Episode notes
It’s great having new guests on to tell us how they found their way to Bitcoin or explaining what they are doing in the Bitcoin ecosystem, but it’s also interesting to follow a story and see the progress over time.
Owen is an example of the latter. We first met at the OG Bitcoin Bush Bash in Murrurundi in 2020, then we travelled to his farm in northern NSW to check out his beef operation (EP22). We spoke again as he went over to El Salvador on a scouting mission to see if it really was somewhere he thought he could live (EP43) and now we catch up with him as he’s finding his feet in San Salvador. He’s not a talker...he’s a doer! He’s also a good talker...we discuss:
- Being top of the 2 Bit league
- Making the decision to sell the farm and leave Australia
- Living next door to the President’s mum
- Making friends in San Salvador
- The general cost of living (rent, fuel, food, quality beef, motorcycles)
- Travel restrictions
- Where’s Jordy
- Nomad or Expat
- Optimising tax status
- The perfect San Salvador climate
- Paying in Bitcoin/Lightning
- Problems with payments generally
- Where is the most chilled out Bitcoin conference
- Using the local health system
- Gringos having an edge
- No scamming or woke culture, completely safe and much less regulation
- Business ideas
- Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit, Nov 15-17
- https://adoptingbitcoin.org
- Bitcoin Landing Spot
- https://twitter.com/BTCLandingSpot
- Visas. Escape to El Salvador
- https://www.escapetoelsalvador.org
Pod Shout-outs
https://twitter.com/ThorupMikkel
https://twitter.com/AdoptingBTC
https://twitter.com/MuunWallet
https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi
https://twitter.com/Bitcoinbeach
https://twitter.com/GaloyMoney
https://twitter.com/stacyherbert
https://twitter.com/RealDougCasey
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele
https://twitter.com/BeefInAustralia
https://twitter.com/ElSalvadorVisas
