Second Virtual Meetup of Bitcoin Cash Global Adoption Leaders in Latin America

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Jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/2domeetupbchlatam 

Start Time: 09:00 PM (VEN)

Host: Blancomorao

Agenda.

1. Welcome to all participating leaders.

2. Successes, Progress and setbacks.

3. Welcome to New Adoption Leaders.

4. Information about Satoshi's Angels Rewards Program.

5. New Telegram group Bitcoin Cash Chile.

6. Sponsorship offered by Satoshi's Angels for the participants in the meetups in Latin America.

7. Implementation of raffle for attendees in this and the next meeting.

1. Welcome to all participants 👋

• Nemecis1000 - Venezuela. 

• Roberto (BCHHouse) - Venezuela

• Lizbeth - Venezuela

• Ramón Oropeza - Venezuela

• Luis Rodriguez - Venezuela

• Guille Herbst - Argentina 

• Ian Blas (BCH Argentina) - Argentina 

• Marcelo.  Argentina

• Patricia - Chile

• Cope - Chile

• Jota Digital

• Leo Sinforoso

• Fellow Jjitser

2. Successes, Progress and setbacks 📊

Ian Blas - BCH Argentina 

On March 2nd they were able to launch the BCH Argentina website. Roger Ver joined the launch through a video call. They are currently working on fine-tuning logistical and operational details.

Launching of a support number for Bitcoin Cash.  Merchants can call to request the necessary information and they offer support to merchants throughout the process.

They have managed to incorporate 19 new merchants to Bitcoin Cash. They provide POP material such as stickers, user guides, as well as support on how to use the Bitcoin.com wallet.

They are preparing a Meetup for April 9 and then, on April 10, a seminar that includes a basic cryptocurrency course.

Merchant audit. The Bitcoin Cash Argentina team periodically performs audits on merchants that are on the Bitcoin.com merchants map. They have reported some cases of merchants that no longer exist or currently no longer make cryptos. 

Exchange controls make it impossible to incorporate Bitcoin Cash in the local postnet, so it is compulsorily necessary to use wallets as a means of payment. 

The official dollar exchange rate. Due to the existing exchange control in the country, the exchange rate shown in the Bitcoin.com wallet is considerably lower. The BCH Argentina team has suggested some changes in the calculation formula to the wallet programmers.

Finally they are designing a calculator for the web where users can see the live and real time exchange rate (Unofficial) of the Peso/Dollar and its subsequent conversion to Bitcoin Cash.

Ian, offered general recommendations for new participants present during the call, based on their experience in order to accelerate the adoption process in the region:

Set up a work team: 

• Person in charge of Adoption (visit stores).

• Person in charge of Web content (if they have it).

• Person in charge of social media content (It is important to maintain a presence in social networks with content in line with the work being done).

Start talking to the closest circles of people, since trust is built more quickly in these circles.

Once you reach new circles you can start to execute adoption activities in merchant Hubs. The team behind BCH Argentina managed to onboard the hub company alquilatucancha.com that has more than 100 affiliated courts and consequently now they also accept Bitcoin Cash.

Guille Herbst - Argentina

Proposed to the Bitcoin Cash Argentina team to pursue adoption within a “Salada”, which is a type of informal commerce market common in Argentina.

Proposed, suggesting to the Bitcoin.com wallet team, the possibility of automatically transforming Bitcoin Cash to a stablecoin within the same wallet. The idea is to make it easier for merchants to protect their capital against variations in the crypto market.

Encourage the Bitcoin Cash Argentina team to pursue adoption within commercial chains.

Roberto

His participation was limited due to problems with the microphone. However, he was recognized for his hard work for Bitcoin Cash Adoption in Barquisimeto, Venezuela where he managed to onboard 24 new businesses during March. Congratulations!

Luis Rodriguez - Venezuela

Liquidity on local.bitcoin.com continues to be a problem in the region. He wrote to Corby asking about efforts to improve this situation. 

The local.bitcoin.com team responded that efforts are being made to correct the deficiencies in the platform. 

Getting in and out of cryptos is a frequent question among merchants. Luis recommends promoting Binance P2P (while the situation improves with local.bitcoin.com) along with alternatives like Instabitcoincash and Sideshift.ai. He doesn’t recommend Bitfinex since it has a difficult identity verification process.

It is important to educate users and merchants to defer exchange to Dollars or Stablecoins such as Tether. Stablecoins pose a significant risk.

Marcelo - Argentina

It is planned to resume meetups periodically with special emphasis on teaching users how to control their private keys. 

Explaining the difference between using a decentralized and centralized platforms and how the first one allows to control the private keys.

Explaining how to get out of cryptos by swapping to USDT (Tether) whose functionality is integrated in the Bitcoin.com wallet. Explaining them that it is a transitory solution, because as we all know they are a kind of fractional reserve, over another fractional reserve system.

COPE - Chile

He participated by asking several questions inherent to the development of Bitcoin Cash and other relevant questions.

3. Welcome to the New Adoption Leaders 🚀

Patricia - Chile

Patricia joined the call as a new adoption leader for Bitcoin Cash in Chile. She is currently preparing to educate others and start onboarding merchants in Chile. This is her first call.

Lizbeth - Venezuela

We celebrate the addition to the team of Lizbeth, from Acarigua Venezuela. She has extensive experience doing adoption work and executing social educational plans about cryptocurrencies in the region. 

Ramon - Venezuela

Ramon joined as a new adoption leader in Caracas, currently owns a business that already accepts Bitcoin Cash as a form of payment and he is interested in teaching others about BCH.

The rest of the attendees participated in the call as listeners.

4. Information on Satoshi's Angels Rewards Program 💚₿₿₿

Participants were informed during the call that the BCH Merchant Adoption Campaign continues. Participants were requested to share the information to all those interested. 

Please share this information as it is an opportunity to earn revenue and increase Bitcoin Cash adoption in your regions.

Program details: https://www.satoshisangels.com/crypto-merchants.  

Our Telegram groups: 

Global Merchant Adoption by Satoshi's Angels: https://t.me/globaladoption 

BCH Venezuela: https://t.me/BitcoinCashVE 

NEW GROUP:

BCH Chile: https://t.me/bchchile 

With the addition of Patricia as leader of this group we will be able to start organizing and growing Bitcoin Cash adoption in that region.

5. Sponsorship offered by Satoshi's Angels for Meetup participants in Latin America 👼🏻👼👼🏾

Adoption leaders in the region were informed that Satoshi's Angels is currently offering support for in person or virtual Meetups focused on the region. As part of this support we are offering two dollars ($2) in Bitcoin Cash for each new participant for the in person meetups so that they can exchange them among participants and/or spend them in sponsoring commerce.

Those wishing to receive the funds offered should coordinate with the Satoshi's Angels team who will provide more details.

6. Implementation of a raffle for attendees at this and the next meeting 🚩

A Bitcoin Cash raffle was implemented as of this call and for all subsequent calls. 

The raffle operates under the following rules:

• The host of the call chooses or requests one of the attendees a digital platform to conduct the raffle making use of the names of the participants.

• To be eligible, the participants must introduce themselves during the call informing their name or pseudonym, country or region where they are located and have made some contribution during the call and remain until the end of the call. Participants who disconnect and do not reconnect to the call and/or do not comply with the above will not be included for the draw.

• Once the conditions are verified, the host will share the screen for everyone to see the list of participants and the draw process.

• The host informs the winner and the winner must inform the Bitcoin Cash address where he/she wants to receive the funds.

During this call, the raffle was held and the winner was Ramon. The funds were immediately sent to the winner.

Call ended at: 10:48 PM (VEN)

Total Duration: 01:48

Total Attendees: 13 participants.

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