The Toronto December BCH meet-up has come and gone, and I'll like to take a moment to recap all the exciting things that happened that night.
I teased the meet-up in this post, where I made a case for giving all of our meet-up attendees SLP and BCH dividends for attending.
The night of the meet-up, a snowstorm system was making it's way into Toronto, so we were anticipating a small crowd. We were happy to have had a dozen or so people attend despite the bad weather.
Summary of the night
Attendees were greeted and received some free Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Bitcoin Cash Toronto (BCT) SLP tokens for attending.
We sold swag for BCH and BCT tokens.
We raffled some bitcoin.com swag (raffle entries using SLP tokens or BCH).
One of our sponsors, VirgoCX hosted a $50 guess the BCH price event.
Matt Aaron of Bitcoin.com presented on BitcoinCash House in Venezuela and it's expansion to Africa with BitcoinCash House Ghana.
I gave a brief presentation covering some basics:
What is Bitcoin
What is Bitcoin Cash
How do I get some (buy it, earn it, faucets, mining)
Where can I spend it? (online retailers, physical locations, purse.io)
Measuring Engagement
We raised .139 BCH ($~40 CAD) for our meet-up, which was paid out to holders of the BCT (Bitcoin Cash Toronto) token using the bitcoin.com dividend calculator.
About $17 came from tips generated by this read.cash article and donors donating directly to our wallet. The remainder came from sales of swag and raffle entries. Swag ranged in price from $.025 for pins to $5 for t-shirts.
All attendees were eligible to receive BCT tokens for attendance. A dozen or so people braved the winter storm and came out, despite more than 25 RSVPing. To thank them for their commitment, we offered them double the BCT token rewards for attending. We handed out 140 BCT tokens to 7 attendees who had the badger wallet installed. Some attendees opted to ‘donate’ their share of tokens by not receiving any.
Five people spent their BCT tokens (1 spent some on swag , the other 4 spent it some on raffle entry tickets).
In Summary
I was so busy handing out tokens, receiving tokens for payment, selling swag, and running the raffle that I didn’t have much time to take pictures or videos. I would say the engagement at this meet-up (using BCH/SLP tokens) was close to 100%. Pretty much everyone either participated in the raffle, received or spent some BCT tokens or spent or received some BCH.
In terms of networking, I was happy to see people exchanging business cards and engaging in discussion. I love thinking about all the opportunities that are created when like minded people get together.
Stay tuned for details on January's meet up in the coming days! :)
