Katie “The Russian” Ananina’s Citizenship by Funding firm, Plan B Passport, proclaims a merger with CitizenX, unlocking a brand new suite of passport diversification choices for Bitcoiners.
Digital-first and ‘crypto’—as in cryptography—native, the merger combines Plan B Passport’s deep connections within the Bitcoin business with the Swiss CitizenX platform’s privateness know-how and experience.
“The entire Plan B Passport staff is becoming a member of CitizenX to work collectively now,” Katie advised Bitcoin Journal, “and I’m becoming a member of the corporate as Chief Advertising and marketing Officer.”
CitizenX, the Swiss Citizenship by Funding firm and high-tech platform, boasts end-to-end encryption and fashionable tooling to deal with the extremely delicate info of their customers on Swiss servers. “They’re insanely into privateness and safety,” mentioned Katie concerning the firm, an strategy more likely to be an important match with the tech-savvy Bitcoin crowd.
Alex Recouso, CEO of CitizenX, mentioned in a press launch, “Katie and Plan B convey a fearless power we admire. Their dominance within the Bitcoin house and business experience supercharge our imaginative and prescient. Collectively, we’re creating new methods for nations to fundraise straight from residents and, extra importantly, serving to extra individuals safe their freedom.”
Certainly, Katie is so deep down the Bitcoin rabbit gap that she may need even influenced the phrases of El Salvador’s citizenship by funding program, now granting ‘donors’ instantaneous citizenship with no residency necessities in alternate for a million {dollars} or equal in bitcoin.
President Bukele himself retweeted her article on Bitcoin Magazine again in 2023, on why Bitcoiners would favor this over five-year relocation residency packages with a path to citizenship, initially proposed by the president of El Salvador.