I Spent 800 Days in 42 Countries Using Only Bitcoin — Here's What I Found | Paco de la India

🎧 WATCH ON FOUNTAIN.FM & EARN SATS! ⚡ This episode PREMIERES FIRST on Fountain — earn sats while you listen. 🧠 Support independent podcasts. Escape the algorithm. 👉 Listen & subscribe here: https://tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 EPISODE THESIS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What happens when you spend 800 days crossing 42 countries using only Bitcoin? You stop being a fanatic. You become a realist. Then a pilgrim. That's the journey of Paco de la India — Indian traveler, Bitcoin nomad, and author of the upcoming book Proof of Work. In this episode of BitCorner Podcast, Paco shares what no conference talk or Twitter thread can: what Bitcoin actually looks like on the ground, from the Congo-South Sudan border to a Bitcoin circular economy in a South African township. From human rights activists in Ghana using Bitcoin to rescue refugees from pirates, to P2P traders in Kenya, to cypherpunks in Prague — Paco has seen every use case. And his verdict? Bitcoin is a tool. A human tool. And the humans using it are kind. This is the episode you send to someone who thinks Bitcoin is only for the wealthy West. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Bitcoin & activism: rescuing refugees with sats 1:15 Run With Bitcoin: 42 Countries 4:39 Lessons from the Bitcoin Journey 9:20 Global Bitcoin Use Cases 16:38 Challenges in Restricted Countries 23:15 Bitcoin in North America and Europe 27:16 Surprising Experiences on the Road 34:00 Paco de la India: The Journey's Origin 44:37 Update on Paco's Book: Proof of Work 51:51 Thoughts on El Salvador and Bukele 55:00 The Future of Satoshi's Bitcoin ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with Paco: https://x.com/RunwithBitcoin ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟧 SUPPORT THE SHOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟦 Blockstream Jade – The BEST Bitcoin hardware wallet. 🔐 Use promo code BITCORNERPODCAST for 10% off: 👉🏼 https://rewards.blockstream.com/bitcornerpodcast 🟠 Bitcoin Conference 2027 – The world's biggest Bitcoin event is coming back to Nashville, TN. July 15–17. This is the one you don't miss. 🎫 Use code BITCORNER: 👉 https://track.flexlinkspro.com/g.ashx?foid=24.245444.6669831&trid=1537115.245444&foc=16&fot=9999&fos=6 🐂 Bull Bitcoin – Buy Bitcoin directly into self-custody. No banks. No middlemen. 👉 https://app.bullbitcoin.com/registration/bitcornerpodcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Fountain: https://tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa 🎵 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/bdcsyy4u 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/cj5wkhxv 🎬 Rumble: https://tinyurl.com/3bc6bvtn 📺 YouTube: /@bitcornerpodcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👤 CONNECT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Juan / BitCorner Website: https://bitcornershow.framer.ai/ 📸 Instagram: @bitcorner_official 🐦 Twitter/X: https://x.com/TheJuanSC 📧 Email: bitcornerpodcast@proton.me ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bitcoin #ProofOfWork #BitcoinTravel #BitcoinPodcast #BitCorner #FixTheMoney #BitcoinActivism #HumanRights #CircularEconomy #LightningNetwork #BitcoinAfrica #BitcoinLatinAmerica #OrangePill #BitcoinNomad #SoundMoney