Josue (Josh) Vazquez
Ola Bitcoin Founder - olabitcoin.org
I was born and raised in Mexico and moved to the USA to study Computer Science. There, I met my wife, a proud Motswana who always dreamed of returning home.
I went on to complete my Master’s in Finance while working full time After over a decade as a Financial and Business Analyst working in corporate America, we moved to Botswana. We fell in love with this beautiful country and are grateful to raise our boys here.
My journey into Bitcoin began in 2017, and since then, I have never looked back. Bitcoin has given me the opportunity to become a digital nomad, allowing me to spend more time with my family. For that, I will always be eternally grateful to Satoshi Nakamoto. Through Ola Bitcoin, I am passionate about promoting free Bitcoin education and adoption, helping others discover the transformative potential and freedom of this revolutionary technology.
It is my firm belief that just as my individual sovereignty has increased since holding Bitcoin in self-custody, holding Bitcoin (BTC) as a corporation also increases sovereignty, as seen with MicroStrategy (MSTR) in the USA. On a nation-state level, this principle is exemplified by El Salvador. I dream of a day when countries adopt Bitcoin as a reserve currency and use Bitcoin for cross-border payments to increase trade and commerce.
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Session
Finance is a word many Bitcoiners instinctively avoid. Yet personal finance — and finance in general — shapes our daily lives, decisions, our stress levels, and our long-term freedom. In this talk, I aim to redeem the word “finance” and show why Bitcoin education is incomplete without it. We’ll start with the basics that every Bitcoiner, beginner or advanced, should understand: budgeting, saving, debt management, estate planning and building financial resilience. Then we zoom out to the macro picture, where a historic shift is underway. Wall Street is adopting Bitcoin — whether us Bitcoiners like it or not, and whether Wall Street likes it or not. From ETFs to corporate treasuries, Bitcoin is moving from the edges of finance into its center. By connecting personal financial literacy with global macro trends, this talk equips educators and community leaders to teach Bitcoin more holistically and empower people not just to hold bitcoin, but to build stable financial lives around it.