Category: BUIDLing

A new Bitcoin-Cash-accepting merchant is signed, photos on Twitter, listing on Marco Coino, bam, #WINNING, am I right? Sorry, no. After 2 years of doing crypto mass adoption in Latin America, I have seen this situation repeated so many times it gives me a migraine.

I’ve gotten this question a few times and it is probably best I address it in public once and for all. Comments will be open for a short time so that those who do not share my narrative may leave theirs. I created and operated a very successful proposal in the Dash treasury system for […]

We need more people around here. Sure, Bitcoin Cash runs on code. We need quality code that creates the right financial incentives and makes the game theory work. And hashrate. But then what? We need people. That peer to peer thing in the whitepaper means person to person, after all.

The first thing a new crypto user always asks me when they get some crypto is, “What the heck can I do with this stuff? The answer is merchant adoption. We have to have merchants who accept Bitcoin Cash for goods and services that are in demand. Literally everything is merchant adoption because if you […]

This site is now BUIDL Daily, where we are going to focus on building the crypto ecosystem, be it through partnerships, working for others, startups, ad hoc projects, whatever it takes. A key part of making accelerated progress is building a team. For that, you need constant communication. So I’ll be livestreaming every weekday morning […]

After 16 months at the coalface and with on-the-ground experience in 8 nations on 3 continents, we at Dash Latam have learned firsthand what it takes to get crypto mass adoption off the ground in X or Y place. Every city or country has its idiosyncrasies, but from Porto Alegre, Brazil to Quito, Ecuador and […]

There is an idea floating around that somehow merchant adoption is not a good use of our time. It’s not a good way to get people using Dash. We need integrations. We need something. But not merchant adoption.

There is an opportunity in the cryptocurrency space for those of us who want to 10x cryptocurrency adoption in the real world for real people solving real problems.

Executive Summary Dash digital cash is a top-20 cryptocurrency with more than 5 years of development and many technological innovations and important integrations under its belt. Its many Dash-funded organizations (DFOs) are staffed with qualified and committed people. But Dash lacks a strategic vision. Dash lacks a strong brand, it lacks a story, a cause, […]