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What happens when you stop just talking about Bitcoin adoption and actually start building it?
Luke and Brooke are parents of seven, entrepreneurs, homeschoolers, and the creators behind BV Bitcoin in Buena Vista, Colorado. They’re taking a completely different approach to Bitcoin adoption: turning it into a real-world treasure hunt.
Instead of overwhelming newcomers with mining, nodes, monetary theory, and technical jargon, they give people Bitcoin, send them into local businesses to spend it, and use games to teach concepts like inflation, scarcity, sound money, wallets, and seed phrases along the way.
And it’s working!
In just eight months, Luke and Brooke have onboarded roughly 25 local businesses and estimate that 60–70 people have been introduced to Bitcoin through their treasure hunts. Some businesses are now seeing meaningful Bitcoin sales, and Bitcoin is beginning to circulate from one person and business to another throughout their community.
We talk about why Bitcoin needs to be USED as money, their philosophy of “HODL and Spend,” orange-pilling without overwhelming people, teaching kids about Bitcoin and money, faith, family, incentives, local businesses, and their vision of helping other communities build their own circular economies.
This episode is a reminder that Bitcoin adoption doesn't have to start with governments or giant corporations.
It can start with you, your family, your local coffee shop and one transaction at a time.
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00:00 – Meet Luke & Brooke
00:41 – How Bitcoin Entered Their Marriage
03:33 – Orange-Pilling Your Spouse
05:52 – Faith, Truth & Bitcoin
08:18 – The Bitcoin Treasure Hunt Begins
10:15 – Why Bitcoin Needs to Be Used as Money
12:28 – 25 Businesses & 60+ People Orange-Pilled
15:22 – How the Bitcoin Treasure Hunt Works
18:52 – The Inflation Game That Makes Bitcoin Click
22:12 – Teaching Sound Money Through Games
22:50 – Where the Treasure Hunt Idea Came From
26:18 – Getting Local Businesses to Accept Bitcoin
29:20 – Businesses Are Actually Spending Bitcoin
32:17 – Making Bitcoin Adoption Easy
34:19 – Teaching Their 7 Kids About Bitcoin
38:37 – Their Bigger Vision for Bitcoin Adoption
40:02 – Why You Should “HODL AND SPEND”
45:00 – Why Bitcoiners Need to Spend Bitcoin
48:15 – Creating a Bitcoin Task Force
50:57 – The Final Bitcoin Treasure
55:03 – Stop Overcomplicating Bitcoin
57:12