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the el salvador at the foot of the contract. go up. ok, now this is the future site of the coins city. here's how it will look. since the countries presidents, the steps there. well it's not clean. now i'm having version for just arriving. uh, but uh little lay down the uh mattress. uh, got a little micro kitchen just to uh, the one man will. citadel hut. no front door. um. 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 just, you know there's, there's no trouble or worries washing the 30 i my name's corbin. keegan, elder quintero. the 1st residents of the coin city, according to your email, salvador is that beacon of light and hope for the coin fix is not just the money, but everything built on the money the

here in guatemala lake. gotcha. the line is dying and bitcoin mining is the solution. all of that material is waste. that can be turned into energy that can be turned into decline the positive outcomes. almost no one knew el salvador before. lots of us are only here because of it pointing because it's an opportunity for a global economic collaboration and how that works. i don't think also, but it's a business for the lead. i think it's the course of the communities who have the lease to gain from an economic system like this. but i think the point for when you talk about the chat about it is related to the point. well it can be quite easily

bad. and so your country 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 and the water model here in front of a child to bitcoin is one to shake things on chores . loves a small town on the volcanic like edit line with its picturesque landscapes. i'm strong in teaching this culture. this is l e s k. hi. hello. hello, how are you? i'm just getting the oil. pretty old frying oil that will turn into a new big coins to be. let's go to completely a couple pieces. the

big problem in guatemala normal get almost if we don't collect the oil, people will just chuck it some way, which is fine for the environment. we have some problem about a may. i'm being that because when it rains, it goes right into the lake by the next, i'm in the i live on that. now we have a solution for that. and well, it's incredible. it was in the unit in the backyard next to a car repair shop is a boom, who made bitcoin machine and he has a key hi. wants to use it to mind digital goals. first, the filters food residues 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 bulk check. in return,

they receive small sums of bit coins at least one mines about $3.00 a day. but on the whole, they don't run out. we've been dealing with you for $3.00 plus about $1.00 a day on this one. i'm happy, i can tell you some like coffee inbetween where you're living right next to cub. boom is prime on your site. most people, i'm a musician, a very soon instruments with trumpet, 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 of

the creating bit coins from waste was an idea that areas are key high going from patrick meld. uh, well this is what i call the hidden air. all covered in vines and in 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 in mind. big point, the organic waste ponce has been inactive for yes. connecting it to the great is too expensive. so waste points to adjust the flow has passed. it could bait coins from me saying 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, a real virtuous cycle of taking waste and creating bitcoin and improving the economy and proving that community and protecting the environment, patrick mailed, i came here from the us as a christian missionary now he leads the logo, bitcoin project with the same zeal. i have a love for this community. i love 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 done 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 spent cash, she used it to buy more stock. now she has a big calling, wallet, a new customers. they scanned the coupon code and pick coins land in her wallet on the block chain. and it'd be clements move when i put this on a photo my,

the name that's been calling is great and it's a way of investing more shouldn't told us that the price was actually a have. but if i regularly invest some of the process i'll have more life. okay. can they 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 the point. here we go. is that how are you waiting? or is there any numbers? and 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 us and the rest of the world, those 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 young 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 out 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 bitcoin. yeah, there's no headquarters instead. and so there are conferences when 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 failed attempt, he pays and bid coins. 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 coin us. what about the locals today, shatt and this euphoria? let's go the number and speak the funds to a pen. yes, i'm a journalist from el salvador and kind of 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 domestic this one boy fits all the while you are late be when the whole big coin, things daunted 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 i list for setting for the medical you can be put on september 7th and then by the one year anniversary, the government didn't say a single word about paid coins here. you know what, we had no, nothing,

and that's all up alotta. why not? and why? you know, sort of living in 2022 after a spike in homicides both are, it is declared. the state of emergency in el salvador victo opinion takes us to posit limited in the hall to the capitals and salvador to see some of the effects. the bi mahoney 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. el salvador 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

or something. 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 the symptom michael gets into one of those will funny and says, you know, was implemented in the wall on games. most security comes at the cost of basic human rights to be clean. revolution is on hold. the states big calling wallet chiva is beam launch lea, a band, it's only a few locals use it, but the name was in the cooling. yes. we have the it was doing pretty well in the beginning, but less so lightly. i don't know why the problem is 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 poorest regions in the country. the presidents, high profile. the project is underway here. bitcoin mining using volcanic energy, the journalists, 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 i thought it was it's a great place you on them to 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 quiet, but of course events. and we're the ones who could end up suffering negative consequences in mr. legato, if there are profits and how will they be distributed among the citizens in the end? that's the most important thing and they so cool. most of i have to wait on this to wherever you know, my input a bunch of, you know, there a room is of money coming in. that will be very welcome in this impoverished region, the, the bitcoin, it's base comp inside sales at all. and we're leaving now, so think about the big coin delegation. he's 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 use directly from mining. there's at least one mine in there. maybe they've even expanded the mining operators and that they all 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 you have to 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. there's no there's no, well here, the community, you collect the rain going to in this rusty tank. this is dan drinking water. soon . it will be the dry season. going. i've had here, thank goodness we haven't had any terrible diseases. i me, i, since i didn't have the children sometimes get diarrhea from the water. but i mean what, unless you pass the way, 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 i'm in patent and that for you at especially when the tank gets empty on the lower. thank you. it, the net one that you would always like to have a proper water pipeline so that the families will always have supplies that have been if you see 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 locker? it's a gate, it's a just on people stealing 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 family 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 and no answers 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 of the kind of a you ever go president to kayla talented g as dental mining as 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. see this case and sure the water is also said to help with anxiety, a little book or even just want to be to go now the topic a going back on that is that gets a thing i'm going to call you here about is how these bitcoin profits are going to solve the countries problem and look at some point now i can't get them up. yeah. yeah. and, and maybe something we'll change it on the, for the 0 for the him flow to breath. and if it's true that it will support a lot of projects, that's great and not one from the political a city uh when. and if i know that 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, and i work for family or the principle without the infrastructure investment douglas center says 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. but i want to say, i know somebody okay out of it really gets to me, it hurts to see children in these conditions. especially because i have a daughter bad by identifying with the work they. i always say that i do this work

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 gets to me, how can i assist you either in the mail or fam, which of the middle of the family chill? it's just painful to say children having to lift like this and pick them wants them . okay. what's the basis? i want to give these people avoiding sort of too expensive and people who's being condemned to silence since the stone, you know, then sealants god, they make the comments that on your cut. 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 and the boy that the point that he started with the

facts in guatemala, patrick nelda, and l. e. as uh, us case. hi 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. and then 1 dollar. and where can i withdraw this in cash? just so you can move on like a human atm. you call me and i'll give you the money. you'll bank 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 have some dallas right now, 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 less the sun rise in kind of chance. the st. dogs, a waking up i patrick nelda is speaking out of school today. we're going to introduce the new bitcoin coursework. me put him out of decline, and 3 d printer. it's going to be exciting. the children at these private school as opposed to learn about bitcoin. 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 food cooling. the recording is digital money. he said, is cool. is that is a key hi. translates because patrick meld, it doesn't spill down. it 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 predicate zone is i could make you make as much of it as i wanted to. that's essentially what the government's doing with the kid. so that coins is my goal, it's what we call digital gold. you can start saving it now. so that when you're older, uh you have much greater well. proponents came the big calling based development age would help reduce dependence on the global no. and that this or tommy would create sustainable prosperity will to everyone trust these grand promises. being too many the incense sounds, little jeff got a,

some counties 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 it's been for 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, i'm pretty open questions at these meetings and also talk to the experts 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 gotten a year and a half ago, i only to have bills out the door 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 sell the door, could eventually become a country like seeing a pool of that and, and i see that the opportunities, the math i can see. but we have very big challenge and also to them, or nelson,

you know, is looking forward to getting new information from the government, just like everyone else here. the minister of the economy has cancelled fund president boot kayla is causing will speak. she gives the same presentation about big clean as long as the city is a timeframe or she will the details that when you're going to build things like the do all the benefits needed to our city about city. we do not have inside the creative wages like projects. bitcoin is starting to wonder how seriously the government is taking the big calling project until the 12th and nothing 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 what's, what's really behind this is this just made for investors who know what will come of you in the end? possibly that's of the question. we turn to one of the country's most critical economic voices. tatiana motto, keen, and know how are you? are you think? yeah, i have a pretty bad fever but i hope will be better in 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 joke, no steady monthly income. so they subsist, they search as we say. he said i woke up one more thing when

we arrive at a traditional compliment. ok, it's in the east of the country. the data has been data. now you, ma'am, you people know me thought of you want to understand the economic dynamics of these country. this is the reality. people get up very early on the drive for 4 hours just to buy and sell capital up front up would have been very common practice. so then that'll victor opinion has been use documenting these capital markets for authentic projects. business here is a cash in hand. any valerie, this is a professional hagler. hey, 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 dona is handled over the profit margins are small and have to scratch fine. a brand, see videos like the $1600.00 very own 15 take between? no, no, it's not worth anything here. it's not for them. i 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 coins that hadn't been messed with. people need to smell the money to feel it in their hands. and so they show, they can use it, i've added it and they've got on the, the cape when that's how the local economies built in the mind. it's,

i think almost have to speak going, has nice. now yellow kind of, this is the last year. it would be going nowhere led by to the ministry. the big calling is confront the governments about the crash at the crypto exchange, f t x. they want to know if they don't debate, the coins are affected on says a not both coming goes down. those are the, the big going on is only blown away from exchange 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 between and the state and it really what go to that question. there's a culture clash between bitcoin culture and politics. give them bitcoin is very open and transparent, and it's critical in the sense of being scientifically inquisitive and bit corners

of people score. 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 interprets how the bizarre stuff we ask economies. tatiana model keen what she thinks after. yeah, a big calling. hello. 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 them. remington stories have both, it's actually to risk. and i think it's the same reason why people in several ways not using it. the state gave every citizen a want it to big going was $30.00 when tatiana opened,

has she saw her account was already being used? it was stolen. yes. be going is sad about it's uh, representation of how the government not 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 jordan, a lease that has the gases. i have big as to spies software on her cell phone installed by of government. the fact that you and it's an important day 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 in big 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. bravo. patrick milda has invited big pointers from all over the world, possibly because he urgency needs investors. that above all, he needs popularity. but he's mining from waste project. 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, some of money connected to the great because i have 3 electricity. i think it's great. yeah, i don't know how well it scales up, but it's a fantastic issue. they say they make money here,

but i don't see any come out. all right, so thanks for coming in. yeah, it looks junky. it looks how made because it is, but 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 waste from population centers. okay, what can we do at the lowest cost in nominator, 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 for the point network. and this is a way to bring in developing countries in the global so to be a part of this revolution. not just creating a big point, circular economy where people bringing that actually bring the technology, which is super, super excited. now that they've seen the prototype, it's time for the main project. they're heading into the mountains to shoot which dumpsite

the today's and sounds. it all begins hosting, one of the most important bits calling conferences in the wells, adopting bitcoin j one. again, 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 here in practical terms. but it's also about how to make a big claim better and faster, and see pets on shadow. hundreds of big cleaners entrepreneurs and developers have a right 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 ball. they discussed technical problems on stage. others up busy network

nelson, you know, things as being too little education. so far he's develop 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 in fact, in any type of 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 know kind of like a hint, then look at us when you 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 parole seem like on the last say the week good, cool, or access to health care indeed can only 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 big going see, see from the promise to pacific train from it. he promised a bridge for the last 2 of those highway of charles. he promised to stadium that you, but we haven't seen any of it. so fun, when will be spent on the that what is the nothing that could you imagine going abroad if the political situation continues like this, but i like to do it so it's all good. ok. the informal you don't mind can only time will tell us how to be aggressions into tax are getting worse and more threatening. kind of in my flight up there. kind of a home in that sense. 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 at the moment. that ok, but wherever i go i still work as a journal entry. well, yes. and you see in the beginning the, the max kaiser has advised el salvador as president the, the conference comes to an end. there was a lot of talk about freedom and sovereignty. and little about this situation in the country. the current state of emergency it wasn't discussed on any panel in any of these 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 look and try to observe it as impartially as possible as much as a drawing of own conclusions. when done. listen, i mean we're not politicians either. we're individuals who have come together here other than those the, as i'm forbid coins i'm sort of mentioned beyond right now, it's working in those salvador and it's something maybe they'll come a point when it doesn't work anymore. i don't have any definite answers, either. several can including on board bitcoin, in el salvador today seems like more of a symbol then 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 our final stop in guatemala. the plan here is to turn trash into digital goals and help find the tackle that trash problem. impact such as the of a game was very sad to see how trash has managed here in guatemala. with this, we can see tvs, you'd see $100.00 times more, which will eat the sad thing is that out full of patients don't care about anything course, and those are but a coupon for them. uh, there are people who leave off trash. i sent that give you the, the lowest, what when it rains this just pours down seats 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 melner 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 coin, the 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 and the 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 big coins, digital gold, and the digital go, it doesn't look like gold but it's energy as digital gold and we want it to stay here in central and south america. there's certainly no lack of vision among bait cleaners in latin america. they want to believe that they coin will help everyone

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