I totally agree with you, the point you highlighted should be the main things to put into considerations before picking a tourist destination. I don't see why the ban on the use of bitcoin as payment be an impediment for Bitcoin enthusiasts not to travel to Bali on vacation. It not a must that one will have to pay for goods and services with Bitcoin. What happens to fiat? One can always trade Bitcoin online to fiat through exchanges or P2P services and load up his/her international debit/credit card which can be use to perform transactions all through his/her stay in Bali.

Something tells me this has quite a bit to do with the recent woes Balinese police have had with certain types of remote workers who've made the island home ever since the pandemic. I was there a month recently and my local friends told me about this nuisance. Tourists are welcome there, for sure, always have been, and despite a high level of tolerance for terrible tourist behavirous, patience appeared to be wearing thin for the new breeds of long-term residents who act like tourists.

Specific nationalities were mentioned actually, but I don't like passing on rumours. However, because I also personally know from work crypto people remote working in Bali, and the kinds of behaviours associated, I feel there is some truth. Problem is, probably isolated incidents with entitled, cruiseship-trawling, cocaine-snorting, crypto brats who do scammy crypto startups from Bali. Giving a bad name to Bitcoin in general.

In any case, no big loss. In all my wanderings around the island, and even in the supposedly glitziest locations out of curiosity, I found just one shop accepting crypto.


Server I asked said she never had a customer request though =)

there's really nothing to worry about, we can still transact with cash, right? as long as a place is not a war conflict area then of course we will still visit it.
if we want to visit a place, i don't think it has much effect on us canceling plans to go even though the place is still not Bitcoin friendly. We know that there are still many countries and regions that consider Bitcoin to be an illegal activity and are not fully accepted in every country right?.
Bali is not the only area that has leaders who are not friendly to Bitcoin, and I think if we want to go somewhere then we also have to comply with the rules they have set not to transact with Bitcoin but with cash or local currency.

every country has favorite tourist destinations that tourists want to visit, the majority of tourists who travel to Bali are looking for beautiful beaches while in El Salvador they have more places of worship such as cathedrals as tourist destinations for tourists ^{(there are some beaches too but not so famous)}

i don't feel that the desire to travel should be disturbed by the legality of Bitcoin which is regulated by the government in an area ^{(even if it's a country on the African continent or a city in China)}, just visit your dream place, without being disturbed whether the place accepts bitcoin or not ^{(as payment)}