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El Salvador
Joined August 2019
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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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
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🎙️ 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…
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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 🅱️🌐⭕️ Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit 📅 Nov 19-20 📍El Zonte
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Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit Nov 19-20 El Zonte
3rd clip from a minidoc about african bitcoin circular economy projects: their stories, their successes, their struggles, and how they’re picking up the pieces and building their own future, on their own terms. 🌍 🅱️🌐⭕️ Global Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit 📅 Nov 19-20 📍El Zonte
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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. xitter.cf/JethroToro/status/2098…
"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 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? 👀 🇸🇻
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🎙️ 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…
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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
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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
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🌴⚡ 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
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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👇 ]
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Bitcoin Beach retweeted
🎬 We are releasing a documentary about Bitcoin Circular Economies in Africa as a series of clips in anticipation for: GLOBAL BITCOIN CIRCULAR ECONOMY SUMMIT 🅱️🌐⭕️ 📆NOV 19-20 📍El Zonte 🎟️ Free entry Come as you are, Join the movement. #liberty
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🎙️ We're excited to welcome Jamie (@JamieRobinson) — Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur, and co-founder of The Bitcoin Hardware Store (@tbhs_sv) — as a speaker at the Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit — El Zonte, this November. 🌴⚡️ Jamie has been onboarding Bitcoiners since 2013, dedicating his career to making Bitcoin easier to understand, use, and protect. He built QuickBT in Canada from 2013 to 2018, welcoming over 90,000 early Canadians to Bitcoin, and later co-founded The Bitcoin Hardware Store after moving to El Salvador. 🌎 Today, Jamie is helping small businesses use BTCPay Server through his one-click BTCPayLite.com service, making Bitcoin payments more accessible for merchants and local businesses. 🤝⚡️ 🌎 This conference is open to everyone — the first-ever conference of its kind in El Zonte. Come meet Jamie and other leaders, builders, and educators from around the world. 🌍🤝 🎟️ Spots are limited — secure yours now: satlantis.io/events/2311/glo…
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🎙️ We're excited to welcome Luis Satoshi (@Luis21satoshi), founder of Misión 21 El Salvador (@Mission21fund), as a speaker at the Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit - El Zonte, this November. 🌴⚡️ Originally from Usulután, Luis went through a personal transformation that took him from being a strong opponent of Bitcoin to becoming one of its most dedicated educators. Since 2022, he has been actively promoting Bitcoin education and adoption in El Salvador, collaborating with leading projects such as Mi Primer Bitcoin and Bitcoin Beach. 🇸🇻 Today, through Misión 21 El Salvador, Luis leads education and community development initiatives across four communities in Usulután, demonstrating how Bitcoin can help build inclusive circular economies from the ground up. 🌎 This conference is open to everyone — the first-ever conference of its kind in El Zonte. Come meet Luis and other educators, builders, and community leaders from around the world. 🌍⚡️ 🎟️ Spots are limited — secure yours now: satlantis.io/events/2311/glo…
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One seed. One device. One mistake away from losing everything. We saw this with the Coldcard vulnerability Multisig fixes that: 2-of-3 keys, no single point of failure. But it's not for every wallet, or every amount. Monday 5PM CST: when is it time for multisig? Live from El Zonte.
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Informe completo sobre el ataque del 19 de septiembre y una recompensa del 50% —hasta 3.3 BTC— sobre los fondos robados: blink.sv/blog/sept-19-ataque… Términos de la recompensa: blink.sv/bounty-terms El sábado 19 de septiembre un atacante usó una falla en nuestras herramientas administrativas para tomar el control de 35 cuentas de Blink y retirar unos 6.61 BTC de 24 de ellas. A las 11:39 UTC un cliente llamó a uno de nuestros ingenieros. Quince minutos después todo el servicio custodial estaba apagado. Esa misma noche la falla estaba cerrada y el servicio había vuelto. El jueves 24 de septiembre, cada cliente afectado tenía de vuelta su saldo exacto, en bitcoin y en dólares, pagado por los accionistas de Blink. Ningún cliente asume pérdida alguna. La culpa fue nuestra. No de Bitcoin, no de nuestros usuarios. A los 22 clientes a quienes les robaron bitcoin, y a las 3,817 personas cuyos datos de cuenta fueron consultados: lo sentimos. Cómo pasó: Desde octubre de 2023 hasta ese sábado, cualquier persona con una cuenta gratuita de Blink y un navegador podía darse a sí misma los poderes de nuestro equipo de soporte: cambiar el correo o el teléfono de cualquier cuenta, iniciar sesión como ese cliente y subir sus límites. Tres errores comunes en cómo nuestras herramientas administrativas revisaban permisos, uno encima del otro, en código que heredamos. Todo el equipo estaba ocupado migrando a decenas de miles de usuarios a la autocustodia bajo una nueva regulación. Un monitoreo pensado para detectar caídas del servicio no detectó a un administrador haciendo lo que ningún administrador debería hacer. Lo que no tocó: El dinero salió de nuestra billetera operativa. La mayoría de los fondos de los clientes está en almacenamiento en frío con firma múltiple, que nada en nuestras herramientas administrativas puede alcanzar. Las cuentas no custodiales nunca estuvieron en juego: no tenemos esas llaves. Lo que vio el atacante: También consultó datos de otras 3,817 cuentas; en algunos casos, un número de teléfono o un correo electrónico. No vio nombres, documentos de identidad, direcciones, contraseñas ni frases semilla. Escribimos a cada titular que pudimos contactar con el detalle exacto de lo que se vio. Lo que lo frenó: La autenticación de dos factores. El atacante inició sesión en nueve cuentas que la tenían activada e intentó dieciocho veces mover dinero. Cero pérdidas. Ninguna de las 24 cuentas vaciadas la tenía activada. Si haces una sola cosa después de leer esto: Configuración → Seguridad y privacidad → Autenticación de dos factores. Y actívala también en tu correo electrónico. Lo que cambiamos: La falla se cerró el mismo día y dos días después se agregó una tercera capa de protección. Las herramientas administrativas ya no están expuestas a internet. Las funciones que cambian el correo o el teléfono de un cliente están desactivadas para todos mientras las rediseñamos. Se revocaron todas las claves de API de los clientes. La billetera operativa guarda ahora una fracción de lo que guardaba. Las correcciones de seguridad se desarrollan en privado y se publican una vez desplegadas; el código sigue siendo abierto. Ya funciona un canal permanente para reportar problemas de seguridad, con recompensas de hasta 0.1 BTC por hallazgos críticos. Dónde está el dinero: Una parte sigue donde se retiró. Unos 5 BTC pasaron por un servicio de intercambio entre cadenas; una cantidad pequeña llegó a un exchange que está colaborando. Hay denuncias penales presentadas en El Salvador y en Próspera, los reguladores están notificados y hemos rastreado los fondos sin interrupción. No esperamos recuperar el dinero. Cont...
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