I've been part of the Monero community for years as satonotdead. For the past 5 years I've been building Criptonautas, an open-source community around trading, privacy and Monero, without ever asking anyone for money. There are still a few details to finish, particularly regarding the English translation, but we’re almost ready for our relaunch.

Recent work includes Monero tips (https://github.com/criptonautas/discourse-monero-tips), BTCPay payments (https://github.com/criptonautas/discourse-btcpay-subscriptions) built into our Discourse forum, public and usable for everyone, and a Kuno integration (https://github.com/criptonautas/discourse-kuno-nautas) that shows fundraisers like this one inside the community.

I’m neurodivergent (AuDHD, going through a formal diagnosis now). I masked it most of my life, but it’s always been there in how I work and live. A few months ago my life in Colombia fell apart. After a breakup I was threatened and given 24 hours to leave the place where I lived. I moved into temporary accommodation as best I could.

Then everything I owned was taken: my bicycle, the desk I used as a DJ, my sofa, my rugs, my washing machine, my hoover, all my furniture. The people who took it had hired a lawyer beforehand to cover themselves legally.

I filed a tutela without legal help. It was dismissed on procedural grounds (subsidiariedad), and so was my appeal. The Defensoría del Pueblo is following my case but has to wait for the Corte Constitucional before it can act. In the months ahead, 'someone' had also filed an anonymous false complaint against me with Migración to keep causing me harm. Because of it, the quiet countryside place where I'd been living and working was threatened with fines, and I can no longer stay here.

Along the way I lost access to my own funds: the seed phrases, phones and wallets holding them were spent, left behind or damaged. I have a history of mental health issues because of all of this, and this hit me harder than I expected. I've kept working on Criptonautas through all of it, but I can't hold this alone anymore.

I have a valid passport, no criminal records anywhere. I want to settle my situation properly, go home, hug my family, and finish what I started.

Budget (goal: 4.85 XMR — ~2,700 USD), paid in this order:

0. USD - Item
1. 1,000 - Migración (salvoconducto or fine)
2. 500 - Flight home
3. 600 - One month of housing and food
4. 400 - Taxi plus moving my remaining belongings (image attached)
5. 200 - Buffer (exchange losses, fees)

Surplus goes to replacing and update my work equipment to finishing Criptonautas.

Transparency: I'll post updates here with proof of each payment, with personal data redacted. Attached, with personal data redacted: the tutela appeal rulings, the Defensoría case status, the Migración notice and clinical records.

Also attached: some of the belongings I was able to carry and I need to send, and my DJ equipment, packed and unused since I put everything into Criptonautas. It's my work equipment for when I'm home.

Verification: This text is signed with the Criptonautas PGP key, also published at https://criptonautas.co/feedback.

Fingerprint: 83B084A58537E49C25D0253A32702E05637A3C12

Thank you for reading. Any help, or simply sharing this, means a lot to me.

https://github.com/criptonautas