Say what you will, but I've always believed — and still believe — that buying real estate is the best investment there is. Gold, crypto, stocks ➡️ those are just hobbies, supplementary assets, not your core investment vehicles.
First comes business ⏩ your own venture, and a conditional 20% of your dividends goes into real estate — whether that's installments, a mortgage, or saving up to buy property in cash down the line.
I've always found it amazing — I have so many friends who run businesses in unconventional niches, have teams of literally three people, make millions of dollars, and spend a couple of hours a day working on a computer or phone. And in their niche there's zero competition, none whatsoever. Everyone knows each other by heart, yet the market is beautiful in terms of revenue.
But at the same time, there are literally millions of marketplace sellers and just as many bloggers who, like freelancers, make ten grand a month max, if that, buried so deep in operations you'd think they held a key position in government corruption or at a bank.
People are amazing creatures — how alike we are, and how different our brains and thought processes are. Some are thinking about how to put satellites into Earth's orbit so the whole planet has internet, when we'll finally fly to Mars, and how to make space travel cheaper thanks to stages that return to Earth, while simultaneously building an electric car company. And others spend half their lives not knowing what to do with themselves, because work is somehow boring, and everything around them is a drag, and the only thought in their head is what tasty thing to eat and how to entertain themselves on a weekend evening — and it goes on like that their whole life…
I was reading your comments and questions about issuing a Binance card, ByBit cards + a neo-bank with Apple Pay integration 🎁
To issue the card, your account must be set to the corresponding region — mine are Armenia and Kazakhstan. You'll also need to verify a phone number from those countries.
Last year, when I visited Astana Hub as invited media press, Pavel Durov was speaking and Nurlan Saburov was hosting. During those couple of months I spent in Kazakhstan, some acquaintances helped me sort out the necessary paperwork for our company. I even have a post about it, thanking the capital's judges, the Prosecutor of Kazakhstan, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Baikonyr district of Astana for their help in obtaining the relevant documents.
Thanks to that, I now use not only the Kaspi ecosystem, but also the Freedom platform from banker Timur Turlov 💰
The world is currently heading toward being split into two kinds of highly intelligent beings: AI robots and humans. Meanwhile, globalization & capitalism are turning humanity into a single living organism striving to conquer the Universe, starting with our Solar System.
🐶 And on that note, I like what Sam Altman is doing right now — the new messiah of the human race, standing shoulder to shoulder with Musk and Dario Amodei. What I especially dig is OpenAI's subsidiary that launched World ID and World App (kind of reminiscent of what the Durov brothers wanted to build with Telegram, before they got sidetracked by crypto, women, and politics).
The new Money project, funded by ChatGPT money, has a pretty intriguing tagline: a financial "super-app for humans", bundling stablecoins, international transfers, investments, Earn programs, and virtual accounts. All of this feels like a glimpse into the future — a world already split between living beings with souls who've passed biometric verification, and AI humanoids carrying a GPU under the hood instead of a heart.
Starting in October, AI and Web3 conferences are gradually kicking off in the UAE 🇦🇪
These days I rarely attend any conferences, unlike in previous years when it was kind of a trend. I've lost interest in mass events like these. What inspires me more now are closed clubs and private gatherings — the kind you won't find anything about online, and where you can only get an invitation from other community members.
Still, I'll show up at a couple of public events: at the end of November, by invitation from CMS CardOS, and in the first half of December ➡️ at Blockchain Week.