[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-katie-ananina":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Katie Ananina (known online as “Katie the Russian”) is the founder of Plan B Passport and host of The Bittersweet Podcast. A former professional athlete, she emigrated to the United States and traded her sporting career for entrepreneurship. Driven by a passion for sovereignty and Bitcoin, she founded Plan B Passport to help bitcoiners obtain second citizenships through jurisdictional arbitrage.","She grew up in Russia, competed as a professional athlete and emigrated to the United States, where she started Plan B Passport after friends online kept asking the same questions about how she had arranged her own citizenship. The firm works with the Caribbean and Pacific programmes that grant citizenship for an investment or a donation, and it took payment in bitcoin from the beginning, which at the time almost nobody in the industry did.","In 2025 Plan B Passport was acquired by CitizenX, a Swiss citizenship-by-investment company, and she became its chief marketing officer.","Her argument is that a second citizenship is not a tax trick but a redundancy. The single document that decides where you may live and work is issued by one government, and holding only one of them is a concentration of risk nobody would accept in any other part of their affairs.",1788062491062]