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

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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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

-- Earn up to 12% APY on Bitcoin, Ethereum, USD, EUR, GBP, Stablecoins & more. Get started at nexo.io -- Enjoying this content?   SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438693620?at=1000lSDb Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/538vuul1PuorUDwgkC8JWF?si=ddSvD-HST2e_E7wgxcjtfQ Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ubHdjcnlwdG8ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M=   Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW   The Breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDesk.com