‘How I met Satoshi’: The mission to teach 100M people about Bitcoin by 2030
Dušan Matuska is — among many other things — a Bitcoin educator and consultant. The Slovak’s dream is to educate 100 million people about Bitcoin by 2030 through talks, podcasts, webinars, workshops and even a Bitcoin education center in a far-flung destination (plans are currently under wraps).
Alongside his Bitcoin teaching aspirations, he assists on a small-scale Bitcoin mining facility in Slovakia, he co-founded the crypto café known as Paralelni Polis in the country’s capital, Bratislava and he’s translated well-known Bitcoin books into his native tongue, Slovak.
But, how did he get here? And, what does meeting Satoshi have to do with it?
It starts with Bitcoin, which he first heard about Bitcoin in 2015. But, like many people, “I didn't take a lot of notice. I thought it was a scam, it was a pyramid scheme and all these kinds of things,” he told Cointelegraph.
Nonetheless, equipped with a background in mathematics and buoyed by the enthusiasm of a tenacious friend fascinated by open source technologies, Matuska not so much fell but swan dived down the rabbit hole during the 2017 bull run.
He suddenly realized, “Oh my God, this Bitcoin thing is something really amazing.”
He took time off his teaching and consulting jobs to study Bitcoin. Within months, he deployed his public speaking skills to give the first free talks of many about Bitcoin. At his first “open workshop, where 40 or 50 people came” in early 2018, something had begun to click.
The crypto cafe — as it’s also known — is the baby brother to the Paralelni Polis café in Prague, Czechia. It’s a cafe rooted in alternative learning, or “parallel education,” which harks back to when Czeckoslavia endured communist rule.
It is an apt epithet for a safe space to
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