Aubrey Strobel

Bitcoin, Twitter, and the Decentralization of Everything

On Wednesday night, Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures opened a Twitter Spaces chat room to discuss the passage of El Salvador’s bill to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.  What followed was a bona fide Exhibit A in the crypto social media zeitgeist: The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and his brother and campaign manager, Karim Bukele, spontaneously joined the virtual room, which was populated with more than 23,000 users. Bukele spent a full hour in the chat room talking to Bitcoiners—whi...