Episode 70: Traveling for 45 Days Only Using Bitcoin with Rikki and Laura
Hello listeners – welcome back to The School of Travels podcast coming to you for the second and final episode from El Salvador! My guests this week took the Bitcoin experiment in El Salvador to the next level and decided to travel around the country for 45 days only using Bitcoin. This meant that they could only stay in hotels and eat in restaurants that accepted their bitcoin, even the gas for their rental car had to be paid for in bitcoin—all in a country that had only made Bitcoin its legal tender less than four months before they entered the country.
Riccardo Frega and Laura Nori, otherwise known in this podcast as Rikki and Laura, both come from Italy and met during the pandemic on the popular Clubhouse app, bonding over their shared love of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. When Laura suggested that Rikky take his show on the road to El Salvador to really see what it was like for the first country in the world to use Bitcoin as legal tender, they both had their tickets to El Salvador within a week.
They ultimately ended up spending 2.5 months altogether in El Salvador spreading the message of how Bitcoin can change the economic lives of even those who have never had a bank account before. What is like to only spend Bitcoin for 45 days and no longer have any access to cash or credit cards? How is El Salvador doing with the adoption of Bitcoin? Check out this week’s episode to find out…..
What We Cover in This Episode
- Who Rikki and Laura are and how they got interested in bitcoin
- How Rikki and Laura met and what brought them to El Salvador
- How they decided to take a trip off the beaten path and live only on bitcoin in El Salvador
- Why El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender
- The apps you need to live on bitcoin in El Salvador
- Are the people of El Salvador adopting bitcoin?
- Rikki and Laura’s favorite places in El Salvador
Meet Rikki and Laura
To check out the Bitcoin Italia Podcast (all in Italian), click here
To read more about Rikki and Laura’s daily experiences in El Salvador (in both Italian and English), click here
Check out Rikki and Laura’s YouTube videos from El Salvador here
To follow Rikki on Twitter, click here
To follow Laura on Twitter, click here
