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Moving Your Bitcoin Business to El Salvador? What to Know About Banks, Residency and Self-Custody | Carlos Gil of ECIJA

2026-10-3150:13

Before anyone was buying property in El Salvador with Bitcoin, Mike called a lawyer to ask whether giving Bitcoin away in El Zonte could put him in jail. You’ve heard the country made Bitcoin legal tender. What you haven’t heard is what that did to one law office, one land deal and one very stubborn banking system. That lawyer is Carlos Gil, partner at the Salvadoran office of ECIJA, an international law firm. He’d never heard of Bitcoin when Mike called around 2011 or 2012. He read the paper...

This French Family Sold Everything, Moved to El Salvador and Started a Business in El Zonte | Antoine Allain of La Cajita Kitchen

2026-10-2429:29

What happens when a nightclub bouncer from Santa Barbara, California sells everything he owns and opens a restaurant in El Zonte? You’ve probably seen Max Keiser posting from a beach restaurant and wondered how it got there. The posts show the finished version. They don’t show the ten years before it, or the little box it started in. Mike sits down with Antoine Allain, owner of La Cajita, born in Brittany, France, raised in California from age 13, and a former competitive surfer who first c...

What Happens to Your Bitcoin If You Die? How a Texan in El Zonte Built a Free Tool for Your Family | Eric Summers of The Bitcoin Hardware Store

2026-10-1748:09

What happens to your Bitcoin if you die tomorrow? In El Zonte, one builder’s answer is a dead man switch and an encrypted seed phrase. If you practice self custody, your 12 or 24 words are stored somewhere safe. How your family would ever reach them is the question Eric Summers set out to solve. Mike first met Eric as the math tutor for one of his son’s friends. Eric’s story of moving to El Salvador begins in Texas in 2023, when a Salvadoran friend told him to come look. He stayed 10 days wit...

He Grew Up With Gang Members in El Salvador. Now He Runs a Car Shop That Takes Bitcoin. | Byron Espinoza of Taller Automotriz Express

2026-10-1042:15

Is El Salvador safe enough to run a business that takes Bitcoin and go running at night? This Salvadoran entrepreneur says yes! Mike sits down with Byron Espinoza, a young Salvadoran who opened a car repair shop with his cousin at 23. He grew up in a neighborhood where the gang members were his childhood friends, and he's had guns pointed at him more than once. So when neighbors warned him that drug dealers would show up at his new shop and pressure him to sell for them, he was afraid. It nev...

What's Coming to El Salvador's Bitcoin Economy Is Bigger Than Anyone Expected | Jose Rodriguez of Nodeman

2026-10-0345:05

Is El Salvador the freest country on earth for a Bitcoin business, or the most heavily KYC'd place a Bitcoiner could choose? Anyone who has bought El Salvador real estate lately has an opinion, and so does the lawyer who reads the regulations for a living. You already know this is Bitcoin Country. What you can't tell from the outside is why the El Salvador banks turned Bitcoin companies away for years, what the digital assets law lets you build here, and who is actually asking the questions ...

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