Transcript of a Cointelegraph YouTube segment in which reporter Joe interviews beach-goers in Biarritz, France, about Bitcoin. He explains Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, demonstrates creating a Bitcoin wallet on someone’s phone, and sends 25,000 satoshis (~€5.02) as the recipient’s first bitcoin. The tone is informal, promotional and demonstrative.
Bitcoin. Do you know where bitcoin is? Bitcoin forbyte? Yeah. Where is it? Here. Right here. The casino. Ah, okay. We found it. We found it. Let's go. Let's go. Hey, it's Joe from Cointelegraph and I found the conference. It's time to learn about magic Internet money. Do you know what bitcoin is? Yeah, of course. We own bitcoin. Don't you? So surf. Bitcoin is above us. And Beritz and the pre coiners, let's call them, the people that don't have bitcoin yet are just here behind us. Do you know what this thing is on my T shirt just here? No, I have no idea. No idea. It's a B. Do you know what the B stands for? Oh, I don't know. Do you know what this bee is on my T shirt? Ah, yes. Greg, do you have bitcoins? No. No. None of you. But you've heard about it, right? What do you know about bitcoin? Absolutely nothing. It's just. Yeah, just virtual money. Can I talk to you in English for a moment? Yeah. Do you know or do you recognize this bee? No, I do not. No, not at all. Have you heard of bitcoin before? Bitco A Bitcoin, it's like a digital money. Heard of it before? Maybe if I say it with a French accent. Bitcoin. I'm going to try to send some bitcoin to Luce right now. If you scroll, it's this one here. First bitcoin she's ever received. Wow. Okay, so you can tap here where it says, create a new wallet. You've now created your own bank, your own bitcoin wallet. So here you can receive or send money. So here we're going to click lightning because there's bitcoin and there's lightning. Lightning is like a faster version of bitcoin, basically. Voila du coup la jevecagne. Voyez de bitcoin. I'm going to type in here 25,000 sats, which is saint Quier. So I'm going to tap on pay. Voila. Received. So now you have €5.02 or 25,000 sats. Thank you very much to the Sans command. Yeah, it feels good to receive bitcoin on the beach. Merci beaucoulous. Thank you so much and enjoy your bitcoin. Merci. Fortunately, the Lightning network works a lot faster than this carousel. Ah, So it's not euros. Bitcoin. So nelly here, the horse is a big bitcoiner Nelly. He heard the bitcoin price is sub 20k. Why the long face? Oh, sorry, Nelly. I'll stop horsing around. This is kind of how I feel about bitcoin adoption. In Biarritz right now, I'm the only one in this great big pool that knows anything about bitcoin. And I want more people to join me. Gorgeous setting in ber Remember that Bitcoin never sleeps. It.
