Blink visits the Lago Summit 2023: Lightning cards on the tables
A one minute clip from the Blink team shows what paying with bitcoin looked like around Lake Atitlán in spring 2023.
On June 12, 2023, the wallet company Blink posted a one minute video from its visit to the Lago Summit 2023, an education event held at the lake in early May. Nobody speaks in it. There is music, a few lines of text, and a lot of everyday scenes.
The most repeated image is a small table card that says Lightning accepted. In Spanish it tells visitors to pay to the Lightning address or scan the code, and it shows the project logo. The card appears in a shop of Guatemalan paintings, at a market table with a ceramic frog, and beside tins of clay powder. In a cafe, customers pay with their phones and a screen shows a payment confirmation and a map of the lake. Hand painted mugs carry the project name.
The clip also shows a stone walled stage with a projector, where a presenter in a Blink shirt speaks and a woman gives a talk. One slide reads But the exchange rate, and a sign says 2500 Quetzales. The clip does not explain either one. Flyers on a table ask in Spanish: What is Bitcoin? How does Bitcoin work?
What Blink says
In the description, Blink says the Bitcoin Lago community has used its wallet since 2021 to educate and onboard merchants and individuals. It says the project is banking unbanked community members, teaching financial literacy and mining bitcoin using biowaste. These are Blink's own statements in a promotional video, not independent figures.
In their words
Pay to the Lightning address or scan the payment code.
What is Bitcoin? How does Bitcoin work?
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