Giovanni (learntheropes) LPY
Startup Ops • Bitcoin & Payments • AI • Emerging Markets
Currently building
Cofounder, CEO, CCO, senior developer @ Paguaitu
PAGUAITU EAS (Asunción, PY): We develop software to grow international sales with blockchain-assisted technologies combined with traditional banking for multi-rail payments and with multi-agent AI-driven technologies for marketing. Our first approach is for construction and real estate in Paraguay and Latin America, with a real estate and agricultural lands fund on the roadmap.
PAGUAITU Verein (Lugano, CH): The software cores and most of the plugins targeting informal and high-risk businesses are MIT licensed.
PAGUAITU EAS (Asunción, PY): The cloud version and other plugins addressing mid-size fully compliant businesses are proprietary software.
We don't reinvent the wheel but build on top of the most well maintained and funded open source software, such as Trust Wallet Core, BTCPay Greenfield API, PayRam, LiteLLM, and Grok Build, and many API and MCP integrations.
Solopreneur @ Fantasia lat/ina
Fantasia latina RUC (Asunción, PY): I help SMEs from Paraguay to expand to the LatAm market with the AI-driven marketing tools and partially with the blockchain-based payment rails developed by Paguaitu Verein and with the logistical and legal structures matured in a decade of first-hand experience on the ground.
Fantasia latina LLC (Albuquerque, NM, US): On the roadmap I want to help international companies to enter the LatAm market with Paraguay as a regional hub.
BTCPay Server
I'm a BTCPay Server core and plugins contributor and I run a BTCPay Server instance.
You are welcome to contact me to enable your account (open registration is currently disabled due to spam and abuse) and once enabled follow these guides for the most user-friendly mobile wallet setup.
Formerly
Head of Operations and Compliance & Development @ Peach SARL
Neuchâtel, CH, 2024-2026
Peach Bitcoin is a non-custodial and privacy-focused peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile marketplace for buying and selling Bitcoin on-chain.
Head of Disputes, Fraud & Compliance @ LocalBitcoins Oy
Helsinki, FI, 2014-2023
Localbitcoins was the first P2P Bitcoin platform. The first one to introduce the escrow concept later replicated by many competitors. It's part of the history of Bitcoin.
We scaled from a team of 4 to a multicontinental team of 80+ in 10 years, generating revenues of about 60k BTC.
Sailing Ocean Yachtmaster STCW & Commercially Endorsed (1993-2013)
In the pre-bitcoin era I was a sailor, sailing about 10K nautical miles in the Med Sea & Atlantic Ocean.