bitcoin: Chaos, inequality, and freedom: What all this 33-year-old saw travelling the world using Bitcoin

Synopsis
Hitesh Matlani, or Paco as he prefers to be called, has been travelling the world for more than a year. His travel story is unique because he uses Bitcoin for transactions. His journey documents inequalities in third-world countries, sheds light on crypto adoption in African countries, and depicts what it’s like when Bitcoin becomes legal tender.
Hitesh Matlani, or Paco de la India as he goes by on social media, is living most people’s dreams. The 33-year-old Indore resident has been travelling around the world for over a year now, traversing 25 countries starting from Thailand, Cambodia in Asia to over a dozen countries across Africa and South America.Paco, as he prefers to be called, wants to travel to another 15 countries across Americas, Asia, and Europe before putting an end to his
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