5 Tips for writing your articles in Read.Cash
**I have received some comments asking for writing tips or that I explained how I started writing. I am grateful for this, because it is evidence that I have successfully communicated my thoughts and experiences through my writing. After 7 days without internet I will write about it. What I will do is talk about my experience as a writer on the web. I am not a professional writer, rather I am an amateur. So everything I will say here is based solely on my experience.**
Through the following verbs I will try to show what I could call "my creative process" to write. These verbs are selected given the nature of my articles: my life experience in Venezuela, my life as a cook and baker, recipes and also some social and political criticism, and some articles on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. I start.
**Lives**. That's right, living has been my best writing tool. Before I started writing on Steemit or YOURS, I would have liked to blog on political issues (I always liked politics and social issues) but life took a complete turn at the moment when we really hit bottom in my house and I had than going out to earn a living and bring food to my house. In the end, all those experiences have helped me to have topics to write about. I am a little embarrassed, because, on several occasions I directly asked for money because my financial situation is not easy (I have come to receive insults and accused of being a beggar), however, I did not give up and I was learning to write better and enhance my experiences of life through my writings.
**Read**. When I was a teenager I had the habit of reading. I read several political and social books. Although I have lost that habit, it has helped me to have a certain style when it comes to writing. Also, to get an idea of how my articles should be written and to express each idea and thought.
**Investigate**. Many of my articles on Steemit are recipes for which I should have investigated the origin of some dishes, I like to know the origin and why of things and transmitting that to me is important. Also, I had a good article about the war in Syria and it is important to cite reliable sources to give credibility to your arguments.
**Feel**. In my articles I always feel what I say, either because I have had a bad time or because some recipe causes me some emotion. Many times before writing, I listen to music that brings me closer to the emotions I want to express in my article or music that locks me in my head and just being able to write.
**To write**. Write, write and write. Many times I write just to drain my feelings, other times I like to think about something and write what I think about it. But, you will never know how you count your ideas and thoughts if you do not write it. Let those fingers flow on the keyboard!
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Comida Venezolana: Empanadas.
La empanada, la gloriosa empanada. Desayuno imprescindible luego de una noche de rumba, opción primaria de todas las “cantinas” en las escuelas y liceos venezolanos. Un resuelve para el almuerzo, una sorpresa para el estómago en la cena.
Hoy les traigo una de las delicias favoritas de los venezolanos, ya sea sola o acompañada con alguna salsa, la empanada es de las frituras que no deja tener en la línea fitness a los venezolanos.
**La Comida** https://steemit.com/trending/lacomida
La empanada se trata de una masa delgada en forma de media luna de distintos rellenos. Desde la más sencilla de queso hasta la favorita de todos, la de pabellón, es inevitable acompañarla de alguna salsa tártara, picante o ajo. Uno de los mayores placeres del sentir venezolano. Su preparación sencilla hace que forme parte del comer diario del país. Existen muchísimos rellenos, básicamente porque puedes rellenarla con lo que gustes desde los más comunes de queso, carne o pollo hasta la exóticas de mariscos o chigüire (capibara).
La receta
Para preparar unas ricas empanadas solo necesita estos ingredientes:
1kg de Harina de maíz precocido
Agua
Sal
Aceite
Relleno de su preferencia
Para la mise en place de esta receta es necesario tener listo el relleno, si se trata de carne o pollo desmechado, tenerlo previamente listo, si es queso tenerlo rallado o cortado en lonjas, al igual que si es jamón. Se prepara la masa de uniendo el agua con la harina y sal al gusto hasta que quede suave, un truco que utilizo es dejar reposar la masa luego de haber mezclado con el agua, si luego de este reposo queda un poco dura le agrego agua suficiente hasta lograr una masa suave y maleable.
Al estar la masa lista, hacer bolas y sobre el centro de una envoltura de plástico aplastar haciendo un circulo cuidando que su grosor se medianamente delgado. Colocar sobre la masa, el relleno y con la punta de la envoltura de plástico unir a la otra formando la empanada. Tener una sarten o caldero con abundante aceite hirviendo y freír hasta dorar. Escurrir el aceite de la empanada y servir junto a una deliciosa salsa y bebida de preferencia.
**Sin duda una de las más ricas preparaciones venezolanas sencilla y versátil. Muy útil para resolver cualquier antojo de hambre. ¿Y a ti, cual es la que más te gusta?**
Esta publicación es de mi autoria original publicada por primera vez en Steemit. https://steemit.com/receta/@ramonoropeza/soycocinero-comida-venezolana-empanadas
Hopelessness as a tool for social control.
**Blackouts. Terrible public services. Null transport system. Inflation overflowing. High cost of living. Gasoline shortage. Unleashed violence. Corrupted justice system. Incapable politicians. Venezuelan daily life leads the population to chronic despair, which leads to putting aside the fight for freedom and democracy (or at least for a change of government) to only fight to survive and not starve. The latter often involves enduring the government's humiliations that it grants in the form of social benefits. Hopelessness is a general state of the population.**
Yesterday I went to the center of my city to buy some food. I got the money between what I have collected here and some airdrops, plus my mother's pension. I went with my brother and a friend. We had to walk at least 10km, back home I carried all the food in a backpack, the backpack was marked on my skin. Thank God I have to eat, many people are going through a worse situation, it is very common to see people looking in the trash. My friend with whom I make the breads is also going through a difficult situation, so I bought her several things so she can eat these days.
The picture was bleaker than normal. The streets are empty of cars due to fuel shortages rather than quarantine. In this sense, it is possible to see dozens of people walking (like me and my friends) through the streets and avenues instead of using public transport (which is not working). Already in the center of my city, my appreciation is that the quarantine is ridiculous: all of us have our masks on, but nobody complies with the other safety regulations. There is no minimum distance nor much hygienic protection. Quarantine is a tool that the government uses to cover fuel shortages.
As an anecdote I tell you that when we reached the center of my city, the electric service was already out of service there. So that is a problem for when paying in stores because the system becomes slow. When we got back I really got very tired. But I started making bread to feed my family and that of my friend. She almost cried when I gave her the food I could buy her. I'm also a crybaby, so I had to hug her quickly so that no one burst into tears. We started making bread and while they were baking the electric service was suspended. It was night and I finished baking by lighting with a cell phone flashlight. Electric service took more than 8 hours to be restored. I had fallen asleep despite the terrible mosquitoes and the horrible heat it has been doing.
These factors that I live in my own flesh are more acute in other Venezuelan brothers. For example, in Caracas in the José Félix Ribas de Petare neighborhood (the largest favela in Latin America) there is a gang war that takes more than six days and the government has not entered until today. I think of the innocents who are trapped there unable to work and going through the same hardships as most Venezuelans and also endure the shooting of weapons of war, even grenades are known to have detonated.
Warning: The video contains strong images. Be careful.
Clashes between gangs in Caracas, May 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMWtoc0GXEM
Venezuelans are more concerned with surviving day by day than with fighting for freedom and democracy. This thanks to the social decline that the government has sown through its inefficiency and corruption. Opposition politicians are also not good leaders and have not known how to raise the flags of the people who want to get out of this nightmare. Despite all this, hope must be the last thing to be lost. And as long as we are Venezuelans aware of this, we will continue to be that reminder that we can live and be better.
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I have lost my bakery.
**We are all going through a difficult time. Without a doubt, humanity was not prepared for an event like this. It is common for tempers to drop, for us to feel sad and depressed. However, it is not a time to fail, but to flourish. To grow and learn.**
Yesterday I received a harsh call: the lady who gave me the oven I was using for my little bakery wants it back. I am not clear what he will do with it. But the truth is that I no longer have it and I will not be able to produce when the quarantine is over.
**PanXCafé: a project from the heart.**
This project is born from various needs. Of course, the first one was to become independent from my job, being employed in Venezuela is not profitable, you end up being little more than a slave.
Since I was a cook, I liked the idea of making bread. One day I asked my cousin who is a cook how to make bread, but it didn't help me much. Then, I did not try to make more bread, I settled watching videos of great bakers and delicious breads. This allowed me to have a clearer vision of the bakery as a whole and what I would like to do in the bakery.
So, I was looking for a time to enter a course to learn bakery, but these were very expensive for me. They were always around $ 40 or $ 60. And I only earned $ 20 a month in days of up to 16 hours a day. Until I finally found one according to my budget, it was only on Saturdays, it took me 2 months to finish the course. But since I already had a vision of the bakery and its processes, the course was really incomplete. It only helped me to practice and to have a degree endorsed by the Ministry of Education (Perhaps something important). So everything I know about bakery I have learned myself. I have been self taught.
Many times it happened that I did not have the ingredients to make bread at home so I could practice. So, between a friend and I we would complete the ingredients to do anything (although she always wanted cinnamon rolls) so that we could practice. Back then, I worked at night and only baked on my days off. I was also thinking about how to start my own business: contemplating all my possibilities.
I did not have a bakery oven. In my house only one stove works and the oven is not hot nor does it have that much capacity. However, I decided to do a business in my house and thus show my talent and ability. It is very exciting and rewarding when you think and you are making progress towards your dreams and that was happening to me.
One day, baking in my friend's house, another friend tries and says she wants to make bread with me. And he invites me to do a business together. I did not think about it, I said yes, without hesitation or anything. She is an architect of almost 60 years. A good woman and is to be trusted. I told him how I conceived the business.
I told him to name it PanXCafé. And in the beginning we would be baking only sweet bread and selling it in packages of four muffins each. So, while I was going to work, in my house they were selling my breads. So it was.
Until a friend of my partner saw our breads by photos. She has a small bakery in her home. We went to make our breads to his house. She lives in a dangerous neighborhood. But this was not a problem. That day, the idea of working together was born, but my partner did not like the place, so she told her to give us the oven to work in our neighborhood. And we did it successfully while it lasted. Until the pandemic came. And now she has asked us for the oven for her to work from home, but I don't really believe her word.
This situation has made me a little sad. But I am an enterprising man, I am sure to advance towards my goals. I know that I will manage to have my bakery someday. Maybe after quarantine I should go back to look for a job or maybe I will find it from home.
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Does the BCH community know how to sell the project? Thoughts on Bitcoin Cash
**When I read the defensors of the Bitcoin Cash project it really convinces me. They make me feel like I'm in the right place. That BCH is irrefutably the electronic cash that humanity needs. A true tool for human freedom and independent economic development.**
A project that claims the original ideals of writings by Satoshi Nakamoto in his whitepaper. A community in solidarity with the poorest and seeks to include them by minimizing the technological gap with projects such as cointext and low transaction fees (which in the end is one of the characteristics that allows BCH to be P2P electronic cash).
Okay. But that's what I think when I read them. Or read by someone informed or interested in cryptocurrencies. And that's the word you were looking for. Interest. People on the street do not ask why I should use cryptocurrencies (and less BCH), nor do they “hey, I want my money to be decentralized and I can send it directly to someone else without the intervention of the State or a trusted third party”. Bitcoin (BTC) does not escape this situation. The truth is that the world knows bitcoin and cryptocurrencies because at some point there was a "Boom" and many made money and everyone wanted to make money there. So BTC is now digital gold.
Many people only know or think they know that with cryptocurrencies you can make money or it is a scam. That Bitcoin is for millionaires. That is happening.
Which leads me to say that the BCH community does not know how to sell the project. And when I talk about selling, it's about convincing people to use BCH. It is a marketing issue. Of ideological propaganda. Yes, because if BCH wants to be the currency of the internet, it becomes a front-line political and economic issue. And it is that Blockchain and cryptocurrencies if you think about it, have an enormous potential to eliminate entire national states. And this does not like the Status Quo.
Do not take it wrong, I have checked. I search about BCH on traditional social networks and I only get thousands of accounts selling Forex courses and cryptocurrencies (possible scammers). I google and only the current BCH price appears. And this is not BCH and it is not attractive either.
I write this because it has caught my attention to realize this. I believe that the community should take action for there to be a mass voluntary adoption of BCH through marketing. Calling your attention. Making themselves known that BCH exists and that it can change their lives for the better. **Make Bitcoin Cash an everyday thing.**
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Monday May 4, thanks Read.Cash and BCH.
**Today is one of those days. Perhaps you feel reflected with what I am about to say. I think we have all been through something like this several times in our lives. It may be because of quarantine, the fact of not being able to work, or looking for a new job, seeing my family in a situation of misery. It's hard to explain all the feelings I have so far, maybe later I feel a little better, and I'm laughing again. But now, I am writing to download all of this.**
I think it all started last night, yesterday at 6 pm, once again, our "beautiful" government has left us without electricity for more than 7 hours straight. Service was restored at 1 a.m. today. At the moment that we do not have electric service it is at night, obviously.
As always my mother asks me what we are going to eat for dinner, and because we ate arepa with beans, thank God, we have something to eat. My neighbor and partner in the bakery has had nothing to eat but what I have been able to help her with. I have told him to use Read.Cash and get some income. But she refuses. Perhaps because she is a woman of almost 60 years of age. I dont know. All this situation at some point makes you ill.
She is sad to ask for food or help from other neighbors, and I know how that feels. Because you feel incapable of feeding yourself, you feel helpless and you think a lot about what people will say. You feel like a beggar. It is a very painful and terrible situation.
Also last night, while we waited for the restoration of electrical service, my brother found a friend taking a bottle of liquor. He was alone and a little sad, a friend who was close told my brother that his mother, who passed away a short time ago, would be having a birthday yesterday. It didn't take long for all his friends to be with him until he finished the bottle, he is a good boy and he is only 20 years old, and he must go on without his mother.
After a while, I decided to go home and wait for the service there. I laid in my bed. I have nothing to light more than my cell phone, but it was already downloaded. And you have a thousand things going through your head. Here the torture begins. It is anxiety about the future. The "would" begin, you wonder, what if I had left the country? What if I can't get money to eat tomorrow? What if I have to go pick up food from the garbage? What if I can't take care of my mother who has given me her whole life? It's terrible. Also, the How Long? Until when will there be no electric service? How long will it be quarantined? How long will we continue to suffer so much? It is very depressing.
Don't misunderstand me, I tell all this to let off steam. Because I think everyone on this planet has been through situations like this. I am (or try to) be strong to keep going. But it is inevitable to fall at some point.
I am very grateful to all the people who have taken the time to read these words. And that they have been there to motivate me. I try to do the same with you. Really thank you very much. Also, thank you Read.Cash and BCH for being an opportunity to express myself freely and to introduce me more to the world of cryptocurrencies. I understand more and more, thanks to several of the writers, the difference between BCH and BTC. And I've also been able to see for myself especially when it comes to transaction fees.
Find out if you have impostor syndrome (+ My experience).
Talking about this syndrome is talking a little about my life. If you do not know what this syndrome is about, it is very possible that you feel identified and perhaps suffer in some measure. Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which a person is unable to assume his achievements on his own merit and has a persistent fear of being perceived as fraud.
To me particularly, it has happened to me all my life. At school, with my friends, at work. I feel that everything I have achieved is by pure luck, because I know that there are better people than me. In classes, it happened to me a lot that a teacher asked something (something I knew) and was not able to answer, because for me, that question was very obvious and anyone should know it. And seeing that no one answered, I was already embarrassed to respond for **fear of becoming the class brain.**
In my job, I came to reject a promotion (that I had earned) because I felt that "**it was a lot of responsibility**" for me. Even in my personal life, I have stopped being with girls, because I could not believe that they liked me, and that made me shy with women.
Over time, I have been able to overcome this problem. I am grateful when they recognize me for something or pay me a compliment. Also, it has helped me self congratulate myself on a good job. Because I was also very demanding of myself and everything had to be perfect. But that's over and I'm happy.
Identify if you have imposter syndrome.
Have you ever been to work thinking you are a fraud? Are you convinced that people will guess your intentions and realize that you don't know what you're talking about? Does failure terrify you?
If when you go to work you think you are a fraud, if you think that when talking about a topic you are worried that people realize that you do not know what you are talking about, and you are afraid of failure. Although you demonstrate your ability in your working life, are you convinced that you do not deserve the success you have achieved? Do you suffer from chronic insecurity? The "impostors" reject any demonstration of success and think that it is by mere luck, that is, being in the right place and time, or deceiving others into thinking that they are smarter and more capable than they really are.
To overcome this syndrome, I can affirm that starting with modest thanks for the compliments and giving thanks for your merits is a good start. Acknowledging what you are good at and what you really need to improve will make you progress along the path you have set out.
Currently, even though I have been writing on the internet for a while (since 2018), it is until now that I recognize myself as a good writer. I know there are thousands better than me, but this is no longer a problem for me, because I write because I also like to do it. My fear of being classified as a fraud arises since I started writing online. Well, I did it from the need to bring food to my house, my main objective was to get some reward. **And it is until recently that I realized that there is nothing wrong with it if you really have things to say and if you know how to say it.**
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**How long do you think Maduro can hold his grip on power?** https://read.cash/@ramonoropeza/how-long-do-you-think-maduro-can-hold-his-grip-on-power-answer-to-at-bettercallpaul-fec87c4f
How long do you think Maduro can hold his grip on power? Answer to @BetterCallPaul.
**Yesterday I published a** **heartbreaking article** **where Venezuelans talk about how bad they had it in 2016. The article has been well received and I appreciate that. In the comments, the user @BetterCallPaul has left the question that I have titled in the article. And here is your answer.** https://read.cash/@ramonoropeza/do-you-know-why-2016-was-the-worst-year-in-venezuela-10-tweets-tell-you-eb850bbf
I will try to be concrete in the answer. Also, I understand that this is my opinion based on my experience and knowledge on political issues that are those of a citizen.
I'll start by breaking down your question (How long do you think Maduro can hold his grip on power?) In two parts.
To answer this I must ask myself, **what power does Maduro have?** It must be understood that Chávez before his death, all power revolved around his figure, also all political communication revolved around him, he did or said, was the current issue in national politics. **No one was able to take that leadership away from Chávez**.
After his death, all that changed. Chávez, announcing Maduro as his successor and the legion of his followers, trusted and voted for him. Maduro was not able to maintain little order within the Venezuelan State. Corruption and inefficiency are unleashed. His way of doing politics is also lousy and based on blackmail, towards his allies and supporters. A very bad dictator.
This circumstance was very poorly exploited by the Venezuelan political opposition (which at that time maintained the power of the National Assembly). He called on the citizens to leave Maduro, and the Venezuelan youth responded. Streets were blocked throughout Venezuela and there were some pronouncements from the armed forces. It was a very hard time for us, ***we lost friends and many young people died in vain***. The economy fell. Maduro revealed his dictatorial character. However, the political opposition did not give the final thrust, and I seek to negotiate with the Dictator. Maduro took advantage of that time, I have called for elections to a constituent national assembly. An entity above the constitution with which I take power away from the National Assembly. The opposition was completely ridiculous, and demotivated any citizen movement to get out of the dictatorship.
From that moment, **Maduro's grip on power began**. Many of the Venezuelans are afraid to go out to protest and die in vain like the youth in 2014. Also, many of them have left the country in search of better opportunities. Still others simply no longer believe in the leadership of opposition politicians and only seek to survive this tragedy with their families.
However, in the following years, the economic and social crisis weakened the Venezuelan state and the Maduro government. Making its real power only exerted from the armed forces. Venezuelan institutions are riddled with corruption and inefficiency with the consent of Maduro and his accomplices. Venezuela is a dangerous place where there are areas that only control criminals, even from prison. Speculators place on price regardless of the law. Justice does not exist. The health system without supplies. The obsolete electrical system. The broken oil industry. Basic services don't work. And an ultra devalued coin. Maduro leaves Venezuelans helpless who even follow him, he only gives alms in the form of food boxes. It governs a country that they themselves have destroyed. I don't think he will die in peace.
Currently, power in Venezuela is reduced to the control of the armed forces. And it does not guarantee stability in the daily lives of Venezuelans. Furthermore, we have two presidents, two assemblies, two supreme courts. **But state control is held by arms**.
How long will he maintain power?
2019 started with a new hope for Venezuelans. It has been difficult to believe this new opportunity to get out of these bandits. They even tried to negotiate again on one occasion. Something frowned upon by ordinary Venezuelans. But, the armed forces play a very important role in power for Venezuela. Without them, the opposition is very limited to leave the dictatorship. **Venezuelans, once again, take to the streets hoping to start building a new nation**.
This hope has been greatly questioned. But, starting in 2020 we have seen all the international support that President Juan Guaido has received from the international community, especially by the President of the United States, Trump.
This places Venezuela in the context of global geopolitics, since, at the moment, Trump supports Guaido, Russia and China support Maduro. Venezuela is a country very rich in natural resources and this is always very important for global powers. Now in times of a pandemic and anticipating an economic recession never before seen, Venezuela takes strategic relevance as an ally.
The United States has been smart in accusing Maduro and his government of drug traffickers and using all the propaganda machinery to denounce them to the world. This neutralizes China and Russia to directly defend Maduro and leave everything to international entities. And we know that the US administration does not care about international entities. Also, economic sanctions put great pressure on the dictatorship and weaken its alliances.
So, in this context I hope that this ordeal that Venezuelans have been going through will end soon. Guaido and Mike Pompeo have issued statements on possible moves to end the dictatorship soon. So we have to wait and not lose hope to move towards a better nation. https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/pompeo-reabrir-embajada-estados-unidos-caracas-venezuela-renuncia-nicolas-maduro-panorama-mundial-cnnee-sot/
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Do you know why 2016 was the worst year in Venezuela? 10 tweets tell you.
Today, browsing the internet a bit, I have found a series of testimonies of how 2016 was the worst year for many Venezuelans. They are heartbreaking testimonies and with which I feel very identified. That year I had to stop studying to start working and be able to bring food to my house, that year **I spent three days without eating**, I was sad to ask for food from my friends and it was the fourth day that I went to university and my Friends asked me if something was wrong and I didn't hold back my tears to tell how hungry I was, and that my family hadn't eaten either. It was truly a horrible year. And I don't wish anyone to go through this. **I am forbidden to forget those who have led us to this catastrophe and who must pay for all the evil they have done.**
The testimonies arose from a Tweet and there the thread was opened. Here I leave the original and the English version.
**Tweet 1.** There was a time in 2016 when there was nothing at all, nothing and you had to eat Arepas with freshly ground corn, auyama, yucca, and green plantain, and coffee with "papelón" (because there was no sugar or or was incomparable).
**Tweet 2.** It was the worst year, I had to get up super early in the morning to help my family to queue at the supermarkets because to buy the order it was for the last number of the ID, risking that when it was my turn, there would be no food. From that moment I learned to eat everything there was and not to leave anything on the plate.
**Tweet 3.** My most traumatic time for the blackouts was in 2014 and in 2018 we were quite hungry, we began to lose weight, the unfortunate thing is that it is returning with this pandemic. I already lost my appetite from eating so much arepa without a nice filling. I only hope that we manage to survive such misfortune.
**Tweet 4.** 2016 was a really difficult year, we also went through just having water in the fridge, eating only white pasta (if we could get it), trying to sweeten with glucose. Very hard.
**Tweet 5.** I don't think I wish anyone the trauma of having to grind a kilo of white corn in order to have just a few arepas that tasted like plasticine for breakfast. (And sometimes only with butter).
**Tweet 6**. That year my brother committed suicide due to the situation, the hunger I went through, I have already overcome it, the death of my brother I will continue crying forever.
**Tweet 7.** I remember one night, I had to pretend that I was not hungry so that my younger brother could eat well, I only had a cup of coffee without sugar.
**Tweet 8.** I had to sell my car, a corsa speed, to be able to buy food. With the 620,000Bs I bought 2 packages of flour, rice and other things and then I was left without a car and without food, damn 2016.
**Tweet 9.** 2016 was a fateful year. But for many Venezuelan families, things have been getting worse. What is clear is that this 2020 is making it very difficult for all of us, but in Venezuela it is another level.
**Tweet 10.** I lived it, it was horrible, but it taught me a lot and made me want to get ahead, but despite that I do not wish anyone to pass that experience.
These testimonies mostly belong to young people. We feel that we have lost our youth trying to survive all the challenges that life imposes on us. They are real and crude descriptions with which I feel fully identified and I cannot contain my tears in remembering those days and knowing that there are still many Venezuelans who are having a really bad time. I stay with the last testimony, and give encouragement to all those who are having a bad time during this quarantine: **resist, the world, your world is not ending. And as long as there is health and life you can always start again.**
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My mother's impossible nightmare | My first story in Read.Cash.
**We are in the year 2000** and my mother works at the Compañía Anónima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV for its Spanish acronym). She works as a telecommunications technician at that company. She has been during its privatization and nationalization. This is especially important, since many jobs are offered depending on the political party in command of the State. My mother has always been a socialist trend and so with Chavez in power she feels a little calmer for not losing her job just because of her political opinion, for this and many other reasons it is how Chávez has conquered hearts to be able to come to power. **But this is an other history.**
My childhood has been quite normal, although I have not had a father figure, my mother works very hard so that me and my brother do not lack anything. Venezuela is a great country, public schools are great, CANTV covers all our medical needs; I am overweight, my mother complies with my whims and takes me to eat at McDonalds and pizza, she buys me the sweets and I drink a lot of Coca-Cola. Also, he takes me to the movies every week and when it's baseball season, my brother and I go to almost every game. I am a very lucky boy.
As a matter of work, she must travel a lot throughout the country making plans for telecommunications networks, her work is really important, I admire her. This weekend I arrive very tired, barely and greet me. After bathing, he fell into bed and slept very soundly until the other day.
The next morning, when I wake up, I see my mother sitting on the edge of the bed. Looking into space and with a somewhat pale face. Seeing that I am awake, between a scary smile he says to me: Ramón I had a horrible dream, a real nightmare (Hahahaha laughs). And start telling me...
Ramón, he says, I dreamed that you had grown up and that I was retired from CANTV. That the economic situation of the country is very bad and our lives were very different. Apparently, with my retirement salary it was not enough for anything and you had to leave the university to bring food to the house. That you had to travel kilometers to look for water on foot because there was no longer any water service. Also, we did not have a fridge and we had to store the food in the neighbors' house. It was all very horrible Ramón (he continues telling me), we hardly had anything to eat and you earned something online to be able to eat, a digital currency (hahaha, my mother laughs), **the electric service was suspended every night** and your cousin, with the You play every day, he had left the country with many others in the family because everything here was unbearable. **When he said that it gave me some fear, I can't imagine being far from my family, it must be very painful**. Also, the fact of not having a fridge, I check it from time to time to have some fruit (hahaha). And that of electrical service is impossible, how can you damage the entire electrical system of a country?
She continues, and tells me, the most incredible thing was not that. Rather, **the Venezuelan government is run by drug traffickers and they give boxes of food and alms to people so they don't starve**. And everything is within a world in the midst of a global pandemic, a virus that kills thousands of people, that was very ugly because in the news there were people dying in the streets and the dead could not have a funeral service...
As she continues to tell me her nightmare of impossible moments, I meditate on everything she has told me. **There are those who think that dreams can come true or are visions**, but my mother has gone to the extreme, she must be very exhausted by her work, I needed it after a hard week without seeing her. At that moment my mother laughs as if she was draining all the stress from work and that horrible nightmare, and she says to me: Ramón, in the end, do you know that there was also in my dream? **UFOs**. Hahahaha, **Do you think something like this can happen?**
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How can Read.Cash Fund impact society?
**Living in Venezuela implies looking for bread day by day. Literally. There is not much time to do other things that allow your personal development. After being forced to leave my university studies to start working and bring food home, I had the opportunity to enter the world of cooking. Not only was I lucky, I was also very willing to learn a trade that would give me some security in the future.**
However, having a job here is very frustrating. This is because, despite being an excellent worker, the pay is very mediocre, added to the hyperinflation, it only allows you to buy very little food. No movie theaters, no candy, just the food you need so you don't starve.
This is why during this crisis I went to the internet to look for better income or something extra that would help me not feel so mediocre with my life. For some time earn money with the website called "**Humanatic**". At that time I already knew **cryptocurrencies** but I had a certain suspicion of losing the little money that I earned and that was used to eat.
So, I started looking for a way to generate cryptocurrencies, and I found Steemit. It was difficult at first, writing always caught my attention, but it was actually the first time I did it. Little by little I was improving on the platform until I found a group of authors in which we supported each other to have a regular income for each publication. It helped me a lot while it lasted. At this time I learned about more than Bitcoin Cash. It was through Yours.org that I knew about BCH, the Hard Fork had not happened yet so it was really Bitcoin Cash. I followed on Yours after Hard Fork and also posted on Honest.Cash.
This is how cryptocurrencies have helped me survive the Venezuelan crisis. I have not managed to obtain great money, for me a dollar is of great value. With everything I've learned along the way, I feel ready for when I really make a significant profit.
With all of this in mind, I see Read.cash fund as an opportunity to start again after this pandemic finished breaking the beginning of my bakery. I bet on the success of this experiment and that it becomes a reality for many ex-article writers and anyone who makes good content. This project has the potential to contribute to the massive adoption of Bitcoin Cash, including being the gateway for many people to the world of cryptocurrencies and Blockchain.
One of my goals is to raise enough money to start my bakery again when the quarantine is over. Also, I am willing to trade with cryptocurrencies and be a great diffuser of them as in fact I am, before the quarantine I was going to launch a Token SLP for my clients and thus begin to spread this technology around me. The scope of this experiment is difficult to visualize. In all my best wishes for this project and congratulations to the Read.Cash team.
On the Keyboard (CryptoPoem)
Type,
There are those who key in codes and create new realities.
There are those who type news and spread the most painful miseries of man.
There are those who write songs and then we love them with their sounds.
Many type and just type, how sad it must be to write and just fill the screen with characters and leave the time that does not return empty.
Fortunately, there are those who type and pour passion and new worlds on their screens, creators of future experiences, dreamers of a more just humanity.
Deserving of good fortune who seek no more recognition than the implementation of their work and ingenuity.
Also, there are those of us who type escaping. We flee for moments to nowhere, until we find paths on which we can type.
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Axie Infinity: A Chance in the Crisis? | CryptoGame
**In the midst of the economic crisis that we are all in, cryptocurrencies emerge as a viable alternative to earn income. Looking for how to make extra money I have got this crypto game that looks hopeful.**
**Axie Infinity** is basically about having and raising your "Axies" you can train them for battle and you can also reproduce them. The interesting thing about this crypto game is that being on the **blockchain**, the "axies" are yours and they are in your **ETH wallet**.
**Axie Infinity** is interesting for her **small love potion** (**SLP**). The **SLP** is a necessary tool for the reproduction of Axies so it is always demanded by the players and generates value. **SLPs** can be exchanged in Uniswap and it is obtained only by playing or also buying in the market.
In conclusion, Axie Infinity can make extra money by spending a little time in order to make your Axies gain value. For my part I have not been able to start playing because to start you have to have 3 axies and I do not have the money. Minimum you need $USD **10 in ETH** to start playing.
Thank you for reading. If you know of other ways to generate extra money in this crisis, leave a comment. If you can help me complete the money to start playing this game I will be very grateful. If you want to start playing here I leave you some interesting guides and links.
https://marketplace.axieinfinity.com/ (MarketPlace)
https://axie.substack.com/p/axie-community-alpha-getting-started << how to start and everything you need to know
https://axie.substack.com/p/axie-breeding-guide << how to breed your axies and get the most of it!
We are not in the same boat, but we are in the same sea (You must read this reflexion)
**Today, April 16, I accompanied a friend to buy food. She spent the last money she had left: $ 15 USD. As we walked back home, we encountered different situations that make it evident that "We are not in the same boat, but we are in the same sea, some on a yacht, others on a boat, some on life jackets and others swimming with all their might" .**
At the country level, the contrast is more evident. Third world countries are not prepared to deal with an emergency of this magnitude. Ecuador is an unfortunate example. Very sad. Venezuela is out of fuel and people have already died for not having fuel to transport them to a hospital, you will not see it in the news.
It is necessary to understand the situation of each one of us and to know how to help those who need it.
My friend and I are swimming with all our might so as not to drown ourselves during this storm. Particularly I don't have money, I only have part of my merchandise to make bread and hyperinflation, fuel failure and quarantine do not allow me to work. My friend can't work either because she is a nail stylist to other women. It is really difficult.
Along the way we saw many people who can still buy certain foods thanks to their savings or who still work. Outside food stores people are looking for food in their garbage. It is very difficult to see that directly without being able to help something because you are also surviving. Before, the owners of the shops used to drive away the beggars, but now they are hungry people searching their garbage and they do not drive them away because in some way they feel sorry for others.
I don't know about you, but I am terrified to think of the people who have been unable to continue swimming in this storm. Will they be able to leave, how many more will enter in those circumstances?
I saw this phrase on the internet, it invites reflection on the solidarity that we must have among all of us as human beings. "We are not in the same boat, but we are in the same sea, some on a yacht, some on a boat, some on life jackets and others swimming with all their might, let's be empathetic."
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State of Oppression.
**April 11, 2020. Today I had to walk 20 km to find a bag with 7kg of food that a distant aunt sent to my mother and me. So we can survive a few more days with food. On the way, I must go with my mouth covered and if not, I can be fined or detained.**
Apparently I should be thankful for this, in other countries the police arrest you. They make you big money fines. However, more and more families have nothing to eat at home. How far can this quarantine contain people's hunger? **The State is made to oppress and in a situation of this magnitude it has fallen like a ring on your finger to exercise your divine right to oppression.**
**China is the most emblematic case**. Now your right to free transit is limited by your body temperature. You are no longer a human, now you are a QR code. How long will it take to expand these measures to other countries? The collective memory of nations is often very short. **Will we forget these fundamental rights in the name of our survival?**
How many people will die of hunger and of diseases derived from it? What's really going on? I think we are all afraid of this uncertainty. There are no joint measures by governments worldwide to deal with COVID-19. Apparently everything is waiting for a vaccine that we really do not know when it will arrive. **Meanwhile, many of us must continue looking for ways to survive day by day and avoid the State of oppression.**
See how Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are fighting COVID-19
**The year 2020 was for many of us a year in which we would achieve many of our goals. Maybe you were in classes, or maybe you were starting your first business (As is my case). Maybe you were planning your next trip. But, the COVID-19 changed all that and much more.**
**However**, this sudden and unexpected change in the absolute life of humanity is driving the diffusion, adoption and integration of Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies; So if an event of this magnitude had not occurred this change would have taken much longer.
**And it is that**, for a global problem you need global and innovative solutions. We can see **COVID-19** as a **Disruptive problem**, since it has come to change the entire Status quo of all of humanity. Therefore, the tools to solve a Disruptive problem must also be of this nature as are **Blockchain** and **cryptocurrencies**.
A clear example of this is the fundraising carried out across the planet. Specifically, given the urgency of monetary liquidity to buy medical supplies and assist patients, the use of a fast and transparent technology such as cryptocurrencies is necessary. The Case of the **Italian Red Cross** is emblematic: in just 3 days they raised $ 10,000 in Bitcoin for the acquisition of urgent medical supplies. Such success, It motivated the **Italian Red Cross** to seek financing through **Bitcoin**.
Another significant action within the Crypto environment is the initiative by the popular Exchange **Binance**. Through his charitable foundation, he has created "**Crypto Against COVID**" to make a common front of all cryptocurrencies against the pandemic. Also, all these transactions will be reflected in Blockchain for transparency, this initiative seeks to raise $ 4 million USD to fight the pandemic.
A very special contribution that the Crypto community is making in the fight against the pandemic is through the miners. Stanford University's "**Folding@Home**" project is using the computing power of many Ethereum miners to support research on COVID-19. There are already more than a million computers on the network and the computing power is impressive: this decentralized supercomputer is capable of performing 470 million trillion floating point operations per second (470 PetaFlops).
With these three examples, we see how the crypto ecosystem is really adding value to the fight against COVID-19. It is gratifying to see how the crypto community is working for the good of humanity by providing sustainable solutions in time.
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10 useful tips to survive bad times.
**We are in a time of anger. Of uncertainty. Anxious and locked up. Many do not think about the future out of fear. But his coming is inevitable. This writing is nothing more than proven advice in my experience in constantly surviving the ravages of the situation in Venezuela. I really hope it will be useful for each of the readers.**
**1. Be close to your Family.** During all these bad times it is through my family and friends that we have managed to cope with many difficult situations. It's about emotional support and being around loyal people you know will be there for the bad times.
**2. Practice solidarity.** Being supportive is very important in these times of anger. I have particularly helped in any way I can during this ordeal. However small your solidarity action may be, do it. Well, this generated empathy will come back when you also need help. Whether it's carrying the food bag or taking care of a pet, don't be indifferent to the problems of your friends and neighbors. Being supportive is always a good investment.
**3. Consume what is strictly necessary.** In the hard times, he had nothing to eat. We still don't have a fridge in my house and this made it more difficult to have food. I remember that there were days when I didn't eat anything and the next day I had to go to college on an empty stomach. Many times my mother complains that we only have white rice to eat. But that is better than nothing. Believe me you have to be very strong mentally to just eat white rice every day. If your family is large, organize portions of what each should consume. Don't spend on unnecessary things: goodies or energy drinks. Take care of your health by nourishing your body.
**4. Take care of your physical and mental health.** In Venezuela the saying "He has the Maduro diet" became very popular to refer to people who were malnourished and had lost a lot of weight during that period. And it really was so. People lost a lot of weight especially during carbohydrate shortages. This had many consequences for the physical and mental health of many people. Depressions due to their new gloomy appearance and weakness in their immune systems, being more likely to contract diseases. To counteract this, I recommend training your body and thus maintaining and strengthening your muscles. Training also helps boost self-esteem and strengthen your immune system.
**5. Always have the Internet.** He helped me find alternative ways to get money. Also, to always be informed and communicated. The internet is always a great tool to communicate with our loved ones and the world. During the entire week-long national blackout, there was much uncertainty about not having news of anything. Very few people had access to the internet through their cell phones. Particularly I did not have internet access during the blackout.
**6. Employment.** If you have lost your job I recommend looking for a food related position. Here in Venezuela, I always worked in the kitchen and there I could eat and take food home. I worked more for what I ate in the kitchen than for what I was paid as a salary. Also, it is recommended to have remote jobs or related to the transport sector.
**7. Savings and investments.** Hyperinflation in Venezuela has not stopped. And the trend is to increase. To counter this problem, many Venezuelans chose to switch to a stronger currency such as the dollar or the euros. Also, the purchase of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has been booming. However, there is no better investment than buying inventory for your own business. At this point in which I was starting my own business, is what I have done. I bought some necessary supplies to make bread. Thus, if the bad times pass quickly, I will have to start without much setback; And if the bad weather has not passed, I will have something to eat for my house and family. Before looking for a job, if it is within your possibilities create your own job offering services or products, you will see better remuneration over time, however, it is a long and hard process.
**8. Educate yourself.** Take advantage of the quarantine to meditate on your life and think about your passions. In the most difficult moments I had to stop going to university and started working in the kitchen. Here I discovered this facet of myself, and studied for Executive Chef with a lot of effort. Until last year I took a bakery course and now I love bakery. And I am ready for work. Discover your passion, develop knowledge about it and take advantage of it.
**9. Strengthen your Faith.** Regardless of your beliefs you must strengthen your beliefs. Even if you only believe in yourself. Feed that, strengthen your character and attitude in the face of life's difficulties. The idea is to come out of this situation much stronger.
**10. Love.** If something leaves me with bad times, it is that we must learn to love in order to advance in life and cope with any situation. Love yourself and your loved ones and show it. Laugh and enjoy each day with them and each sacrifice will be worth it.
COVID-19 Venezuela | I challenge you to make bread at home. GUIDE
**Amazing my people, life is amazing. I have been trying to get out of an economic crisis for more than six years. And at the moment when I start a microenterprise in the country with the highest hyperinflation in history, in the midst of an economic, political and social crisis. COVID-19 arrives to restart our lives.**
In the case of Venezuela, COVID-19, is accompanied by a severe shortage of gasoline throughout the Venezuelan territory. My suppliers have not been able to fill their gasoline tanks and be able to work. I am running out of cash flow to replenish inventory. This before the impotence of staying at home. Without doing anything. Quarantined
I am not afraid of the future. I have been through so many difficulties that this is just one more line for a tiger.
Today, I want to challenge you to make bread at home. My delicious sweet muffins. I want them to be motivated if they are quarantined to work their own patience and know the magic of making bread. And forget all this for a moment.
Important information to make bread: In this process you must have patience in the kneading and in the fermentation. You must do it by hand to make the challenge more interesting. Everything is weighed and you should not use more or less than what is indicated in the recipe. For example: 50 grams of egg is 50 grams of egg, it does not matter if you have left over or missing. If you have leftover, you reserve it to varnish and if you lack you open another egg to complete and the rest you reserve to varnish. This recipe works for 20 buns of 70 gram.
Necessary utensils:
**weighing machine.**
**Baking sheet.**
**Bowl.**
Ingredients:
**Wheat flour: 800 grams.**
**Water: 320 grams.**
**Instant yeast: 16 grams.**
**Salt: 9 grams.**
**Eggs: 50 grams.**
**Butter: 49 grams.**
**Sugar: 160 grams.**
**Powdered milk: 10 grams.**
**Vanilla essence: 5 grams.**
Process:
**Mise en place:** Weigh the ingredients one by one. Have an individual container for each one.
**Dough:** In a large bowl, mix in this order: flour, yeast, sugar, milk powder and salt. Always mix. Add the water, eggs, vanilla essence and finally the butter. Mix until a homogeneous mass is formed.
**Kneading**: having the dough, you have to continue kneading until you form a smooth and homogeneous dough. No lumps. This process can take from 15 to 20 minutes depending on the skill of each person. So if you take 30 minutes don't feel bad. At the end you must form a ball and go to the next step.
**First fermentation:** Here you will do nothing, just let the dumpling grow double or triple. You must be patient. Fermentation is a very important and characteristic factor of good bread. This process is directly related to time and temperature. At a temperature ambient of 24 ° C to 28 ° C it can double or triple its size in one hour or hour and a half. You must then have as a reference that it must grow double or triple.
**Formation and Second Fermentation:** Degas. For the formation I leave the following video as a guide. However, another option is to form balls and make two incisions forming a cross and thus make the traditional shape of the pineapples. Then, place the bread rolls on a previously greased tray. And leave to ferment until it doubles in size. In Venezuela it takes approximately 1 hour or an hour and a half at room temperature (24 to 30 degrees Celsius).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yHhIShgRg
**Baking:** Pre heat the oven. When the masses have doubled or tripled. Before entering the oven: have an egg ready to varnish with a kitchen brush and sugar to sprinkle on the doughs to taste. Bake at 180 ° Celsius until they turn golden. Approximately between 15 to 20 minutes. Something to take into account is to move the tray so that the baking is as uniform as possible, a rule for this is to move the tray once one side of the tray is more golden than the other.
**Cooling:** It is important to let the breads cool to room temperature. This is important for a better digestion of the bread.
**Once ready, take a photo and share it with us and see what you are capable of in this situation. Tell about your bread-making experience and how you feel about it. This situation must bring out the best in us and far from fainting, we must maintain ourselves with strength and hope for a promising future. If you want you can contact me to learn how to make and better breads. Or just comment if you want me to keep sharing recipes. Thank you!!**
MigasCoin (MIGAS): SLP token for PanXCafé | Preview.
**Gamification in marketing consists of applying concepts and dynamics typical of game design in order to stimulate and make user interaction more attractive. It uses the natural human predisposition towards competition and gaming to make certain tasks less boring and to retain the user.**
**In this sense**, the delivery of rewards through coupons or point cards for the subsequent exchange for services and products is one of the most common forms of Gamification that have existed. Traditionally, this delivery is made using paper coupons or cards issued by a specific company. The data on the points are centrally controlled by the issuing company. As a consequence, the user experience with this point system is very limited to the rules of the issuing entity of said points, since it continues to be the owner of said points and not the user.
**One solution**, to improve the user experience in this point rewards system, is to create a system in which the user is actually the owner of said points that he has obtained through his participation with the company. Thus generating an entire ecosystem of exchange between users / clients of said company. Always with the guarantee of being able to exchange points for services and products in the issuing company.
**MigasCoin (MIGAS)** is a point reward system based on blockchain technology by issuing SLP tokens over Bitcoin Cash. Las Migas will be distributed to all PanXCafé customers who have wallets that support SLP tokens and make purchases of PanXCafé products. Crumbs may be exchanged for services and products at PanXCafé. The MIGAS for being SLP tokens are decentralized and can be exchanged between wallets that support SLP tokens and in this way more quickly gather the necessary MIGAS to demand the rewards thanks to the collaboration between the users.
**General objectives:**
1) Introduction to the Blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem to PanXCafé customers.
2) Adoption of Bitcoin Cash: MigasCoin will work on Bitcoin Cash by issuing SLP tokens. So PanXCafé should promote the download of wallets that support SLP tokens like Bitcoin.com Wallet for Android.
3) Customer loyalty through the delivery of interchangeable tokens for products and services in PanXCafé.
4) General increase in sales of PanXCafé products.
**Functioning:**
PanXCafé will be the issuing and distributing entity of MigasCoin (MIGAS). PanXCafé customers will be rewarded each time they purchase a PanXCafé product. There are only three products and each one will have a value in MIGAS. By collecting enough MIGAS they will be able to exchange for products in PanXCafé.
Other of my articles that may interest you.
What is PanXCafé? https://read.cash/@ramonoropeza/undertake-from-scratch-in-venezuela-panxcafe-help-me-to-promote-this-project-bccbdf04
MigasCoin (MIGAS) Birth https://read.cash/@ramonoropeza/why-should-i-accept-bitcoin-cash-in-my-business-494f3fda
Concrete ideas https://read.cash/@ramonoropeza/adoption-and-acceptance-of-bitcoin-cash-in-my-small-business-9c04ca3c
Implications of living in a Failed State in everyday life? My case as an entrepreneur.
**Since the death of former President Chavez, Venezuela has become a total institutional disaster. Currently there are: Two Heads of State (Executive Power) but living in the same National Assembly (Legislative Power). Although the other powers (Judicial, Citizen and Electoral) are in command of the Dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.**
Chavez, for better or worse, maintained a certain order in Venezuela, this is undeniable. There was already at that time a terrible corruption and inefficiency by officials of national government. However, the institutions worked and there was some confidence in them.
After his death, this changed completely. Nicolás Maduro, was extremely inept to keep the Statu quo Chávez achieved. Corruption is unleashed and the economy is plunged into an unprecedented crisis. Now Venezuela has two representatives to the world and Venezuelans are suffering the greatest economic, political and social crisis in history.
But what does this mean for a small entrepreneur like me?
**Fight against inefficiency and corruption:**
Venezuela is a country rich in natural resources and tries to distribute this wealth through public services at low cost or subsidized by the State. However, this has made for example a service such as gas (which I use to bake my bread) is very economical, almost gifted, but inefficiency and corruption mean that sums of money must be paid to gas officials or workers in US dollars or any type of extra payment to be able to access this service on a recurring basis, because the inefficiency of these same officials prevents the proper functioning of government programs. And so, with more services and products. For example, I personally do not have a passport because my procedure is "strangely" locked by a fingerprint problem, and officials "know" how to remedy this problem in exchange for money. Dealing daily with failures in the service of drinking water and electricity is one of the most frustrating experiences of this process. Normally, electric service is rationed at night, but electricity dips occur throughout the day. The water service is only in the mornings for one hour and on some days a week.
**Hyperinflation and market economy:**
Also, its economy is very atypical, because, in full hyperinflation there are products that have lowered their prices thanks to the supply and demand of products. For example, the essence of vanilla follows the rhythm of hyperinflation: its price rose 300% in a month, while the over-supply of refined sugar has caused it to drop its price by 50% since last December. This happens with several products that I use in my bakery. What has allowed me to "play" with this and keep my prices for more than a month. The use of the US Dollar as a reference for the marking of prices and salaries has also helped to give some stability to some products. Also, it has made it more profitable to import products than to produce within the country.
**Poverty and overcoming:**
This relentless crisis has affected my whole family: at first I exclude ourselves from access to many products and services that were once very everyday. It really changed our lives. Now I have relatives in many parts of Latin America and an aunt is even in the United States working on anything (Here she was a Nurse, and worked at the Central Hospital of my city but the loss of purchasing power made her run away from here). It's hard to get away from your loved ones that way and you know you do it so they are well.
I don't have a passport to go to another country and I don't want to do it either. For this reason, I have looked for a thousand ways to get ahead and now I am very motivated to build an elite bakery from below. At first I had nothing and now I sell 30 to 40 breads a day (maybe it sounds little but with this I earn more than a month's salary in any job as a cook). I do it from my house and I am trying to buy an oven and thus lay the foundations for a real bakery. The logistics for a bakery are many: baking trays, kneaders, ovens for the fermentation of breads. Many things. I do all this with my hands and a small oven that I have borrowed (A refrigerator adapted to be an oven). I have a lot of faith in achieving my goals and you will witness it.
I write this in search of financial help to boost this small business and thus be able to help our families. The goal is to reach $ 3000 and buy materials and utensils necessary to work from our small apartment. I am already grateful.
Adoption and acceptance of Bitcoin Cash in my small business.
**It is characteristic of true entrepreneurs not to surrender to the difficulties that arise in the way to the realization of a company. Starting a business is not easy and doing it here in Venezuela from scratch is a very difficult challenge.**
In a past article, I asked three questions about the adoption and acceptance of Bitcoin Cash in my small business. Thanks to @F.B. For your recommendations, I managed to install on my cell phone (ZTE A10 O.S: Android 5.1.) the Bitcoin.com wallet and the Bitcoin.com registration application (I had to delete many things).
Then, download the Electron Cash SLP wallet on my PC and create a new wallet just for the bakery. Which, I synchronized with my cell phone wallet and the Bitcoin.com registration application.
Therefore, I have everything strictly necessary to receive payments in Bitcoin Cash. As for the price of the products, it would be the following:
**Braided sweet rolls:** $ 0.20 each.
**Venezuelan Baguette (Pan Canilla):** $ 0.40 each
**Cinnamon Roll:** $ 0.40 each.
@F.B. He also recommended me to create a SLP TOKEN. I am still not sure how to implement a token regarding my products and services. What I am sure of is that I must create a TOKEN SLP if I want my clients to use Bitcoin Cash and know about cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
A token with utility in my business, would attract a lot of attention from my clients and in this way could get into them Bitcoin cash and Blockchain. I am searching the internet for experiences regarding this to adapt it to my business.
Is it possible for an SLP token to have value compared to other cryptocurrencies, including BCH? It would be very interesting to think about this since in an economy such as Venezuela (where hyperinflation has made us adopt different payment methods), it is possible that an SLP token becomes a local currency and all thanks to a bread. (Hahaha)
**I hope to be reporting more progress soon.**
Here the wallet where I will receive payments from my clients. If you want and you like my idea you can donate me to continue with this project. I write this in search of financial help to boost this small business and thus be able to help our families. The goal is to reach $ 3000 and buy materials and utensils necessary to work from our small apartment. I am already grateful.
Why should I accept Bitcoin Cash in my business?
**Being an entrepreneur in Venezuela means looking for creative solutions to combat hyperinflation. Many people use cryptocurrencies in Venezuela to escape this social reality.**
In my case, I've been writing a lot and surfing the internet to get some cryptocurrencies. However, I wonder now: How convenient is receiving Bitcoin Cash in my business? What price should I place on my products? What role will I play as a business that accepts Bitcoin Cash?
I already have time in this cryptocurrency and I have become a total enthusiast of them. I am completely sure that cash will disappear from the face of the earth and cryptocurrencies will be a very diverse large ecosystem where the most useful and strong cryptocurrencies on the market will cohabit. I love nothing more than the idea of seeing a world in which thriving economies emerge in which cryptocurrencies are not only a means for the exchange of goods and services but also a technology that drives the productive and self-sustaining activity of each remote locality of the planet. Generating wealth and well-being in all humanity.
**How convenient is receiving Bitcoin Cash in my business?**
I know many benefits of receiving Bitcoin cash as payment. The transactions are very fast and the commissions are very low (unlike Bitcoin –According to my experience-). Another point in favor of Bitcoin Cash is its good price in the crypto market, which makes it a good refuge to protect the assets of my hyperinflation business in Venezuela.
The only drawback is that my cell phone is not good enough to download a reliable wallet. And so monitor payments. I use Electron Cash to manage Bitcoin Cash wallets in my pc.
What price should I use for my products?
Here I really am not sure what price to place on my products. Well, at first the cost structure of my products are all in fiat money. So I think about converting to US dollars and then to Bitcoin Cash. However, these conversions charge a certain fee, so you should include this commission percentage in the price. I also doubt the volatility of the crypto environment, this implies that, should I set the price in US dollars and let the price in Bitcoin Cash fluctuate? I do not know.
What role will I play as a business that accepts Bitcoin Cash?
For me this is clear: it is not just about receiving, but about giving and much. If you receive Bitcoin Cash or any other cryptocurrency in your business you must be a great promoter of this technology and show that you really believe in this. The role of diffuser of the entire cryptocurrency and Blockchain environment. Being a guide in the world and bringing information to people about how cryptocurrencies and blockchain can improve their lives and society. It is not receiving money, it is transmitting a message of change and the transition to cryptocurrencies.
This is due, in my case (My business is still small), to which of my clients can pay in Bitcoin Cash? I honestly do not know any, I know that in my city there are people who have bitcoin cash and would like to exchange them for products, but the idea is to make more and more people who use this technology. Therefore, **if you accept cryptocurrencies in your business you must also be a great diffuser of cryptocurrencies.**
**I write this in search of financial help to boost this small business and thus be able to help our families. The goal is to reach $ 3000 and buy materials and utensils that are necessary to work from our small apartment. I'm already grateful.**
History of an entrepreneur in Venezuela.
**It is not easy at all to undertake from scratch anywhere in the world. But doing it in the economy with the highest inflation in history, with a total political and economic uncertainty, and in an unprecedented social crisis in its history: believe me it is not easy.**
I am a chef by profession, I really love cooking and all its processes. But I never thought of becoming one. I was a student of Systems Engineering and a degree in mathematics until 2015. From the kitchen I only liked to make cakes and desserts, besides eating a lot.
Already in those years the economic crisis was strongly attacking my family's pocket. I was at the University all day and did not have time to work. However, I had to do it. And it was hard for me to stop studying a degree in mathematics, I loved that career. Continue, only with engineering: I sold sweets and candies among my colleagues, neighbors and friends. He did it to be able to pay at least the transport. Everything was going "well" until inflation attacked my small walking warehouse and when I went to buy all the inventory, it cost twice as much. I could not do anything. At the time I had to stop studying and look for a full time job to bring food to my house.
I did many things, even a university colleague told me to start working with Humanatic (check internet calls), I was doing very well until Humanatic became more strict with its rules and I could not continue doing this. It has really been difficult to survive this crisis. There are days when you think you will end up eating from the trash or dying.
When I had nothing left to do, my cousin who is also a cook invited me to work in the same restaurant as him. It was one of fast food and my job was assistant (washing dishes and peeling many potatoes). But since entering there I have not stopped loving the kitchen. It was love at first. It is a very dynamic environment that keeps you alert during the whole day and everything should be perfect.
During that time, I started studying for a cook and I also met cryptocurrencies. I wrote a lot on Steemit and Yours. Thanks to cryptocurrencies I have been able to survive this crisis. I have not yet been able to finish my cooking studies, but they are already more than 5 years of experience that support me as a good cook.
Now I have decided to start a small bakery business from scratch. In my house. For all my neighbors. The jobs here are very poorly paid, the people who earn $ 40 a month are the best paid: and believe me there is no cook there.
I love bakery and now I am studying hard to make the best bread for my customers. I am missing many things such as: appropriate oven (I use the one in my house), kneader (I do it with my hands), baking sheets, and so a lot of other things. But, I have already done the test and in a week I earned $ 15 working every day. I will not give up. And I hope that whoever reads me and is going through a bad time does not do it either. God never fails us and bad times pass. I have had days when there was only one light bulb in my house to light at night, days that I had nothing to eat, in which I had to leave my dreams behind to not die and now I have others. Life is a long fight against hopelessness.
**I write this in search of financial help to boost this small business and thus be able to help our families. The goal is to reach $ 3000 and buy materials and utensils that are necessary to work from our small apartment. I'm already grateful.** https://read.cash/@ramonoropeza/life-is-good-b1bbdf75#i-write-this-in-search-of-financial-help-to-boost-this-small-business-and-thus-be-able-to-help-our-f
ME IN THE 2015
ME IN THE 2020
Life is Good.
Throughout my life I have realized that nothing is forever and everything is circumstantial. There are so many difficult moments in our lives that make us fall into the most terrifying emotions. And we are not aware that the only thing that has no solution in this life is death.
I am a chef and this year I quit my job in a restaurant with a high reputation in my city. I was not paid enough to live and in Venezuela it is difficult for someone to do it. Hyperinflation ends any remuneration for work done, so the life of Venezuelan workers becomes increasingly precarious and the country's productive apparatus fades.
The little strength there is is that of entrepreneurs, many, self-employed in their own businesses, allow them to subsist in this economic and social vortex that Venezuela is living.
I have become one. For me it was very frustrating to be able to eat at work while my 63-year-old mother and my brother barely ate at my house, because the salary fades the same day it was collected.
With much effort, together with two friends, we started a bakery in our house. It has been very difficult but we don't give up. I have had to struggle between not having money for myself and my family, while I am buying (with the bakery money) the necessary material to continue making bread.
Read news and hear the madnesses of Nicolas Maduro demotivate the young people we want to get by our own means. The thought about whether the only way out of this humanitarian crisis is really having to go somewhere else is very recurrent. It's a nightmare.
Because it is not just not having to eat sometimes, it is also not having a good transport system and wasting so much time on old buses, it is also that electricity is suspended every day without schedule or warning, it is also to see that you cannot buy the medicines to your mother to complete her thyroid treatment.
It is very difficult not to enter despair, depression or anxiety when you think about all this, but that is the life we have lived. And every morning I get up to look for better luck. We have to fight for our dreams and goals every day with a lot of faith that God is with us. Life is good.
I write this in search of financial help to boost this small business and thus be able to help our families. The goal is to reach $ 3000 and buy materials and utensils that are necessary to work from our small apartment. I'm already grateful.
2020: A Year for fly.
Greetings to the entire crypto community that reads me, I am very grateful for all the support I have obtained this year from you. Without a doubt, they have been part of building the honest money route.
And to survive in Venezuela you not only have to work 15 hours a day, you must also have at least two jobs to be able to eat something at home. It's really hard to realize that you work so much just to eat, you can't buy any clothes, nothing to go to the movies or go out to the park and buy an ice cream. Work and work to eat only.
For this year 2020, I dream of having my own business and thus obtain better economic income. The year 2019, was a very strong year for all Venezuelans, a whole month without electric service, the highest hyperinflation in history. Starting a business of your own is brave, and I would like to start mine.
Particularly, I learned a lot this year: I was in four different jobs, I did a bakery course. Really, I feel it is time to start working on my own. I have the project to start my own bakery. Completely from scratch. If you can help me realize this great dream, I will be very grateful.
I really hope you can help me. I want so much to be free, the lack of money, to see my family spend so many needs and without being able to do anything, it makes me feel helpless, very bad. It depresses and saddens me. I wish with all my soul to get out of the hole. I am a hardworking man who loves cooking. Thanks for all the support so far.
Life as a constant struggle against despair.
Today I am going through a really difficult time for me. They may not be serious like what someone else may be living, but **the pain and emotions are not transferable**. Pain and suffering is so personal, each person can only fight so that emotions and circumstances do not crumble you.
I am sure that there are people with worse situations than mine, but exactly their sufferings are not mine, nor my pain is theirs. I am also sure that neither they wanted to be in my place nor I in theirs.
But those of us who love life, that of ourselves and that of our families, have something in common: hope. Maybe you just have confidence in yourself to get ahead, maybe you are a deep believer of God and trust him to follow your path through life. And there is hope, it doesn't go away, you don't lose struggles every day so you don't lose it. You do it with love, with love for you and yours. In compression of life and the world. Life is as it is, as is the world: we cannot change it, but we can contribute with a grain of sand so that this is a better one for those around. For ever and ever this is so. And it is something we learn with the blows that life and the world gives us.
Throughout my life I have been through depressions (the most horrible, well, I get terrible thoughts of suicide) until I manage to overcome them day after day of meditation, exercises and cooking. I meditate on life and love for my family. I exercise skipping the rope (I love skipping the rope) and cook with passion for myself and my family and friends.
I know what I will get out of this bad moment that I am going through. If you are in a similar situation, I encourage you to think and meditate, exercise and follow your passions. Do not give up life is to live it: and in it there are sufferings and joy, love and hate. Come on, if you think about it, it's fun and what makes you feel alive when everything has happened and only memories remain. Therefore, in each battle against despair I invite you to be victorious.
Writing my emotions and thoughts also helps me a lot in my self-therapy. I hope to motivate others to feel better and think better about their lives. Also, I am looking to raise money to start my little bakery from home and thus get out of so many economic problems that I am going through. If you have any work for me in which I can help you or you simply want to donate to me, I will be very grateful.
Undertake from scratch in Venezuela: PanXCafe | HELP ME TO PROMOTE THIS PROJECT.
Starting a business should not be easy anywhere in the world, and do it from scratch much less. But doing it in the country with the highest hyperinflation in the economic history of the planet, with a high index of product shortages and general impoverishment of the nation, I tell you: it is truly brave.
I have decided to undertake once and for all, because if not, I would be doomed. Condemned to survive with a salary that is not enough at all because every three days any product is worth double and my salary remains the same. Therefore, condemned to be a true slave of mediocrity.
It is that, really, undertaking in Venezuela is a matter of survival, because being a self-employed person also does not bring many luxuries, you only live what is necessary and keep the business bypassing the attacks of hyperinflation with many tricks.
PanXCafé: A project from the heart.
I am a young cook, I came here for all those turns that life gives, and that's how I discovered a passion. Also, I consider myself a maker, I love being active doing any type of task. However, I am a little hesitant when choosing what to do first. For which I thank God, that in those turns of life I met a woman who has given the necessary impulse to carry out this project.
In Venezuela a bakery movement is emerging that aims to recover the bakery taken away by the crisis caused by the current government, because, before it was very common to go to a bakery at 6 in the afternoon and buy “French bread” (but the Venezuelan) to dinner, go for a "piñitas" (a type of sweet bread) for coffee at 4 in the afternoon, or a good Venezuelan "canillas" (baguettes). These delicacies have disappeared from the menu of ordinary Venezuelans, both because of the shortage of wheat flour and its high prices.
Currently, bakeries in Venezuela are picking up the pace of production, because the number of breads you can buy is no longer rationed as it once happened. But, this rhythm has not been accompanied by maintaining the tradition of Venezuelan bread. This is an industrial bread, knows well that it lacks identity.
That's where PanXCafé comes in, we want to recover with that other number of Venezuelan artisanal bakers to recover the identity of bread in the palates of short-memory Venezuelans and so that those who have not forgotten stop feeling nostalgic. Thus, we are from a small apartment, with a homemade oven and with our hands in the dough we make traditional and tipic Venezuelan bread for Venezuelan palates.
**I come to ask you if you want to help us fulfill this dream, this undertaking that is increasingly taking shape. Our goal is $ 3000. Really, we are putting all our heart and hope. The idea is to recover the Venezuelan bakery that hyperinflation has banned so many Venezuelans. That is the idea, to make traditional Venezuelan artisanal bread.**
Help me bake future
My name is Ramón Oropeza, I am from Venezuela and I am a chef. I love to make bread and now I dedicate myself to the bakery. I try to learn about this trade every day. And I practice bakery techniques with the tools I have available.
***Rollos de pan de jamón para la cena de fin de año en mi último trabajo.***
I am a dreamer, they also know me for being altruistic. I like to help people without looking for more reward than being useful. My Faith in God grows as my difficulties increase, well, I know that he is never to fail me.
My living conditions are not ideal, I really have so many economic problems that lead to poor diet and poverty. But, God is with me and nothing will be missing. Amen. That is why I use the resources that I can take advantage of in the Venezuelan economy such as practically free services (but of poor quality) such as the internet. I spent a week without the service, well, this one fell off.
***Kneading from my house***
I am starting a small bakery from my house, and despite many obstacles I have managed to get here. I am trying to collect $ 3,000 to boost this business. I do not want to live in poverty. I do not deserve it. To look for a job in a kitchen or a bakery is to be condemned to misery here in Venezuela. Nor can I leave the country, well, my mother needs me and I don't have a passport either and the process to acquire it is long and expensive. In a future dream of being able to help Venezuelan children and their families by bringing to the schools a nutritious bread to complement their diet, since in Venezuela child malnutrition grows every day and with it the school dropout.
But how can you help more people being in the same or worse situation than them? I know I will make it, I know it will be soon. Unfortunately, I have fallen into strong depressions and anxieties because of the difficult economic situation I am going through. I have left them. You will witness my triumphs and you will be triumphant with me. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are and will be part of everything and Venezuela will also be part of this.
***Venezuelan short fermentation baguette "Canilla".***
If you can collaborate with me in some way I will be very grateful. You can offer me a job in which I can help you and you pay me. You can donate to me in cryptocurrency you want. You can give me some word of encouragement and suggest some idea to get extra money. I will always be very grateful.
I don't want to complain about the problems, I want to end them. If you are in a situation like mine I encourage you, we will leave this and better times will come. It is part of life to go through such situations. Do not faint. Always seek to be the best version of you. Recover and work every day to be a better person in all aspects: professional, family and social. Life is a trip, Enjoy it!
***Braided sweet rolls (my neighbors' favorites)***
@ramonoropeza
