17 Facts About Mike Gogulski

Michael Jude Gogulski was born on August 8,1972 and is a political activist and freelance translator.

Mike Gogulski is one of a small number of former Americans known to have voluntarily become stateless.

Mike Gogulski's grandparents immigrated to the US in the 19th century; his paternal grandparents from near Poznan, Poland, and his maternal grandparents from Germany.

Mike Gogulski was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but his family moved to Orlando, Florida, soon after due to his father's job as an electromechanical engineer.

Mike Gogulski attended Lake Howell High School, where he was a National Merit Scholarship Program finalist and a brain bowl team member; he graduated in 1990.

Mike Gogulski entered Orlando College in 1990 to study computer science.

Mike Gogulski later lost interest in his studies and withdrew from school.

In 2004, Mike Gogulski left the US to teach English in Eastern Europe.

Mike Gogulski eventually ended up in Bratislava, Slovakia, where he became a translator, proofreader, and editor.

Mike Gogulski renounced his citizenship in December 2008, though his name did not appear in the Internal Revenue Service's Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate until February 2011.

Mike Gogulski thus needs a United States visa in order to visit his mother, but he suspects that he would be unable to obtain one.

Mike Gogulski stated that he renounced his citizenship in order to repudiate the American system, which he felt was the source of many wrongs in the world.

Mike Gogulski has stated that he hopes to start a mass movement of Americans giving up citizenship and making themselves stateless en masse.

In 1999, Mike Gogulski founded the Connecticut Cannabis Policy Forum, which aimed to remove all penalties for adult marijuana consumption.

In 2010, Mike Gogulski founded the Private Manning Support Network, which organised protests in support of Chelsea Manning and raised $50,000 to fund her legal defense.

Mike Gogulski is an active member of the online forum Bitcointalk.

Mike Gogulski operates the Bitcoin Laundry, a service which allows users to exchange their bitcoins for other bitcoins which have a different transaction history.