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Jan Kotas
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Co-founder of Bitcoin Paraguay and Hacking Lives. Paraguay 🇵🇾 | Flag Theory | Bitcoin | Sovereignty I help people opt out and live life on their own terms.
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Jan 11 months ago
ROSS IS FREE!!! 🎉 image
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Jan 11 months ago
Provocative thought 💣: As someone running a business on the Bitcoin Standard and helping others accept Bitcoin payments, I deal with the challenges of Bitcoin's 4-year cycle daily. For businesses, this cycle is truly tough to navigate. In good years, you usually speculate on the upside and defer costs. But in bad years, you rush to pay costs quickly to avoid losses. Even healthy businesses with great products can fail if volatility and bad timing collide. Hedging becomes a necessity, adding another layer of complexity for often already complex businesses. For traders and speculators, Bitcoin's cycle is a blessing. But for businesses, it’s a planning nightmare. While volatility may decrease as Bitcoin matures, it’s still too significant to ignore. What can we do? Honestly, not much. Changing Bitcoin’s monetary policy at this stage is nearly impossible. Still, I can’t help but think: Would Bitcoin adoption as money improve if the monetary policy were executed more gradually? Instead of halving every 210k blocks and causing supply shocks, what if block rewards decreased gradually with each block, based on a similar mathematical formula? 🤔 I know this is controversial. Backlash welcome, but please be kind. 🙏
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Jan 1 year ago
Asunción 🇵🇾🌕 image
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Jan 1 year ago
What makes me truly proud of our @BitcoinParaguay community is that most of the bitcoiners here are genuine bitcoiners. They understand the value of Bitcoin and genuinely want to use it for payments. This gives me a lot of hope for the future of Bitcoin adoption in Paraguay.
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Jan 1 year ago
GM Saõ Paulo! ☕👋 image
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Jan 1 year ago
The Bitcoin community is full of amazing people, pushing me to my limits and giving my life new meaning. I’ll always appreciate you all! 🧡
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Jan 1 year ago
Before every election, every politician wants to make you feel that this is the most important election in the history of your country because it’s how they mobilize the crowds. Don’t take the bait. Don’t let them play their game. Focus on your self-sovereignty and reducing your dependence on the state.
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Jan 1 year ago
Paraguay can become the next Bitcoin country. It’s more likely than most people think. Of all the South American countries, it has the best conditions and highest incentives. If you're a Bitcoiner and want to be part of it, come and join us.
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Jan 1 year ago
Another successful #Bitcoin meetup in Asunción 🇵🇾 is behind us. I had the pleasure of presenting the vision of @BitcoinParaguay on how we plan to orange-pill the entire country and introduced our community-based strategy. 🚀 We also hosted a great talk about #Nostr and a Nostr-based podcasting startup called @Fanfares presented by @Shortfiat. 🔥 At the end of the event, we successfully held a Lightning Raffle developed by @yanas. Good job, buddy! 💪 I would also like to thank our sponsors, @Blink Wallet and Trezor Academy ( @Josef Tětek ). Thank you for your support! 🫶
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Jan 1 year ago
Hey Nostriches! I am preparing a "Best Bitcoin Memes" slideshow for the next Bitcoin meetup in Asunción 🇵🇾, so I would like to use the power of Nostr to gather them. 💪 Each unique meme posted will get zap! ⚡🤙 image
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Jan 1 year ago
There's a lot of construction noise in Asunción. Practically every street has at least one new building under construction, so there aren't many quiet districts in the city. Do I complain? Not for a single moment! All this noise is a good sign of the rapid development and growth that Paraguay is currently undergoing. This development translates into more jobs, more new apartments at affordable prices, and, in general, more wealth and prosperity for everyone. If you live in a quiet town, it means it's stagnating or even declining—and you definitely don't want that! Remember, even buildings have their lifespan. To keep improving the quality of living, sometimes you have to tear down the old ones and construct new, better ones. So, think twice before complaining about the noise of construction development in your neighborhood... image