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Trust me, I've considered it!

I've got a large family and a massive network of friends here in Ontario, however.

I grew up here, I can't move.

I've considered getting dual citizenship in another country, but that isn't exactly cheap or problem free either.

And I don't think the estonia e-residency is enough to satisfy regulators/crypto-exchanges that are serious about KYC.



Estonia is not going to cut it. I assume they work like your government would for tax purposes and your government can just say it's a Canadian company because you own it and supposedly there is not much more substance in the Estonian company. If you had a director, an office, a few employees, regular board meetings in Estonia that could work.

Unfortunately you need trust in this situation. A trusted friend with a company you don't own paying taxes in another country, taking a cut and sending you the profits very frequently would be my choice. I did just that for friends a few times (for tax reasons though), sometimes holding out the money for a long period of time while they moved to more favourable tax jurisdictions.

You can setup a contract between his foreign company and your canadian company and send invoices - albeit that won't afford you that much protection if he decides to run away with the money (hence why you want to transfer the money frequently).

I wouldn't trust a stranger with this, to avoid getting scammed but there is an entire industry around frontmens and some players should be reputable enough to be trusted.


> I grew up here, I can't move.

You don't want to.

Not the same thing.

It's all about priorities.

[edit: not sure why you are being downvoted, your answer is transparent and reasonable ...]


Depends how much you want it mate. Btw would love to chat more about your bot, contact info in profile.


E-stonia Eresidency is not enough. That just makes it easier to get EU banking.

Someone else’s id and rental agreement is though, for this purpose. These are either directly purchasable on a DNM (darknet market), or something you can ask for

Woooorst case you need to deep fake live on webcam, this is consumer grade tech even open source now

Acquiring and using the ID This might violate laws

Anyway.

VPN from the expected country all the time, or Tor+RDP (remote desktop) from a compromised computer close to the postal code of the ID which can also be found on an RDP DNM

Hacker. News.


I appreciate the creative thinking, but I would really prefer to do this legally it at all possible.


Ask a friend in another country for the verification info.

Or buy a Caribbean citizenship and circumstance that generates a utility bill.

(El Salvador has plans for easy crypto entreprenuer citizenship but they might lose international support over authoritarian moves.)


excellent post, sir, but shhhhh




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