Oddbean new post about login | logout #INTRODUCTIONS Been off the social media grid since 2017. #NOSTR pulls me back in. 💜 As I pack up my life and move my family and business from Europe to Argentina, I can’t help but reflect on the power of free speech—I’ve always defended it, no matter the noise. 🇦🇷 ✊ Obsessed with good food and even better stories, I'm excited to find myself on this journey with you. 🥩
Why the move to Argentina? 😊
We believe, Argentina is ripe for an economic rebound. And we like Javier Milei... (and red wine)... 🍷
Very interesting. I think you could very well be right. Heard Peter Zeihan think the same with regards to geopolitical developments. Personally also looking at emigrating but wifey and I still discussing pros/cons regarding country of choice. Would love to here your experience there compared to Europe!
LOVE IT!
Welcome to nostr! When are you moving? Followed so that I might later take inspiration from you
What's your business and how can I help you build it?
Thank you for asking… 🙏 We’re in food service and hospitality. And we’re looking to build a Bitcoin circular food supply chain from farm to consumer. Analog, we’ll need everything from A like attorneys to P like plumbers. Digital, we’ll hire a few coders in 2025…
Amazing. Sounds like you're an organic farmer within that supply chain. Any challenge finding restaurants or produce/meat distributors that are willing to have their costs (your revenue) denominated in BTC while their Revenues (from end market consumers) are denominated in fiat? Curious as to whether this is a challenge.
This is certainly a challenge. LatAm compares to Eastern Asia or Eastern Europe, in that a bottom-up adoption driven by currency devaluation meets a top down adoption from institutions offering services. Adoption is also driven by a high volume of remittances flowing from high income countries to the region. So, they’re ahead of the curve in terms of retail use and value transacted. However, they like their stablecoins on a CEX much more than a cold storing maxi does. I mean, USDT on a CEX looks pretty stable and convenient, compared to the Argentine peso in a bank account. So the challenge will be the Bitcoin part. To convince a region, battered by volatility, for a store of value that is more volatile than what they currently use…
You have obviously thought much more deeply about this than I have, but is it a two step game? i.e. - Step 1: Build the farm to table supply chain using a mix of digital payment methods (incl. stablecoins), Step 2: Eventually (possibly over 10+ Y) as Bitcoin adoption / fiat price inevitably increases and volatility declines, participants in the supply chain naturally choose to hold BTC vs. Stablecoins?
I mean, the value has to be there for a transaction to take place. So, the farm to consumer logistics come first. We’ve done it farm to restaurant in the U.S., and we’ve seen it done in Switzerland farm to consumer. Both projects are good ol’ Online Shopping with TradFi payments, email communication and stuff. The Lightning Network and Nostr are so potent, I would love to see the whole tech built around them. It’s just too good to pass it up…
welcome nostrich! well done, I could even zap you
I did some research 😅
Heh, just down the rabbit hole it is, then. Welcome and have so much fun figuring out how the world is broken, so you can dive into the right tech to fix yourself. Enjoy #Nostr! #introductions
welcome nostrich! well done, I could even zap you
Nice to meet you! Welcome!
Good to meet you, and looking gorward to exploring the art of noise…
My noise music account. Enjoy : https://wavlake.com/noise-inc-
Welcome to Nostr! If you need help with anything use hashtag #asknostr people are helpful on here. Freedom of speech is important 💯
I'm with you!!! Don't use others on principle. Decentralised was all I had to hear and here I am! #nostr FYW
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