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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 10:42:44 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   While I know there are plenty of examples of land, particularly historically, being bought and sold to other countries. Like Alaska was bought from Russia, the US Virgin Islands from the Dutch, etc. But is there any examples, particularly in semi-modern history, of an **individual** buying sovereignty over a piece of land from another nation? I mean why should the country care who they sell to as long as they get the money.

   I figure the hard part would be defending the land as a single owner. Of course in practice im not sure countries sell land all to often these days.

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     K‮ly‬e (khird@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 11:41:51 JST K‮ly‬e

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     @freemo Sort of. From 1998 to 2005, Nevada sold "allodial title" if you prepaid your life expectancy's worth of taxes up front. It wasn't complete sovereignty, but it meant it wasn't subject to a substantial chunk of state property law (property tax, liens, etc.).

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 11:45:37 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • K‮ly‬e

     @khird Ahh wonderful, thought it was a while since I saw you last. Welcome back, the place isnt the same without you.

     We have a lot of updates coming in the near future with a full dev team now

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     K‮ly‬e (khird@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 11:45:39 JST K‮ly‬e

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     @freemo also my phone died last month, which locked me out of QOTO for a bit. I've recovered enough to come back, and I'll be able to run my scripts now to identify the potential spammers as we talked about. Should have them by the end of the week.