{"id":8530,"date":"2022-11-13T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2022-11-13T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:11:11","slug":"how-to-build-a-bitcoin-beach-advice-from-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=8530","title":{"rendered":"How to build a Bitcoin Beach: Advice from the pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"crypto\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script>\n<p>How does one build a Bitcoin (BTC) community? How to start? Where to begin? And what are the best practices?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cointelegraph spoke to Bitcoin community builders around the world to shed light on a growing phenomenon in the Bitcoin world. <\/p>\n<p>From Indonesia to South Africa to El Salvador and the Congo, circular-based Bitcoin economies and community projects have sprung up across the globe. Cointelegraph asked the successful community-focused Bitcoiners how to kickstart a Bitcoin circular economy and what advice they\u2019d lend to enthusiasts looking to replicate the success of projects like Bitcoin Beach, El Zonte. <\/p>\n<p><em>Using Bitcoin at Bitcoin Beach. Source: Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For Bitcoin community project leader Mike Peterson, it starts with Lightning. Peterson pioneered the Bitcoin Beach project in the sleepy surf town of El Zonte, El Salvador. The circular economy energized an entire nation and eventually led to El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021. Peterson told Cointelegraph:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to be using lightning for for people to be transacting and to build a circular economy. It really needs to be built on lightning. [..] You need to get people transacting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The layer-2 Lightning Network is a payments solution built on top of Bitcoin. In El Salvador, El Chivo is among the most popular Lightning-enabled Bitcoin wallets, although it has experienced issues since its rollout. Across the rest of the world, Bitcoin enthusiasts use Wallet of Satoshi, Muun Wallet, CoinCorner or Blue Wallet to instantly transact with one another. Peterson continued:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you get them making that first transaction and they see how easy it is and that they\u2019ve actually sent value from one person to another in like a second time for hardly almost no fees, that\u2019s what the light bulb goes off and they realize the value that that has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, leading with Lightning helps newbies realize that Bitcoin can be easy and even fun. In the Isle of Man, where there is a budding Bitcoin community, United Kingdom-based exchange CoinCorner has found inventive ways to demonstrate the Lightning Network.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bitcoin Ekasi Project next to Mossel Bay, South Africa. Source: Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hermann Vivier, founder of Bitcoin Ekasi in the Western Cape of South Africa, shared a few tricks to establishing a Bitcoin economy. First, while it\u2019s important to \u201cput one foot in front of the other,\u201d and \u201cjust start,\u201d he said, try to see if there\u2019s a preexisting community to tap into:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had something that that was already existing and we built the Bitcoin community on top of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin Ekasi is a township project that keeps kids away from gangs in school and among South Africa\u2019s Atlantic waves, where they learn lifeguarding and surf skills. Vivier teaches Bitcoin as another element of the kids\u2019 education.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Recent:\u00a0What can blockchain do for increasing human longevity?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Vivier also shared that it\u2019s important to keep it simple. Stick to Bitcoin, he joked. His hours of labor and love given to this community project have turned him into a \u201cBitcoin maximalist,\u201d as it helps in avoiding the risk of scams in crypto, while blockchain buzzwords can get in the way of making progress: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say 100% focus on Bitcoin only. And if there was something better than Bitcoin out there, then that&#8217;s what you should focus on. But at the moment Bitcoin is where it\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nourou, founder of Bitcoin Senegal, a community-led Bitcoin project in West Africa, told Cointelegraph, \u201cYou cannot create a community if you aren\u2019t capable of answering people\u2019s questions\u2013and that requires a wide range of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iman Yudha, who leads a group of crypto and Bitcoin enthusiasts in Indonesia, agrees. He told Cointelegraph that it\u2019s important to \u201cGet educated first\u2013before you make any decisions. That&#8217;s my personal opinion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>After establishing a solid basis of foundational knowledge about Bitcoin, crypto and security. Nourou recommends to start talking about Bitcoin with close relations: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStart with the family if you can&#8217;t convince your mother, your brother, your sister, the cousins, and so on, it\u2019s a bad start.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He notes that the following step varies depending on the culture, business practice and environment. Over in Senegal, \u201cit is the wealthiest who roughly define fashion, who define trends. So people tend to copy them.\u201d It\u2019s for that reason that Nourou tried to target his Bitcoin communication to those communities first. Incidentally, Nourou is hosting West Africa\u2019s first major Bitcoin conference, Dakar Bitcoin Days, on Dec. 2 in West Africa\u2019s largest theater.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cointelegraph attended Dakar, Senegal&#8217;s first ever Bitcoin meetup in 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lukas, a co-founder of Global Bitcoin Fest \u2014 which holds marathon Twitter Spaces for people all around the world \u2014 again encourages Bitcoin enthusiasts to focus on the people. It can be \u201clonely\u201d in the land of Bitcoin, he told Cointelegraph, so finding a team with shared values can spur things along. He shared an example:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a conversation that I&#8217;ve had recently with two guys in Zimbabwe. They want to kickstart a [project] there. He wanted to do it, but he was alone. [&#8230;] Then he found Metamorphoses, another great maxi, and now they&#8217;re forming a team \u2014 and the energy is completely different now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yudha chimed in, sharing that energy and enthusiasm are critical, and community builders should avoid being \u201ctoxic\u201d where possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Recent:\u00a0FTX collapse: The crypto industry\u2019s Lehman Brothers moment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In short, these Bitcoin pioneers suggest finding like-minded individuals to work with, starting small, taking advantage of existing communities, knowing and understanding the subject matter and not overstretching. The simplest way to do this is to focus on Bitcoin and Bitcoin only. And to get people interested and transacting, get people using the Lightning Network because that\u2019s what gives people their own light bulb moment.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"bitcoin\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/how-to-build-a-bitcoin-beach-advice-from-the-pros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one build a Bitcoin (BTC) community? How to start? Where to begin? And what are the best practices?\u00a0 Cointelegraph spoke to Bitcoin community builders around the world to shed light on a growing phenomenon in the Bitcoin world. 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