I'm back from an amazing few days in Medellin, Colombia
@My First Bitcoin co-hosted their first International, education-focused, meet-up, along with the local project, Satoshi Team
Plenty of lessons to learn, but it was a huge success and definitely something we'll do more of around the world in the day or two preceding a Bitcoin conference. This would compliment our Educators Unconfrences--more on that later....
The Bitcoin Medellin conference was the event we were working with this time--which was a wonderful event in so many ways. It was small, but also extremely high signal. The ratio of signal to noise was impressive--there were too many inspiring conversations to count.
2026 really is the start of My First Bitcoin 2.0 and I felt that so profoundly in Medellin. My own role in it's future, as the founder of the 1.0 version, is something I think about a lot. Allow me to add some context--we began in El Salvador in 2021, had great success there, but now have far greater ambitions. We are now international with no special priority to any single nation and focused on building tools, frameworks and community to make independent bitcoin education a global movement to reimagine human potential.
The personal context is that I had my first child in 2023, my second one last year, am getting married next month and moving from El Salvador to New York very soon. When this journey began I was an activist before anything else, now I am a father before anything else.
In the almost 5 years since this journey began there have been plenty of ups and downs, but the 2026 team is, without a doubt, the most capable team ever.
The quality of the people I got to talk to in Medellin was so high and at just the right time as I/ we navigate the start of this new chapter.
I'll definitely be back for the next conference there...and maybe even sooner. The Satoshi Team, who are dedicated to teaching Medellin about Bitcoin, are interested in co-hosting an Educators Unconference with us later this year.
The future feels uncertain, yet oh so bright. LFG!
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post script: The cover photo is from a Fireside cat with journalist
@Frank Corva during the conference who wrote his own hopeful words on his experience these days here:
Greetings from Medellín!
Thoughts on Transformation from Colombia
