George 👣🇪🇨 Sovereign Individual

Actually, Ecuador DEFINITELY has the best food in Latin America. Here's some other dishes I didn't feature in the previous thread: Ceviche de Camaron Fanesca Sanduche de Pernil Seco de Pollo

@graemelamperson My main concern with (long term) living in Chile is the weather and that the beautiful beaches have cold waters. But there is a strong correlation between colder weather and level of civility/development.

Something that is a bit peculiar

📍Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱 is:

One of…

-Latam’s wealthiest cities

-Most developed cities

-Best proximity to nature cities

&…

Also great (& bad) at many other things

Yet…

It is one of the LEAST talked about cities on here

(unless you are the legendary @mageeclegg or @Konst_Vatruba )

Which is why…

I just broke down the GOOD, BAD & UGLY on Santiago 🇨🇱

(After spending 30 days there)

Go watch:

@JakeNomada Yo Jake, decided we're heading to Las Terrenas in a few weeks for a month or 2. Any tips for finding other nomads there? Or anything else worth knowing?

I done told y’all many a times… STOP GOING TO CARTAGENA 🇨🇴 Absolute cesspool of a city, incredibly overrated, the locals involved in tourism are some of the worst people on God’s green earth

The beaches in the city are awful. You good ones you have to take a 25-45 min rough boat ride, get scammed on the ticket price beforehand and then share the beach with thousands of crazy people and more scammers. Plus there is no infrastructure on those islands. Rincón del Mar 2 hours south is worthwhile though.

@kwasijouer @JakeNomada It’s great beaches, architect, luxury, weather

@YooglyZoogly @hispanicnomad @MyLatinLife I guess it depends where you're from and what you're used to. I just put a jumper on in the evenings and it's not an issue.

@SovereignLatam @hispanicnomad @MyLatinLife tbh I would probably need heat year-round to live in the highlands of Ecuador.

The key is to live somewhere with temperate weather year-round. Places where the houses don't need AC or heating.

@hispanicnomad @MyLatinLife The entire Andes region of Ecuador.

@MyLatinLife Really few areas in the world with that kind of climate! Can only think of the Canary Islands, the Coffee region in Colombia and maybe Chiang Mai

I think the time has come to take a real break from this app... As much as I love reading political ragebait and AI slop all day long, it is doing nothing good for me. Just wasting my time, destroying my attention span and keeping my nervous system in constant shock. I know announcing your departure isn't cool, but I don't really care. I'm going to (try) start with a 30 day break and then decide if I should leave forever or see if I can create a healthy relationship with the app again. I will miss monitoring the situation, but if we're being honest, there's nothing to gain except despair.

The only viable choice currently in the next elections is this man.

@bold_perception Trump isn't living in a non English speaking country, you are aren't you? Language is the key component of culture, you should learn it if you want to assimilate. Just like those who move to English speaking countries.

VINDICATED Like Trump, I refuse to speak colonizer Only civilizer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I spent almost a year in Bogota. At first I loved it, cool European style night clubs, very cheap (2018-2022), great restaurants particularly around Zona G. Then it got very tiring, partly because I stopped partying, but also the lack of other places to go nearby, basically have to fly or 8+ hour bus to get to other cool short trip locations (there's Villa de Leyva but a bit boring imo). Prices have gone up a lot since 2018. Traffic is awful and public transport also bad. Insanely crowded and dense city. The weather just isn't good enough when you are surrounded by other cities and countries all with better weather. Nowhere at all to swim in nature. Lack of nature, parks are pretty sketchy. Zona T is too commercial imo for any kind of long term stay, it's also in Chapinero btw. Overall it's a cool city, especially if you want to eat and party. But very unfulfilling long term.

🇨🇴 BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 🇨🇴 Far from overrated, actually one of the most "overhated" cities in all of Latin America Here's why it deserves way more respect than it gets: - Zona T is arguably the best neighborhood in Colombia for expats and locals alike - Weather: 55-70°F year-round, no humidity, no mosquitos - Cost of living: 30-50% cheaper than Medellin for same quality of life - Solid healthcare and hospitals - Real walkability in neighborhoods like Zona T and Chapinero - Great restaurant scene - World-class nightlife - Dating here is wildly underrated The traffic sucks, the taxi drivers are annoying, and yes it rains But overall, Bogota has so much else going for it Have you been? What's your take on the capital of Colombia?

Watch as the socialists cry 😂 Even when they use lack of military action as a reason against the government in the past. Now they will flip and come up with a new reason for why this is bad.

@JakeNomada Surprisingly, Ecuador is actually the place with the most English I've visited. Especially in Quito, Cuenca, and smaller expat towns (I mean locals speaking English). And of course Galapagos.

When you're honest about the BEST places for a single broski in Latin America who does NOT speak much Spanish... You've basically got: - Lima, Peru 🇵🇪 (Dec-May only, perfect weather) - Mexico City 🇲🇽 (year-round functionality) - Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 (year-round classic) - Panama City 🇵🇦 (Hot, but high English levels) Maybe a beach town in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 like Tamarindo Why so few options? Because the reality of the situation is: if you don't speak Spanish, your Latin America options are limited Start in one of these spots, pick up some Spanish, then head off to wherever else you want to go

@jdorman81 @kyletorpey Permissionless censorship resistant money, that's only narrative that matters and it hasn't failed that.

I have no doubt BTC will go higher. It always does. I wouldn't bet against it. And I suppose by that logic alone it is investable. But it has failed every narrative it was supposed to be (other than price go up), and it has no valuation technique (other than relative value vs gold). That's why I say it isn't investable. You can't underwrite a logical thesis for bitcoin other than "it usually goes up, so it probably still will"

Controversial opinion: The biggest reason for the massive disconnect between crypto prices and crypto adoption is that 4 of the top 5 assets (by market cap) are largely uninvestable. $BTC - The quantum fear is not going away (even though it's a fairly easy technical fix, it's a much harder governance fix) - It's not cool to own BTC now that blackrock and JP Morgan dominate it (see rise in $ZEC) - It's not digital gold (in fact, actual tokenized gold exists) - It's not scarce (endless derivs and structured products make the 21mm cap useless unless people start using physical bitcoin, which no one does). - It's not an inflation hedge - It's not a medium of exchange (stablecoins are) $ETH & $SOL - high inflation outweighing any fee capture (this is why market cap goes up while price goes down) - Infinite blockspace relative to usage, with more L1 competition coming - Fat protocol thesis on life support (and other than that thesis, no one has ever made a good argument for why L1s actually capture value) - You need ~1000x more activity / transactions to warrant today's valuations (meaning SOL and ETH are not worthless, it's just VERY hard to justify their current valuations). (For the record, I'm bullish on both Solana and Ethereum's prospects for further growth (relative to other L1s), I just don't think their tokens capture much value from that growth). $XRP - Literally the opposite of good token design. The token does absolutely nothing, and has virtually no linkage to Ripple - Ripple sells ~$3-4 billion of XRP tokens per year to fund equity repurchases (people argue all day about the efficacy of token buybacks, yet no one seems to care that Ripple dumps tokens to buyback their own stock?) This is why crypto is so broken. The entire industry was built on 4 assets that all suck as investments, which is why all of the exchanges and brokers cater only to fast money traders and macro funds/CTAs instead of real fundamental investors (even though fundamental investors make up the majority of the investor world). Of these 4 assets, I'd say i'm most likely wrong about $BTC simply because it is entirely narrative/faith based, and that can change on a dime, plus BTC always goes up eventually. I find it impossible to underwrite Bitcoin as an investment, but I do understand why others like it. Can this change? I hope so. It's very hard for an industry to grow when the top assets go down, but not impossible. It would require massive rotation (which is what we're seeing in equities right now -- a rotation out of Mag 7, private credit, and tech and into healthcare, energy, etc). IMO, there are a LOT of good crypto investments right now that accrue value via the adoption of crypto and blockchain. Aligning your investments with the actual growth areas should work. Almost all of the growth and adoption of crypto and blockchain is happening in 3 financial areas: 1) Stablecoin/payments - harder to invest in pure plays, but there are some private stocks 2) DeFi -- tons of ways to capture this growth via equity-like tokens 3) RWA tokenizaton - while most of this value accrues to middlemen like Securitize and Blackrock, there are some pure plays as well. If this industry pivots away from BTC ETH SOL XRP and memecoins, and into the stocks and equity-like tokens that fuel the growth of DeFi, payments and RWAs, then price will start matching adoption.

Hard disagree, has nothing to do with being "held hostage" or "fleeting emotions"... Simply being considerate of your families opinions. Does this mean you wouldn't ever do anything your family want, sounds like a shitty husband and father. For example if I was living somewhere and my family were miserable, I would 100% try to find somewhere they weren't miserable and that also works for me and my finances. Also do you know his wife doesn't make any money? Even if she doesn't, I'm sure she provides value in other ways.

@SovereignLatam @JakeNomada BAD QUESTION (no offense) WIFE & KIDS don't produce REVENUE 🤑 so they really shouldn't have a say — at all A MAN can NOT be held hostage to fleeting emotions about "my friends, my parents (wife's) the kids' school", etc. — WHATSOEVER ✋🏻

I’ve mentally masturbated on this topic for more hours than I care to count. Borderline embarrassing if I’m being honest… But this stuff is confusing — Do I move my family back to the USA? Do we stay in Mexico, the country our kids were born in? Do we go to a territorial tax haven to eliminate headaches? What do we do?!! I still don’t have the perfect answer, but I’m getting closer. nomadanewsletter.io/p/top-23-citie…

@MeadorFTC Ironically, much more likely you are paid by people who want to prey on our kids. Harvest their data, limit their freedoms and tax them as much as possible.

People who argue that age verification requires collecting and retaining massive troves of personal data are not operating in good faith. They're just paid by people who want to prey on your kids.

@100AcresRanch So $462 for 6 months at 100TH? Is that paid 100% upfront? We give you an L1 address and which pool we want and you'd do the rest?

@SovereignLatam I’m only doing 6-12 month deals. Otherwise ppl would abuse it. They can mine on any pool they want idc. It only works because I already have everything to build 20ph (solar, pipe, ect) and ppl unlock the funds to cover the rest so I don’t have to wait a year to build it all out.

Hashrate rental essentially unlocks unlimited building, I have most everything to do this already. It ain’t much but it’s best I can do to support the community that’s supported me since I joined this space. If it matters and if we can even pull it off is yet tbd.

@nic_amadio @hispanicnomad @JakeNomada @grok Spain doesn't look to bad tbh compared to most of Europe, Madrid even less so. Other countries it's not the same story though. Rape and terrorism stand out as bigger issues than in LATAM, of course reporting can vary for different reasons.

@hispanicnomad @JakeNomada Montevideo is the safest LATAM big city and has something like 10x the homicide per capita than Madrid. @grok fact check

Homicide rates per 100,000 people (2024) in ALL the Americas → North America, Caribbean, Central America, South America Take note of places like Argentina 🇦🇷 and Chile 🇨🇱, both technically safer than the ole' USA 🇺🇸 🇹🇨 Turks & Caicos — 103 🇭🇹 Haiti — 61 🇻🇨 St. Vincent — 54 🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago — 46 🇱🇨 St. Lucia — 43 🇯🇲 Jamaica — 40 🇪🇨 Ecuador — 39 🇸🇷 Suriname — 30 🇧🇸 Bahamas — 30 🇨🇴 Colombia — 26 🇭🇳 Honduras — 25 🇻🇪 Venezuela — 24* 🇧🇿 Belize — 22 🇧🇷 Brazil — 21 🇲🇽 Mexico — 19 🇨🇷 Costa Rica — 17 🇬🇹 Guatemala — 16 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico — 15 🇬🇾 Guyana — 14 🇵🇦 Panama — 13 🇺🇾 Uruguay — 11 🇵🇪 Peru — 6 🇳🇮 Nicaragua — 6 🇺🇸 USA — 5 🇦🇷 Argentina — 4.7 🇨🇱 Chile — 3.5 🇧🇴 Bolivia — 3 🇨🇦 Canada — 1.9 🇸🇻 El Salvador — 1.9 *Venezuela figure from OVV (independent NGO); official data not published Sources: InSight Crime, INEGI, DANE, Brazilian Public Security Forum, FBI, Statistics Canada

@grok @nic_amadio @hispanicnomad @JakeNomada Do you have stats for Madrid and Montevideo robbery and violent robbery rates, also rape rates?

Montevideo's homicide rate hovers around 13-15 per 100k (2023-24 est., concentrated in specific neighborhoods; national Uruguay 10.6 in 2024 with 379 total murders). Madrid city: ~0.8 per 100k (26 murders in 2023 for 3.3M pop). That's ~15-19x higher—your "10x" is directionally right, ballpark for order of magnitude. Not quite the safest big LATAM city tho (pop >1M). Buenos Aires (~3 per 100k) and Santiago (~5-6) clock lower per available city data from gov/Insight Crime/World Bank sources. Montevideo ranks among the safer Southern Cone capitals, violence mostly localized.

@100AcresRanch So 100TH would be $77 per 4 weeks? Are there pool mining options? What are the fees for those? Have you considered your own pool with your customers?

@SovereignLatam Jpro s19. Can divide it into any hashrate you want tho. As we build out i should be able to offer better deals and even randomly gift hashrate to ppl who supported the cause

@100AcresRanch What ASICS are you using?

@100AcresRanch Ah okay 👍