2024-11-16 –, Nakamoto Stage
Mike Peterson is the Director at Bitcoin Beach, a non-profit located in El Zonte / El Salvador that helped bootstrap the circular Bitcoin economy that eventually inspired the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador.
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.
Efrat, a freedom & bitcoin maximalist, is a marketing expert, public speaker, podcaster, and independent journalist, covering the growing global control regime, CBDC & monetary changes, politics, and propaganda. She is taking her audiences on a journey from red to orange pill.
André Loja is a native Madeiran, father of four, serial entrepreneur, and founder of the F.R.E.E. Madeira initiative - a Bitcoin education organisation and the Conference Bitcoin Atlantis 2024 promoter. He manages a whole bunch of companies on the island, ranging from real estate to running a coworking space.