Katie “The Russian” Ananina’s Citizenship by Funding firm, Plan B Passport, pronounces 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 whole Plan B Passport team is joining CitizenX to work together now,” Katie advised Bitcoin Journal, “and I’m joining the company as Chief Marketing Officer.”
CitizenX, the Swiss Citizenship by Funding firm and high-tech platform, boasts end-to-end encryption and trendy tooling to deal with the extremely delicate info of their customers on Swiss servers. “They’re insanely into privacy and security,” mentioned Katie concerning the firm, an strategy prone 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 bring a fearless energy we admire. Their dominance in the Bitcoin space and industry expertise supercharge our vision. Together, we’re creating new ways for countries to fundraise directly from citizens and, more importantly, helping more people secure their freedom.”
Certainly, Katie is so deep down the Bitcoin rabbit gap that she might need even influenced the phrases of El Salvador’s citizenship by funding program, now granting ‘donors’ on the spot citizenship with no residency necessities in trade for a million {dollars} or equal in bitcoin.
President Bukele himself retweeted her article on Bitcoin Journal 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.
