Through Fundraising And Financial Revolution, Bitcoin Has Forever Changed Lives On Isla Tasajera

By Bitcoin Tạp chí - 2 năm trước - Thời gian đọc: 5 phút
Thứ Hai, ngày 28 tháng 2022 năm 1 00:XNUMX chiều

Through Fundraising And Financial Revolution, Bitcoin Has Forever Changed Lives On Isla Tasajera

A philanthropic effort led by the Built With Bitcoin Nền tảng và Bitcoin Magazine provided a ferry, school supplies and hope to an island in El Salvador.

Vào đầu tháng 2022 năm XNUMX, tôi có cơ hội đến El Salvador để đại diện cho Bitcoin Tạp chí during the unveiling of the “Bitcoin Boat” with the Được xây dựng với Bitcoin Nền tảng.

It was my first time outside of the country in a number of years and I was excited to discover a territory being directly influenced by the growing technology and financial impact of Bitcoin.

Sau khi trở thành the world's first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender last September, some may think of El Salvador as a bit of a social experiment, but it’s important to understand the impact that Bitcoin can have on the El Salvadoran economy and some of the different ways bitcoin helps provide long-term financial freedom and stability.

Cách San Salvador, thủ đô của El Salvador, khoảng hai giờ lái xe về phía đông nam, là cộng đồng nhỏ Isla Tasajera. Đảo giáp Thái Bình Dương ở phía nam và chỉ có thể đến được bằng thuyền, với dân số nhỏ khoảng 1,500 cư dân.

Trong quan hệ đối tác với Bitcoin Black Friday, tháng Mười Một trước, Bitcoin Tạp chí đã giúp gây quỹ để đóng và tặng một chiếc thuyền mới tinh để đưa đón học sinh và giáo viên đến trường cũng như vận chuyển hàng hóa và vật dụng. Cùng với con thuyền, số tiền quyên góp được cũng được sử dụng để mua đồ dùng học tập chung, máy tính xách tay cho trung tâm công nghệ và bảo trì trường học.

Previously, students and teachers paid $3 a day to commute to and from the mainland. With this boat, they can now commute at no cost. To some, this boat is just another means of transportation, but to the people of Isla Tasajera, the Bitcoin Boat represents a lifeline to the outside world.

So, Why Use Bitcoin?

For more than six months, the Built With Bitcoin Foundation has been working tirelessly to improve this community through the education of Bitcoin.

But how can you teach people about the functionality of Bitcoin if they do not even have a source of clean water?

Most of the island is underdeveloped and the people there live in homes that lack adequate sanitation, have an irregular electricity supply and are built of flimsy materials. A short walk from the dock, we arrived at the school that the Built With Bitcoin Foundation helped restore. A celebration of excitement ensued, and we were greeted by the students and their families. I was immediately overwhelmed with a mixture of emotion and gratitude, and was thankful to be given the opportunity to be a part of something as big as this project.

“We are so grateful to have the support of the foundation,” the community leader on the island, Don Walter, said. “Six months ago, we didn’t know what Bitcoin was, but now we have the opportunity to learn and continue teaching others of its value.”

So, why use Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is fast, cost-effective and transparent. It allows the Built With Bitcoin Foundation to send funds quickly without the slow and nefarious eye of third-party banks. A number of these families on the island do not have bank accounts, but in order to use bitcoin, all you need is a cell phone.

On Isla Tasajera, sometimes a few days can mean the difference between life and death if supplies are running low or a storm cuts the island off from basic needs. Bitcoin provides the island with the ability to send value almost instantly, whereas traditional banks may take three to five business days to process certain fiat transfers.

“People won’t adopt anything they don’t understand,” said Yusuf Nessary, Built With Bitcoin’s director of philanthropy. “In the communities we work in, we provide education — how Bitcoin can help and enrich their daily lives and how it could be a means of finally attaining financial freedom.”

In some sense, this is exactly what Satoshi Nakamoto wanted when they created Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer, human-to-human form of currency.

The people of Isla Tasajera are not concerned with the daily fluctuation of the bitcoin price. They are not “buying the dip” on the pretext of a Twitter meme. They are buying bitcoin to get out from underneath the strong arm of the fiat system that has been holding a number of countries like El Salvador back from international independence and growth for centuries.

“Our foundation exists because of communities like Isla Tasajera who have embraced change,” Ray Youssef, executive director of the Built With Bitcoin, added. “While many parts of the developed world are fixated on the speculative activity of Bitcoin, the people of El Salvador are teaching us about its true use cases and the opportunity it presents for greater financial inclusion of the underbanked.”

Theo truyền thống, Bitcoin is associated with freedom and hope. Now, Bitcoin will be associated with education. Knowledge is one of the most powerful tools we can pass on to our children in the battle against fiat currency, and the Built With Bitcoin Foundation is using it to build a better world, one bitcoin tại một thời điểm.

Với sự giúp đỡ của Bitcoin Tạp chí, the Built With Bitcoin Foundation and Francisco Gavidia University, which also donated funds, the children of Isla Tasajera will be provided a proper education and grow up to become leading members of their communities. They will pass on the knowledge to their children and grandchildren, and continue to further the economy in El Salvador.

Làm như vậy, Bitcoin is creating another form of generational wealth through education. Hyperbitcoinization is unfolding today right before our very eyes, and the Built With Bitcoin Foundation is just one of many organizations that are directly impacting and teaching the leaders of the future with it.

Bitcoin is tự do. Bitcoin is mong. Và bây giờ, Bitcoin is giáo dục.

Nguồn chính thức: Bitcoin Tạp chí