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 Seeing into the future, something like...

Elon visits Bukele
Elon finally accepts Bitcoin's proposition
Elon advises Trump government
Bukele advises Elon
Elon brings Bukelism to USA
Bitcoin is adopted as Legal Tender in America

In all seriousness though, this is potentially highly significant. Elon will have seen in his travels in San Salvador, that even McDonald's accepts Bitcoin as payment, including the hotel he was staying at.

Seeing Bitcoin everywhere as a method of payment will not have gone unnoticed (surely) by Elon. He will have been induced to install Wallet of Satoshi, and then paid for a Coca-Cola with Bitcoin with Wallet of Satoshi, instantly.

And no one will have batted an eyelid.

Once you experience this yourself, Bitcoin being used as money for everyday spending and treated as totally normal, you can never un-see it.

Elon's mind would have been reeling at the potential to integrate Bitcoin into any economy, and the tools that will need to be built to make it happen. Tools built by his private army of mad software scientists.

Finally he must, surely, be disabused of his completely wrong ideas about Bitcoin.

If this is the case, the post Bukele Elon will be a much better Elon.

He will stop joking about Bitcoin, and start acting like an adult about the most fundamental problem faced by man today: THE MONEY PROBLEM.

Before man can get to mars
He must fix the money

Before man can solve poverty
He must fix the money

Before man can eliminate inflation
He must fix the money

Before man can prevent war
He must fix the money

Bitcoiners understand all of this, but Elon has not grasped it yet. Other global level execs have.

Michael Saylor, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood, Larry Fink, Marc Benioff, Tim Cook, Dan Schulman and Satya Nadella have all accept the truth.

Now, finally, it is Elon's turn.

And he will be ahead of some of these because he has been to El Salvador, and has met with President Nayib Bukele.

We can only hope, amirite?

https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1837305436329922571