El Zonte

out.

If you want to get down to Bitcoin Beach and spend a day down there, just let me know, and I'll take care

of you.

Okay, thank you.

No, I can only go for a few days, so I'm not going to Historico.

Our Bitcoin Circular Economy's summit and conference in El Zonte, in Bitcoin Beach.

Do I have to talk

like that when I'm there?

that.

But at the time, it put me into a platform to talk about what happened here in El Zonte.

I mean, to be really honest with everybody, We didn't have a regulation.

We didn't have an NGO.

You have Bitcoin as legal tender.

And the answer to the question was, because the banks will not allow you to open up a bank account.

Here in El Zonte or in San Salvador, you can survive with Bitcoin only, but outside of our country, that's impossible.

And you're coming from Belgium.

Because, you know, you can look around the world.

What do they build? Is there any crypto beach? Like there is Bitcoin beach now.

um so yeah it's a journey it's always a journey and you know you always have to evolve your defenses and that's how evolution happens and you know the tough times make strong men and women right so um every single cycle you survive you get a little bit stronger you get more and more diamond hands none of these terms are used anymore by the way But they used to be well-known terms in the community of Bitcoin before everybody became a paper Bitcoin sequiner.

But we're returning to the OG style at Bitcoin Historico.

It was more about the freedom technology aspect of it and the individual sovereignty and the permissionless nature of it.

It really is very interesting to contrast the different situations leading to different forms of adoption.

And it's worth mentioning here, Mike Peterson with Bitcoin Beach had just posted, apparently in El Salvador, the number of people using Bitcoin as money in the past couple of years actually exceeds the number of people using credit cards.

So it's a very different situation, but we're actually seeing this unique opportunity for El Salvador to leapfrog the first world in terms of that aspect of adoption, skipping over the fiat credit card debt trap straight into the sound money future.

So when did you first come to El Zante, and what was the purpose, and how did you wind up opening a restaurant here?

So I first came to El Zonte 10 years ago, around 10 years ago.

I don't remember exactly when, but yeah, I had a couple of buddies.

I was a bouncer at a nightclub in Santa Barbara and a couple of buddies were like, it's called Soho.

Central America this summer.

And I remember being near El Zonte on the coast of El Salvador, which is on the Pacific side.

And off to the side was basically a sign in Hebrew, but it looked like it was just an enclave.

And I'm thinking, what is this doing here in El Salvador? Not historically Jewish.