Date: 2025-07-15 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
Anthony von Dessauer
Anthony von Dessauer recounts being talked into an El Salvador Halving Party ticket in a DM with Sean, then traveling to the Meme Factory event via pupusas, a sceptical Uber driver, police-heavy streets and the resort's gatehouse guards. He describes Bitcoin Beach, the Bitcoin Hardware Store, the Bitcoin Berlin education center, and buying from an abuelita's Lightning invoice in a mountain town square, arguing the country "destroys all Bitcoin FUD". The piece also records Stackchain Magazine's physical presence: a Proof of Ink/Stackchain Magazine vendor table that sold out on day one and went missing on day two, and Stackchain/DSB members taking over the resort pool bar. It closes with a magazine note crediting von Dessauer and his LNURL, and states no bitcoin was exchanged for the article.
Archive summary written from the sources below — not a quotation.
It all started in the DMs.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-pleb-travels-to-el-salvador/
El Salvador is the land of hope. The land of Bitcoin.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-pleb-travels-to-el-salvador/
Stackchain was still going strong, Stackchain Magazine was just getting started with Volume 1 and Block 2https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-pleb-travels-to-el-salvador/
Firsthand account of a pleb's Halving Party trip through El Salvador, Bitcoin Beach and Berlin.
Machine-written summary, not an editorial statement.
Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 50, category travel-report. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/a-pleb-travels-to-el-salvador/