Who Is Grandpa?

They call me Grandpa. Not because I’m soft and sentimental — though I admit to both on occasion — but because I’ve been around long enough to have made every mistake in the book, survived most of them, and written a few books of my own so that you don’t have to repeat the errors.

I am Peter Taradash, author of Bye Bye Big Brother (Volumes 1–3), Grandpa’s Gems (1–6), Think Like a Tycoon, Portable Trades & Occupations, Campione Confidential, and The Invisible Investor. I’ve been writing about the PT — Perpetual Traveler — lifestyle since before most of today’s “digital nomads” were born. Along the way, I’ve lived in Monaco, Campione d’Italia, Spain, Thailand, Brazil, and a few places I’d rather not name in public. I am, as the old joke goes, a Possibility Thinker: Prepared Thoroughly for whatever the world throws at me.

At 89 years old, I’m still at it — still writing, still consulting, still planting flags. The world has changed dramatically since I first explained the Six Flags Theory. But the core principle hasn’t changed at all: your freedom is your responsibility, and no government will ever value it as highly as you do.

The Lineage: From W.G. Hill to the Digital Age

The PT concept didn’t begin with me. It traces back to a 1950s pamphlet by an unnamed originator — a visionary who explained how spreading your interests across three different jurisdictions could liberate you from any single government’s grasp. In the 1970s and 80s, the legendary W.G. Hill expanded three flags to five and wrote the books that became the underground classics of the movement: P.T., The Passport Report, Portable Trades & Occupations, and The Invisible Investor. Hill’s five flags covered citizenship, residence, playgrounds, business bases, and asset havens.

In 2006, with the publication of Bye Bye Big Brother, I added the Sixth Flag: Cyberspace. The internet had arrived, and with it came an entirely new dimension of freedom — encrypted communications, offshore hosting, anonymous transactions, and portable trades that could be operated from anywhere with a laptop and a Wi-Fi signal. The sixth flag brought the other five together in a way that even Hill, brilliant as he was, couldn’t have foreseen.

Philosophically, we owe a debt to Harry Browne, whose How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World laid the intellectual foundation: freedom is not something you fight for collectively — it’s something you claim individually, through direct action and personal sovereignty. We owe a debt to Simon Black (SovereignMan.com), whose Six Pillars of Self-Reliance translated PT principles for the “Age of Turmoil.” And we owe a debt to every invisible investor, every quiet expat, every Possibility Thinker who has ever voted with their feet.

Our complete archive of Peter Taradash’s writings, including sample chapters and consultation information, is available at petertaradash.com.

What Is privacy.ch?

privacy.ch is the editorial extension of that legacy — a Swiss-based privacy blog that bridges classic PT wisdom with the realities of 2026. The world has entered what Simon Black called the Age of Turmoil: governments print money with abandon, surveil their citizens with algorithms, freeze bank accounts without due process, and weaponize financial reporting systems against anyone who steps out of line. The Bank Secrecy Act, FATCA, CRS, Suspicious Activity Reports, civil forfeiture — these are not abstract threats. They are the daily machinery of control.

But the tools of liberation have evolved too. End-to-end encryption is now available to anyone with a smartphone. Encrypted email, calendars, password managers, VPNs, and cloud storage — all based in Switzerland, all protected by some of the strongest privacy laws on earth — are accessible for a few francs a month. Monero offers genuinely private digital cash. Decentralized networks like DarkFi promise censorship-resistant communication. The sixth flag has never flown higher.

This blog sits at the intersection of those two worlds: the hard-won, street-smart wisdom of the PT movement, and the cutting-edge tools that make personal sovereignty achievable for anyone with the will to pursue it.

What You’ll Find Here

We publish on five core themes:

• Flag Theory & the PT Lifestyle: Practical guides to second passports, tax haven residency, offshore banking, and the six flags — updated for 2026 realities, not 1985 nostalgia.
• Digital Sovereignty: How to build an encrypted, decentralized, self-controlled digital life. Proton suite, Monero, self-hosted infrastructure, and the art of disappearing from the data broker economy.
• Asset Protection & Offshore Strategy: Trusts, foundations, bearer share corporations, offshore real estate, and the legal structures that keep your wealth out of the grubby hands of Robin Hood judges and wealth-equalizing governments.
• Portable Trades & Occupations: How to earn money anywhere — writing, consulting, e-commerce, and the digital skills that let you generate invisible income from a tropical beach or a ski cabin. The principles Grandpa laid out in PTO 20/20 still apply; the technology has just gotten better.
• The Grandpa Archive: Selected writings, parables, and case studies from Peter Taradash’s books — including material from Bye Bye Big Brother, The Invisible Investor, Campione Confidential, and the Brazil travel reports — republished with commentary that connects the classic wisdom to today’s landscape.

Our Editorial Voice

Grandpa writes in parables. That’s deliberate. A parable sticks in your mind long after a regulation has faded. When I tell you about Ding Dong Daddy of Cable Car Number Nine — the man who maintained two wives, two families, and an invisible world until the day those worlds collided on a San Francisco streetcar — you remember the lesson: your private world of offshore assets should never be revealed, but only if you are careful.

When I tell you about repositioning cruises to Brazil, or paying six months’ rent in advance to avoid surrendering your Social Security number, or the man who used a second passport to escape a predatory lawsuit — you remember because the story is vivid. The strategy is embedded in the narrative.

This blog maintains that voice: authoritative but accessible, blending classic PT wisdom with modern privacy technology. We are not a law firm. We are not a financial advisory. We are storytellers and strategists, sharing what we’ve learned from a combined century of experience in the trenches of personal freedom.

The Swiss Connection

Why Switzerland? Because Switzerland is the last bastion. It is the country whose banking secrecy laws — codified in the Austrian Banking Act’s Article 38 and mirrored in Swiss statute — once set the global standard for financial privacy. Those laws have been eroded by international pressure, but the cultural commitment to privacy remains. Swiss-hosted services are still governed by the FADP/NDSG, which does not automatically comply with foreign data requests without rigorous judicial review.

privacy.ch is hosted on Swiss servers. We do not track you. We do not sell your data. We practice what we preach. Read our Privacy Policy if you want the details — but the summary is simple: we don’t know who you are, and we like it that way.

A Word of Caution

Everything on this site is educational. We are sharing philosophies, historical anecdotes, and strategic concepts. We are not telling you to break the law. As I wrote in Bye Bye Big Brother: the line between legal tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion is bright and unmistakable. If a strategy requires you to lie, forge documents, or hide income illegally, it is not a PT strategy — it is a prison strategy.

Before you implement anything you read here, consult a qualified professional in your jurisdiction. Laws change. What was legal yesterday may be illegal tomorrow. What works in Panama may land you in trouble in Paris. Read our full Disclaimer for the complete picture.

As Harry Browne put it: “You’ll never be 100% free, because your limited imagination can always envision more good things than you could have in a lifetime. But the average person is no more than 10–30% free, and I believe it’s possible for almost anyone to raise that to as much as 80–90% freedom.”

Our goal is to help you close that gap.

Connect

If you have questions, comments, or corrections, I want to hear from you. Grandpa has always believed that the best ideas come from the readers — the invisible investors, the quiet expats, the Possibility Thinkers scattered across the globe.

Email: [email protected]
For Peter Taradash’s complete book catalog and personal consulting information, visit petertaradash.com.

“Freedom is living your life as you want to live it. And you can do that by choosing to do so. You can be free. No one can stop you.” — Harry Browne, 1973