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An Interview With Bitcoin Beach, the Community That Inspired El Salvador to Adopt the Bitcoin Standard
Category: Business
Duration: 00:42:44
Publish Date: 2021-06-12 01:00:00
Description:

On today’s episode, NLW is joined by Mike Peterson, director of Bitcoin Beach. Bitcoin Beach is a community project in El Salvador that has spent the last two years helping individuals and companies integrate bitcoin into their daily lives and long-term habits. President Nayib Bukele cited Bitcoin Beach in inspiring El Salvador’s bitcoin legal tender law. 

In this interview, NLW and Mike discuss:

  • How he came to reside in El Salvador
  • How the bitcoin community project started
  • What drove community adoption at the beginning
  • How remittances and COVID-19 solidified the value of BTC to the community 
  • How bitcoin has changed how people think about investing 
  • How international bitcoiners such as Miles Suter and Jack Mallers got to know the project 
  • Where the project stands today (complete with 22 different community initiatives) 
  • How bitcoiners can get involved 

Find our guest online:Twitter: @BitcoinbeachWeb: www.bitcoinbeach.com

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