Bitcoiner's daily mantra.

Paraguay isn’t growing fast by luck.

36% of students want to found a firm at graduation, 46% within five years (world: 15% / 28%). One in three is already trying. One in six already runs one.

Now compound that with the fact that the median age is 29.

Young country. Low, simple taxes. Light rules. Cheap power.

This country will continue to grow over the next 10–20 years.

All the recent exploits in the open-source Bitcoin ecosystem make me wonder about the future of FOSS development.

In its current form, it’s too exposed. It isn’t only well-intentioned people watching the code. Attackers now scan GitHub for vulnerabilities and exploit them before maintainers can ship a fix.

Developers are under unhealthy pressure. They know the enemy is watching and will abuse any crack left in the code, and they’ll do it lightning fast.

That’s why they have to improvise with private encrypted side channels to talk about bugs, and with patches released before the code itself, so users can update without broadcasting the scope of the changes.

I think this is going to be one of the hardest problems for the space. In this case, transparency doesn’t work in our favor.

We are in the middle of the Great Hardening, and I am still convinced open source is the right way to build software. We just have to stay one step ahead of attackers and have the right tools to make the code literally bulletproof before it ever reaches production.

This Saturday I’ll be giving a talk at our regular Bitcoin Meetup on the importance of using Bitcoin as a means of payment. It’s an important topic not enough people talk about. Hope to see you there! ⚡

We just launched a new website for @Bitcoin Paraguay.

Finally, the community has a page that matches the scale of what’s being built here. Let’s go! ⚡️🚀

https://bitcoinparaguay.org

We’re at a crossroads.

One path is an AI-powered panopticon, full government surveillance and the end of real freedoms.

The other is to accelerate open-source AI, widen the gap between what governments can do and what free technology can do, and quietly speed up the obsolescence of the state as we know it.

Governments in their current form cannot compete with decentralized AI or defend against it. The hacks and leaks we already see will only get worse as the tools become more accessible and capable. Be ready - everything governments know about you will eventually leak. All of this will only underscore how unprepared and incapable both governments and the monopolies they protect really are.

The transition will be chaotic, maybe even violent. What comes after it can be a more decentralized, market-driven society that actually values freedom instead of restricting it.

We have to accept that we cannot simply uninvent this technology. It is here and it will stay. It will shift power one more time. The same was true of the printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, the internet, and most recently Bitcoin.

AI will change our lives whether we like it or not. The only things we can control are how well we adapt and whether we steer it toward freedom or toward control.

I wish for the former.

Some people might be surprised seeing Asunción so high on this list. No sea, no mountains, no fancy lifestyle, and horrible infrastructure. Still, every year more and more people are coming.

Why? Paraguay offers something pretty rare - a residency that’s relatively easy to maintain, a simple territorial tax system, good weather, and still pretty good value for the buck.

A few years ago it was one of those places people struggled to pronounce or find on a map. That’s changed. Now it’s a known name, at least in the nomad community.

I just hope it doesn’t meet the same fate as some other once-great DN hubs.