My experience at the Bitcoin week in El Salvador as Salvadorian and some reflection

I live a few minutes from LA Bitcoin Week that was this past week in my country, El Salvador. https://www.labitconf.com/

I was able to meet directly some people from platforms like Binance or Mexo.io or people from Trezor, the hardware wallet company, so I was able to ask them some questions I had, talk to them and chill. Also I met some early bitcoin adopters who were from like from 2012 and so and I took some friends and showed them to listen to the experience of these people. It felt nice to be in an environment where everyone knew about this and was inspiring to continue and plan and to more things with it. There were other artists like me who were painting surf tables that were later auctioned and the money will be sent to help one of our hospitals, it was like $11k in USD. Also I was able to talk to some legislators who were responsible to make the bitcoin law a reality and they were there like everyone else, enjoying the moment and learning more and more about bitcoin. I talked to them about more opportunities we can have with this technology.

Some of my friends who were skeptical about bitcoin were saying that it looks good and some other were able to see the potential that it has to bring investment and more money to the country to be able to develop it and do more things.

There were foreigners all over the place and I saw even people who opposed to bitcoin to comment that it is good to have so many US people coming (tho there were visitors from Europe and Asia also).

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Nobody or just very few people believe the bitcoin detractors here. I saw some ads in social networks from them saying that it is not real money, but the people in the comments were basically just telling them to go off to tell those lies to another place. Most people say "I don't understand it yet but it looks good". Others don't use it but don't oppose to it. I think that changes here are being slowly but fast at the same time. The event organizers met here just like a month ago and back then we had some investors coming, but now they are more and they are interacting more with the Salvadoran public. Also some of them are going to the radio stations, TV networks and showing in social media. What I have seen is that more and more young people is joining the cripto sphere here, they are more into NFT games also, and virtual lands. I myself am becoming a designer for videogames paid in BTC. I talked about it with some of the legislators at the event because I wanted them to be aware of that opportunity also, they also talked about DeFi, and even the ambassador was there and talked about Bitcoin, remittances, investment, videogames, virtual reallity and more stuff.

Today in a few minutes Nayib is going to give a talk in a location of the event in the beach and there is a lot of exiting in the country about what he is gonna say. I am very motivated about it also!