It was an honor to welcome everyone to Paraguay 🇵🇾 and I’m so glad the Accelerating Bitcoin conference was such a success! 🎉 Who would have thought, just 16 months ago when we founded @Bitcoin Paraguay, that we’d be here today? 🤯 Still processing…

Who is going to Accelerating Bitcoin next week? 👀 Don't forget to also come to @Bitcoin Paraguay's Social Night on September 16! 🔥

Bitcoin Paraguay Social Night · Luma

🇪🇸 Unite a la Comunidad Bitcoin Paraguay para un evento social especial 🍕🍷🍻 Música 🎸🎸🎸🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼 en vivo Lig...

Enjoyed this conversation with @Stephan Livera on his podcast about Paraguay’s Bitcoin landscape. We explored the @Bitcoin Paraguay community, @Hacking Lives, paraguay residency, tax benefits, and the booming expat scene.

Bitcoin Life in Paraguay with Jan Kotas | Hacking Lives

Join Jan Kotas and Stephan Livera exploring Paraguay's Bitcoin scene, residency, tax benefits, booming expat scene and more.

Paraguay’s real estate scene is booming — every year brings bolder and more ambitious projects. 👇 1. Palmanova Center (~2030): 210,000 m², 4 towers, award-winning design 2. Distrito Perseverancia (~2030): 300,000 m2, completely planned district 3. Paseo 55 (~2028): 55 floors, 212m 4. Petra Imperiale (~2030): 73 floors, 250m 5. Sudameris Plaza (??): 39 floors, 188m 6. Jade Park (2022): 3 towers (tallest 35 floors, 135m) 7. Civis XI (~2028): 36 floors, 140m 8. Petra Tower (2025): 44 floors, 172m

If you are planning to sell bitcoin for something else, think twice. Everything in this world is abundant compared to bitcoin (except for your time). Ask yourself: Would I make the same decision knowing that this bitcoin could be worth 5 or even 10 times more in 4–8 years?

BTCUSD 118k. GM! ☕

Saylor’s spot on about citizenships, but residencies matter too! Most countries don’t tax globally like the U.S. Digital nomads can often go zero income-tax, and the setup costs pay off in a year with tax savings, plus you skip accounting headaches. You can find more details about the setup here:

Paraguay: Tax Heaven for Freelancers | Hacking Lives

Tax residency in Paraguay: 0% tax on international income, no minimum stay, easy to maintain. Perfect for digital nomads to optimize their taxes.

I've finally set NIP-05 to my account. It was surprisingly straightforward.

Holy sats, what a night! Our 11th Asuncion meetup at Cé La Vie was unreal. First time all in Spanish, with 150+ people, including tons of Bitcoin newbies! We onboarded 44 folks to Lightning wallets and sent them their first sats. 🤯 I’m still getting chills from the vibes! Can’t thank our team enough for pouring their hearts and souls into this. Massive love to @Nelson Cardozo, Juan P., Bruno V., @Lorena | Bitcoin, Sebastian M., Vivi C., @John James, and all the others who made it happen. You’re absolute legends! 🙌🙇‍♂️ Huge props to our sponsors: @Blink Wallet, Penguin Group, @Hacking Lives and Trezor for having our backs. Special shoutout to Eason Jin for hosting us at Cé La Vie and to El Tejano for the killer food that fueled the party! 🙏 Wanna help us orange-pill Paraguay? Hit us up, follow our journey, or come see what we’re building IRL! You can also send some sats to donaciones@ln.bitcoinparaguay.org or you can also zap directly BitcoinParaguay. Thanks for all the love! 🧡🫶

TONIGHT! It's going to be massive. Over 150 attendees! I guess we have already earned the title of "The biggest regular Bitcoin meetup in the world"! 🚀🔥🇵🇾

There’s a huge gap between "hodlers" who view Bitcoin solely as an investment asset and bitcoiners who get that Bitcoin is money and want to spend it. There’s a flood of Bitcoin lending companies pushing you to borrow fiat against your bitcoin to spend. Yeah, it might make financial sense, but it’s not building Bitcoin economies. We need to SPEND bitcoin more! Spending it gives us all more sovereignty. If we can’t spend bitcoin directly P2P, we’re forever tied to middlemen. That’s not what Satoshi dreamed of…

And people say Asunción isn't walkable... 😁

I’m incredibly bullish on Bitcoin adoption in Paraguay. 🇵🇾 Last Saturday, our monthly meetup drew over 100 attendees. Tomorrow, the BitDevs meetup hosts ~50 participants, with 15 more on the waitlist (a technical event! 🤯). Then, this Saturday, a Bitcoin course at the local university for ~70 students. Pay attention, folks - something special is brewing here. 🚀

Asunción is currently the 4th most popular digital nomad destination in the world. 🤯

”Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place. Implicitly, whatever system exists is the last or the only system that will ever exist.“ - The Sovereign Individual

Most Bitcoiners make crucial mistakes when onboarding new users to Bitcoin. They often focus too much on delivering information instead of motivating the listener to actually start paying attention to what they say. Focus on the problem, not the solution. Share stories of how Bitcoin has helped people, not just how Bitcoin works. Don’t worry - they will ask for more details if they're interested. If your mission is to onboard people around you to Bitcoin, the best thing to do is start a small community, organize regular meetups, and invite your friends and family to join. Become a Bitcoin beacon in your social bubble. Social acceptance is extremely important. Only a small percentage of people are willing to go against the mainstream and do things that their social circle considers weird or even bad. There’s nothing more powerful than when people see their friends or family already using Bitcoin. If you manage to hook people into listening to you, start slow. Don’t overwhelm them with self-custody, privacy, UTXOs, and other advanced topics. It’s an absolute waste of energy and will do more harm than good. Instead, install them a simple wallet like Blink or WOS and send them some sats. The perception is that Bitcoin is very complicated - prove them wrong! Lastly, don’t be an arrogant idiot by insisting that the only true way to use Bitcoin is to be a Bitcoin maxi with a super advanced setup. People are not interested in your ego problems, sorry...

So much human capital is wasted because people aren't allowed to trade freely.

GM Nostr! ☕

ROSS IS FREE!!! 🎉