Expansion Lab
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S3E16- We Can (Make) Change: How Bitcoin is Changing Poverty and the World with Mike Peterson
56 minutes Posted Mar 2, 2022 at 8:32 pm.
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BONUS EPISODE! Crypto currency- it’s all the talk recently.  But what is it and will it really stick around? Phil talks with director of Bitcoin Beach and President of the non-profit Missionsake, Mike Peterson, on our recent trip to Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador about the ways that Bitcoin is transforming and empowering a community by bringing financial inclusion and opportunities to the most marginalized. They talk about the future of the economy, the revolution of decentralized money, the ways in which our world is becoming more deinstitutionalized and why it matters.  

To learn more:

https://www.bitcoinbeach.com/

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-22/in-el-salvadors-bitcoin-beach

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/07/14/this-el-salvador-village-adopts-bitcoin-as-money/?sh=156fdd20447b

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/on-the-coast-of-el-salvador-bitcoin-is-becoming-the-standard-2020-01-13