Adding on to that story ... an interesting twist.

There was this L.A. Times reporter trailing Governor Johnson that day. She stood to my side listening as I was telling the Governor about bitcoin. I then asked her if she was familiar with bitcoin and I might even have asked her to write an article on it. She brushed me off to get in another question or two in with Governor Johnson.

A decade later, still with L.A. Times, she now does hit pieces on Bukele (President of El Salvador). And she still doesn't understand bitcoin.

Her 2011 article on Governor Johnson:

Republican Gary Johnson is not the average presidential candidate https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2011-nov-13-la-na-gary-johnson-20111113-story.html

Her articles on Bukele:

As El Salvador adopts Bitcoin, its young president is dismantling democracy https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-its-young-president-is-dismantling-democracy/

El Salvador’s president buys bitcoins ‘naked,’ he boasts. His experiment is costing his nation millions https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/el-salvadors-president-buys-bitcoins-naked-he-boasts-his-experiment-is-costing-his-nation-millions/

In response to killings, El Salvador’s bitcoin president attacks civil liberties #18824 https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-04-08/mass-arrests-of-salvadorans-accused-of-being-in-gangs

As El Salvador’s president tries to silence free press, journalist brothers expose his ties to street gangs https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-06-09/nayib-bukele-el-salvador-el-faro-journalists [Archive]