Hermann Buhr Vivier
Hermann Vivier is the co-founder of The Surfer Kids (est. 2010) and founder of Bitcoin Ekasi (est. 2021). Hermann first became interested in Bitcoin in late 2013 as a result of the banking crisis and subsequent bank bailouts in Cyprus. In May 2015 he and his wife adopted Bitcoin as a form of payment. They operate a South African tourism business (Unravel Surf Travel) catering for the Eastern European and Russian markets, and the first Russian-Ukrainian conflict meant that Bitcoin was (in certain cases) the only form of payment available to receive money from their clients. Following the global covid lockdowns and the resulting slump in their tourism business they started looking for ways to become more active in the Bitcoin space. Hermann came across the Bitcoin Beach project in El Salvador in 2019 and started writing for Bitcoin Magazine in January 2021, two events which eventually led to the creation of Bitcoin Ekasi in August 2021.
Sessions
How to change the World, independently but also together. A panel discussion with project leads and teachers from Zambia (Bitcoin Victoria Falls), Honduras (AmityAge), USA (Operation Bitcoin), South Africa (Bitcoin Ekasi) and Bitcoin Indonesia (Indonesia). They explain how they bring bitcoin education to their local communities, unite in the so-called Node Network, and are all teaching from the same open source resources: the Bitcoin Diploma.