BlockPay update; Venezuela, 44 languages, 52 people...
Just a quick update. BlockPay v1.0.1 is just about done and then I will feel comfortable enough to publish it in the app stores. Next week will probably be the official announcement here on steemit of course, so please Follow my blog for occasional updates.
Venezuela.. Wow, what a mess. I have been watching the (alternative) news about Venezuela. Venezuelans are literally starving to death. It will be at least a year before they can grow enough of their own food, and money flow with that country has come to a halt. My point here is this... Venezuela NEEDS a BlockPay Ambassador and FAST (just email Rodrigo at BlockPay.ch). If merchants and citizens start transacting in Smartcoins, then the goods and services to/from Venezuela can kick-in that SAME-DAY.
"I've come to the conclusion that BlockPay can literally help save lives ... man it's totally free, and it's in 44 languages."
BlockPay can save lives. It's not hard to show merchants the BlockPay app.. it enables any merchant to accept one or more digital currencies at Zero Cost. STEEM, bitUSD, bitARS, bitCAD, bitEUR, bitCNY and many more:
#1 Venezuelans need a wallet:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bitsharesmunich.smartcoinswallet or:
http://bitsharesmunich.store.aptoide.com/app/market/de.bitsharesmunich.smartcoinswallet/185/19996822/Smartcoins+Wallet
#2 After they have a wallet, then the merchants just need to start using BlockPay (even an android phone will work). Rodrigo at BlockPay.ch will help, but there REALLY needs to be a local BlockPay Ambassador in Venezuela that wants to earn a living helping the merchants get the free app, and get online.
Five more reasons to become an Ambassador:
https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@kencode/here-s-another-5-reasons-to-get-blockpay-out-there
As of today (Aug 10th), there are 52 BlockPay Ambassadors in 28 countries:
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean Islands, Central America, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Greece, Honduras, India, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine and USA. ...Venezuela??
Please Upvote and Share - the Banksters can't kill BlockPay!
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About Venezuela, Cryptobuyer.io is the first legal entity registered to use digital assets and blockchain in Venezuela, also has a large list of partners and the legal support of the Bitcoin Foundation of Venezuela www.bitcoinvenezuela.org
Please contact me for more info if you want to become an ambassador in Venezuela!
[email protected]
That's good news! Thank you Rodrigo!
@jasonstaggers @rnobrega
i tried to contact him via gmail regarding a translation error that i saw in the wallet. couldn't..
edit* the image is too small. here's the message:
[email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: 3848895 DNS type 'mx' lookup of bitsharesmunich.de responded with code NXDOMAIN
Domain name not found: bitsharesmunich.de
Try: [email protected] (the hyphen was missing)
If you see translation errors in the wallet, see if they have been fixed already via the correct "values" folder here:
https://github.com/kenCode-de/smartcoins-wallet/tree/master/app/src/main/res
good information
I wish you the best of luck with BlockPay. If you need me to tweet something to Dashers, let me know! Followed.
Definitely @taoofsatoshi we need all the help we can get. Thank You soooo much!!!
You bet! Cheers, Ken!
Im also looking forward to your launch, let's hope it goes smoothly
How about this?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/dash-accepted-here-blockpay-pos-system-integrates-with-dash
Done! (Actually an hour ago ;-) ), and I did my own article: https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@taoofsatoshi/amid-evolution-development-dash-gains-two-integrations
Cheers! You have an ally in me. Anything for adoption of crypto, not just Dash. Dash will rise by its own means.
I know it will, Dash rocks!
A small token of my appreciation, no thank you necessary:
https://steemit.com/@taoofsatoshi/transfers
Thank you @taoofsatoshi !! :)
Go BlockPay!
Wow, thanks! Appreciated.
Do you have contacts in Venezuela? I have a friend who lived there. He may know some quality people who could be a local block pay ambassador there. Should I reach out to him?
It never hurts to reach out. What @rnobrega is saying below though is scary. Rodrigo knows the most about the BlockPay Ambassador Program, have your friend contact him please, those guys can speak in Spanish too if desired.
Will do! What @rnobrega shared is really upsetting and makes me angry.
I agree, but we need to direct our anger as energy into the implementation of solutions that will render the evil obsolete. This is why BlockPay is free, and in 44 languages. I want it to help save as many people as possible, and at the same time rendering the current Bilderberger run fiat monetary system obsolete.
Fighting is not necessary if we show folks how easy it is to just stop buying into the current system altogether.
My goal is to convince President Nicolás Maduro we are on the same side with this. Let's see how far I can get. :) Wish me luck. Cryptocurrency is really the logical next step in the Revolución bolivariana. Get Venezuela to change tack on the neocons currently engaged in covert war against her, and see what happens.
This is all new to me...I'm amazed - brilliant work, all the best with it - Consider yourself followed!
Anything is better than bolivares right now.
I'm 100% behind Blockpay it is also great for my Bitshares investment. I have contacted the team and hoping to bring Blockpay to New Zealand!
@kencode i'm from Venezuela, i have experience in the bitcoin world as a trader, but the thing is that accepting payments in crypto could get merchs into jail. look at this site http://www.bitven.com/ this is the tool we use to calculate the price of the bitcoin in our country, see the USD also? well, since 2003 it is ilegal to sell or buy USD freely, mining bitcoin is sorta illegal too, and im sure that if merchs start accepting crypto as payments, that will be punished too. The government doesn't want people to stay out of poverty, in fact the want the people to be poor to make them government dependant.
I really don't know what to say. I think when people want help bad enough though, and the police are busy trying to hold back the looters and criminals it will get easier much faster to try new things. Their government is probably desperate for cash too, just like the citizens.
If pulling your phone out of your pocket is that dangerous though, jeez I don't know what we can do to help them. Ideas?
Maybe air-drop some flyers or something. We could even have a Steemit fundraiser to hire a helicopter pilot for a day and he dumps handfulls of little paper flyers out the window. I don't know, but I want to help these people. I have kids too man and I see their little faces on youtube and it just tears me up, we have to do something and FAST.
Airdropping cash would be pointless, but airdropping little paper flyers with a download link on it would wake a lot of people up really fast, the news would spread like wildfire and there is no way they could stop that kind of free speech.
These of course are just my personal opinions and ideas of things that could be done to save lives.
You have something great here, but unfortunately it won't be appreciated in my country, i'm going to share your app the the Bitcoin Venezuela group on FB, it has around 7k members. Also if you could desing a cool flyer, i can translate it, upload to the group and give copies around my city, i do believe in this.
Hmm, well I am no designer that's for sure. Here are the primary points though:
https://steemit.com/steem/@kencode/ann-blockpay-point-of-sale-system-for-all-digital-currencies
If you can get the Bitcoin community interested there, get them blogging about it, I would be happy to donate you some steem dollars for your efforts too. MUCH appreciated thank youuu!
have to add that i've been trying to get people into bitcoin since 2014, but nothing works, people here is all about whats trending and listening to reggaeton music. Pretty ignorant when in comes to technology things, they only use their phones to take pictures and do instagram. and besides with the high crime rate, you can get killed if you take out your phone of your pocket
Agreed with you @rnobrega, sorry to say this but the first reason of what is happening here in venezuela is the same people, a very large group of ignorants who take this goverment to the power, when i try to talk to someone something about the crypto world almost everyone that i try just look at me like i was a crazy guy. we are now paying the errors of years of bad education. i can´t get out of venezuela i have two kids and wife, we work for our own count, repairing computers, the crypto really help us in this situation but is sad to see other people with so hungry and when you try to explain how the crypto can help, they just think "this couple is crazy".
Same in Ecuador too. Illegal for local offline transactions. :P
What a sad state of affairs and should ring a huge alarm to all good citizens around the world. Everyone is being played and exploited and we need more and more technology and innovation that enables all good citizens to prosper and thrive, despite the powers that be.
This is so exciting! Thanks a bunch for the update, dedication and hard work. All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
THIS IS AWESOMEEE :)