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More than 40 people attended for the talk at the event Bitcoin Tour in Chaco and Corrientes.Joel believes that the ideology of Bitcoin can teach you how to the argentines on the transparency.The consolidation of spaces for education has become one of the objectives of the ecosystem Bitcoin, work carried out by the NGO Bitcoin Argentina. This institution of the south, founded in the year 2013, had been held in their facilities, meetups, conferences, and specialized courses in the blockchain.In the search to generate spaces where people can speak about Bitcoin, the foundation created the Bitcoin Tour. An event that has the goal to be in the 23 provinces of Argentina, celebrating talks about Bitcoin in companies and universities of the region. Technical aspects, adoption of systems of payments and tax information are some of the topics base of the initiative.In the week of the 12th and the 13th of September was held in the provinces of Chaco and Corrientes, an edition of the Bitcoin Tour. The National Technological University (UTN), Universidad de la Cuenca de Plata, the Polo (IT) Currents, and the Club of entrepreneurs were some of the institutions that participated in this event. Also, businesses and places of coworking lent their facilities for the realization of workshops and talks on the technologies blockchain.Breaking News spoke with Joel Nicolas Fernandez, an organizer of the Bitcoin Tour in Chaco and Corrientes, who told us details about this initiative. Fernandez spoke about the scope of Bitcoin Tour in the northwest of Argentina, their goals for the future and upcoming activities of the organization.
What is the Bitcoin Tour?
Bitcoin Tour is an event that is coordinated from the year 2017 with its first edition held in the province of Santa Fe, noted Joel. The activity was originally created by Daiana Gómez, coordinator of centralization of the NGO Bitcoin Argentina, and supported by the executive director of this organization, Rodolfo Andragnes.The activity allows you to open a space where they can talk about bitcoin or to make activities fun for the enthusiasts, said Joel Fernandez. Also, one of their main goals is to create connections between experts, developers and institutions.
The goal of Bitcoin Tour mainly is to generate connections with educational institutions-universities or high schools, both public and private; as well as the government institutions if it were to give the possibility or private companies that are available.Joel Fernandez, organizer of the Bitcoin Tour
The experience of the meetup is one of the most important approaches of the Bitcoin Tour, said the organizer. The possibility that people from different parts of the province to know each other, as well as to propose personal projects for the ecosystem is one of the more immediate benefits of the activity.The attendance at the Bitcoin Tour this 2019 was higher than expected, managing to convene more than 40 persons per room. Source: NGO Bitcoin ArgentinaTodo those interested in coordinating a community bitcoiner in your province can form their own edition of the Bitcoin Tour. Joel pointed out that users should only have access to the web page of the NGO Bitcoin Argentina or to the social networks of the organization and send a formal request to carry out the event in any region of Argentina.
How was it in Corrientes and Chaco?
Joel Fernandez said that this edition of the Bitcoin Tour in 2019 was conducted in the provinces of Corrientes, and Chaco due to the arrangement of hosts and local organizers. The objective of this event was to support the work and initiatives of the province, as well as build connections with universities.The Bitcoin Tour also coincided with the inauguration of the headquarters of NGOS, Bitcoin Argentina in Chaco. The office is located in the premises of the NEA, located in the City of Resistencia, Salta 720. The representative noted that this new facility offers the community bitcoiner argentina a node more for education, as well as a space for the meeting.
The community bitcoiner in these provinces (Chaco and Corrientes) is more reduced, are not as Buenos Aires or Cordoba. What I do, is that they are quite active, who are within the organization, collaborating within the NEA are pretty committed (…). There are also people in the community who have been able to make purchases with bitcoin, bicycles, cell phones. For example, to me it has past that I have paid jobs with bitcoins.Joel Fernandez, organizer of the Bitcoin Tour
The talks of the past 12 and 13 September were mostly focused on the legal aspect and taxation of the cryptocurrencies in Argentina. However, it was also blew a technical information on the operation of Bitcoin. Ricardo Miura, tax attorney and representative of NGOS, Bitcoin Argentina, Daiana Gómez and the engineer Diego Gurpegui, also representatives of Bitcoin Argentina, were the speakers of this event.More than 40 people attended the majority of the presentations, stressed Joel. “A fairly large group, if we take into account that we are a small community,” he said. The talks with the technical aspects of blockchain and workshops for developers had a smaller attendance, revealing that there is still a lot to work in this sector. “Here in the north are missing developers who know more thoroughly how the system works, of blockchain, or the technology of Bitcoin,” he concluded.
What is the future?
Bitcoin Tour will continue betting for the connection of the community bitcoiner with universities and government institutions, said the representative of the NGO Bitcoin Argentina. In the edition of Corrientes and Chaco, the initiative managed to convene the National University of the Northeast (ONE), the National Technological University (UTN) and the Basin of the Plata; a streak that they hope to repeat at other events.As far as the government, the government representatives did not interact directly with the Bitcoin Tour. However, the organizers of the event were able to meet with the deputy provincial city of the Chaco region to disseminate your proposal. In this sense, it is still an open possibility of work in the future with the argentine government if it is achieved to formalize this connection, points out Joel Fernandez.Joel Fernandez considers that the dedication of the bitcoiners argentine has kept the community up to date with the developments of the ecosystem at the international level. Source: NGO Bitcoin ArgentinaAunque there are plans to make the Bitcoin Tour in all the provinces of Argentina, for the moments it seems that this 2019 not launch a new edition. However, Joel confirmed that the NGO Bitcoin Argentina will be present in Córdoba for the Bitcoin Fest and in Montevideo, Uruguay, to LaBitConf.”What is more important is the desire to acquire knowledge”, stressed the representative. Fernandez points out that the argentine community has a passion for the cryptocurrencies, a provision that allows you to disseminate more knowledge and share visions. “There are many collaborators who do it with heart, they do so with force, they do it for the simple fact of the spread of this technology.” A vision that he believes could bring more events of this type.
Bitcoin in Argentina
After the announcement of the stocks exchange rate at the beginning of September, the Argentine economy again became international news. Many consider bitcoin the ideal choice for you to protect the value of your savings, avoiding a devaluation of the argentine peso, whose numbers continue to rise. In this sense, it seems that the community bitcoiner is living the most auspicious time to disseminate information about its functioning. Joel Fernandez considers that, although the economic crisis is a difficult situation for the entire population, such instability may motivate the adoption of Bitcoin; a situation that occurs in Venezuela for example. The representative underscores that argentine citizens have the right to be aware that there are more methods of store of value currencies like the dollar, being able to benefit from Bitcoin.
This situation strengthens a lot of the ecosystem, yes. People are seeking other forms of shelter, other forms of value, such as stay. As a store of value Bitcoin is the best option today; unfortunately, no one likes how it is going the direction of the country.Joel Fernandez, organizer of the Bitcoin Tour
Beyond the economic benefits, Joel believes that the philosophy behind Bitcoin proposes a series of principles that could help the population of argentina. Transparency as a basis of trust is a change of social paradigm, which introduces the technologies blockchain in a historic moment where citizens believe less and less in institutions and governments.
Bitcoin can help the argentines not from the economic or monetary, help a little from the point of view of reserve of value. But I think that has other issues behind, has a philosophy, a way of existing. It is something unique, is something that is worth more than any other thing, that is trust.Joel Fernandez, organizer of the Bitcoin Tour
Joel believes that the argentines have lost confidence in their rulers, merchants and businessmen. According to his vision, lack of transparency of government entities and trust in the population can destroy a country. In that sense, the new technologies such as Bitcoin demonstrates that “trust is more valuable than gold, and even bitcoin”; a philosophy that can lead a society to reinvent new forms of order and coexistence.