Lets finish retelling some of the things that happened yesterday before i describe day 2, maybe its just me but i don't want to use the atms, i ask the locals and they simply tell me to use the atms but i don't want too because bitcoin is peer to peer and its pseudoanonimous so if you do kyc then all your transaction historys can be easily seen by chainanalysis and other power structures that we are trying to abolish, maybe monero has better anonimity but bitcoin has so much liquidity there will be a day that central authoritys wont be able to control the flow of goods and services that are distributed throught bitcoin in the meantime we are still the cockroach that needs to hide before we inherit the world, for sure el salvador has bitcoin as legal tender but i can't deny that the influence of the power structures of the world like the cia and the wef will either try to tame el salvador or avoid the revolutionary potential of decentralized movements.
Yesterday i went looking for more bitcoin hostals but i didn't find them in el tunco, i thought i was in zonte because i came here with just a ride but lol i was mistaken, tunco and el zonte are not the same they are just close, still the impulsivity and the fact we can't predict the future is what makes things so interesting, imagine a world where everything is already organized by algorithms and you don't understand the technology around you basically you just exist, maybe we feel this is a problem today but its only going to get worse in the future, i don't want that future, i want a future where decentralization, the power of the individual and the small community have the autonomy and the chance to define their own future, the power process is one if not the most important aspect of life for humanity, sure we have people that are comfortable with life itself watching netflix and consuming endless entertainment but in the end a lot of them feel miserable, in my case i feel alive with what i am doing, i don't know where i am going next, what will happen in the future, whats the next outcome, i can easily come back and finish my career for a 9-5 job giving pills to unhappy people that don't understand their unhappy conditions however the future is still not defined and the power of decentralized technologys could ensure that a large part of humanity remains indomable, there is one frank herbert quote that i think would make the technocratic elite seethe because its true,
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
I hope technology like bitcoin keeps developing, we need invisible metamaterials for invisible cars, trucks, rockets heck those new flying cars would allow you to cross frontiers without problems, vertical farms are getting better, whatever its invented we will get a decentralized future.
Day 2 notes:
Today it was really hard but it was amazing, using bitcoin as intended is really hard and i don't like to use the word normie but yes the experience needs to be simplified, normal bitcoin is understandable but fuck today i finally learned how bitcoin lighting trully fucking works, i created my invoice time ago, i use electrum wallet which is probably one of the first open source wallets behind bitcoin, i don't know all the high tech nontheless it finally worked but it was hard. Let me tell you how the day started, i woke up around 9 am and i needed to leave my hostal around 11am, i took a shower and then changed myself however i wanted to take some pictures about the pacific ocean before i could leave my hostal and go to the zonte, so i left temporaly my hostal and went to the beach to take some pictures from the pacific ocean, trully a masterfull place however its scary how big it is, later i came back to my hostal but i didnt see my keys from yesterday and well who could have thought the faith from the hostal owner told me oh i didn't take it or i didn't enter your room but whatever probably i lost those keys when i went showering or they fell from my pocket, whatever the case i always fell that sir was an asshole and when i told him can you give me just 1.5$ from my exchange rate because thats whats necessary for going to the public bus he basically said no, so i was a little bit salty and didn't know what to do the i remember i met some people that were using bitcoin, there was a super24 and a taco gentlement sir in tunco that basically saved my life, the super24 gave me water and the taco gentlement sir he gave me well tacos, so basically i went back to this guy and i asked him if he could trade me dollars for bitcoin and well he said no, i wasnt a no so easily so i tried to take a slower approach and to convince him I basically ate some tacos from him, however i didn't need to ask again some salvadorians which i am gratefull to them as well they gave me like 3$ in coins, of course i came here to spend bitcoin but of course i needed that croach to keep going.
So then i went to a bus station, i met a nice local woman that was maybe in her mid 30s, she told me a little bit about the history of el zonte, of bukele, of where to party hahaha and how bukele + china are investing in the country for example their port that its being built in the liberty municipality i am so jealous of it maybe i will go later to see it however i will do what bitcoin allows me, i got inside the bus and she helped me by telling the bus driver where i was going so basically it was a nice trip in the bus, you could see time to time the ocean.
Finally i came to elzonte, the promised land and oh boy let me tell you its the promised land, tired of using shitcoins in your local city or basically for non important stuff like Coffee or gift cards, just come here, all the hostals accept bitcoin at least most of them, i would ask some of the locals here that well they didn't say this with their words but they said something like oh i don't use that shitcoin i only use bitcoin, they say i recieve a bitcoin salary. Trully its wonderfull seeing people use bitcoin, this day was long, i have to say there is more to tell you, i want to talk about the bitcoiner that started all of this, more conversations with the locals like good bukele is, the good and the bad with tourism, how i got free dinnner! And how i found my hostal, in fact the story about how i found my hostal needs part 2 because personally i thought it was fucking cool because of how hard it was, i will tell you more about this tomorrow, to answer some questions here it goes.
    • what type of places are more likely to accept it, are they happy to take it, or do they feel 'forced' by the legal tender legislation, do they pay other businesses with it, or only convert to USD or somesuch ?
Its really interesting to see the reactions of people when you ask them do you accept bitcoin, some locals simply like the simplicity of cash, i think CBDCs need to become mandatory and cash phased out for the full adoption of bitcoin otherwise there will be this middle ground, to be honest i hope cash stays around bitcoin and monero are all we need for this digital dystopia but yeah the experience needs to get simplified even more and its unenforced that mandate to use bitcoin, in the end free market economics will win in the end, the taco gentlement he told how one guy spends like around 60$ every day just buying him tacos easily with bitcoin, eventually everything will get hyperbitcoinized but we still need the next bull market for that, bitcoin also needs to improve as well, an easyer experience, i think privacy thought people don't care about that i think i will cover that more on day 3 because personally privacy was probably one of the reasons i had so much trouble trying to go from bitcoin to cash without using those kyc atms, i think some people are also ideological loyal to the dollar, i think the dollar needs to die before bitcoin can take the throne but i also think the dollar the will be the last fiat shitcoin to be trully dethroned, still people everywhere for example the taco gentlement told me argentians want a president like bukele, i will talk more about more about bukele tomorrow but they consider him based.
    • Is that a process that requires you to present documentation at a border crossing? Where did you arrive to in El Salvdaor, and did you consider calling businesses ahead of time to see about prices and rooms?
Yes you need documentation but yeah it was easy no need to pay mordida to corrupted policeman, at least in this one case it didn't happen to me but personally i had no problem and it was really easy to cross however yeah i would like a future where inmigration and emigation werent so easily controlled something like the middle ages where central powers only cared about the most important locations, i think there are probably areas where people cross well not in the most legal way possible for example rivers however in the end i fell a little bit weird presenting my documentation so many times and i hope we can escape a full centralized surveilance superstate.
thanks for sharing, good lesson there in securing your keys!
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You mention monero a few times. Do businesses in El Zonte accept monero?
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