This is Carpe Consensus.

Join hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto.

Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDEST Podcast Network,

and I am Benjamin Schiller. I am the features and opinionator here at CoinDesk. And joining me today is Danny Nelson. He has a reporter here, Danny. Hello. Are you over the FTX trial yet? Yes. Now more than a week

out. I've gotten through most of my inbox. Everything was deleted. Nothing was read. And I'm ready to

return to civilian life. Good. So if you send Danny an email, just know this. He won't actually read it.

So I don't bother with that. Yeah, good.

And are you caught up with sleep as well? You were quite sleep deprived last week. Oh, I'm getting

at least eight hours a night, maybe even more. It's very unnatural for me at this point.

Well, you're still a growing boy, so you need to get your sleep. Exactly. Good. So we're going to

discuss the small matter of El Salvador today. That's obviously

the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. And we are joined by Jonathan Martin.

He is a graduate student at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. And he spent a good

few weeks and months down there in El Salvador looking at the experiment

from the ground.

And we want to check in with him about his takeaways from experience and see what has

been learned from down there.

So Jonathan, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for having me.

So just take it to the beginning.

I mean, why did you want to go to El Salvador in the first place?

Yeah, I am a passionate Bitcoiner, and I had this

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