Thank you for acknowledging that El Salvador’s Bitcoin projects are excellent, not a failure.
“Messed up dictatorship” is an odd claim regarding the most popular democratically elected leader BY FAR in modern world history… especially coming from the UK, where your own government leads the Western world in total arrests for social media posts (among other crazy recent incidents like pressuring YouTube to boost state media, or arresting people who defended themselves against violent attacks instead of arresting the attackers)
Even the polls done by Bukele’s opposition acknowledge that his approval rate among Salvadorans is genuinely around 90%
“Punching up, not down” would be criticizing the IMF instead of the small country that’s trying to grow its way out of ever having to rely on their loans again.
It’s fine if you prefer to ignore El Salvador and just focus on grassroots adoption elsewhere, but actively discouraging Bitcoiners from supporting Bitcoin Country (or even just learning from afar what’s genuinely working, NOT failing, to copy the best of its example in other small countries) is functionally equivalent to supporting the IMF killing the dream that a small developing country can break free by embracing freedom money.
Regarding your other question: for the first two years I supported Bitcoin in El Salvador part time for free.
Then yes, I was offered an events/media role (similar to your line of work) to support Bitcoin Country full time. I accepted a decrease in pay from my fiat mining job to do so, because I care about fixing the money more than making money. My belief in El Salvador’s importance as an example for the world is genuine.
(You have sponsors too, and I think like me, it’s because they support you doing more of the work that you would want to do anyway)
As to your other point: I can accept differing opinions, and I’m not a cult member. I hope you can see now though how it comes across as insulting to call the hard work of thousands of Bitcoiners (including many Salvadorans) a “failure” while ignoring all of the positive evidence to the contrary.
No other country in history has accomplished as much as El Salvador has across multiple different aspects of Bitcoin adoption.
100% hyperbitcoinization success doesn’t happen overnight. IMF pressure and FUD from other Bitcoiners also make it even more of an uphill battle to do what’s never been done before…
And yet the underdog Bitcoin Country continues accomplishing goals toward that end regardless. To me, it’s genuinely the most inspiring place on earth
JeThoreau
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2026-07-06 12:48:39 UTC
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