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at the foot of the contract. go up. ok, now. this is the future site of the coin city. here's how it will look. since the countries president, the, the steps there. well, it's not clean. now i'm taking version for just arriving. uh, but uh, a little uh, lay down uh mattress. uh, got a little micro kitchen just to, uh, the one man will citadel hot. no front door and it's pretty safe around here. i haven't seen a bad guy since since i've been here. and so i in oregon, sleep out on the beach or you're just, you know, there's, there's no trouble or worries

washer. the 30 i my name's corbin keegan. of the coin narrow. the 1st residents of the coin city, the recording here in el salvador is the beacon of light and hope for the coins. fix is not just the money, but everything built on the money. the here in guatemala late got to find is style and big queen mining is the

solution. all of that material is waste. that can be turned into energy that can be turned into decline. the last thing about contract. well, no. so no one knew el salvador before, lots of us are only here because of it coining, because it's an opportunity for a global economic collaboration. i inhabit the website when they go. so, but it's a business for the lead. i think it's the course community to have the lease to gain from an economic system like this. but i think the point for when you talk about that chat about it is related to the claim. well, it can be clean easily, bad. and so you're cons. so that's what's happening right now. we're here for with a big cleaners. bringing this to the people i'm explaining what

a great opportunity there's the water model here in front of such a look. to big corners, one to shake things on chores long face small town on the volcanic like to live with. it's victor ask landscapes and strong indigenous culture. this is elia saw k. hi. hello. hello, how are you? i'm just getting the oil that pay the whole trying oil that will turn into a new big coins. let's go to completely a couple of cases. a big problem in guatemala normal if we don't collect the oil, people will just chuck it somewhere which is sent to the environment. so this is

the, me i'm being that because when it rains, it goes right into the lake. by the next, i mean i live, well, now we have a solution for that. and well, it's incredible a while as a unit in the backyard next to a car repair shop is a boom. a home made bitcoin machine and he has a key hi, wants to use it to mind digital goals. first, the filters food residue use down to the old cooking oil and then it's ready to fuel the own diesel machine. the electricity generated power, small computers, which perform cryptographic operations for the global bitcoin block chain in return, they receive small sums of bit coins at least one mines about $3.00 a day. they don't run out. we've been dealing with you, but $3.00 plus about $1.00

a day on this one. i'm happy. i can pay for my coffee in victoria where you're living right next to boom is prime on your most equal. i'm a musician, a very sacrament. when trump bass drums keyboard, but when the violin, he doesn't understand why it has to be so noisy here. i keep telling them to get a muffler, then it will be quieter. americana . i'll probably be going. creating bit coins from waste was an idea that area is the case high gone from

patrick mound. well this is what i call the hit are all covered in vines and, and foliage. and if you look at what's going on here, we've got the necessary ingredients to break down organic waste and create methane . and for our purposes, we would capture this methane and flare it create energy and mine big point. the organic waste ponds has been inactive for yes. can i fixing it to the grid is too expensive. so waste water just flows past it could big coins from the same mining finally get it up and running. this is low hanging fruit for us to help the community. and again, it's just another demonstration that big point is the only thing that could come in here and fix this problem. the next level would be the solid waste facility, and then we have created a real virtuous cycle of taking waste and creating bitcoin and improving the

economy and proving that community and protecting the environment. patrick mount came here from the us as a christian missionary. now he leads the logo, bitcoin project with the same zeal. i have a lot for this community. i love her guatemala and i love to help people. so if i have a tool that can be used to help people, then you know why not, why not do that? most people here have no bank accounts and don't save money. these to want to change that. they've already convinced trump keep up a, treat the toner soon in the past, but if she had spat cash, she used it to buy more stock. now, she has a big calling, wallet, a new customers. they scanned the queue on code and big coins, land in her wallet on the block chain, and the it'd be clements and we're going to put this on a form of a name that's been calling is great and it's a way of investing more. patrick told us that the cost was actuated, but if i regularly invest some of the process,

i'll have more lice headache and then mosley invest these or not? because at some point, maybe not now, but even a year or 2, the price could explode or sales for the explicit yeah, this looks like a orange pill. someone is due on both them to paid calling. every goal is that how are you waiting? this is him and i'm going to say yes, i don't know. i'm eli is from the like a big going project is dealing between makes practical sense for your business list . why? because you get a lot of tourists from the u. s. and the rest of the world goes, they pay with visa or mastercard, and those companies get a 5 to 8 percent commission. seeing it's different with between the customers can send you money directly without commission the blue stay the middle. nope, i got a nice let me show. the motorcycle rental company is skeptical in 2021 l sounds. it all became the 1st country to accept big coins as legal 10 to

jeff got us is a big coin it from germany. these parts of a german delegation touring through bitcoin country. there's a big conference coming out. that's a special thing about big coins. yeah. there's no headquarters in state. and so there are conferences with people meet them and bring this internet culture into the real world and. and el salvador is really special because it's a whole country that except to be going to physically put executed. so it's like one big laboratory level of toys. off to one found a tent. he pays and bid coins. so now it's worked. this is jessica thomas's 2nd visit. ever since l sounds little adaptive bit coined as a currency, it's been a promised land, a bit coyness. what about the locals today, shatt and this euphoria?

let's go the number i speak to, isaac, to a pen. yes, i'm a journalist from el salvador and collect human this. it seems the state of emergency independent journalism has become increasingly dangerous. i mean that there are threats and restrictions when there's some people why it happens in spite on the domestic the one boy that saw solar while you are late be when the whole big coin thing started in 2021. the government loans to be campaign to say we were on the way to becoming a will the can only talent as the 1st country to implement between the atlas for saturday, for the medical, you have it on september 17 and by the one year anniversary, the government didn't say a single word about the coins here. you know, he had a know nothing and that's all up alotta. why not? and why? you know, sort of living in 2022 after a spike in homicides all thirties declared. the state of emergency in el salvador

victo opinion takes us to posit limited in the hall to the capital san salvador. to see some of the effects, the bi mahoney you know, we're going to kind of black market. the goods, the sale here are often obtained at least at least not a heavy leasing that way. but that's a form of trade that many people here depend on to get their living. and yes, if i more to him that guess we'll see. so that's a black market right in a city center. until recently, it was a very dangerous place to visit l. sounds little is one of the highest rates of gang violence in the well, since declaring a state of emergency, the government has imprisoned over 66000 ledger gang members without valid trials. but sometimes there was always conflict here on the games used to clash with each other, but that's pretty much over now. when we all know, so in

a way the government is doing a good job because they're trying to do something good for the people of a window, but a but equivalent. but lots of people are having a hard time because they're innocent. relatives are in prison when that other symptom michael gets into one of those will funny and says, he knows that dimensions in the wall on games. most security comes at the cost of basic human rights. the big calling revolution is on hold. the state speed calling while it chiva is beam launch lea, a band, only a few locals use it and then was in the cooling. yes, we have the he was doing pretty well in the beginning, but less so lightly. i don't know why the, some of them as little sign a bit calling you for you in the center of sense, solve it. on the next morning we had to one of the forest regions in the

country, the presidents, high profile. the project is underway here. bitcoin mining using volcanic energy, the journalist victo opinion, wants to find out if locals will benefit from the projects he meets with community leaders in the municipality of that, in all hello, nice to meet you to was, i'm victo opinion, but other one which was like, it's a great place you on the, on the way to one of the nearby villages all scovella ask is, wants to show us something that's worrying people. i fear it is this when up a lot of the in it in the here you, that's the power station with their developing the big coins is a raw material. says the government and with the but as a community, we don't really know what's going on a quite a bit. but of course events. and we're the ones who could end up suffering negative consequences in just a little gotta,

if there are profits and how will they be distributed among the citizens in the end? that's the most important thing. and this will go mostly what i threw it on the well, again, i'm looking for a bunch of, you know, there are room is of money coming in. that will be very welcome in this impoverished region, the, the big calling base comp inside sales at all. and we're leaving now, so think about the big coin delegation is also heading to banning on an exclusive visit to the cios to him all power plants if you don't see a geothermal power plant like this every day, all those pipes and the steam power coming out of the mountain and also getting to see how it's used directly from mine, and there's at least one mine in there. maybe they've even expanded the mining operators in the bill of the mining parts on pacific subjects. visitors are rarely allowed inside the power plants. geothermal energy is an important source of power

for the country. heat from the nearby volcanoes, tens ground water into steam, which drives turbines to generate green electricity. president. now your book kayla has promised that this kind of green energy will supply bitcoin city. this would make green bitcoin mining possible. jeff got us because already visited this site. last year. we're allowed to look inside, but he won't tell us which devices are in there with the current cash rate is on the network or how much is already been mined. that's all classified for the society or to push me updates on such as buying. right. let's see if we see anything. it's not over yet. here we go. the,

a few kilometers away. we learned about living conditions here. when, how many families lived here? there are 76 families in the community. i see. so no one has running more sense is what i'm no, there's no, well here the community collect rain going to in this rusty tank. this is dan drinking water. soon. it will be the drying season. and i've had the thank goodness we haven't had any terrible diseases of the items that i have. the children sometimes get diarrhea from the water, but i mean, hold on, let's see. oh, where. but to improve the situation, we'd need support from a governmental or non governmental institution and i'm, and i don't know what that means that you cannot for you at, especially when the tank gets empty and the landline. thank you. it. the net one that you would always like to have a proper water pipeline so that the families wouldn't always have supplies that,

that have been in place. you on the left, i mean, in the middle of this last forest. water isn't luxury. families live here with minimal infrastructure. no sewage systems, no paved roads rationing is common. the why is there a lot? you think it's a, just on people's feeling, the water for the rest. you want the only open the tap when we hand out the water rations. if the, if someone would lie a 2nd for someone else who are not in our full pockets. so going to pass finally a day in dry months, even less. some of the energy generated at the g as the mold power plant, goes towards a bitcoin mine on site. the delegation wants to know

how many big coins are being mind with the computers here. but they only get a quick look inside a no um, says the, the project so that nothing has changed compared to last year. we'll try to analyze it a bit more later from the photos and videos. we know roughly what's going on here. no big limits that much. we're kind of a year ago, president blue kayla county da's demo mining is the key technology for the big quite nice ation of the country. today, the project feels neglected, an ultra modern potemkin village. back in the real village with a sanchez family, douglas and his wife raised 7 daughters and several grandchildren without access to clean drinking water. he offers rein, wanted with sugar to his gas. the vic to penya pretends to drink, to politeness,

sees this case and sure the water is also said to help with anxiety, a little book or even just the water was to go now the topic, a corner. god knows that because of the thing i'm going to call you here about is how these bitcoin profits are going to solve the countries problem. me and okay, so now i could get that. i'm yeah, yeah. and, and maybe something we'll change that. and if you put a handle on where you have, if it's true that it will support a lot of projects, that's great. and not a month on that for the echo a city when and if i know that or i don't want to be selfish about that, but we have a real emergency here with drinking. why? the number one to many and figured out i wonder, fixed on that one for 5 me a festival. without the infrastructure

investment ductless sanchez's grand. some will also grow up without running water. victo opinion, doubts the bitcoin will help with that. what are you at the ending but it's what needs to maybe it will help the be investors and the government itself. everyone who believes in and promotes these between religion and miss beverly, but i don't think it will help communities like these. at least i don't see a plan that also takes to pull people into account for him. but i want to say, i know somebody okay out of it really gets to me it hurts to see children in these conditions. he died especially because i have a daughter bad by identifying with the one thing i always say that i do this with because i have the advantage of seeing these needs. i was right on the front line. they soon enough what i say, but it really get us to meet necessity. i the and then i mean we have to make her fam, which of the

middle of the family. and it's just painful to see children having to live like this and pick on wants them. okay. and what's the basis? i want to give these people avoiding sort of too expensive and people who's been condemned to silence since the stone, you know, then sealants, god, if they could come and settled your could. ok, i think i can bridge the gap here. so important that but i so that's why i'm doing everything i can to tell the story other than the boy that the point that he started with the facts in guatemala, patrick milda, and l. e. as uh, us case site has set up a bit calling wallets for the stuff of a motorcycle rental company. are you list?

i'm going to the metal mini lukea sending you money right now. you know, say yes, reach to transactions there instantaneous. sometimes $1.00. and where can i withdraw this in cash? just so you can move it on like a human atm. you call me and i'll give you the money. you'll bank, give me beat coins and i'll give you cash. it's very simple. and we don't charge you anything for the exchange, so no quarter or more we want to in a very exciting and once people understand how it works, everyone move on to use the coding i of what to do is i'll skip that. i have some data, but i'll have to discuss it with the boss 1st. let's see. looks interesting, but i'm not totally sure. especially because the value fluctuate, so much more like sunrise in kind of chance. the st.

don't. a waking up patrick melinda, is speaking after school. today, we're going to introduce the new bitcoin coursework. me put him out of the coin and 3 d printer. it's going to be exciting. the children at these private school a supposed to learn about big coins. and why it's important for them. well, welcome, everybody. big point is a, is a money. okay. just like what i have in my pocket, get some money. that's paper money. see i, and big point is a digital mind. what was the level book? let's talk about big cooling the recording is digital money he said, is going is that is a case high translates because patrick mailed it doesn't spilled on it and is the middle of the heat. the, the difference between this and this is the government says this is worth something, but the government says, this isn't worth anything. i can buy hundreds of these pads and,

and make as much of this as if i wanted to print it keeps on this. i could make it make as much of it as i wanted to. that's essentially what the government's doing with the gets a bit coined is my goal is what we call digital gold. you can start saving it now. so that when you're older and you have much greater well, proponents came that big calling based development aid would help reduce dependence on the global know and that this or ptolemy would create sustainable prosperity. not everyone trusts these grand promises. being too many the incense sounds i don't. jeff gallus county's delegation are about to attend an event at the ministry. el salvador native nelson you know, is also joining them. the event is geared towards bitcoin us and respond to some of

the dig attached to, to get, i'm excited to hear about the digital strategy of so there are still some unanswered questions even from last year. what's going on with bitcoin city? what's planned, what's happening in my experience, we can ask pretty open questions at these meetings and also talk to the experts in the old and the answer to the best of their knowledge. nelson n o has lived in germany for several years. he hopes bitcoin can help his native country. i'm have got him a year and a half ago, i only talked to bill salvador some way to visit because my parents lived here before i started cc. how much then business develop? really, lots of people are saying that they'll, salvador could eventually become a country like samples. and i see that the opportunities, the math i can see, but we have very big challenge and also them a nelson, you know, is looking forward to getting new information from the government. just like everyone else here. the minister of the economy has canceled fund president boot

kayla is causing will speak. she gives the same presentation about bait clean as long as the city is a timeframe or she will detail that when you're going to build things like the do, all that's needed to our to city about big city. we do not have and try to be creative. we have like projects. bitcoin is starting to wonder how seriously the government is taking the big calling project until the 12th and nothing's flights of steps. i don't think the slides or the lecture provided any answers about how this is going to be implemented, or a time frame of when it will all take place. the questionnaire is on what's really behind this. is this just made for investors? what will come to the in the end? possibly that's of the question. we turn to one of the countries most critical

economic voices. tatiana moto keen and know how are you? are you saying? yeah, i have a pretty bad fever, but i hope will be better and 2 days. then we can skype in peace generally speak to opinion once to show us how many people in el salvador and money law. my yeah. level, let's see on this device and not most people here don't have a formal jill. no steady monthly income. so they subsist, they search as we say. he said, i've only got one more thing when we arrive at a traditional compliment. ok, it's in the east of the country. 5 data has been data, not many people know me, that you want to understand the economic dynamics of these country. this is the

reality. people get up very early, some drive for 4 hours just to buy and sell capital one up would have been very competitive. so the novel victor opinion has been used documenting these capital markets for a firm to project business. here is a cash in hand. any valerie? this is a professional hagler. what's that one worth back there? i'm doing lots of strong animals get that it will give me 10 more. i'll forget it. i'll go over there. every donor is handled over the profit margins as me and have to sprint from a brand. see you video of

the $1600.00 for your own safety take between? no, no, it's not worth anything here. it's not for them or you don't know what it is. they say this money is in circulation, but it doesn't work here. i get on the we want dollars the these lines don't trade is don't like the idea of the kind land fitness as people need to smell the money to feel it in the hands. and so they show, they can use it, i've added it and they've got on the they get when that's how the local economies built in the money. it's, i think almost have to speak going, has nice. now your look at this is the last year. it'd be going no way back at the ministry. the big coin is confront the government about the crash at the crypto

exchange at the x, they want to know if they turn to pay, the coins are affected on says a not both coming goes down. do we all have a problem? those are the big going on. he's only he's away from issues for exchange. unfortunately, we don't have that type of information. we will have to come back for you that some people come to the discussions, others to network based calling in the state. and it really was clash printed to. there's a culture clash between bitcoin culture and politics. give them bitcoin is very open and transparent. people, which it's critical in the sense of being scientifically inquisitive and bit corners are people who are very open and honest, who want answers to everything. and in general politicians are people who just say whatever they need to. when in doubt, they'll say they don't, you know,

rather than giving an honest answer us so i can tell you about this stuff. we ask economies. tatiana model keen watch. she thinks after a yeah, a big calling. hey, know the promise was financially inclusion. that's what the between law said. we can actually see that there's no benefits in financial the inclusion, not for people leaving inside of our and not for people being outside and send then remington suicide both. it's actually too risky. and i think it's the same reason why people in february is not using it. the state gave every citizen a want it to a big calling was $30.00. when tatiana opened, has she saw her account was already being used? it was stolen. yes. a beep cleaning and a sideboard. it serv, representation of how the government act. like hiding

a lot of information and they do things from one day to the other. and if you, as a citizen, criticize some of the things or the details about what they are doing. they actually harass you. so yeah, there are a lot of journalists that has the gases. i have big as to spies software on her cell phone installed by have a government the fact dependents not you. and it's an important thing for the long ago bitcoin project. the biggest challenge is raising the money and we're in a barrel market right now. and when we're in a barrel market excitement and enthusiasm about investing a bit going projects just kind of goes down naturally as you would expect. and so it, because of that it's,

it's super challenging. yeah. patrick nelda has invited big pointers from all over the world. possibly because he urgency needs investors. but above all, he needs popularity. but his mining from waste projects, the prototype has to we know that his gas, bitcoin mining for environmental protection, sounds good, but can it be implemented on a large scale? everyone here knows that boom only generates tiny sums of money because i have 3 electricity. i think it's great. yeah, i don't know how well it scales up, but they say they make money here, but i don't see any come out. all right, so thanks for coming in. yeah, it looks chunky. it looks homemade because it is what,

what we've demonstrated here is a proof of concept. there's a reason, there's no wind or solar capacity here because it's too expensive, it's way from population centers. okay, what can we do at the lowest cost to nominate or the cheapest way possible to get mining going in and financial? and this is, this is, it just makes perfect sense for decentralizing mining and hash networks. and this is a way to bring in developing countries and then also to be a part of this revolution. not just creating a big point circle or economy where people bringing that point that actually bring the technology, which is super, super excited. now that they've seen the prototype, it's time for the main project, the heading into the mountains to issues which dumpsite the today's on sounds. it all begins hosting,

one of the most important bits calling conferences in the wells, adopting bitcoin j one. this is partly about how you promote the adoption of bitcoin, how you get that out to the people. oh, salvador is a permanent starting point, of course, because it's already relevant to your in practical terms. but it's also about how to make it could be quite better and faster. instead of hundreds of big calling is entrepreneurs and developers have arrived on don't age by price drops in the past few months, the conferences focus is on making big calling more accessible. jeff, dennis is chairing a panel on the topic the while they discussed technical problems on stage. others up busy networking nelson in other things as being too little education. so far he's developed to

tutorial, to help with that. give me a community. we need more ways of showing between to the people who need it most. and these are not the people who come here from europe or north america. it's the salvadorans to, to have the opportunity to use between every day the community, please stay on the students and indeed us, they stand low new on, at the other end of the country, victo opinion visit the place where bitcoin city is set to be built. the no good. ok. like a hint, then look at us when young. it's not that people don't want to dream, but we can dream of 1st well projects when we don't have the basic education pearl seem like on the last say the week good core access to health care. indeed can all make policies a bankrupt. so what do you think i have going on?

because it's done in cuba, there's no sign of the mega project, but i'm at the old. the president promised a new airport as a connection to be cohen c. c. from the promise to pacific train. he promised a bridge for the last 2 of those highway of charles, he promised to stadium value, but we haven't seen any of it so fun. when will be spent on the that. what else could you imagine going for? what if the political situation continues like this? that makes heater? and so if so could open the informal you don't want to can. only time will tell us how to be aggressions into tax are getting worse and more threatening, kind of in my flip, the coughing, how many lessons? and because i'm a pessimist, i think we'll have to go that way eventually get ok. who's coming? look at them and look at them and in that one moment that ok, but wherever i go, i still work as a journal entry. well, yes,

and you're not seeing the doing. the max kaiser has advised el salvador was president. the, the conference comes to an end. there was a lot of talk about freedom and sovereignty and little about the situation in the country. the current state of emergency wasn't discussed on any panel in any of the individuals in here. we were at a big between conference and we're not here to talk about the human rights situation in el salvador. i think when you, when those salvatore, you have to take off the european glasses book and try to observe it as impartially

as possible. as much of drawing our own conclusions we've done more than, i mean we're not politicians either specifically or individuals who have come together here other than those the as him forbid coins. i'll answer the mentioned, you know, and right now it's working and they'll salvatore, and maybe they'll come a point when he doesn't work anymore. i don't have any definite answers either. several can including onboard bitcoin in el salvador today seems like more of a symbol than a payment system. they means very different things to different people. for some, it's the dawn of a digital future. for others, it sounds more like another wild goose chase, the it's a final stop in guatemala. the plan here is to turn trash into digital goals and

help find the tackle the trash problem in kind of such as the that came with the my very said to see how trash is managed here in guatemala, is long as you can see, t's you'd see 100 times know which will eat the sad thing is that apple locations don't care about anything course. and those are the coupon for the there are people who leave off trash. i shouldn't think you'd be the, the lowest would when it rains this just pours down, seeps into the water shed. and then if you get over here, all of this trash in some form, all the contaminants are coming out of this landfill down into the water shed and into the lake. and that's, that's the problem that we're trying to solve. patrick mount the wants to build a plant for waste, salting,

and bio gas. he'll make it profitable by using the electricity generates to mind big coins, a multi $1000000.00 project. and our model, we want to take some of that big core into decentralized basic income. and put it back into the community because this is, this is their waste. so they have a right to retain that, that benefit, that goal. you know, when the spaniards into europeans were here 4 to 500 years ago, they took all the gold from the land, massive transfer wells from central south america, took it to europe, and the coins digital gold, and the digital go, it doesn't look like gold, but it's energy, digital gold and we want it to stay here in central and south america. there's certainly no lack of vision among bitcoin is in latin america. they want to believe that they coin will help everyone. 6 6 6 6 6

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