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Doesn't quite work. Once your ship is a stationary economic operation within the EEZ, the protection of your flag erodes quickly. In any case, the US would be free to impose on them. For example, they could raid the seastead and seize it if they find contraband (cf. drug interdictions). They'd still need to be 200 nautical miles offshore to be safe.
Have you looked at their website at all? They say that they will be more than 200 nautical miles from any country, out of any EEZ.
Read my first paragraph. You can also read an overview of admiralty and maritime law re seasteads helpfully hosted by the institute. It's not pretty.
http://seasteading.org/files/research/law/Balloun%20-%20U.S.%20Law%20Enforcement%20Admiralty%20Jurisdiction%20Over%20Seasteads.pdf