Oscar García

The Bitcoin conversation comes to the plaza. Sats Corner by Chain Duel brings two days of talks, games, and ideas to Plaza Gerardo Barrios during Bitcoin Histórico. Madalena Antão and Francis Mars welcome you alongside the featured lineup on November 11 and 12. San Salvador, El Salvador. Free admission. Explore the lineup at satscorner.chainduel.net.

The Real Bitcoin Story of El Salvador Is Written by Its People Some people are special. Salvadorans are something more. They are people with an enormous heart. Warm, honest, generous souls. People who give before they ask. Who welcome a stranger like family. Who carry a quiet strength that you only truly understand once you have spent time among them. After many years and many cultures, nothing has touched me the way this people has. Today, El Salvador is known around the world as Bitcoin Country. People arrive from every continent. Conferences fill up. Headlines are written. But the real story is not on the stages. It is in the merchant who had never heard of Bitcoin, listened carefully, asked honest questions, and then had the courage to try something completely new. It is in the mother who learns how to receive her first payment and then proudly shows her neighbor how it works. It is in the young Salvadorans who travel from one town to another, on their own time, to help a community that is just getting started. It is in the people who answer the same question for the hundredth time. With patience. With a smile. Without ever complaining. It is in the families who support all of this in the background, never asking for recognition. That is the real Bitcoin story of El Salvador. Salvadorans are brilliant. They learn fast, they think creatively, they find solutions where others see only problems. But what moves me most is something deeper. It is how hard they work. It is how much they care for one another. It is how they build community out of almost nothing. This is a people that has carried challenges most of the world will never fully understand. And still, you find more joy, more warmth and more kindness here than almost anywhere on earth. You sit down at a Salvadoran family's table, and within minutes you are no longer a guest. You belong. That is not something you can teach. That is who they are. And this story does not belong to one place. El Zonte was a beginning. Today Salvadorans are building in Bitcoin Berlín, in Bitcoin Ruta de las Flores, in Bitcoin Chalchuapa, and in many new communities across the country. Different towns. Different ideas. Different paths. Not everything works on the first try. That is normal. What matters is that Salvadorans keep learning, keep adapting and keep going. Every adoption. Every lesson. Every circular economy. It all carries their fingerprints. They deserve every bit of credit. All of it. November 2026: Come Meet Them In November, El Salvador hosts an incredible series of events in just two weeks: 🇸🇻 Nov 10 – Bitcoin Capital Summit 🇸🇻 Nov 11–12 – Bitcoin Histórico 🇸🇻 Nov 13 – Renaissance Rodeo 🇸🇻 Nov 14 – Bitcoin Farmers Market 🇸🇻 Nov 18–19 – EmTech AI Conference 🇸🇻 Nov 19–20 – Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit, El Zonte 🇸🇻 Nov 20–22 – Bitcoin Beach Festival At the Global Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit in El Zonte, together with the Federation of Bitcoin Circular Economies, we want to give the stage to exactly these people. To hear what works, what doesn't, and what we can carry home and put into action. But please, don't only come for the stages. Come for the people. Visit a small town. Eat at a local pupusería. Pay the merchant in sats and ask how she got started. Listen to the young organizer who built a community from nothing. You will leave with far more than you came for. When you see how far Salvadorans have already come, you can only feel deep respect. And when you imagine where they are going, you can only feel hope. If El Salvador keeps walking the path it has chosen, a great future is waiting for this country and its people. And I believe with all my heart that they will keep walking it. God has truly blessed this land with its people. To every Salvadoran merchant, teacher, volunteer, student, organizer and family who made this possible: Thank you. We love you. We honor you. This is your story. 🇸🇻🧡