"Hopes and prayers, and all that stuff," he added, speculating, "I think it's backlash." Appearing in a bloodied T-shirt, he stared into the camera. Henza, 43, also recorded his anguished reactions to the attack. "If somebody's listening, please, I just - somebody showed up right after we finished eating, and they shot John and Henza, and I was in the house, and John's dead at the gate," Forester wailed in video she posted on social media. On Friday, she was left pleading for help after the attack left her boyfriend dead and another man, Jason Henza, injured. Defending the once-glamorous Pacific Coast city now considered Mexico's "murder capital," she said, "It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than anything I've experienced in the States." His girlfriend, Lily Forester, nodded her head. "If you think it's not possible, maybe you're doing it in the wrong place."Īs for the locals, "They don't seem to mind us living here. "Go for what you want to do," he suggested to Americans considering a similar move.
He envisioned himself as a prophet of American entrepreneurship - but freed from the constraints of the American nation-state. He was set to be featured in a documentary called Stateless. He advocated drug liberalization and taught classes on cryptocurrencies. Joining a community of like-minded expatriates, Galton had sought to build a life as a self-made man, taking a name that was an apparent nod to the hero of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. He was gunned down on Friday by a band of men who stormed his home in Acapulco, Mexico, where he and his girlfriend had found safe haven from drug charges in the United States, as they explained in a March 2017 video interview with the conspiracy site Press For Truth. Galton paid a high price for that freedom. However, Mexicans do have access to smartphones, and that allows them to seamlessly transact cryptocurrencies.Bathed in the sunlight of Mexico's dry season, his dreadlocks tumbling down his back, a man who went by the name "John Galton" observed almost two years ago, "There's pockets of freedom all over the world if you're willing to live in freedom."
Cash is still the kind there, and the fact that more than half of the working population is not formally employed also doesn’t help. Notably, digital transactions remain rare in Mexico where the lion’s share of the population is unbanked. All it takes is to scan a barcode for one’s transaction to be processed completely anonymously. Instead of using government-controlled paper money, they use Dash for buying a glass of juice. Dash adoption is growingĭash, a cryptocurrency that is popular with merchants in Latin American countries, is also popular with Acapulco anarchists. The absolute freedom, however, comes at a price - Bitcoin millionaire John Galton got bullets instead of chasing his dreams in the anarchist capital.
Bitcoin evangelist Joby Weeks was so fascinated with that place that he even decided that he eventually a 13-bedroom mansion that set him back $4 mln worth of BTC.īitcoin has become the symbol of freedom in the inebriated crowds that roam around Acapulco’s beaches. Cryptocurrency has become one of a salient feature of one of the deadliest cities in the Western Hemisphere.Īcapulco is a former tourist mecca that now attracts anarchists from all over the world. Apart from turtles, crunchy tacos, marijuana, and murder, there is one thing that defines Acapulco - Bitcoin.
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