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Bitcoin Beach

El Zonte, El Salvador · Circular economy

Active

Dated activity within 12 months of our last check.

The operator's Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit ran in El Zonte on 26–29 January 2026 (summit page checked 4 September 2026); the adoption figures on the evidence page date from end-2021.

Dated activity 29 January 2026Checked 23 September 2026

A local Bitcoin economy in El Zonte that helps families, businesses and visitors start with wallets, onboards merchants and keeps a merchant map.

Operator
Bitcoin Beach
Funding
Donations and community programmes; merchants take ordinary Bitcoin payments.
Adoption, as the operator reports it
The operator's end-2021 whitepaper reports that 90% of El Zonte families had used Bitcoin in the previous six months, 50% used it regularly and 50% of businesses accepted it. It gives no absolute counts.Figures dated 31 December 2021.
What the figures don’t show
These are the operator's own end-2021 percentages, without absolute counts or an independent audit.
How sure we are
High for operator report; counts not independently audited.Our confidence in reading the source — not a rating of whether the claim is true.
Source
www.bitcoinbeach.com/en/whitepaperWhere on the page: “BUBBLE-04: Traction” · checked 23 September 2026
Record
bitcoin-beach-svLocality: Wikidata Q107481384

Status history

SnapshotStatusSource last checked
1 October 2026Active23 September 2026

A snapshot freezes every place’s grade on the 1st of the month; sources are re-checked on a rolling basis, at least every 120 days. The pulse has the whole history.

Cite this record

Billasaari Bitcoin Places Register (2026). Bitcoin Beach [bitcoin-beach-sv], v0.2.0. https://billasaari.com/atlas/bitcoin-beach-sv/. CC BY 4.0.