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Libson Makes its Mark on Crypto

The blockchain sector is booming and Lisbon is emerging as a hub for this innovative industry. With a thriving startup scene and supportive government policies, the city is attracting blockchain businesses worldwide. With its strong ecosystem of blockchain businesses, the city is well on its way to becoming a major player in the global blockchain market.


Portugal, arguably one of the continent's most Bitcoin-friendly countries, has no specific crypto regulations, allowing businesses and individuals to transact cryptocurrency based on personal preference.

As a result, many have dubbed Portugal a "crypto tax haven," with both individuals and businesses taking advantage of the opportunity.


Thanks to its lack of crypto taxes, the city is attracting a growing number of digital nomads and entrepreneurs who are looking to set up shop in the EEA. In addition, a number of major conferences such as Nearcon and meetups are being held in Lisbon, drawing even more attention to the city's burgeoning crypto scene.


How long will Lisbon remain Europe’s crypto tax haven?

In the wake of Brexit, the small European country of Portugal has been thrust into the spotlight as a potential tax haven for crypto businesses. With its low corporate tax rates and relaxed regulations.


Given the volatile and unregulated nature of cryptocurrency, it is possible that Lisbon will eventually crack down on crypto businesses in order to protect its own economy


It remains to be seen how long Lisbon will remain such a friendly environment for cryptocurrency businesses. The city's tax rules are currently quite favorable, but that could change if the government decides to crack down on the industry. Additionally, other cities in Europe are beginning to catch up to Lisbon in terms of their crypto-friendliness, so it's possible that the city could lose its edge in the coming years.


For the time being, Lisbon is poised to become a leading center for blockchain innovation.


Complete Beginners Guide to Data Privacy & Crypto | What You Need to Know About Data Protection

This week Supermoon Camp founder Elena Obukhova presented an in-depth talk on data privacy and precautions to protect personal data and cryptocurrency wallets. There is a false belief that blockchain gives you privacy whereas it’s quite the opposite and gives full transparency. Public blockchains are distributed ledgers where we can see every single transaction. However, it is possible to hide data and personal identities by individually taking extra security measures. As blockchains don’t do this for users Elena explains the importance of data privacy and simple steps to achieve personal data protection.


Elena took the group through the many types of data according to her definition, first looking at personal data and characteristics such as demographics, age, race, and location. There is personality, something you have been forming from the beginning, which is quite hard to change. We also have social and psychological characteristics that also define you as a person and are a part of your personal data.


The behavioral factors such as habit, routine, and formations through time are crucial sets of data that tech companies are very interested in. This is the data they can manipulate to affect your decisions and the decisions of other people. Obviously, human likes, preferences, and dislikes are continuously changing making this type of data a constant learning process gathering and analyzing behavioral patterns throughout the years.

We also have social attributes, which are your relationships, connections, and everyone you socialize and do business with. This data is also an essential element in your decision-making process.


While Elena worked for United Nations as a data scientist a few years back, she learned quickly the power of data and how it can affect one’s decisions making process.


“At the moment I started building different correlations and different patterns, I started to realize I know what people think in this country. What people like, problems they have, and what kind of products we can launch to fill needs”.


At that time United Nations' aim was to increase financial inclusion among people in developing economies, which is a totally different goal in comparison to the corporate segment. Large corporations are not looking for this data to help you; they’re looking at this data to sell you a product or service.


Taking a quick look at various data interpretation methods such as direct, a simple analysis of where you go, things you like, what you watch, and what type of locations you visit. This data is easy to collect through cell phones whenever you connect to networks and allow geo-location to your iPhone apps which is where a lot of tech companies retrieve data.

Besides direct data interpretation, there are also simple prediction algorithms, where they start analyzing your data for things like close network calls, and business relationships thus making this powerful data along with complex prediction algorithms. These allow future predicting, aggregating the data of one person, and analyzing patterns, behavior, and decisions. By taking this data you can start to make actual future predictions based on probability theory.

“The algorithm can predict for example if someone will start a business in two years or launch a new venture in 10 years, you can build all of these patterns based on individual data. This data is actually scary because that’s when companies can start manipulating decisions, and not only you as one person moreover a group of people”.


As Elena mentioned data can be used for multiple reasons such as research, commercial, and political. From politicians to marketers this data shows crucial trends which are used to influence peoples’ decisions through ad campaigns, media, products, and much more.

In the blockchain space, it is crucial to self-educate and learn how to protect yourself. Blockchain gives us the opportunity to protect ourselves without relying on third parties, however, there are still many people who don’t know how to do so, assuming blockchain automatically protects you which is a common misconception.


Basics of data privacy that you can do:


· VPN


· Trusted Network (no public Wi-Fi)


· Separate email addresses


· Prepaid phone number


· Alias


· Anonymous crypto wallet


· Cash payments



Watch the full episode for top wallet tips from Elena.

Speaker Elena takes serious precautions recently becoming proudly unbanked bar one necessary corporate account for legal reasons in the United States.

It’s no easy task to remove one’s digital presence and protect personal data as there is a constant trade-off between convenience and protection of personal information.

Your data isn’t safe if it belongs to someone else, for example, Yahoo, Facebook, and Marriott all had a data breach where individual data was stolen. One individual’s data is not so important to big tech companies, but with everyone’s data together they can build prediction algorithms to use for manipulations.


How are they collecting your data:

· Social Media


· Voice assistants


· Bank transactions


· Online orders


· Reservations & bookings

Many people think blockchain gives them full data privacy and protection…wrong. Blockchain doesn’t give you anonymity but it is 100% transparent, meaning you can trace every single person and transaction far easier than cash transactions, contradicting the false claims of crypto being used for illegal operations due to lack of traceability.


How to buy crypto anonymously?


· LocalBitcoins; has become one of the best tools to buy OTC in a simplified way.


· Bitcoin ATMs


· OTC



You’ll be surprised how big the OTC market is worldwide, and with centralized exchanges, there is a growing need to take custody of your funds. When using crypto wallets, users must ensure they have full custody, private key, and seed phrase, then you are storing securely. If not anyone can look into your wallet and take your funds without having a third party, for example, a bank to recover stolen crypto, however the drawbacks of the centralized banking system far out way this one convenience in my opinion.


Elena recommends using hardware wallets for the highest security, however, we are still in the early phases of crypto wallets with room for improvement. With this in mind, you always need to know if you are putting your seed phrase on your computer connected to Wi-Fi where someone else can easily retrieve this information.

Try Crypto Mixing Services for Added Security:

During the data privacy and crypto guide Elena covered transactions, privacy coins, and different services, the logic here is that it is a centralized service so it’s wise to not trust it with a high volume of funds. We try to find better ways, for example, crypto mixing services where you have a pool of transactions where people send their money into one pool, and then they mix the funds up and you are receiving it from a completely different wallet. There are also mixing protocols so they are decentralized, being similar but in an automated way. Similarly, with smart contracts, you are not achieving complete privacy but it’s considerably harder to trace. You can also go through this mixing several times to make it even harder. But there is no such thing as 100% anonymity, if someone wants to find out where you put your funds it is possible. There are other similar options like Ring Confidential transactions that Monero is using and a very interesting theory; Zero Knowledge.


Data privacy starts with one’s own dedication, research, and personal capacity for trading privacy and security for convenience.


Aves Lair, Supermoon Camp and Foresight Ventures hit success during NFT.NYC


The debut collaboration between Aves Lair, Supermoon Camp and Foresight Ventures stormed NFT.NYC week, gathering over 300 VCs and top-notch Web3 projects at their Gala and Nonfungible Rooftop night.


The exclusive networking events at Mykonos Bleu and DL Rooftop featured top-class digital artists Exquisite Workers, eccentric tequila tasting with House of Rare, exclusive NFT giveaways from gamified social fitness metaverse platform Puml and immersive editorial NFT experience Burble. Co-organizers Supermoon Camp shared the first of its exclusive membership NFTs, giving winners access to Supermoon’s private events, media opportunities, and much more.


Supermoon Camp and FlashBack.one co-founder Elena Obykhova commented: “When people tell me that our event inspired them to start working together, it makes my heart happy. One of the primary goals of our community is to help talented individuals connect and innovate, and we have unquestionably achieved it.”


Upcoming events will be announced this month, as Aves Lair is preparing to announce its new VC fund with a focus on Web3 founders as well as leveraging the resource network and range of capabilities to bring value, catalyzing growth for projects and founders in the space.

Foresight Ventures celebrated the recent launch of its accelerator program, along with its ecosystem partner Bitget and Bitkeep to bring more synergies into the NFT and Metaverse space.


The VC Gala and Nonfungible Night organizers

Aves Lair is a New York-based, early-stage VC with an ecosystem where visionaries, groundbreaking startups, industry leaders, scientists and investors are brought together to usher the new wave of innovation into the Web3 industry.

Foresight Ventures is an investment organization focused on blockchain technology and crypto business, investing in equity and token markets. Recently, it launched $200 million in secondary funding to purchase unvested tokens and SAFTs.

Supermoon Camp is an organization helping professionals build genuine and lasting relationships through an exclusive community of blockchain innovators, enthusiasts, and high-impact networking events.


Co-organizers and supporters

Computecoin is a decentralized cloud infrastructure on a mission to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 by allowing developers and end-users to seamlessly transit into the Web3 economy

Bitget is one of the world’s most innovative crypto exchanges for buying, trading and earning crypto.

Bitkeep is the top decentralized multi-chain digital wallet in Asia. BitKeep integrates wallet, swaps, the NFT market, DApps and discovery in a single location.

NFT Genius is a team of storytellers, technologists and innovators focused on delivering world-class digital experiences and marketplace technology to the NFT market.

Crypto Influencer Guild is a DAO of Web3 influencers worldwide who are dedicated to helping more Web3 explorers grow and providing a fairer chance to participate in the space.


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