Emmanuel Mangalashi
Emmanuel is one of the founding members of Bitcoin for Fairness in Lusaka, Zambia. He is co-organizing regular meetups in the capital city Lusaka and doing educational work with university students.
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Preaching to the choir is a regular occurance in the bitcoin ecosystem. On the other hand, mass adoption is the only way for bitcoin to truly fulfill its purpose. The onus is on us as bitcoiners to reach out to the masses - Create awareness, ignite interest & desire, and handhold people to the fundamentals of money, value, and the promise of bitcoin.
Stay humble, stack sats is not enough. The stack needs to get deployed. Used in day-to-day life. People need to want to use bitcoin.
Effective community building is a powerful means to spark this want. What has worked for us as we built Bitcoin4India is to create a laidback environment, have a lose agenda for meetups, while ensuring that we organized many meetups. Behind the scenes, using all the tools available to us, and preferred by people, to connect with one another.
In essence, how to create and sustain momentum while building a community, with an aim to welcome no-coiners into our fold is what I aim to talk about.
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