Tomek ⚡ K

Electronic gypsy, life maximalist, obsessed about the future.

@BitcoinProspera @BitcoinFilmFest

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

IT IS JUST PREDICTING THE NEXT WORD!

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@maciejsoltysiak It's impossible for Bitcoin to become money for the world, without those big players coming in and meddling, unfortunately

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On the island of Roatán, off the coast of Honduras, a company called Próspera runs something the textbooks say cannot exist: a functioning jurisdiction where governance is a service you purchase rather than a burden you inherit at birth.

The mechanism is elegant. You sign an agreement with the platform, pay a flat annual fee (around $260 for Hondurans, $1,300 for foreigners), and in exchange you get a legal system, dispute resolution, and a regulatory menu you actually choose from. Businesses select which country's regulations they want to operate under. A clinic can opt into Arizona medical rules. A builder can pick from a set of international codes rather than wait for a bureaucrat in Tegucigalpa to stamp a form. The contract binds Próspera too, which is the part statists never understand. When the ruler signs the same document as the ruled, arbitrary power gets expensive.

This is Paul Romer's charter city idea stripped of its World Bank chaperone and handed to private capital. Honduras passed the ZEDE law in 2013 under President Juan Orlando Hernández. Próspera opened in 2020. The residents came. The capital came. Then the politics arrived.

President Xiomara Castro's government repealed the ZEDE framework in April 2022, and Honduras now faces Próspera in international arbitration with a claim that reached $10.775 billion, roughly a third of the country's GDP. Consider what that tells you. A nation of nine million people torched a project that promised jobs and foreign investment, then discovered that breaking contracts with people who read contracts carries a price.

The lesson here is old: property rights and legal predictability produce development. They are not luxuries you enjoy after development. Hong Kong under British common law went from fishing rocks to financial capital on exactly this insight, no natural resources required.

Próspera's enemies call it a colonial enclave for the rich. Odd, then, that the cheaper residency tier is reserved for the locals, and that the whole point is letting a poor Honduran opt out of the sclerotic system that kept his grandfather poor.

Governments hate exit. Próspera is exit made legal, priced, and voluntary. Watch which side blinks.

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@joeyyusef I know one service, you can find it at https://t.co/z7SI1bB54o

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@ProofofWorkMag so far combined with Lovable, i'm not good yet with server side scripts and databases

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

I've build 5 webapps with Claude. 6 more in progress.
Zero users. Zero revenue.
But it's fun 😁 at least

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@nomadlayer $4,900 PLEASE

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@geyserfund It's barely 'country', but some individuals in it.

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@Finiteenergy21 @AAStack @bitcoinfilmfest is waiting!

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@bitcoinfilmfest @bitcoinvn_io So grateful for BitcoinVN!

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@TomerStrolight @DirectorHodl It premiered in May on @indeehub and in June in theaters at @bitcoinfilmfest

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@togro42 @StackingSaunter @nvk happy to help, but not sure what are you asking... do you want to sell some of your savings into fiat?

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

And https://t.co/REZlVJkUpR right before!

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

PS we're running a beginner-friendly golf cup the day before:

https://t.co/mv7LWMDBoY

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

PS we're running a beginner-friendly golf cup the day before:

https://t.co/mv7LWMDBoY

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

One of my favorite events: @FreeCitiesConf comes back in 2026 to an actual free city - where I happen to live and run a business.

📌 @ProsperaGlobal @ Roatán, Sept 3-6.

$20 off with code BITCOIN: https://t.co/5bkwf1mqk1

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@Vladcostea 1. midnight? move it back to 10pm at least. trick: brush your teeth early, then you dont want to snack that much

2. i like such miniroutines, too. Good to have push-up stands next to it to remind you (and help you make better pushups)

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

Behind the scenes, great cozy events happen.

#BitcoinVibecamp
Roatan
August 17-23

[Bitcoin District Próspera @BitcoinProspera]

Come to Próspera this August!!!

We're doing another retreat, this time focused on... vibecoding 🤖

20+ hackers: beginners and wannabes, workshops, coworking, tourism, socials, AI - building towards freedom!

📅Aug 17-23 https://t.co/PXCtTqUWvw

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@Pledditor @PunterJeff but "it's still following the power law"

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@JoeNakamoto who is Adam Back?

[Tomek ⚡ K @itsTomekK]

@JoeNakamoto not me