Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, in this episode, I sat down with Nico from Simply Bitcoin to explore the seismic shift we're living through—the separation of money and state—and how Bitcoin plays a pivotal role in this transition. Nico shares his experiences in El Salvador, where Bitcoin has been embraced as legal tender, and how this small nation is challenging the global financial status quo under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele. We discuss the challenges El Salvador...
May 11, 2024•49 min
For tonight's #Bitcoin Beach Twitter Spaces - Bitcoin Circular Economies we will host a space with a project from #Brazil Tune in tonight to hear all about @montanhabitcoin featuring @LucasLeiva Live From Bitcoin Beach
May 09, 2024•58 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, join me as I sit down with the one and only BTC Sessions, the popular Bitcoin educator and YouTuber from Canada. In this episode, we dive into his inspiring journey into the world of Bitcoin and his mission to create informative and easy-to-understand educational content for the masses. Discover the groundbreaking work @BTCSessions is doing with the Human Rights Foundation and learn about his experience with the Canadian trucker protests in 2022,...
May 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 79
For this week's #Bitcoin Beach Twitter Spaces - Bitcoin Circular Economies we will host a space with a great project from #Peru Tune in to hear all about @MotivPeru Live From Bitcoin Beach
May 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, as we dive deep into a fascinating conversation with Preston Pysh, a prominent voice in the Bitcoin community and a former Buffett enthusiast turned Bitcoin maximalist. We delve into Preston's transformative journey from adhering to Warren Buffett's investment strategies to embracing Bitcoin. Throughout our discussion, Preston shares compelling arguments on how Bitcoin redefines the valuation of traditional assets like real estate and stocks, pro...
Apr 27, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 78
For this week's #Bitcoin Beach Twitter Spaces - Bitcoin Circular Economies we will host a space with members of a rapidly growing #Bitcoin Circular Economy in #ElSalvador Tune in to hear all about @BitcoinBerlinSV featuring @njelsalvador Live From Bitcoin Beach
Apr 24, 2024•57 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, I have the pleasure of sitting down with Lawrence Lepard. We dive deep into Lawrence's intriguing journey from a technology investor to an advocate for sound money and Bitcoin. Lawrence shares how the 2008 financial crisis radically shifted his perspective, leading him to explore and eventually embrace Bitcoin, despite initial skepticism. Join us as we discuss the practical uses and benefits of Bitcoin in daily transactions and its role in potent...
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Introducing the #Bitcoin Beach Twitter Spaces - Bitcoin Circular Economies Once a week we will host a space with leaders of a #Bitcoin Circular Economy around the world Tune in to hear all about @LakeBitcoin featuring @JUN_AJPU_btc Live From Bitcoin Beach
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, where I have the pleasure of hosting Mike Germano, President of Bitcoin Magazine, to talk about the remarkable influence of Bitcoin in El Salvador, especially during the Bitcoin halving 2024. We explore the cultural and social dimensions of Bitcoin and how it has reshaped his family's outlook on it. Mike sheds light on the hurdles and triumphs of operating a media company in today's digital era, particularly one that's centered on Bitcoin. He hig...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Join Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, as we dive deep into a fascinating conversation with Albert Wolframm, a traveler, Bitcoin enthusiast, and advocate for small, local businesses. Albert shares his experiences visiting El Salvador, specifically the Berlin area and its impressive rapid Bitcoin adoption among local merchants and the community. He recounts instances of seamless Bitcoin transactions using the Lightning Network, emphasizing the organic and swift spread of Bitcoin u...
Mar 31, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, Jamie and Ronny, two passionate individuals who are founders of the first Bitcoin-related hardware store, share their Bitcoin journey, their initiatives for financial inclusion, the regulatory challenges they have had to overcome, and how their first Bitcoin-related hardware store is also their way to build a better Bitcoin community in El Salvador. Jamie and Ronny are two entrepreneurs who set up the first Bitcoin hardware store in El Salvador, ...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Coming to you LIVE from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, our guest today is Tim Muth, a man who has been writing about the news and politics of El Salvador and also acts as a critic of El Salvador's bold leap into Bitcoin. He first arrived in El Salvador as part of his church’s mission team, however then frequently returned to the country years after, and eventually leaving his business lawyer practice 8 years ago to live there full-time. In this episode, we discuss the realities and impl...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, Dusan Matuska, a pioneer and advocate of Bitcoin education, delves into the impact of Bitcoin on society as a decentralized finance currency and what efforts are made to educate more people about it. Dusan Matuska shared how his Bitcoin journey went, talking about the values of Bitcoin such as freedom, and fellowship, and how Bitcoin can create a cooperative and harmonious world. The concept of “Amity,” a term that captures the spirit of cooperat...
Mar 09, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, we turn our focus to the Caribbean, specifically Jamaica with our guest affectionately known as Dread. He shares his knowledge about how to leverage Bitcoin to handle economic disparities and the banking restrictions of his country. In Jamaica, a great number of the population is living in poverty and the wealthy minority remains detached from the struggles of the bigger population. With the limitations of the Jamaican banking system where they c...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, Paolo Ardoino, a familiar figure in the Bitcoin, space discusses how El Salvador, being a pioneer in integrating Bitcoin into their economy, remains a model for other countries to do the same adoption for their economic development. This places El Salvador as an attractive destination for companies and Bitcoin enthusiasts for relocation or expansion, and possibly become a global hub for digital innovation. El Salvador gets all the praise for thei...
Feb 23, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, we discover how Charlie MacKensie pioneered the integration of Bitcoin and motorsports racing. With their mission to increase Bitcoin interest in motorsports racing, it shows that Bitcoin has already reached different kinds of fields aside from the financial market. Charlie’s racing team provides a different take on promoting Bitcoin. As their advocacy efforts, they use the racing team itself as the moving billboard to advertise Bitcoin, gaining ...
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, this episode’s guests Carla and Blake shared how their lives are transformed by Bitcoin. How Bitcoin works is not just about it as a financial tool, but how it affects the lives of the people who use it. Admittedly, there are fewer ladies in the Bitcoin Twitter, but finding love in the Bitcoin space is possible. A true Bitcoin Twitter love story, Carla and Blake’s story is one of shared belief in financial freedom and community building. Carla an...
Feb 10, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, our guests bring excitement as they focus on Bitcoin as a lifestyle choice and the impact of digital currency on economy. Jon and Paul discussed how surfing culture and Bitcoin community values intersect. For them, Bitcoin is not just some digital currency, it also provides financial freedom, gathers people, and holds a transformative potential for countries like El Salvador. Participants are drawn to the Bitcoin community because of the shared g...
Feb 03, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, we're diving into an interesting discussion of how Bitcoin can be a powerful tool to maintain election integrity through timestamping and immutable election data. Our guest, Carliño, shares his insights on Bitcoin as used in real-world situations beyond the financial systems, and how Guatemala became the first country to protect its election transparency using this revolutionary application of Bitcoin. How can Bitcoin be used to protect election ...
Jan 27, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, Sean Harris, a former professional basketball player turned laser eyes bitcoiner recounts how he started as a Bitcoin non-believer to become an advocate of this digital currency. In this episode, Sean and I discuss in depth Bitcoin’s significant role in the ever-changing socio-economic landscape and the excitement for the upcoming 2024 Bitcoin Halving Party. Initially skeptical, Sean, like many no-coiners, was hesitant to delve into Bitcoin. Howe...
Jan 20, 2024•54 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, Sean Harris, a former professional basketball player turned laser eyes bitcoiner recounts how he started as a Bitcoin non-believer to become an advocate of this digital currency. In this episode, Sean and I discuss in depth Bitcoin’s significant role in the ever-changing socio-economic landscape and the excitement for the upcoming 2024 Bitcoin Having Party. Initially skeptical, Sean, like many no-coiners, was hesitant to delve into Bitcoin. Howev...
Jan 20, 2024•54 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, host Mike Peterson sat down with @Luke_Broyles to discuss Luke's background and insights into how Bitcoin is transforming economies like El Salvador's. This exciting episode explores how Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele is aligning incentives and improving lives through new monetary policy and digital currency. Bitcoin reorients worldviews and value hierarchies. Bitcoin works because no one person controls it – it requ...
Jan 12, 2024•2 hr 12 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach El Salvador, this fascinating episode features host Mike Peterson in conversation with Graham Elwood, a lively comedian, filmmaker, and enthusiastic Bitcoin advocate. The chat reveals Graham’s interesting journey into the Bitcoin world, pointing out the changing power of this digital currency in remodeling traditional financial systems and encouraging economic freedom. Graham explains the important role of Bitcoin education in correcting misunderstandings and spreading tr...
Jan 06, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Live from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador, this enlightening conversation between host Mike Peterson and Jimmy Song, a prominent Christian Bitcoin developer and educator, delves into the nation's transformation through Bitcoin adoption. Jimmy shares first-hand observations on how Bitcoin has enhanced financial stability, infrastructure, and overall quality of life, emphasizing its role as sound money in the economy. Drawing from his vast experience, Jimmy reflects on his journey into the ...
Dec 30, 2023•1 hr 20 min
In this episode, Giacomo Zucco, a theoretical physicist and Bitcoin expert, shares his fascinating journey in the world of Bitcoin. He delves into his previous startups and consulting work for fiat banks, highlighting his passion for pushing the boundaries of Bitcoin technology. Giacomo sheds light on his involvement in establishing common standards within the Bitcoin community and his pivotal role in the creation of the Plan B network. This centralized initiative aims to streamline Bitcoin-rela...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 24 min
What if you had the opportunity to contribute to the development of a country and leave a lasting legacy? All while mitigating jurisdictional risks involved with a Bitcoin lifestyle? Today we are sharing some ground-breaking news, right from El Zonte, Bitcoin Beach, where everything started. The long-awaited El Salvador Citizenship By Donation Program has finally been unveiled. In today's episode, I sat down with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert to break down El Salvador’s Freedom Visa program, an i...
Dec 13, 2023•53 min
Hot on the heels of The Adopting Bitcoin Conference 2023 Julian Figueroa of Kinetic Finance sits down with Mike Peterson to discuss art in Bitcoin culture, the Canadian Bitcoin scene and his future film projects. Peru is on the Horizon. What does it take to reach millions of viewers? Bitcoin art can be many things, short videos, long videos, documentaries, musicals or songs. Julian Figueroa and Mike Peterson dig deep into the details of what is possible. Julian Figueroa talks about a popular min...
Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 48 min
She was a circus performer. He was a photographer. She broke a Guiness World Record. He kept talking about Bitcoin. This is the story of how an athlete and an artist turned their obsessions into an entrepreneurial journey where they teach others to do the same with equal parts Bitcoin and content creation. They host "Creator Retreats" in Costa Rica and El Salvador. "... Health and wellness retreats for Content Creators, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and Fringe Thinkers." - Shannen "We're excite...
Dec 03, 2023•58 min
Fresh from the Adopting Bitcoin Conference in San Salvador Francis Pouliot sits down with Mike Peterson for almost 2 hours of solid content, including Bull Bitcoin's new on-chain self custody wallet linked seamlessly to the Bull Bitcoin exchange. Ready for a deep dive into the early days of running the first brick and mortar Bitcoin facility in Quebec Canada? How about the early days implementing the lighting network? Running a node? Moving to Costa Rica? Bitcoin Jungle? Surfing? Self Custody vs...
Nov 26, 2023•1 hr 53 min
Graham Rittener came to El Salvador after he heard about the bitcoin announcement. "This is something special, this is positive, this is big... I gotta go and see what this is about" - Graham. Once in El Zonte, El Salvador Graham wrote an informal agreement on the back of a napkin to create a documentary that would tell the story of Bitcoin Beach from a locals perspective. Mike Peterson gets all the behind-the-scenes details as Graham Rittener recounts his journey to produce the film. https://da...
Nov 19, 2023•1 hr 42 min
