Stephan Livera | Growing a Bitcoin Circular Economy with Bitcoinize (SLP530) @StephanLivera | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Official Podcast Episode: stephanlivera.com/530

There are various Bitcoin ‘circular economies’ but we talk with Fernando Motolese about how he started Bitcoin Beach Brazil, as well as his efforts in creating a new merchant POS terminal device, Bitcoinize.

We discuss:

- How Bitcoin Beach Brazil started
- Onboarding merchants
- Bolt card
- Tech stack
- Tourists and Locals experience
- Bitcoinize device
- HODL vs Spend
- Fundraising

Timestamp:

00:00 - Introduction
02:06 - How Bitcoin Beach Brazil started
07:16 - Onboarding merchants
10:30 - Merchant operations
12:20 - Bolt card
14:54 - Tech stack
17:38 - Spending user experience 18 mins
18:10 - Tourists
18:38 - [Sponsor] Coinkite.com
19:42 - [Sponsor] Mempool.space
21:36 - Locals
22:48 - Earning bitcoin
25:21 - Bitcoinize device
29:08 - Setting up the device
32:35 - Insights on creating circular economy (education)
34:23 - [Sponsor] Swan.com
36:15 - HODL vs Spend network effects
43:01 - fundraising on geyser.fund

Links:

- Fernando Motolese X: twitter.com/MotoleseOficial
- Bitcoinize site: bitcoinize.com
- Bitcoinize POS on X: twitter.com/BitcoinizePoS
- Bitcoin Beach BR fundraiser: donate.praiabitcoin.org
- X: twitter.com/BitcoinBeachBR

Sponsors:

- Swan.com (code LIVERA): swan.com/livera
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA): coinkite.com
- Mempool.space: https://mempool.space/

Stephan Livera links:

- Follow me on X twitter.com/stephanlivera
- Subscribe to the podcast: plinkhq.com/i/1415720320