In this episode of the Becoming Sovereign podcast, host Brandon Karpeles reconnects with Daniel Prince, host of the Once Bitten podcast and author of Choose Life. They take a deep dive into what it truly means to break away from state-mandated narratives—from abandoning an 18-year career in traditional financial services to separating your children's education from the state through worldschooling.They also pull back the curtain on the corporate side of the ecosystem, launching into a highly critical, first-principles critique of the current digital asset treasury craze. Finally, they address the highly contentious debates surrounding Bitcoin Core version 30 and explain why running a personal node remains the ultimate check on centralization.In this episode, we cover:• Leaving the TradFi Lodger Life: Daniel shares how Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek shook him out of an 18-year corporate career to travel the world with his wife and four kids.• The Worldschooling Journey: The raw reality of facing family backlash when choosing to unschool your children, and how finding an alternative "tribe" mirrors the early days of Bitcoin.• The Illusion of 'Trapped Capital': A brutal teardown of reverse-merger penny stocks and sketchy corporate yield products, exposing the financial engineering trying to complicate a simple "buy and hold" strategy.• The Core Dev vs. User Soft Fork War: A deep look into the centralization risks within current Bitcoin development circles, Hodlnaut’s Capture essays, and why the ambivalent majority must cast their vote by running an independent node.• The Franchise Matrix: Why corporate franchise models are inherently extractive, and how Steak 'n Shake completely blew the doors off the industry by accepting Lightning payments.• Building Local Circular Nodes: Brandon shares his experience building out a localized economy through the Chicago Bitcoin Collective, from buying farm beef to getting haircuts paid entirely in sats.Connect with Daniel Prince:• Podcast: Once Bitten• X/Twitter: @princi21m• Nostr: [email protected] with Brandon & Sovreign:Website: sovreign.ioLinkedIn: Brandon KarpelesNostr: @plebiAnonX: @sovreignBTC