Today we’re speaking about Bitcoin adoption in Ghana. We have Kumi from Bitcoin Cowries, and Mawufemor of Bitcoin Dua, who have been sharing non-stop progress from their community building efforts, including a mobile bitcoin street store, soccer games, education center and more. Their latest video featured a gentleman buying a live chicken with bit…

In this episode, we chat with Rich and Vali from Motiv Peru who have been educating communities about health and life skills to create a foundation for Motiv to introduce programs that will support a Bitcoin self-sustaining circular economy. (00:00:00) Intro and advertisement (00:02:46) Introduction Motiv (00:09:00) How are the communities founded?…

This week we have a team of bitcoiners based in El Salvador who have recently launched a new circular economy project in the town of Berlin. The project has attracted expats from other countries and has been driving local adoption in recent months within the town – we are excited to hear how things are going and how they are doing it. Adopting Bitc…

This week we have Bitcoiners from Argentina on the pod - Argentina has been wrestling with chronic inflation of their local currency the Argentinian Peso for decades and recently made headlines when a libertarian outsider called Javier Milei who is also said to be bitcoin-friendly won the Presidential primaries by surprise. Part of Milei’s platform…

Bitcoin Ekasi is a circular economy project based in Mossel Bay, built after the model of Bitcoin Beach. Together with a Machankura, a project aiming to give people without an internet-connected device a way to send and receive Bitcoin payments, they will be hosting the Adopting Bitcoin conference in Cape Town in January 2024. The Bitcoin conferenc…

We talk with Bitcoiners Eliazar, Rudy and Reyna working on the Bitcoin Lake project at Lake Panachajel in Guatelama and the progress they are making with Mi Primer Bitcoin classes to educate about Bitcoin. Adopting Bitcoin⁠ - A Lightning Summit in El Salvador, Nov 7-9 2023 ⁠Blink⁠ - the everday bitcoin wallet ⁠Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town⁠ - Jan 26-2…

Did you know that the town of Rovereto⁠ in the autonomous Province of Trento got bitcoinized back in 2014, with plenty of merchants accepting bitcoin payments? We got a hold of Marco Amadori whose presentation about Open Source Software in which he mentioned Bitcoin as an example sparked the interest of the locals and marked the starting point of a…

Close to Merida, the capital of Yucatan, there are seven so-called Pueblos Magicos – Sisal, Mani, Valladolid and Izamal and recently also Motul, Espita and Tecax. These are located on the tourist route through the state and receive a lot of support from the Mexican government to promote themselves. Here Daniel wants to work on Bitcoin adoption, as …

We chat with Okin from Easysats in Namibia - their mission is to find ways that allow anyone to easily purchase Bitcoin, while using their accumulated expertise & technical knowledge to ensure that not only can Namibians purchase Bitcoin, but they are made aware of how they can accept it for their goods & services as well as securely store it thems…

In this episode, we talk to bitcoin community builders in Brazil. Fernando Motolese, the initiator of Praia Bitcoin in Jericocoara, started onboarding merchants in his beautiful beach village in September 2021 after he saw the impact a circular economy could have when El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender. Not only did his efforts spawn bitcoin ado…

In this episode, we talk to Dušan Matuška and Zussel Ramos of Amityage, the very first Bitcoin Education Center in Honduras, on a beautiful island of Roatan, located inside of Próspera jurisdiction. Próspera is a private charter city and special economic zone on the island of Roatan in Honduras. A governance platform and a place where you can do bu…

In Season 3 of ABP, hosts Andrew and Kemal are exploring bitcoin adoption in different parts of the world. For episode 1, they are joined by Ethan Rose of Pouch and Bitcoin Islands to talk about bitcoin usage and adoption on the beautiful island of Boracay in the Philippines. Website: adoptingbitcoin.org Tickets: pretix.eu Twitter: @AdoptingBTC Ins…

Laws can help in the adoption of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Law in El Salvador certainly brought a lot of attention to the peer to peer electronic cash system and removed obstacles for its use as a Medium of Exchange. Without a financially literate population that is proficient in the fundamentals of using Bitcoin, however, real adoption can hardly happe…

In this episode, Andrew sits down with Pete Winn to talk about Community Banking on Bitcoin, from microlending to bring foreign investment to entrepreneurs facilitated by a community bank to mitigate credit risk, to synthetic dollar offerings to mitigate exchange rate volatility and Fedimint: a privacy enhancing Chaumian mint that works on Lightnin…

The btc++ hackathon brought together Bitcoin and Lightning developers together in Austin for 3 days of hacking in Austin, TX. PlebLab co-founder Kyle Murphy, Hoseki founder and hackathon juror Sam Abbassi and Galoy engineer Nick Theile talk about Austin's vibrant Bitcoin scene, cool projects at the hackathon and many other things.…

A Bitcoin-friendly regulation passed three debates in the congress of Panama unanimously before it was surprisingly vetoed by President Laurentino Cortizo. Where does Bitcoin in Panama go from here? And how does the country's history play into this? We'll talk about this and more with Abelito and Miguel Heilbron who have been following the developm…

A delegation of Bitcoiners followed the invitation of President Faustin Touadéra to visit Central African Republic after the country's announcement of Bitcoin adoption. The group around Sebastién Gouspillou and Nicolas Burtey met with merchants, government officials and representatives of civil society to learn about the plans and progress of the B…

Season 2 kick-off and live talk with the advisor team of Adopting Bitcoin 2022 about this year's event. Adopting Bitcoin will take place November 15-17 in San Salvador. Moritz Wietersheim from Specter, Giacomo Zucco, Jeff Gallas from Fulmo, Rodrigo Gomez from Bitrefill, Vlad Costea from BTCTKVR, Alexandre Bussutil from bolt.observer talk about the …

There’s this wealth of knowledge about Bitcoin out there in the form of podcasts, articles, Youtube videos etc and it’s high quality, but it’s only accessible to people who speak English. There are efforts to localize and translate content into local languages, but it’s a lot of work and where should one really be starting? Luckily, we found just t…

We speak with Rich Swisher of MOTIV about their first steps building a Bitcoin Economy in Peru inspired by the success of Bitcoin Beach El Zonte. The project started when Rich and his partner discovered that the lack of proper footwear in a community was the cause of excess child mortality. After a successful intervention with very low cost, they d…

In this episode Andrew and Kemal are joined by Coindesk writer George Kaloudis to recap the Open Source Stage. Many visitors to the biggest Bitcoin conference to date said that this was where the signal was to be found. For George, Bitcoin 2022 was his first Bitcoin conference. He was immediately drawn to the Open Source Stage and wrote about his i…

It all started in 2013 with three friends having beers and musing how cool it would be if they could pay for their drinks with Bitcoin, and that was the moment Bitcoin City Arnhem was born. In this episode we talk with Patrick van der Meijde, one of the initiators about the beginnings, the challenges and success of turning a town in Netherlands int…

In episode 17 we're joined by Brian Harrington, a Southern California Bitcoiner who has been orange-pilling individuals and merchants in the area for years. Brian is one of the initiators of the Orange County Bitcoin Network and a big proponent of real world meetups with Bitcoiners. He also advocates for more education around personal finance and f…

Lebanon was once dubbed the Switzerland of the Middle East for its unique status as both a snow-capped destination and discreet banking hub for Gulf Arabs. But the average inflation rate by September 2021 reached 132.98%, higher than the average inflation rate of 66.13% over the first nine months in 2020. In this episode, Sooly and Marco from Bitco…

Fodè Diop, prolific Bitcoin application developer, decided to raise thousands of new Bitcoin application developers and is launching the Bitcoin Developers Academy on April 11, 2022 to do just that. The goal of the academy is to train the next generation of Bitcoin application developers at a reasonable cost. Anyone with an open mind and a laptop c…

In this week's episode we have two very special guests who participated at the Lightning Hackdays this past weekend. The Lightning Hackdays are an unconference focused on the Lightning Network organized by Fulmo from Berlin and this time they took place at the Cobac Co-Working space in Istanbul right next to the Golden Horn. There were around 150 p…

We are joined by Rikki from Bitcoin Italia podcast who shared his experiences living on Bitcoin only for over a month in El Salvador.

In this week's space Johns Beharry from Peakshift and Bitcoin Design joined us to talk about the different address and invoice types that wallets use to communicate with each other. We dive into the challenges resulting from different standards, possible solutions to mitigate in the now, as well as what we can expect to develop on the protocol and …

It's one of those weeks when decades happened in Bitcoin, so Andrew and Kemal run through the news of this eventful week and discuss CashApp rolling out Lightning to 100% of their 36M users, the crazy weird couple that was caught with the hacked Bitfinex funds, Aarika Rhodes running against Brad Sherman, Bitcoiners thinking about Universal Basic In…

In our 10th space we had the privilege of hosting Lord Fusitu’a, who is working to bring Bitcoin to the island nation of Tonga. He is also deeply involved in recovery efforts following the massive volcanic eruption that recently displaced people from their homes and wiped out all communications to the island. This episode is a bit of a journey. Lor…

In this episode we are joined by Jeff and Rootzoll who have been active contributors to the Bitcoin ecosystem for over a decade since 2011. They have been early adopters and proponents of the Lightning Network for 5 years since 2016. Their Berlin based company Fulmo, which means Lightning in Esperanto, is focussed on research, development and consu…

In this 8th episode we’re excited to have John Carvalho from Synonym with us alongside Galoy engineer Justin Carter. Synonym had its coming out of stealth at the Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit in El Salvador past November in a talk John gave at the conference. Before that, the company was operating in stealth mode for over a year and kept many i…

We speak with Gustavo Flores and Tristan Borges of Bitcoin Support by Bull Bitcoin. Bull Bitcoin is a Canadian Bitcoin only exchange serving Canadian users since 2015 and they recently launched Bitcoin Support - a service that helps people install, secure, and manage bitcoin wallets with one-on-one phone support. Unlike the centralized financial se…

We speak with Lee Salminen, Rich Scotford and Prem Govinda of Bitcoin Jungle, a company and community in Costa Rica who made leaps in bootstrapping a Bitcoin Circular Economy in the land of 'Pura Vida'. Bitcoin Jungle is one of many rising Bitcoin communities in Central America after the example of Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, but the first of the…

We speak with Hermann of Bitcoin Ekasi (@bitcoinekasi) and Luthando, a Senior coach with The Surfer Kids (@the_surfer_kids) about their first steps building a Bitcoin Economy in a South African township inspired by the success of Bitcoin Beach El Zonte. @BitcoinEkasi is teaching residents and merchants in the townships outside Mossel Bay how – and …

In this episode we were joined by Oleg Mikhalsky, partner at Fulgur ventures and Alexandre Bussutil, a researcher with Fulgur ventures. The two are producing a research series called “Roads to Hyperbitcoinization” that outlines the views and predictions made by the bitcoin community concerning the prospect of Hyperbitcoinization.…

In our 3rd live Twitter Space we talked to Patrick of Bitcoin Lake - an initiative to bootstrap Bitcoin adoption and a circular economy after the example of Bitcoin Beach at the beautiful Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Patrick talks about his motivation, the conditions in Guatemala, the first steps undertaken to educate about Bitcoin and next steps in …

Stephen DeLorme is a UX designer and Spiral (previously Square Crypto) grantee working on crafting UX best practices for Lightning network applications. During his trip to El Salvador for Adopting Bitcoin, Stephen documented his attempts to use bitcoin as money. In this space we dig into what worked, what didn’t, and where the biggest opportunities…

The Galoy team and Adopting Bitcoin organizers took to Twitter Spaces to break down Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin City announcement from the prior evening. Chris Hunter, Nicolas Burtey, Moritz Wietersheim (Specter Wallet), Peter Young (Free Private Cities), Veronika Kuett (Tipolis) and Samson Mow (Blockstream) recapped the event and f…