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

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Podcast: [BitCorner](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcorner-6048633)
Published: 2026-06-30T17:00:28+00:00
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🎧 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟦 Blo…

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