Hey, everyone. Before we get started, I just want to note that today's episode has some language that might not be the best for kids.

Okay, here's the show.

Along the Pacific coast of El Salvador, there's a road that winds toward a string of beach towns.

Part of the highway is kind of new, and then you go through part of the highway that's old

and in disrepair.

Bloomberg reporter Ezra Fizer has driven that route, from the capital, San Salvador, out to a small

surf town called El Sonte.

Down off the cliffs, you see some of these kind of nice nice posh hotels that are catering to some of the

foreign surfers, these towns that obviously have had this tourist boom. And then you get into

El Sonte, and it seems like a real nothing town. It's the kind of place where you see locals

selling papuas, street dogs lying in the shade, and tanned

expat surfers heading for the horseshoe-shaped volcanic beach. But there's one key difference

between El Sonte and the other surf towns. And then all of a sudden you come across these

giant garbage barrels with the Bitcoin B spray painted on the outside of them.

And then you start to see in some of the shops, some of those kind of dirt floor restaurants,

you see little signs hanging over the entrance that says Bitcoin accepted here.

If you weren't looking for it, it might take you a little while to kind of notice it,

but then when you start noticing it, it seems like it's everywhere.

El Sonte is now known to both locals and expats by the nickname Bitcoin Beach.

For the past two years, the town has been experimenting with cryptocurrency, hoping to create an economy that runs, at least partially, on Bitcoin.

Now, the Salvadoran government wants to try this nationally.

Today on the show, what happens when you take one beach town's crypto-utopian fantasy and make it national policy?

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