BREAKDOWN: An Interview With Bitcoin Beach, the Community That Inspired El Salvador to Adopt the Bitcoin Standard

Featuring Bitcoin Beach’s Mike Peterson. 
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
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: @Bitcoinbeach
Web: www.bitcoinbeach.com
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Image credit: Mike Peterson/Bitcoin Beach
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