Setting up a Circular Bitcoin Economy
summary
Project builds local circular economies in El Salvador and a South African township by onboarding merchants, running a Bitcoin center, painting branded shacks and issuing weekly micropayments; 6,000 SATs per week goes to shack owners, one recipient stacks instead of spends and later receives a Blockstream Jade, merchants and staff use custodial Lightning for salaries while committed savers move to hardware wallets and onchain; over 100+ businesses onboarded in Berlin, grants from Human Rights Foundation and Block fund expansion, scams and illiteracy remain key obstacles.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00El Salvador
- 3:30Challenges
- 5:18Scams
- 10:52Price of banking
- 16:43Lady Delina
- 18:18Painting Shacks
- 23:13Self Custody
- 25:16Bitcoin maximalist
- 28:28Custodial solutions
- 30:40Donations
- 32:26Charity
- 38:08Education
- 39:09Whats next
- 41:40Social media
- 42:44Bitcoin volatility
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