a Bitcoin themed wedding in Lebanon

by · September 7, 2022

A Bitcoin (BTC) evangelist in Lebanon took his love for Bitcoin to the next level. Said Nassar, an international business engineer, themed his wedding day around Satoshi Nakamoto’s innovation, Bitcoin.

Each and every wedding guest received Satoshis (the smallest value of a Bitcoin) as a wedding gift for attending the Nassar family’s special day, while the theme of the wedding was volcanoes – a nod to El Salvador’s Bitcoin bonds, commonly known as the Volcano Bonds.

The Bitcoin volcano followed the wedding party. Source: Nassar

Nassar told Cointelegraph that he set up a volcano stand at the wedding and “shared gifts via the Lightning Network.” Under each cutlery set for the post-ceremony banquet were actually instructions to download a Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet to receive 4,000 Satoshis. Worth about $0.80 now – due to bearish price action – at the time of the wedding the gift was worth $1.60.

The thank you gift for the wedding. Source: Nassar

The link took the wedding guest through to an in-depth Youtube video showing how to set up a wallet and why people should buy Bitcoin. Of the 250 satoshi gifts he gave out, 75 people downloaded wallets and asked Nassar to send over the 4,000 satoshis – the first time these people received Bitcoin.

With a 30% success rate, his method for promoting Bitcoin adoption is high, given that worldwide Bitcoin adoption may only reach 10% by 2030. Additionally, Nassar qualifies, “All of them [the wedding guests] saw it and thought about it.”

The QR code thank you gifts are in the red circles. Source: Nassar

Nassar is an insatiable Bitcoin advocate. So naturally, his wedding day would be the perfect time to “orange pill” or educate more people about the importance of Bitcoin. He is the mastermind behind Lebanon’s first Bitcoin-themed escape room and jokes that he has a half-hour limit to talk about non-Bitcoin topics when he gets famous:

“I try to explain monetary policy and what fiat money is to every person I meet for more than 30 minutes.”

Oddly enough, Twitter user Stackmore also treats weddings as the ideal time to both start a family and start stacking bets. Stackmore has been sending Satoshis as wedding gifts for the past five years:

In Nassar’s home country of Lebanon, the inflation rate passed 200% in January this year. Bitcoin, by comparison, has a fixed supply of 21 million coins, and benefits from a programmed issuance rate that makes the currency deflationary.

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Despite calls from top executives to avoid buying Bitcoin in Lebanon, groups such as AlJazeera report that Bitcoin adoption is booming in the country. For Nassar, starting with family and friends is key, as “Hyperbitcoinzation starts at home.” He has already introduced his loved ones to Bitcoin:

“All my close friends and family members have bought bitcoin, and my mother is a total coiner.”

How about you, anon? Do you love Bitcoin enough to theme your special days around the coin?