El Salvador and Bitcoin: Perfect Bedfellows?
Could it really tick so many boxes, or are we missing something?
I couldn’t go to Miami’s Bitcoin Conference this year because post-COVID-19 travel restrictions from the U.K. meant it was just way too complicated.
Like thousands of others, I had to settle with the livestreams instead which, if truth be told, didn’t succeed in reducing my desire to be there.
In fact, it had the opposite effect.
On the Saturday, having been given a heads up by various heavyweight Bitcoiners that “something big” was coming, my other half and I watched Zap founder Jack Mallers’ emotional speech live as it unfolded.
The tears from Jack were entirely genuine, and we found ourselves in the same state. For years, I have been writing about how Bitcoin can change the world for people who have almost no chance otherwise of getting out of their situation. Suddenly — very suddenly, in fact — it was happening.
It’s something I genuinely believe the world needs to be able to start the next stage of human development. It’s also something I intend to do more of personally in the future. The bottom line was that thanks to Mallers’ admirable efforts in the country in the preceding months, El Salvador had announced that they were…
