems, cities, money, and myth the way I do – and why I refuse both priesthood and nihilism.

I stay off corporate social and low-signal channels. If you want to follow the work or propose something concrete, use the minimal surfaces below.

• primary contact
  cbb.dime614@slmail.me
• nostr (updates)
  cowboybill@zaps.lol

• who you are (pseudonym is recommended) and where you operate
• what you’re trying to protect or build
• where your current stack feels most fragile or captured

I maintain a living list of tools, texts, and aligned projects that I consider part of the Sovereign Stack.

The Sovereign Stack Interoperability Atlas is not a single standard. It’s a coordination organism that refuses to become a throne: a living map of tools, patterns, real-world setups, and failure cases that lets sovereignty builders plug into each other without handing anyone a legitimacy monopoly.

At its core is a tiny kernel of interoperability invariants, a constellation of small, optional micro-standards, a non-binary maturity gradient, explicit threat- model tiers, and migration / handshake protocols for moving between tools and implementations without lock-in. It’s more IETF than certification authority: rough consensus, multiple implementations, field-tested survival, and fork legitimacy.

Wrapped around all of that is an anti-capture constitution: no canonical registry, no central certification mark, no “approved provider” economy, no monopoly of interpretation, no requirement that any project route through me. The atlas exists to make builders stronger while structurally refusing the right to rule them. I’m not defining sovereignty; I’m compiling distributed proof.