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!!! 🎉

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. 🙏

Asunción 🇵🇾🌕

$100k 🥂

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.