2 years ago

Your Mission : Go to a small tropical island, be-friend the local population.
Your goal : Build a self-incentivized circular economy, culminating in an island wide festival featuring a soccer tournament, food vendors and a permanent garbage collection program.
Your Tools : Bitcoin, community co-operation and several gallons of paint.
Mike Peterson hears the inspiring journey of Sam & Quentin. It's a boy meets girl story, but it's also a story of courage, trust-building and innovation.

"The island was populated 40 years ago ... of people fleeing the war" - Quentin.
The island had an issues with trash and animal feces mixing with the incoming tides. The rain storms would frequently leave the occupants without power, sometimes for days.

Enter : Trash Collection Sunday's for the kids
"For every trash bag they return full, we give them the equivalent of one dollar to their bolt cards that they in turn go to spend in the shops that have the POS that accept the payment with the bolt card. We inject bitcoin, we clean the island and at the same time we promote the circular economy with the POS in the shops of La Pirraya." - Quentin

The kids were given Bolt Cards from Fernando Motolese of Brazil's Praia Bitcoin.
See our previous episode "Fernando Motolese -Praia Bitcoin, ahead of the curve in Brazil. BTC on swipe cards, bracelets + more"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnktkRqG_Jo

"Everything worked out perfectly, better than we expected, actually" - Sam

Trash Collection Sunday's was just the precursor to future success on the island. Their idea was to invite people to visit the island for a giant island wide festival. Which meant that all the cleaning work was incentivized by the upcoming festival.

"The festival was a great idea in the sense that it gave purpose to our work..." - Quentin
"The whole day was just full of emotion... it was very exciting to see all these people come together..." - Sam

Great story... Much Watch!!!!

Follow Sam and Quentin here....
@SamSuarez08
@TheBTCBackup

Also, see our Mi Primer Bitcoin Episode "John Dennehy - Education is the foundation of everything else. Mi Primer Bitcoin / My First Bitcoin"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSU8Pr9OAaA

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