Today’s Episode Of “One Step Closer To Worldwide Adoption”: February 15th
Cointelegraph writer Joe Hall spent a few weeks living in El Salvador attempting to live off of Bitcoin and Bitcoin only and documented his time there:
Paying the way for Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador: Video
Hall was surprised, dismayed, entertained and ultimately enthused by his findings in the country. Adopting a new technology as novel and misunderstood as Bitcoin is a mammoth task, but Salvadorans are getting stuck into the new technology where possible.
Retailers like Walmart had the option to pay in Bitcoin — but the process was slow and inconvenient — while the likes of Texaco were staunchly anti-Bitcoin. At McDonald’s, the experience is smooth and fast; it’s even quicker than the McDonald’s branches that accept Bitcoin in Switzerland.
From the Adopting Bitcoin conference — a Lightning conference in San Salvador that gathered Bitcoiners from around the world — down to Bitcoin Beach and Surf City, across to the volcanoes of Santa Ana and on the streets of San Salvador, Hall mingled with locals to get a better sense of Bitcoin as a means of exchange.
Full article here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/paying-the-way-for-bitcoin-adoption-in-el-salvador-video