14/11/2025 –, Talleres en Ingles Idioma: English
This talk outlines the key challenges faced when introducing Bitcoin-based tools in under-resourced areas, drawing from first-hand experience with persistent friction points in community projects.
We'll also explore how the Rooky Protocol - an open-source toolkit built around chess - emerged as a response to these challenges. Designed not just to store and manage chess data, but to foster self-learning, digital literacy, and gradual engagement with Bitcoin & Nostr infrastructure.
This talk is based on experience living in small-town communities where multiple “adoption” initiatives have come and gone - but never really stick. Where people don’t adopt protocols because of a good workshop, they adopt when there’s trust.
And how chess comes in as a trust-builder.
Because while both Bitcoin and chess demand thought, strategy, and reflection; chess has broken no promises. Money, on the other hand, has failed people repeatedly.
I think Bitcoin doesn’t need to be sold or bought. It needs to be experienced - through real use cases, and in environments where people are given space to explore, not just receive.
Host of soma chess club in Apaneca & NostrChess Protocol collaborator