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A nightclub bouncer in Santa Barbara got a call from a friend. They were leaving for El Salvador in two days 🇸🇻
He went. Thirty minutes in El Zonte was enough. He didn’t move for years, but he never really left either.
When he came back with his dad, he called his wife from the beach and told her they were moving. Then he sold everything he owned in France, everything they had in California, and put all of it into a food shack the size of a box.
Then @maxkeiser showed up.
Antoine Allain tells me what happened next, and what Bitcoin has done for a business he started without knowing a thing about it. @LaCajitaKitchen @CocomaxCountry
Watch the full episode [link below 👇] and tell us what you’d have done if that call came for you...
🌍 MEET SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS! 🎤
Meet some of the voices shaping the future of Bitcoin! ⚡
🔐 Ronny Avendaño – Self-custody expert (@ronnyavendano_)
🎙️ Efrat Fenigson – Podcaster bringing Bitcoin stories to the world (@efenigson)
⛏️ Gerson Martinez – Bitcoin mining expert (@gersonmartinez)
And this is just the beginning! 👀
📅 Nov 19–20, 2026
📍 El Zonte, El Salvador 🇸🇻
🎟️ Secure your spot:
satlantis.io/events/2311/glo…
Hey @grok what percentage of Salvadorans use Bitcoin and what percentage of Salvadorans use credit cards. How long has it taken credit card usage in El Salvador to reach this level?
This French Family Sold Everything, Moved to El Salvador and Started a Business in El Zonte
youtu.be/zEohkM6ZoA4
Bitcoin Beach retweeted
🇸🇻🔥 EL SALVADOR MAKING WAVES IN LUGANO! 🇨🇭
The El Salvador booth is packed at the @LuganoPlanB Conference.
The overwhelming interest in El Salvador sends a powerful message to the world: Our country continues to be a global reference for Bitcoin adoption, innovation, investment, and economic opportunity.
From Bitcoin companies to international investors and entrepreneurs, the world is looking at El Salvador. 🇸🇻
We are not just participating in the Bitcoin revolution. We are helping lead it! 🚀
#ASOBITCOIN #ElSalvador #Bitcoin #PlanB #Lugano #BitcoinCountry
Bitcoin Beach retweeted
Great conversation with @Bitcoinbeach on the many ways bitcoin and real estate intersect here at @LuganoPlanB.
I’ll be signing copies of Digital Real Estate at 2:30 PM next to the Mempool Stage.
Bitcoin Beach retweeted
Featuring circular economies on the main stage matters, because they're the proof people actually ask for: not price charts, but cafés and fishermen taking sats every day. That's what turns freedom money from a slogan into a habit.
Shout out to @LuganoPlanB for always featuring Circular Bitcoin Economies front and center on the main stage. Bitcoin is Freedom Money!
Meet Eldry Hill, founder of Bitcoin Witsand in South Africa.
Listen to her share the story of how she implemented bitcoin in her local community and what it’s impact really means.
🅱️🌐⭕️
Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
📅 Nov 19-20
📍El Zonte
@zackdorseyx @fbceglobal
📅 SAVE THE DATE! 🌍
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.
🅱️🌐⭕️
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
🅱️🌐⭕️
Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit
📅 Nov 19-20
📍El Zonte
@fbce @zackdorsey
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 👇
What Happens to Your Bitcoin If You Die? How a Texan in El Zonte Built a Free Tool for Your Family
youtu.be/IcoT77CrZ1M