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What happens to your bitcoin if you don’t wake up tomorrow?
Eric Summers (@ericscalibur) estimates 90 to 95% of Bitcoiners have no plan for it. If your keys die with you, your stack goes with you.
So Eric, who drove from Texas to El Zonte and now helps Bitcoiners at the Bitcoin Hardware Store (@tbhs_sv), built his own answer.
He demos it live, and it takes about two minutes, keeps lawyers and exchanges out of it, and lets you do the one thing you’re told never to do with a seed phrase.
Your Bitcoin plan isn’t complete until someone you trust can recover it.
Watch the full episode below 👇
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El Zonte is making history!
The Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit 2026 — the first conference of its kind in El Zonte, bringing together the people shaping the future of Bitcoin circular economies.
📍 El Zonte, El Salvador
🗓️ November 19–20, 2026
🎟️ Secure your spot:
satlantis.io/events/2311/glo…
What makes a Texan pack his whole life into a Toyota Tacoma and drive a month south to a country he’d never even heard of?
In 2023, Eric Summers @ericscalibur was convinced the US was headed for collapse. A Salvadoran friend told him to come see El Salvador for himself. Ten days and one humbling surf session at K59 later, he was sold.
Bitcoin was legal tender, and everything he learned about Bukele looked like green lights.
So he drove down…
...explaining his drone and telescope to border guards along the way. Didn’t end up great.
Today he works at the Bitcoin hardware store in El Zonte (@tbhs_sv) and is on his path to Salvadoran citizenship 🇸🇻
Ready for another incredible story from Bitcoin Country? Find the full episode at the links below 👇
From Texas to El Salvador: Why a Bitcoiner Packed His Life Into a Truck and Moved to El Zonte
youtu.be/IcoT77CrZ1M
Brindon Mwiine @BrindonMwiine, the founder of @BitcoinKampala in Uganda, explains how bitcoin has helped him take care of 115 orphans.
Bitcoin is also used locally to help students collect payments from international digital services.
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Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
📅 Nov 19-20
📍El Zonte
@zackdorseyx @FBCEglobal
Bitcoin Beach retweeted
In December 2025, leaders of more than a dozen Bitcoin circular economies across Africa sat in one room for the first time.
Each had taken the model @Bitcoinbeach started in El Zonte, El Salvador, and adapted it to their own community.
Bitcoin Beach's report names 15 projects from nine countries, including Bitcoin Ekasi (@BitcoinEkasi) in a Mossel Bay township, Afribit Kibera (@afribitkibera) in Nairobi and BTC Shule (@btcshule) in a village in Burundi.
They met in Mauritius because visa, travel and financial barriers keep many African builders out of global Bitcoin events.
@zackdorseyx filmed it. The clips are coming out now, including @thecoachayobami of @BitKwaofficial and @BrindonMwiine of @BitcoinKampala.
Next stop: the Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit in El Zonte, November 19 and 20, open to the public for the first time.
Check the first comment to read the full story. 👇
5th clip from a minidoc about african bitcoin circular economy projects:
Meet Brindon Mwiine , the founder of @BitcoinKampala in Uganda
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Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
📅 Nov 19-20
📍El Zonte
@fbce @zackdorsey
What Happens to Your Bitcoin If You Die? How a Texan in El Zonte Built a Free Tool for Your Family
youtu.be/IcoT77CrZ1M
🎙️ We're excited to welcome Emilio Morles (@Emilio_Morles), Bitcoin educator and representative of Bitcoin Ruta de las Flores (@RutadlasFlores), as a speaker at the Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit — El Zonte, this November. 🌴⚡️
With a background in education and a passion for scientific thinking and critical inquiry, Emilio has been teaching Bitcoin since 2015, helping people understand everything from the fundamentals of Bitcoin to self-custody and cold wallets. 📚
Through his educational work and involvement in local Bitcoin communities, Emilio is helping more people learn how to use Bitcoin in everyday life and build stronger local economies. 🇸🇻🤝
🌎 This conference is open to everyone — the first-ever conference of its kind in El Zonte. Come meet Emilio and other leaders, builders, and educators from around the world. 🌍🤝
🎟️ Spots are limited — secure yours now:
satlantis.io/events/2311/glo…
Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
Nov 19-20
El Zonte
4th clip from a minidoc about african bitcoin circular economy projects:
Meet Ayobami Atolagbe @thecoachayobami , the founder of @BitKwaofficial in Nigeria
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Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
📅 Nov 19-20
📍El Zonte
Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
Nov 19-20
El Zonte
Bitcoin Beach retweeted
I started the Bitcoin Country Podcast specifically to highlight all these ways El Salvador leads in Bitcoin adoption.
Now available on a new YouTube channel, check out the episode with @romanmartinezc for the Salvadoran perspective on the real Bitcoin Country:
youtube.com/watch?v=S3Y3yjyt…
But don’t just trust. Come verify this November for Freedom Month, especially BitcoinHistorico.com November 11-12.
Then compare the grassroots adoption with other countries’ at the @Bitcoinbeach Global Circular Economies Summit on November 19-20. So many projects are doing great work, and this is the best way to learn from each other.
Also come learn at the Bitcoin Capital Summit about El Salvador’s leadership in this underrated category on November 10.
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"El Salvador is already Bitcoin Country, but it will be orange everywhere. That's the dream."
@romanmartinezc and @Bitcoinbeach have inspired circular economies throughout El Salvador and the world.
We discussed at last year's @btchistoricosv:
youtube.com/watch?v=S3Y3yjyt…
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Bitcoin Beach retweeted
Bitcoin isn't just something you hold. It's something you build with.
And this November, the people turning that vision into reality are coming together in El Salvador.
📅 November 19–20, 2026
📍 El Zonte, El Salvador
Hosted by @Bitcoinbeach
Real people and real communities and people building a better future, one circular economy at a time.
Bitcoin is global. Adoption is local.
Who's coming to Bitcoin Country? 👀 🇸🇻
🎙️ We're excited to welcome Jake Scanlan (@jakescanlan) — founder of Hashpower Academy, Bitcoin mining educator, and energy economics enthusiast — as a speaker at the Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit — El Zonte, this November. 🌴⚡️
With a background in aerospace engineering, Jake previously worked at Airbus before transitioning into Bitcoin, where he now focuses on educating people about Bitcoin mining, energy economics, and the relationship between electricity and Bitcoin. ⚡️
Through Hashpower Academy and his involvement with TeraHash, Jake explores the intersection of mining infrastructure, energy, and financial innovation. Having lived in Berlín, Usulután, El Salvador, he has also been involved in local Bitcoin initiatives. In August 2026, he delivered the opening class for the fifth generation of El Salvador's Bitcoin education program, CUBO+. 🇸🇻🌎
🌎 This conference is open to everyone — the first-ever conference of its kind in El Zonte. Come meet Jake and other leaders, builders, and educators from around the world. 🌍🤝
🎟️ Spots are limited — secure yours now:
satlantis.io/events/2311/glo…
Bitcoin Beach retweeted
Last year in Mauritius, 14 projects across Africa that took the El Zonte Bitcoin Circular Economy model and made it their own met in one room for the very first time.
We were there with cameras rolling. Over the next few weeks we’re releasing clips from the minidoc we made:
their stories, their successes, their struggles, and how they’re picking up the pieces and building their own future, on their own terms. 🌍
This is what a circular economy looks like when it spreads.
The movement is coming home! The Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit returns to El Zonte, and this time it’s open to everyone.
🅱️🌐⭕️ Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
📅 Nov 19-20
📍El Zonte
Bitcoin Beach retweeted
In 2019, a small surf town in El Salvador started an experiment: what if a whole community ran on bitcoin? 🌊
Last year in Mauritius, 14 projects across Africa that took the El Zonte model and made it their own met in one room for the very first time.
We were there with cameras rolling. Over the next few weeks we’re releasing clips from the minidoc we made: their stories, their successes, their struggles, and how they’re picking up the pieces and building their own future, on their own terms. 🌍
This is what a circular economy looks like when it spreads.
Now the movement comes home. The Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit returns to El Zonte, and this time it’s open to everyone.
🅱️🌐⭕️ Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
📅 Nov 19-20
📍El Zonte
🌴⚡ Bitcoin Beach Meet-up #10 is coming!
Join us Friday, October 30, at 5:00 PM at Beach Break Hotel & Sports Bar. Let's talk about what's coming next and what awaits us for Bitcoin Month!
🎟️ Satlantis: satlantis.io/events/1002886/…
🎟️ Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-bea…
See you there! 🤙
#BitcoinBeach #BitcoinMeetup
What if the fastest way to orange pill a business is one customer who makes Bitcoin part of the deal?
Byron Espinoza had never used Bitcoin when a Bitcoiner walked into his three-month-old shop in El Salvador and made accepting it a condition of working together. He was a little afraid of it, so he read up, decided it was safe, and said yes.
Now foreigners make up about a quarter of his business, he decides whether to hold the sats or move them to dollars, and he’s the one telling his friends to start accepting Bitcoin too.
What won him over was how it works day to day. Payments are quick, it’s easier for him and for the customer, and he no longer sees it as a risk. He put it plainly to Mike. If accepting Bitcoin is what it takes to sell more, he’d do it without thinking about it.
Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador spreads one customer at a time.
Watch the full episode and tell us if you’d have said yes as fast as Byron did. [link below👇 ]
He Grew Up With Gang Members in El Salvador. Now He Runs a Car Shop That Takes Bitcoin.
youtu.be/rtxj3hJ0EaM
