Inspired to dedicate the Bitcoin site to writers, musicians and artists. It offers them the opportunity to be featured or funded using Bitcoins. Also changed the logo on the site. Bitcoins are created from the electricity used to solve mathematical problems.

Pat and I go to Hosteria Vilcabamba for filet mignon. We walk around the grounds. There’s a very large tree on the property. One left over from the rainforest days I imagine.

The Big Tree

The Big Tree & Me

The Big Tree & Pat

I Skype with Celeste.

I make a chocolate from 3 kinds of chocolate, maca, dried red bananas, coffee and cardamon.

I attend the Stacey Joy CD release party at Cafe Cultura. My body moves to all the songs. Here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4571085917774.189714.1310526048&type=1&l=c93776ebaf  are some photo’s I took.

I contact the my webhosting company and get my LoveGrows.ca website renewed. Email and site back up. 24 hours worth of emails will have been undeliverable.

I put up a simple new page with only my blog entries.

I eat pizza at Shanta’s.

While standing at the Juice Factory with Olivia and Matt a few people from a wedding party show up infront of the church. I see Irena infront taking pictures so I walk over to say hello. Irena tells me it’s her cleaning lady’s daughter who is getting married. Irena asks if I would like to come in to the church with her. I get to stand near the front of the church with a good view of the wedding ceremony. It lasts just over an hour.

Bridesmaids & Bridegrooms

I do some work the rest of the evening.

Running to the bathroom a few times this morning when I wake up.

I discover that I can print my own money with Bitcoin. It can be denominated in a currency or Bitcoins. I can give it to someone. They can verify it and then cash it. Another site lets me buy a virtual Visa Credit Card with Bitcoins that can be used to make online purchases. I can also buy gold or silver online www.coinabul.com with Bitcoins and have it mailed to me.

Bitcoin Coupon

I’ve redesigned my Bitcoin website to be a pay-it-forward model. Where the sponsor can make someone a recipient of bitcoin gifts. It works like this. People come to the site to get bitcoins for clicking through to a sponsors website. Whenever this happens a recipient chosen by the sponsor also gets free bitcoins for every click. It is inspired by my friend Kathleen. She’s a writer who wanted to have her website featured so she became a sponsor. She nominated another writer as the recipient of the click through gifts. In theory the recipient writer will be able to use the gift coins to become a sponsor and elect a different recipient for the click through bitcoin gifts. It works just as well for artists etc. The cost is less than a penny a click. That is the beauty of micro transactions without middlemen.

I arrive at the Juice Factory about 2 pm. The place is a hive of activity. I get one of Jerri’s great hugs. Next, Robt takes me to his warehouse where I buy two big bags of dried red bananas and 1 big bag of cacao paste.

A Big Bag of Cacao Paste & Dried Red Bananas

Jerri and I walk to Nadia’s place to collect my meat grinder.

I walk up to Shanta’s but it’s still closed.

I return to the Juice Factory for a smoothie and enjoy sitting with Olivia.

I nap for an hour.

It’s time to make some chocolate. Todays batch is made from three kinds of chocolate, dried red bananas, almond butter, peanut butter, maca and a splash of tree honey. It turns out deliciously chewy.

I melt some cacao butter, coconut oil and add a small amount of rose concrete together in the double boiler. Voila the ultimate creme.

I receive an email that my lovegrows.ca website has been compromised and I have to start fresh.

Feeling more whole again. Feels good to wake up without some part of the body calling attention to itself.

More Bitcoin investigation.

I attend a gathering at Monte Suenos. A full rainbow greets everyone as they arrive. I enjoy my conversation with Chaska before the sharing of a potluck cornucopia. We move to the fire made by Douglas as the clouds are made pink by the sunset. Kailash, the musician, uses his flute as a talking stick to give everyone a voice in the circle. The music follows the sharing.

Potluck Cornucopia

Sharing Around The Fire 

I share a taxi with Irena to get home.

My intestines are still queazy. I am surprised by how little sleep I am needing compared to the days I was napping every day.

I pick up my package from the post office. The rose concrete I received smells wonderful. Time to make some cacao butter, coconut oil and rose concrete cream.

Galina and Clif come by for a visit. I enjoy their company before they head off to a ceremony.

There is a sweat lodge here with Chief Harry GoodWolf Kindness who came down from the States.

The Sweat Lodge

The Chief

I do some work before Pat and I go to Santa’s for dinner.

Good nights sleep.

On the way into the center I notice a building with art all over it and further along a space alien sprayed onto a wall using the vents as eyes.

Art Covered Building

Space Alien (Looks Friendly)

I get a smoothie, Young Living mouthwash and essential oils from Live Organica.

Leon picks me up at 9:45 am and we go to the Bank of Ecuador. There are a least 10 heavily armed soldiers and armoured vehicles out front. Someone is loading the armoured vehicle with a forklift truck. I’m thinking gold bars? 

The paperwork is already and we are in and out of the building in short order.

On to the Ministry of External Affairs.

I pay to cancel my 6 month extension visa. Next I pay for my residency visa. All this involves running between 3 different offices in the same area. After an hour of this the woman, Andrea, hands me my passport. It’s official. The visa is in my passport. Yay! All in under 60 days. All that’s left is getting a “Cedula”. I will have to come back with my birth certificate in hand. She will hold one document until I come back to prevent the Cedula countdown from starting. Leon advises me that picking up the Cedula will take about a half a day due to line ups. The Cedula comes from another government department.

Thomas can’t be reached so I get Leon to take me to a restaurant close to Elite Tours for my ride back to Loja.

I like the vegetarian pizza though I prefer Shanta’s.

The ride back to Loja takes just over 3 hours. I go over a lot of Bitcoin stuff in my head along the way.

The Ruta taxi wait is short and I am back home by 6 pm.

Bernie and Pat congratulate me on getting my visa.

I do my laundry and catch up on some work.

My intestines are gurgling and running. My sniffles are gone.

Two thousand clicks on my site today.

I am on the bus to Loja by 9 am. I arrive in Loja by 10:15 am. Since I didn’t book my van to Cuenca and the Cuenca bus is leaving in 15 minutes. I decide to take the Cuenca bus adventure.

There are several stop along the way . The Saragur stop is long enough for vendors to come on board to sell prepared food and drinks.

I rest my eyes most of the way and arrive 4 1/2 hours later at the bus stop in Cuenca.

I call Leon the taxi driver to take me to the Bank of Ecuador. The computer is down so I am asked to come back tomorrow morning.

Leon drops me off at the Aqua hotel where I get room 5. It’s at the back and quiet.

I walk to the Taj Mahal restaurant where a woman says she recognizes me from Vilcabamba. Her name is Kalindi. I join her for supper. She’s here from Germany and took Bhudda’s massage course. We stop at an artisan shop and I buy myself two pairs of pants. We go to the Eucalyptus restaurant for a tea. We get to sit by the fireplace.

Taj Mahal Restaurant in Cuenca

I’m in my room by 8:30 pm.

I check my bitcoin site. Another 1000 clicks over the day.

Right after breakfast I describe my Bitcoin website (1700 clicks in 48 hours) project to Pat. I set him up with an instant Bitcoin Wallet. You can get one here EasyWallet.org. I’m putting together a How To Booklet.

Easy Wallet Sample

I will send you some Bitcoins if you are interested. Send me your email address and I’ll send you a link that creates the wallet with some Bitcoins to use. Only you will know the web link to your wallet because EasyWallet sends you the link not me.

By 3 pm I make my way to Water Woman.

Pat and I go to Roots for some food and then back to Water Woman.

I get some great pictures only to discover about 30 pictures later that the memory card is back at home. No pictures. I do get one photo using my iPhone.

Feels Great To Be Supported

I get to say happy birthday to Ginna and hello to Jade.

Feeling almost a hundred percent.

Spend until noon perfecting the bitcoin website. There’s been a lot of activity on the site. Discovered a way to optimize the process.

I stop in at Shanta’s for a burger and fries before going to Water Woman.

There’s some dancing going on as I pass the SOL Sanctuary. I see Jade having fun.

I walk around for a bit with Jerri.

Galen and talk about the chem trails over Vilcabamba.

I take pictures as I walk about and take in some of the festivities. See them here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4529897448088.188777.1310526048&type=3&l=784098f8e1.

A couple of house pass and it’s time to go home.

I brew some fresh ginger and sit with Jonathan. We talk about bitcoins.