Rod Ambrissi on community building for Dash in Latin America

0:00I'm Jay Addison from a vincentio for investmentpitch media and FinTech news network today on blockchain interviews broad and brisée youtuber from – brazil rob is that right hi Jay how you doing these for having me here I'm doing great how are you doing today I'm good it's a good opportunity to talk to you guys I'm a big fan of your of your show including with Ashton it's

0:23always a good source of information for me as well as a youtuber yeah that's fantastic thank you very much now rod how long have you been involved with the dash community with the dash community a little over one year I got into a TV show i youtuber that i was a big fan call Amanda B Johnson she had a YouTube channel called the daily decrypt talking about crypto I was

0:47a big fan of her you know short to 5-10 minutes videos every week she ended up moving to a specific YouTube channel called dash detail once she got funded by the dash community and I thought it was actually really interesting to you know ask for funds and be sponsored by – that's actually how I learned more about dash at the same time I was about

1:10to leave a job that literally I walk away from a job that I was I hated that was working at a cubicle and I was already a video producer a broadcast technician for many years and I'm like you know what I think I can do something like that in Portuguese in my language for Brazil I ended up contacting her she helped me create a proposal I present the – community

1:31he went for voting and today the Treasury from the – digital cash network funds my channel to create content in Portuguese for the Brazilian market well that's fantastic you know – I know has one of the largest and strongest communities of any of the blockchain projects out there do you think there's another blockchain project that has as large or stronger community or maybe

1:54what are your thoughts on that well I'm not because I mean the – community but I am impressed as well how the – community's being so good to me and to other business leaders and then content creators that I met around the word every time I go to a conference or to events someone from the – community that I never met before especially masternodes they like

2:16man I love your videos now sometimes I do create content in English so they do – the international community can know what's happening in Latin America and South America and it's always like hey let's sit down let's let me buy you a beer let's talk you've being such a good source of information you'd be helping a lot and I see how well the – community

2:38in Latin America has been working extremely well in Africa as well there's tons of meetups off of – community members in Africa and I also got to know some people from the Bitcoin cash community from Bitcoin intercom they're also a very strong community but so far – it has nothing around like – digital cash community that I've ever seen they're very United and they always

3:01helping each other no matter what that's fantastic so you are the producer of a cryptocurrency documentary based on – what was the goal behind that well there was absolutely no goal or intent to create a documentary – even is well at the community from there which I got to know them a couple months back we exchanged information how they're producing videos how they're creating

3:24content how they're organizing meetups and conference windra becoming friends so the – community oh Jenny Alcala from – Venezuela invited me to go to Venezuela she's like well you'll be easier for you to get into the country you're a Latino you have a Brazilian passport if you want to come over and host a lecture for us you know talk about – Brazil talk about economy and

3:46history of money it's kind of my speciality so I said yes of course I love to go to Venezuela you know God my ticket and in my head I was planning to do some sort of a video log like a 5-10 minutes video say hey everybody I'm going to Venezuela for a week you know it's gonna be interesting nobody wants to go there everybody thinks there's a dictator running the

4:04country the crowd the country's closed so I started since the beginning once I bought my ticket paying with – at cheaper calm I started recording already my trip to Panama so on the second day she was already showing me so many achievements from the – Venezuela community because the country is going through such a economic a storm that I was like wow you guys

4:31created all these in less than one year so I started recording everything that I possibly could record from meetings from interviews taking pictures and I get everything actually with my phone without with an iPhone AIDS that's God no no no video gear nothing and I've started making notes what I'm gonna talk what I'm gonna speech how my speech gotta be I got back one week

4:53later I pay my plane ticket breakfast lunch and dinner hotel for seven days everything with – no cash there's over 800 business in Venezuela today accepting – well that's pretty impressive and I had so much footage I'm like we know what I'm not gonna make a video log I'm gonna put together a documentary and I actually won I rate it I never narrated La cometa in English so

5:14I don't have an English flow so there is there's some some parts that once I hear my comment like so is it your Portuguese or both there is one version in English and there's also one version in Portuguese I'm also working on version in Spanish and someone's gonna send me the voice over there recording French as well I'm gonna add them in French as well and I

5:35just want to show the international community there is a cryptic wrist revolution already happening in Venezuela because the economy that the devaluation of the believer it's over a thousand percent just in this year you know every day the prices are going up the government has been printing more and more money they are changing the name of the bills and the name of the

6:00the money they're cutting three zeros and that's one of the many reasons why I was invited by the deaf community to go there the Venezuela community because Brazil did exactly the same thing during the eighties seven times Wow yes we became a specialist in money because in 15 years we had six types of money with different names different colors and different values the government

6:23manipulated the economy for a really long time and with that I created a lecture talking about the history of money and the consequences Brazil had it we even had a president in Brazil for example to confiscate people's money from inside their bank accounts saying everybody starting tomorrow you're not allowed use your money the government is gonna use all your money to pay our bills and

6:44we're gonna pay you back slowly in 18 months you know that it proves that the danger of a centralized organization and once I put together the documentary you know I saw Michael it's going down the same road that Brazil did it and the documentary is being a success the – community absolutely loved I had so many requests to talk on TV shows and a

7:09newspaper about the documentary because not a lot of people first of all can get into Venezuela it's very restricted regarding a few passports so for Brazil for having good relations with Venezuela and for me being Latino have a president that sport was quite easy but showing how the script of Chris revolution already started over there and people are using

7:30cryptocurrency not to trade and buy low and sell high they're using to protect the smallest amount of their salary that they sell their work labor that they sell on a daily basis it makes sense so do you see the economies of Brazil and Latin America needing cryptocurrency as an alternative to the currencies that are here now oh definitely Brazil at the moment it's

7:55the economy is very strong is doing quite well comparing to other Latin American countries Venezuela it is the perfect storm to implement cryptocurrency – is spread – is more popular tent and Bitcoin in Venezuela because of the community okay and the Treasury is being sponsoring meetups and conference and events over there so it became more popular Argentina could be a

8:19next possibility just this year just yesterday Argentina raise interest rates to forty five percent a year so that it's a number that's it's it's insane the devaluation of their gentleness as well so they cut the country is diving to an economic collapse Venezuela is already there we also have a Colombia that could be a possibility soon so I see Latin America as one of the first

8:45areas on the globe among with Africa to implement cryptocurrency in a mass scale I'm not expecting Norway to make an announcement saying they gotta implement crypto or Belgian or Holland you know those countries they're using crypto as investment to duplicate and to maintain their wealth third-world countries are using crypto you know in order to

9:08bypass the government and protect their small amount of money that they make yeah now rod how can others get involved in this initiative or even support the cause well if you if you take a look on the documentary on the playlist over there's the links for – venezuela they have a program one of the great ideas that they had over there is instead of doing airdrop and literally

9:32giving two three dollars to people for free to experience how to script the currency what they did was very actually very genius very interesting they partnered with about twelve thirteen social institutions that promotes either feeling people on the street child abuse health care problems so those nonprofit organizations event as well so what they

9:57do is every time they retained everybody that attend an event get a few dollars as a first time user you know – how to download a cryptic wallet you receive – but at the same time they're asked to hey now you can actually make a transaction and send – just choose one of those institutions so you can learn how to send funds to someone so at the same time they are learning how to

10:21download the receive funds and send funds on their wallet they're actually supporting those social projects so there's also the QR code for all those projects over there's the contact information for – Venezuela and of course if you know how – works – is a is a self-sustained cryptocurrency where it's the totally opposite of an IC o—- wire i SEOs are desperate looking for

10:46money to sustain their ideas – has money available for you to sponsor idea as long as of course this brings value back to the community and to the cryptocurrency – ecosystem as well right how does somebody get a – wallet you can download from the Google store or the Apple Store as well take their – you search for – – wallet it's available also for desktop

11:13the best way to you to download a – wallet is only from the official – website which is – org over there you have all the information if I'm not wrong I think it's translated into I think nine different languages it is in English so just click on the links inside that page never download a wallet from some other link that you never heard about it before that's actually

11:35for any cryptocurrency okay so for our viewers that are on Reuters insider Financial Network how would they get to watch your documentary they can actually a search for – dinero digital and I'm sure you can actually leave the link as well it straight to the documentary the English version it's gotta land on my YouTube page my YouTube page is focus in

11:56Portuguese for the Brazilian market so 95% of my videos are in Portuguese but I do have a playlist called interviews in English that I bring the latest information from Brazil in Latin America – the word in English for them to see to hear and to see what's happening in Latin America where the cryptic revolution already started rodham brisée youtuber and – supporter – really sounds

12:25like a fantastic project I appreciate you being on the show today and I think what we should do is do a follow-up in the coming weeks because I think you guys have got some real motivation I'd like to see how it rolls out over the next coming years even thanks for being ready today right anytime Jai thank you very much for having me thanks kindly bye bye

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