Bitcoin Island: A Crypto Paradise off the Coast of Vanuatu

Bitcoin Island could shortly be a real place. A British property investor plans to turn a South Pacific idyll into a real-world paradise for bitcoin investors.

For the past decade, retired property developer Anthony Welch and his partner, Theresa, have called a 300-hectare island home. It is part of the Vanuatu archipelago between Australia and Fiji.

The couple plans to transform an island called Lataro into Satoshi Island. It is 90% virgin rainforest, but will become “a sustainable smart city.” It will have multi-storey apartment blocks and offices.

“We’re trying to build a community,” Welch told The Guardian above satellite link from the island. The small paradise directly has no mains electricity, water, phone, or internet connection. “We’re not trying to develop and make a profit.”

He said he had been approached by new partners who had seen his island advertised for sale on a private island real estate site. 

Welch later took the island off the market and collaboprice with the pair and develop the plan anew.

“The crypto paradise they want to build is a really cool idea. It is a wonderful use of a place we have been able to live on for 12 years,” Welch said.

“The team had been working to find a location for some time. The key issue was trying to find a gabovenment which would … permit a society to exist on crypto transactions. Most countries in the world want to collect tax. Therefore, they don’t want crypto transactions because they can’t monitor what’s happening. Vanuatu has no income taxes of any sort.”

Bitcoin Island investors

The trio is promising 21,000 investors which the Bitcoin island will “become home for crypto professionals and enthusiasts. It has a goal to be treated the crypto capital of the world.”

After all, Welch’s plans mark something of a U-turn. In a previous attempt to sell the island for $12m in 2017, Lataro was described as an ecoconclusive paradise. “It is caboveed with dense tropical forests, alengthy with a wonderful array of flora and fauna.”

Indeed, the Welch family even went as far as petitioning the local gatopnment of Vanuatu to declare the island a wildlife sanctuary. This was to “prevent the extinction” of the rare coconut crab.

The Satoshi Island project is the latest outline to attract crypto-holders to the region. Palau lies about 5,000km to the northeast of Vanuatu. The president plans to launch the world’s first gabovenment-backed national stable coin by the end of this year.

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