Would you sell your house, go all in on Bitcoin, and move to El Salvador without ever setting foot in the country? Jon Byrne did exactly that. I sat down with the BitTasker founder to hear how a kid from Ireland grew up around the violence of the Troubles era, then apartheid-era Johannesburg, then the Celtic Tiger collapse, and finally took one last look at the fiat world and decided sound money was worth betting everything on.

Before selling it all, Jon had to orange pill his partner Roxanne. Every morning they'd sit down for "Coffee with Jon" and talk Bitcoin for an hour or two until the penny dropped. Then one day she told him to sell the house, buy Bitcoin, and go to El Salvador. His advice for couples on the stacking journey comes down to patience, because nobody should get dragged into a low time preference life they haven't chosen for themselves.

Then we dig into BitTasker, a KYC-free tasking app built on the Nostr protocol that helps Salvadorans earn Bitcoin instead of just buying it. No middleman ever touches the funds, and earned trust travels with you, because your reputation lives on your keys instead of some company's server.

Here's the part that earned my respect: the whole idea started when Jon met a guy in Australia who went from cleaning up dog poop on Airtasker to running a construction company. Instead of rushing to build, Jon spent a full year grinding out odd jobs on that same platform, taking the worst tasks to learn the gig economy from the inside. That's when he knew the same ladder could work even better on a Bitcoin standard, where proof of work applies to people too.

If you're thinking about your own move to El Salvador, we cover the boots-on-the-ground details too, from renewing residency barefoot at the beachside immigration office in Punta Roca to the workshops BitTasker runs at the El Zonte community center right here in Bitcoin Beach. Jon's also plugging into the circular economy movement in Costa Rica, Brazil, Ireland, and beyond. If this one has you ready to sell the house and buy Bitcoin, maybe have a few coffees with your spouse first. Then subscribe, share it with a friend who's still stuck in fiat, and drop a comment: would you move to a country you'd never visited?

—Bitcoin Beach Team


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Browse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:
00:00 Intro
01:24 How to orange pill your wife before selling everything for Bitcoin
01:56 Why people are leaving broken fiat economies for El Salvador
06:47 Why Bitcoiners left Australia after the COVID lockdowns
09:11 How to stop trading shitcoins and go all in on Bitcoin
13:37 Is it safe to move to El Salvador without visiting first?
17:23 What is BitTasker and how do you earn Bitcoin in El Salvador?
24:26 How BitTasker onboarded 1,000 Salvadorans to earn Bitcoin in 8 months
31:45 How to get residency in El Salvador as a Bitcoiner
43:45 How does non-custodial Bitcoin escrow work on Lightning?

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