Maya Middlemiss

Remote work and global hiring have shaken the foundations of traditional pay structures. As legal, design, finance, and tech roles compete internationally, the logic of linking salaries to geography becomes harder to defend. Pay should reflect

Join Remote Work Europe and Elliott Locke from abroaden, for a comprehensive free webinar about financial wellbeing in Spain - especially for all of us who are remote, freelance, contract workers, expats, or anything a bit more complicated than the average employee.

Whether you’re interested in cutting-edge AI, dual use technologies, or the next climate tech unicorn, there's never been a better time to invest in Estonian startups Technology is radically transforming the world faster than ever, and whatever…

Becoming a self employed freelancer (autonomo) in Spain is not difficult, however there are certain steps that must be followed in order to register, and specific filings required to remain in compliance.. Our trusted advisors Entre Tramites will help you get it right.

Borders, boundaries, and politics are never set in stone, and only a few years ago the UK was part of the largest global trading bloc. As well as freedom of movement, it was easy for British entrepreneurs to trade without tariffs, across the EEA and…

How can location-independent entrepreneurs and freelancers future proof their finances? Some top tips on Banking, Tax, Investments, and Savings for the long term. The ultimate vision of remote work has always been the potential to truly live and work…

You can’t have missed the global buzz about cryptocurrencies. But just what are they, and how do they work? Journalist Maya Middlemiss explains Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Cardano…there are now thousands of different cryptocurrencies out there,…

I don’t remember my first personal email username. I know the domain was with Pipex Dial, a U.K. provider to whom I paid a monthly fee for the privilege of receiving a unique string of abstract digits through which to receive email messages. I…

After becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, the Central American nation of El Salvador now has plans to create a brand-new city, powered and funded by geothermal volcano power. Is this a pyroclastic pipe dream – or an ambitious…

The story of e-resident-founded NFT Marketplace Artano and a new wave of web3 enterprises in Estonia The growing e-Residency Marketplace contains a diverse range of virtual office and business support services to reflect the diversity of the…

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Big changes happened in January 2023, to how Seguridad Social (autónomo) payments work in Spain. This guide will help you to understand how this affects you, and any action to take. Do also check out our recent webinar with Entre Trámites, where we…

The vision of cryptocurrency as an independent global means of daily value exchange is gradually starting to be realized, at least in a fragmented way. We are still very early in the adoption evolution, however, so right now, that future vision…

Estonia’s business ecosystem is open for distributed, community-driven enterprises like e-resident-founded teledisko DAO When you bring to mind a typical web3 enterprise, you might expect it to center on wholly digital products or services.…

Many of them, at least in the Western world, learned to swipe a screen before they learned to talk. They’ve seen their parents get rekt on the stock market, maybe more than once, and they don’t trust ‘traditional’ anything much anyway. By 2026 there…

Definitions matter, in terms of how we describe ourselves to others, but also to ourselves. Are you a freelancer, an entrepreneur, a startup… or are you a solopreneur? The good news is, you get to decide, and also to evolve and change. Your work,…

E-Residency in Estonia has shaken up the way the world does business, and enabled location-independent entrepreneurs to offer products and services in countries where they do not reside, thanks to Estonian’s unique digital infrastructure. However,…

Companies that hire across different cities — not to mention different continents — have always needed to consider location when crafting plans to recruit and retain the right people. Now, in a world where most knowledge-work roles can now be…

A news report came out this week in the UK, indicating that being poor is cripplingly expensive. On average, the 1.2 million unbanked or under-banked individuals in the UK have to pay an additional £485 per year to access basic products and…

The idea of non-sovereign currency under decentralised ownership sounds pretty innovative - but actually, despite the advanced technology being built into the LocalCoinSwap exchange, there are elements of the concept which have more than stood the…