Grassroots · Bitcoin Only · El Salvador

Sovereignty starts with a Linux terminal.

We're a small movement teaching the next generation to own their keys, run their nodes, and grow into Bitcoin developers — Linux from day one, hands on the hardware, no permission asked. Some of our students may one day write the code the network runs on. We just hope to be useful along the way.

2,000+
Students Graduated
50+
Nodes Donated & Installed
50+
Bitaxes in the Wild
2+
Annual Hackathons

We don't just teach Bitcoin.
We try to raise the people who build it.

Most Bitcoin education stops at "buy and hold." We start there and keep going — into nodes, mining, Lightning, Nostr, and the open-source code itself. Every student starts on Linux because tomorrow's Bitcoin developers won't be born inside an app store. They'll be the kids who once opened a terminal for the first time and thought, this is mine.

Kids deserve fun.

PupusasG · Founder, Node Nation
01

Linux From Day One

Every student starts on a Linux terminal. Not because it's harder, but because it's how real builders work. The kids who learn to navigate a shell today are the ones who'll be reading Bitcoin Core source tomorrow.

02

Bitcoin Only

No noise, no distractions, no shortcuts. Our curriculum is strictly the Bitcoin protocol and the open layers built on top — Lightning, Nostr — the tools that actually move the needle.

03

Builders, Not Just Users

Every node we install and every Bitaxe we donate is open source. Students don't just receive hardware — they flash it, configure it, and learn the code behind it. Some become developers. All become builders.

04

Communities First

We work with communities that don't have easy access to technical knowledge — from Berlín, Usulután to Cojutepeque — bringing labs, meetups, and the patient hands-on teaching that makes the difference.

From a national program to a grassroots movement.

Node Nation began inside El Salvador's public school system. Today we run independently — leaner, sharper, closer to the people who actually want to learn. Here's what happens on the ground.

  1. 01

    Show up in person

    We host recurring meetups and technical labs in real communities. The classroom is wherever someone is willing to learn — schools, libraries, community centers, kitchens.

  2. 02

    Hands on the hardware

    Students don't watch demos. They flash their own Bitaxes and NerdMiners, set up Lightning nodes, generate seed phrases, and break things until they understand why things work.

  3. 03

    Build something real

    Every cohort culminates in working hardware that goes home with the student or stays running in their community. Annual hackathons turn students into local developers and builders.

  4. 04

    Leave a node behind

    Wherever we teach, an open-source node stays running — donated by us, installed by the students themselves. The network gets stronger one classroom at a time.

Find us in the open spaces.

We don't do gated channels or VIP rooms. If you want to talk, fund the work, or send students our way, here's where we live.

X · Founder
@PupusasG
Direct line to PupusasG — founder, educator, full-time bitcoiner.
X · Project
@NodeNationSV
Field reports from the classrooms, labs, and meetups. Where it actually happens.
Nostr · Primal
npub1z3k…nkkn
Reach us where censorship doesn't reach. Same conversation, sovereign relay.
Email · Proton
nodenationsv@proton.me
For long-form conversations, partnerships, press, or anything that doesn't fit in a tweet.
Partner · Education
planb.academy
Allied in the same fight — deeper Bitcoin education for those who want to keep going after graduating from Node Nation.

The nine pages that started this fight.

Everything we teach traces back to one document. Eight pages of math, one page of references, and a quiet idea that money could exist without permission. If you haven't read it yet, read it now. If you have, read it again.

Read the Whitepaper →
2008 · OG
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
satoshin@gmx.com
www.bitcoin.org
Abstract.

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending…

Gracias, Satoshi Nakamoto🧡