The Adopting Bitcoin Pod

Tickets for Adopting Bitcoin 2024: https://pretix.eu/galoy/ab24/ Max Keiser https://x.com/maxkeiser Jamie Robinson https://x.com/JYUHQS Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/AdoptingBTC Join our Telegram: https://t.me/AdoptingBTC Visit our website: https://adoptingbitcoin.org

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Tickets for Adopting Bitcoin 2024: https://pretix.eu/galoy/ab24/ George Manolov https://x.com/BitcoinReadyMe Stacy Herbert https://x.com/stacyherbert Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/AdoptingBTC Join our Telegram: https://t.me/AdoptingBTC Visit our website: https://adoptingbitcoin.org

Tickets for Adopting Bitcoin 2024: https://pretix.eu/galoy/ab24/ James Pierog https://x.com/BillyHongBeats Deanna Heikkinen https://x.com/dinparis2012 Follow us on Twitter:   / adoptingbtc   Join our Telegram: https://t.me/AdoptingBTC Visit our website: https://adoptingbitcoin.org

Episode 4 of the Adopting Bitcoin 2024 News Update with @TheNaturalInve1 and @njelsalvador is live! In this episode, the hosts share what they're looking forward to from some of the leading minds of Circular Economies, @dusan_matuska & @BitcoinEkasi They also touch on the upcoming Bitcoin Roatan Retreat by @AmityAge , which will immediate follow #AB24 ! Keep your eye out for more details!

Tickets for Adopting Bitcoin 2024: https://pretix.eu/galoy/ab24/ Ian Foster https://x.com/Ianfost Aleksandar Svetski https://primal.net/p/npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdoptingBTC Join our Telegram: https://t.me/AdoptingBTC Visit our website: https://adoptingbitcoin.org

Tickets for Adopting Bitcoin 2024: https://pretix.eu/galoy/ab24/ Follow us on Twitter:   / adoptingbtc   Join our Telegram: https://t.me/AdoptingBTC Visit our website: https://adoptingbitcoin.org

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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 bitcoin, which is currently going viral across bitc...

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? (00:23:13) How to find a leader? (00:31:16) What...

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 Bitcoin⁠  - A Lightning Summit in El Salvador, Nov 7-9...

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 was a very hostile stance against central banks a...

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 conference will convene experts, advocates and innovators...

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 26-28 2024

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 whole town's bitcoin adventure that has been...

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 a starting point for 'his' country Mexic...

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 themselves, without the need for continued inte...

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 adoption in his village, but also helped other Bit...

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 business freely and easily. A place where you can p...

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 Instagram: AdoptingBTC Youtube: @adoptingbitcoin Tele...

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 happen. It requires education, not just decree. Mi Prim...

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 Lightning.

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 developments closely.

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 Bitcoin journey.  In the livestream episode #2...