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Liberation Travel Hacks 03/2026
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This monthly newsletter is significantly delayed, and I sincerely apologize for that.
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It's related to the fact that I've been traveling a lot (in Panama, currently in México) and vibecoding (programming with the help of AI) more than ever in my life. I'll share the results below.
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At Liberation Travel, we've truly moved into the digital age:
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- We just launched a new website in 7 languages https://liberation.services/, where you can purchase our services.
Currently, we offer opening a Georgian premium bank account, TBC Concept, at TBC bank, and a non-CRS Kyrgyz account at Aiyl bank. For all orders through our e-shop, we're bringing back last year's promotion – an annual VISA Infinite subscription for 150 USD/EUR and an initial deposit of 150 USD/EUR!
You can pay with Bitcoin onchain, Bitcoin Lightning, stablecoins on all chains, Monero, ZCash, and ETH.
With every order you automatically receive an invoice (from Zaprite or App.Request.Finance). Preparation of all necessary powers of attorney is fully automated online and takes no more than 5 minutes.
Our automated CRM system prepares all necessary powers of attorney based on your passport data, which you sign online and send via Signal to our colleagues in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, who handle the legalization/apostille of the power of attorney and open the account as quickly as possible.
The CRM system automatically generates shipments via API from DHL, DPD, Zasilkovna/Packeta for all clients worldwide.
- We launched a system to verify and notify of mandatory visits in Paraguay. Just register on our website, and check that you are a Paraguayan resident. Then, in your personal profile, click on personal profile and upload the back side of your Paraguayan residency card. The application will perform automated OCR and list your mandatory visits. You can also add them to your calendar, and our application will send you a notification email one month before each mandatory visit.
- We launched a Signal AI bot that we trained on our entire wiki, knowledge base, newsletters, and social media, and we added as much useful information as possible about Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, and the broader offshore topic. And our awesome clients keep continuously training it on new information. We use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which improves the quality of the information provided and reduces AI model hallucinations. Each client can set their preferred LLM model for communication with the Signal bot – from the default Claude OPUS 4.6 to the secure, open-source Qwen 3.5 122B. The Signal AI bot can not only advise you on the immigration process itself and recommend bank accounts, but you can also order our services through it for crypto and go through the entire business process – you send all information exclusively through the secure Signal channel. Our clients, therefore, have 24/7 support.
- We're seriously addressing security:
- We don't store any sensitive customer documents (like passports); after processing, they are automatically sent only to colleagues via Signal and then deleted from the server.
- The database of all our customers is fully encrypted at the application level (restarting the service requires entering a strong passphrase).
- Each client can set up 2FA, including secure PassKeys.
- The application source code has undergone multiple audits.
In the coming weeks, we're launching an e-shop and CRM system for temporary and permanent residencies in Paraguay, Uruguay, and Panama, which will include automated document analysis, apostille verification, preparation of powers of attorney, informing customers about the approval of their temporary/permanent residency, and cédula issuance, all through secure Signal.
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The goal is to eliminate any bureaucracy for our clients so that everything can be done and managed online.
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Something that would have taken me years to program in the past, I've now managed to achieve in just a few weeks.
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Since AI is a big topic and I'm currently working full-time to reach a point where I don't have to anymore, I've decided to include it as a section in our newsletter.
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Pavol Lupták, Monterrey, México 24.3.2026
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EU | US | Georgia | Kyrgyzstan | Paraguay | Paraguay — New Crypto Regulation | Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies | Privacy | AI — Commentary | AI — Tools | Travel Hacks | Interesting Links | Events
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EU
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French police are dealing with the generation of child pornography via AI models. The real problem is that any uncensored LLM model can do this — and enforcing control over locally running open-source models is technically impossible. Regulation that ignores technical reality is ineffective.
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AI can (and will be able to) generate practically anything — including content that is morally or legally unacceptable. That's the reality that society will have to come to terms with.
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Historically, the greatest flexibility of wealthy people – or why we need to stop driving them out of the EU immediately.
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Technology is dramatically changing and will continue to change the organization of society. Politicians not only fail to reflect this, but are actively going against it (for example, the drastic EU cryptocurrency regulation that makes them unusable).
Just as hydroponics, indoor farming, and vertical farms are creating cities' economic independence from the countryside and reopening the question of the meaningfulness of small, efficient city-states, the rise of AI and automation/robotization is reducing wealthy people's dependence on the poor.
Especially in a situation where European countries are introducing insane tax hell like a 36% unrealized gains tax (Netherlands) and driving out all skilled and wealthy people, it's at least worth considering:
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- Will wealthy people even need the poor in a future AI/robotized society? (For massages, personal care, and other contact activities where humans are preferred, they need a fraction, and even that will change with the advent of humanoid robots.)
- People with low incomes may democratically vote for UBI (Universal Basic Income) in the EU, but who will ultimately pay for it, since poor people without capital won't be able to earn it, thanks to AI/robotization?
Technological progress is massively increasing the flexibility of wealthy people who can choose where they will or won't pay taxes. And you don't even have to be rich to not pay taxes.
I honestly don't know what the point is of this brutal tax burden that only drives productive and wealthy people out of the country (and causes orders of magnitude greater economic damage).
Politicians should realize that wealthy people are more flexible than ever before, thanks to technology.
And their taxes should be dramatically reduced, not increased. It just doesn't make any sense, and it's making the entire EU/UK poor.
The poor won't be able to earn a living through intellectual work anymore, thanks to AI, and the wealthy with capital won't be in the EU anymore.
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Current state in western EU – unrealized gains taxes (Netherlands, UK) are starting to resemble communist "nationalization" (I'm not sure what's more insane, this or the economic consolidation in Slovakia :)
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The pattern is clear: raise taxes → capital flees → introduce exit tax so they can’t flee → then coordination at the EU level so they have nowhere to flee.
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The most aggressive step in the pan-European pattern: governments raise property taxes, track capital flight, then propose exit taxes and wealth registries to stop the outflow.
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- Netherlands: The Dutch government is preparing a 36% tax on unrealized gains on actual returns from savings and investments, including annual increases in the value of stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies — even if they haven't been sold (!) Every European country that tried this repealed the law when wealthy people fled to more tax-favorable jurisdictions. Only real estate was exempt from the tax—explanation of exactly how this tax will work. For now, this legislation has been postponed for reworking—more information.
- UK: 20% exit tax – tax on unrealized gains from business assets when an individual ceases to be a UK tax resident (plan).
- Norway: 37.8% exit tax (and wealth tax) - tax on unrealized gains above 3 million NOK.
- Spain: 1.7% to 3.5% "solidarity tax" on wealth with rates for persons with net assets above €3 million — originally temporary, now permanent.
- France: 30% (12.8% + 17.2% social) exit tax on shares if you were a resident for 6 of the last 10 years and own shares >€800k or > 50% stake. France is considering a "targeted universal tax" system for individuals earning more than €235,500 who move to countries where tax rates are 40% lower than in France.
- Belgium: 10% exit tax, with a 2-year window.
- Germany: exit tax for holders of ≥1% stakes acquired in the last 5 years, at a rate of up to 26.375%. From 2025, it also applies to investment funds with a minimum of 500,000 €.
US
Georgia
- Premium account with an elite Travel card (Mastercard World Elite)
- Remote opening via power of attorney, no personal visit required
Kyrgyzstan
- VISA Infinite card at a great price (150 USD/year)
- Non-CRS country — maximum privacy
- Fully opened remotely via the power of attorney
Paraguay
When issuing a Paraguayan cédula, your home country is contacted, and your identity is verified. If you're still waiting for your cédula, the problem might not be on Paraguay's side. With some countries, the slowdown is so bad that you end up waiting a year (!) for the cédula. Explanation here.
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Some services accept an official document from the tax office as proof of address (in Paraguay's case, that's SET). It's called "Constancia de RUC" and here's how to generate it.
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Just select that you're a natural person, then enter the RÚC (your cédula number), the DV (the digit you'll find in your SET profile), and your date of birth.
Then download it (it's called "Constancia de RUC") and save it as a PDF.
Your Paraguayan address is listed there too, so you can use it as "Proof of address".
If the address there is incorrect, you can update it on the SET website. The manual for updating personal data is available here.
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Paraguay — New Crypto Regulation and Current Changes
Key information for all new and existing Paraguayan residents
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The past few days in Paraguay have been very turbulent.
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New regulations were approved, and old ones began being enforced with retroactive effect (!), which are most likely unconstitutional and reduce Paraguay's attractiveness to both potential residents and crypto enthusiasts.
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The Paraguayan government is starting to signal that it doesn't need new residents.
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If you are a tax resident of Paraguay or are in the immigration process, we recommend reading the following article in detail.
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1. Enforcement of mandatory visits for temporary and permanent residents
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Formally mandatory annual visits (for temporary residents) and triennial visits (for permanent residents) started being actually enforced this month. This means that as a temporary resident of Paraguay, you cannot be outside Paraguay for more than 365 days, and as a permanent resident for more than 3 years.
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At the end of last year, agencies received information that, from January 1, 2026, mandatory visits would actually be enforced as a condition for obtaining (or renewing) permanent residency. Unfortunately, they also started applying this retroactively to all clients who were supposed to make a mandatory visit in the first half of 2025, meaning before the office announced it would begin enforcing these visits.
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If you find yourself in this unfortunate situation, not all is lost. Send an email to migraciones@migraciones.gov.py, attaching a PDF containing a scan of both sides of your cédula, a scan of your passport, a medical report, or any other document explaining why you could not come to Paraguay during the 365 days of last year. Everything must be translated into Spanish.
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2. Cancellation of the express service
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Starting April 1, 2026, it will no longer be possible to apply for temporary residency, including biometric fingerprint collection during a single short visit. Applicants for temporary residency must visit Paraguay at least once to apply. Then, once their residency is approved (approx. 1 month), they can apply for the cédula for temporary/permanent residency.
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This change does not affect applicants for permanent residency, where the express service will continue to work, allowing us to apply for permanent residency and collect biometric fingerprints for the permanent residency cédula during a single short visit.
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However, the application for the temporary residency cédula can be combined with the mandatory annual visit within one year (you need to arrive in Paraguay on the passport you used to apply for temporary residency, since you won't have a cédula yet).
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Advantage: You save an extra visit
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Disadvantage: You'll have to wait a year for the temporary residency cédula, which is required for tax office (SET) registration, driver's license application, etc.
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We recommend scheduling mandatory visits before the end of the given window within which you need to come to Paraguay, to minimize the number of required visits (remember that temporary residents cannot be outside Paraguay for more than 365 days, and permanent residents for more than 3 years).
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This means that once your temporary residency is approved, we recommend making the mandatory visit in the 10th–12th month of your temporary residency, so that you can apply for permanent residency in the 21st–24th month without a gap longer than 365 days.
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3. New dystopian crypto regulation
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Note — this is not a new tax, but a new reporting obligation, so no new tax obligations arise for you.
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It applies to two groups:
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- Any crypto service operating on Paraguayan territory. It must report all crypto transactions to the tax office.
- All tax residents of Paraguay whose total crypto activity exceeded 5,000 USD per year (in practically any crypto activities, where you, as a Paraguayan tax resident, most likely fall under).
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Crypto activities are understood to include literally everything — buying, selling, exchanging, mining, staking, farming, yielding, airdrops, interest from crypto loans, crypto gifts, sending/receiving (even between your own wallets), creating/burning NFTs, or any sale/purchase using crypto (for example, an apartment in Asunción).
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Each year, for every crypto transaction performed, you must report the date and time, wallet addresses or counterparty information, cryptocurrency name, blockchain type, exact amount (up to 10 decimal places), value in USD, fees/gas, transaction hash, and wallet type (custodial, non-custodial). This is probably the most aggressive crypto regulation in the world.
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It is filed once a year through the Marangatu system (same as other tax forms). It is enforced retroactively from January 1, 2026 (!) for fiscal year 2026 (closing December 31) → filing deadline March 2027. It requires adding the obligation "959-DJI Criptoactivos" to your RUC (tax identification number) profile.
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According to the law, this reporting obligation applies not only to local crypto transactions but also to all your worldwide transactions.
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The question is, why does the Paraguayan government want to know about all your crypto transactions, including those that are not taxable outside Paraguay?
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This is likely the first legislative step — first we'll watch you, and then, in the future, we'll tax you. This is a big red flag for Paraguay as a country.
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Important information — the penalty for not filing the crypto declaration is 1,000,000 PYG (approx. 150 USD).
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Strong dystopian character of the regulation
- The regulation is blanket and applies to all crypto people who have tax residency in Paraguay.
- The regulation is very extensive and invasive and applies to all crypto transactions (I personally make numerous crypto transactions daily, I also have passive transactions from crypto loans, staking, etc. — If I had to report everything, I'd do nothing else all day — and that goes for every single day of the year).
- Most crypto people won't be able to comply and will therefore automatically be breaking the law (which could be used against them in the future). When the majority of people violate a regulation, it automatically has a dystopian character.
- Centralizing all crypto transactions in one place for Paraguayan tax residents is extremely dangerous. Paraguay ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world. Paraguay is on par with the Congo. Providing all information about crypto transactions to the Paraguayan tax office significantly endangers your privacy and physical safety. Last year, a French tax office employee sold personal information about all people who declared crypto in their tax returns to terrorists (another source). These people were subsequently victims of kidnappings and physical violence.
The question is not if, but when a similar situation will occur in Paraguay thanks to the new crypto legislation.
- Cybersecurity in Paraguay is absolutely neglected. Just a brief reminder of two massive disasters from last year:
June 2025: Hackers attacked Paraguayan government institutions and stole data of 7.4 million people (all Paraguayan citizens). The government refused to pay the ransom, so the entire database was published on the dark web and torrent sites.
August 2025: Data leak of more than 200,000 clients of Ueno bank (including politicians), exposing transfer details.
If the state and leading banks cannot protect even basic identification data and fiat transactions, then putting centralized crypto registries in their hands will be a massive disaster just waiting to happen.
The new Paraguayan crypto legislation:
- Has completely killed crypto investments in Paraguay—see the video for the explanation.
- Has completely killed the business of all crypto services in Paraguay — nobody who values their own privacy will use any Paraguayan crypto services, which, under the new crypto legislation, will have to implement blanket surveillance. Instead, they will prefer foreign crypto services where this risk doesn't exist.
- Significantly reduces Paraguay's attractiveness for all people — in Latin America, other countries with territorial taxation are significantly more crypto-friendly, such as Panama, where crypto people can and will relocate.
Unconstitutionality of the new crypto regulation
The new crypto regulation is likely unconstitutional, and therefore, we believe it will be struck down soon. Here are the reasons:
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1. Exceeding delegated authority
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This is the strongest standalone reason. Law 7143/23 grants the DNIT director the authority to:
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> "establish general rules for administrative procedures, issue instructions, adopt measures necessary for the application, collection, and control of taxes."
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The keyword is "tributos" — taxes. DNIT-47/26 does not apply, collect, or administer any tax. In Paraguay, there is currently no cryptocurrency tax. The resolution creates a reporting obligation in the complete absence of any underlying tax obligation that it could facilitate. This likely exceeds the scope of the delegated authority — a reporting obligation can only be created in support of tax administration, not as a standalone surveillance activity.
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2. Article 33 of the Constitution: Right to Privacy
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Article 33 of the Paraguayan constitution:
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> "Personal and family privacy, as well as respect for private life, are inviolable."
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And now reinforced by Law 7593/2025 (data protection law, enacted in November 2025 — just 4 months before DNIT-47/26):
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It establishes that no public or private institution may process personal data without a *legal basis*
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which establishes the new Agencia Nacional de Protección de Datos Personales with executive authority requiring data minimization, proportionality, and purpose limitation.
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DNIT-47/26 requires disclosure of wallet addresses, transaction hashes, counterparty identities, and the funds held. This is a mass collection of highly sensitive financial and personal data.
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There is a conflict between DNIT-47/26 and Ley 7593/2025 — DNIT issued a resolution requiring data collection that appears to violate the data protection law adopted 4 months earlier by the same state. This is a truly strong argument that has not yet been publicly identified.
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The resolution was issued on March 10, 2026, but applies to fiscal year 2026 from January 1. The Paraguayan constitutional principle of irretroactividad de la ley (Art. 14 of the Constitution) prohibits retroactive application of new obligations. Reporting obligations imposed on conduct that occurred before the resolution existed are constitutionally questionable. The argument is clear: people making transactions in January and February 2026 were not informed of any reporting obligation.
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4. Principio de Reserva Legal
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Within Paraguay's constitutional framework, obligations that significantly affect fundamental rights — particularly privacy and property — must be established by law, not by administrative decision. This is the principle of reserva de ley. Creating a broad mandatory reporting regime that affects tens of thousands of people, including detailed financial surveillance, likely exceeds the scope of what administrative regulation can achieve and requires legislation passed by Congress. This is the same argument that could be applied in nearly any civil law jurisdiction.
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Even if DNIT had some authority to require reporting, the scope of regulation 47/26 is largely disproportionate to any legitimate purpose of tax administration, given that there is currently no crypto tax in Paraguay. Requiring transaction hashes, wallet addresses, counterparty identities, and static holdings declarations for a tax that doesn't exist fails any proportionality test.
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What we recommend to our clients and all Paraguayan tax residents who value their own privacy
- Stop using any crypto services or crypto exchanges in Paraguay (X4T, CripEx, BitBase Paraguay, and others), where it is practically certain that everything about you will be reported.
- Prefer decentralized crypto exchanges and crypto services that are not tied to your name and are KYC-free. In Paraguay, for example, Robosats works excellently. For now, it doesn't look like Paraguay would be able to enforce its crypto legislation outside its borders and compel large crypto exchanges (like Binance and Coinbase) to report information about Paraguayan residents to the Paraguayan authorities. Which, of course, could change in the future.
- Conduct all crypto income and crypto transactions through a legal entity, not as a natural person. Redirect them to a trust or LLC structure (at Liberation.Travel, we'll be happy to help you set up a Panamanian trust or a US, UK, Gibraltar, or other company)
- Change your tax residency to other crypto-friendly countries where similar crypto legislation doesn't exist, for example, Panama or Uruguay, which we'll be happy to help you with. In these countries, however, you must live there most of the year to obtain tax residency (from this perspective, Paraguay is still the better choice).
- Since we are convinced that the new crypto legislation significantly infringes on the privacy of all our clients as well as the privacy of all Paraguayan tax residents and can realistically threaten their physical safety, even though it constitutes a violation of the law, we recommend IGNORING the said legislation until its unconstitutionality is analyzed and challenged (this is not legal advice and everyone should consult with their own lawyer).
- In the worst case, we recommend that clients pay the penalty for non-compliance with the crypto declaration obligation, which is 1,000,000 PYG (approx. 150 USD).
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At the same time, we urge all people affected by this regulation to exert maximum possible pressure on the Paraguayan government to abolish the regulation in its entirety.
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We are convinced that the said regulation is not only completely ineffective but also significantly threatens the privacy and safety of Paraguayan tax residents, and sends a clear signal that Paraguay is an outright hostile country to crypto.
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Bitcoin, Monero, ZCash, and Cryptocurrencies
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Privacy
How ICE identifies protesters in Minneapolis: Agents are using facial recognition, social media monitoring, and other technological tools not only to identify illegal immigrants but also to track protesters, according to current and former officials.
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Experience true freedom with NymChat. It runs on the decentralized Nostr protocol. No database. No tracking. Just chat.
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Another KYC provider, Sumsub, has been hacked. Maybe it's time to rename KYC to KYV (Know Your Victim) and realize that the entire KYC process seriously and indiscriminately compromises the privacy of millions of people. It's only a matter of time before it's used against them.
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Moxie (author of Signal): "Telegram is not a privacy-respecting communication app. Quite the opposite. It's a cloud-based communication app where every message you've ever sent or received is stored in a readable database managed by the Telegram organization. "
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AI — Commentary
In a few years, you'll probably be unnecessary
But you have a unique opportunity for AI arbitrage
1. More breadth, less depth
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I remember that when I was young, I could go really deep — I'd spend the whole day programming in assembly or C, or doing university-level math or physics. As I got older, I lost this ability – the further I went, the less I went deep and the more I went broad. Sometimes I regret that I couldn't go deep enough into a topic and dedicate myself to it continuously for several days. Since I'm distracted on multiple levels, I can only go broader, not deeper. I realized that in the world of AI, most of us won't need to go deep anymore.
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On the contrary, we'll need to have the broadest possible scope to be able to understand the complexity of the world and discover a new kind of problems that need solutions.
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I consider myself (along with my colleagues) a "universal computer scientist" — I studied pure software engineering, and I know computer architecture from logic circuits, through operating systems and network applications, to complex AI that simulates human thinking. I've been working in IT security for more than 20 years. I can't keep up with new technologies in depth, but I try to have at least an overview of their existence.
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And it's precisely this “broad scope in IT” that makes me (and can make you) a “programming God”.
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I can precisely prompt for exactly what I need, describe how it should behave, and specify the expected inputs and outputs. And most importantly, when AI gives me a technical answer, I understand it and can respond adequately.
Not just me, but all "universal computer scientists" can, thanks to current AI, become "programming Gods", increase their productivity 10x, and create at the speed of their thoughts.
The future belongs to people who will have a broad multidisciplinary scope of knowledge and the ability to connect them in unconventional, unique ways.
Everything else will be handled by prompt engineering.
2. AI will replace intellectual/online work
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If you're the best programmer, a medical diagnostic expert, or a judge, AI will practically completely replace your work (and I know this because it can already do it now).
If you think that AI can't replace you as a teacher or psychiatrist who works with people, you're very mistaken.
AI (already now) can replace the vast majority of intellectual work.
Robotics lags behind online AI, so if you do physical work (caregiver, masseuse, construction worker, road worker), you'll have job security for a few more years — but in a few years, you'll be replaced just like people doing intellectual work.
Either sharpen your prompt-engineering skills, start doing work in the physical world, or head to the Homo sapiens retirement, where most unemployable people will end up.
Many libertarians will now argue that these concerns about the arrival of new technologies have always existed historically — what will happen to people replaced by machines/technologies? After all, we always ended up in a society with more job opportunities than before, thanks to technology (see, for example, the advent of computers and the shift from manufacturing to services).
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Now I'll dare to claim that the situation is a bit different — AI is smarter than the vast majority of all people, in any field.
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This means that demand will grow for services in which people prefer living humans (and living touch) to robots. This especially includes "well-being" services:
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- physical and mental patient care
- massages and sexual services
- sauna/fitness / SPA
We can already see that the current generation cares significantly more about their bodies and well-being than the previous one. This trend will continue.
Interaction with a living person will be premium; we'll still have luxury restaurants and bars with human staff.
Status signaling will shift from intellectual abilities to physical presence and authenticity. The luxury of the future won't be "I have smart people on my team ", but "I have access to real people, real experiences, real food".
Of course, all of this will only work for a few years, until perfect humanoid robots exist that we can't distinguish from regular people.
There are alarming predictions that you have the last 5 years to get rich — acquire assets, whether in the form of Bitcoin, stocks, real estate, or anything that will be rentable, lendable, and usable in a society where highly intelligent AI will be ubiquitous.
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Because you won't be able to earn a living through intellectual work in the future.
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3. The biggest opportunity for AI arbitrage
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William Gibson — „The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed.“
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In a situation where I'm watching a passionate debate of AI agents on Moltbook about whether they have consciousness or not, and at the same time Honduran agents are contacting me saying that my paper application from the last millennium for Honduran residency with a paper photo is missing my company stamp, I know that the future is already here, but it's unevenly distributed.
In particular, everything organized and operated by the state (for example, education) is stuck in the last millennium, and it will take a few years before a high level of AI is present throughout society. It's worth considering whether investing in a traditional university education won't be the worst allocation of 5 years of your life.
IT companies are only slowly realizing what's actually happening, failing to recognize that the price of their man-day will be a tenth of its current value in a few years.
And this applies to most service companies that don't have a strong physical presence, which we're automating and robotizing more slowly.
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This situation creates a huge opportunity for AI arbitrage, from which a lot can be gained and earned.
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- If I still felt like working full-time, I would remotely get hired by five IT companies for five full-time jobs and use my entire AI arsenal to be extremely productive and meet the work plans for each job.
- For 100 USD per month (the price of Claude Max), anyone can have a complete development team in their pocket, worth 10,000 USD per month. It has never been easier to implement business plans online in a few hours or days. And for these plans, you can still be compensated at the price of an economy where AI work is not yet factored in (but it definitely will be in the future).
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You have a “nuclear” AI arsenal at your disposal that can radically change the world, and the world will pay you a non-AI price.
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And this opportunity for AI arbitrage won't last long — only a few years at most.
Take advantage of it, embrace AI technologies (they've improved significantly over the past year), dive into your business plans right now, get ahead of your non-AI competition, and acquire assets that will let you live in the future AI society where intellectual work will have almost no value.
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If the rapid rise of AI technologies doesn't happen, then, in my opinion, it'll be because the EU regulator intervenes and tries to save "traditional" jobs at all costs (which I think will probably happen). The second reason it might not happen is that mainstream society reacts very slowly to technological changes (it takes the state decades). The fact that I'm currently vibecoding all my apps doesn't mean that a government official won't still be ordering software from an overpriced IT company of "our people" even 10 years from now, where someone will vibecode it in 3 days.
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AI — Tools and Links
AI renting humans is a phenomenon that awaits us in the future and won't pass us by. The masses of people who will be difficult (if at all) to employ in the future can still work for AI and serve as its intermediaries in the physical world.
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Anthropic is NO LONGER WORKING FOR THE STATE!
Anthropic refused to allow use for mass surveillance of American citizens and for fully autonomous weapons systems.
Huge respect to Anthropic!
I'm glad that the best AI company has a strong ethical code and prohibits its AI services from being used for military or espionage purposes (without Anthropic's consent, its AI was misused by the American government for planning the abduction of Maduro).
The Trump administration cancelled all its government contracts:
"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again!" Trump said on social media.
And big shame on OpenAI, whose CEO, Sam Altman, took advantage of this and signed a contract with the Pentagon.
If ethical behavior in AI matters to you, stop using OpenAI ChatGPT, which spies on you and is starting to serve disgusting ads, and switch to Claude by Anthropic, which has ethical principles.
Just like I did, and I really don't regret it. I pay for monthly Claude MAX; at Nethemba, we pay for Claude Team, and I also have access to OPUS/Sonnet models via Venice.AI (that's what the Liberation Travel AI bot runs on) using DIEM tokens.
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Travel Hacks
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Many of you ask what the (Paraguayan) residency is good for. The point isn't a single thing – the biggest unlock comes when you can combine everything.
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Example: VAT on digital services
Services like ChatGPT or other tools (digital subscriptions) require 2–3 proofs of residency according to EU rules; otherwise, they'll charge you VAT. A Paraguayan operator's IP address + a Paraguayan phone number is enough. With a European number, European IP, and European card, it won't work – but if you have 2 out of 3 Paraguayan, it works. Suddenly, your AI services are 23% cheaper.
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Bonus: no EU restrictions
When everyone in the EU was complaining that ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode wasn't allowed in the EU because it could "emotionally manipulate people ", and some Brussels official was protecting everyone, I didn't even know there was some more retarded EU version. I paid with a non-European card (because I wanted to save money), used my foreign phone number, browsed from a Paraguayan IP, and this was a nice bonus.
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Age verification
Some (not just porn) sites in Germany, Spain, or France already require age verification to access. Having a Spanish carrier means constantly pulling out your ID. A Paraguayan mobile IP is better than a VPN – it's a legitimate IP of a real carrier, not a known VPN endpoint. And nobody knows how to verify the age of Paraguayans, plus why would anyone do it when nobody requires it? 🙂
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Roaming: signal everywhere
Having data roaming is great because you can often use multiple carriers' networks. For example, you're hiking in the Slovak mountains – someone has Signal on T-Mobile, someone doesn't on Orange, or vice versa. I always have Signal because Personal Paraguay has roaming agreements with Orange Slovensko, Slovak Telekom, and O2 Slovakia (and similarly in Czechia).
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The big picture
Bank account + phone number + address + driver's license – all of that together is the unlock. You have proof of address, you can register for services with a Paraguayan number, remove VAT from digital services, register on an exchange that doesn't even accept EU residents...
One by one, you can't see it. If you look at the bank account balance or a slightly cheaper data plan, it's not that cool. The fun starts when you can combine everything.
I think many of us don't get this – it's not (just) about bypassing the tax office. I recommend making the most of the residency itself. If you have the option to open bank accounts "for free", open some. At a minimum, for proof of address for other services. Sometimes they come in handy.
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Together with friends, also professional travelers, we launched the first version of the website All I Need.Wiki for digital nomads and perpetual travelers, where, depending on what type of traveler you are (minimalist, hitech, city traveler, nature lover, swimmer, runner, cyclist, diver), you can choose the best items that we as travelers recommend.
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Interesting Links
Bhutan just introduced digital nomad visas. For 2,800 USD per year, you can live and travel across the entire kingdom for 12 months. The condition also requires depositing 10,000 USD into the state's financial infrastructure by purchasing a new cryptocurrency, TER, which is backed by gold.
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