Bitcoin Beach

Andrew Begin is the Director of Marketing at Galoy, an open source Bitcoin banking platform.

In our conversation, we covered the task of building and sustaining Bitcoin communities such as Bitcoin Beach and Bitcoin Jungle, the tools Galoy is building to help these communities thrive, as well as enterprise Lightning adoption.

→ Galoy: https://galoy.io/

→ Lessons Learned from El Zonte: https://galoy.io/bitcoin-banking-for-communities-lessons-learned-from-el-zonte/

Sponsors

→ Voltage: https://stacksats.how/voltage

→ Stakwork: https://stacksats.how/stakwork

This show is a Lightning podcast. That means instead of asking for likes or shares, I ask for sats.

The best way to show your support is to download Fountain from the App Store, load your wallet with some sats, and send them over the Lightning Network to kerooke@fountain.fm.

→ Fountain: https://www.fountain.fm/

→ More Episodes: https://www.stacksats.how/podcast

→ Lightning Address: ⚡kerooke@fountain.fm

Links

→ Stack Sats: https://www.stacksats.how/

→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kerooke

→ Books: https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations

→ Bitcoin News: https://stacker.news/r/kr

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

02:08 - Andrew Begin Intro

12:33 - Why Are So Few Tech Products Built For IRL Communities?

16:36 - Lessons Learned from Bitcoin Beach

23:15 - Bitcoin Adoption in El Zonte & El Salvador

28:50 - Stablesats & Stablecoins in El Salvador

33:40 - Custody and Bitcoin Banking

42:06 - Advice for Building a Bitcoin Community

51:18 - Enterprise Lightning Adoption

1:13:01 - The Lightning Round