To all of you my BCH people who enjoy what I do, or not😀, here's my birthday reflection article on Substack: https://alberdioni8406.substack.com/p/birthday-reflection-i-could-have?r=7o3a4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
It covers the whole year, my battles, challenges and everything that made more stronger. Enjoy and let's keep building.

I have put together a new project, CashRaise.
CashRaise is a fundraising platform most inspired in the BCHnostr model where creators get full support directly deposited in their wallets. After all, raising funds to make an idea thrive should not be embarrassing and difficult. You can give your idea the funding that it needs without having to wait to be completed and released thru a third party.

Crypto have shown to us that everything is good when there's no third party to control your funding. Users get direct donations and donors a free to choose supporting or not it. Some great business start without no one noticing and after so many doubts. So donors look, analyze and decide to give a chance.

Get your tour here: https://CashRaise.online (the cash domain is coming very soon)

At this pace, we should break the $400 mark for BCH😎💪💚

If you did read my latest article on Substack: https://alberdioni8406.substack.com/p/bch-local-building-a-marketplace you definitely got more information about the marketplace and tested it.

Yesterday I made even more improvements and each day we are trying to break the space and bring this to the Mozambican public. Won't be easy but if we give up without even trying what we are doing in the space. This may be a marketplace but not designed to only Bitcoin Cash people but for all who really want to have their products listed and sold.

I will spend time teaching them the all dynamics, recommend the best wallets to store and use their BCH, how to receive and send BCH and much more. This is a Marketplace,yes, but also a onboarding tool to those ones genuinely decided to embrace the decentralized environment.

Test the marketplace, support the builder, try to break the platform and let's see how this goes. I will continue here slowly and steady building this baby and thinking in all those people that can get in to the ecosystem through the platform.
It won't be easy, it will be a challenge but it will only be lost if we stop trying.

Pushed BCH Local V2.1 today.
If you tested earlier: business upgrades now show a real Verified badge, boosted posts get better placement, and confirmed payments actually finish the order (listing sold, trust moves).

Still in public test mode. Payments are demo until we plug in real on-chain detection. No custody, peer-to-peer BCH as before.

Built for local trade in Mozambique first - Maputo / Matola.
https://bch-local.vercel.app
If you break something, tell me. That’s the point of this release.

Signal is getting rid of phone numbers to have users creating accounts in the app:
https://free2z.cash/alberdioni8406/signal-is-finally-breaking-free-from-phone-numbers-but-theres-a-catch#comment-d25a429f-330d-4003-bf13-06e6cdd1bcbd
That was needed as there's no reason to use phone numbers in a privative messenger. FYI: THis is for Android users

Hackers are more smarter than even. They came up with schemes to steal that deserve a Oscar for innovation. This people are dangerous and preying on people that are unnoticed and desperate. Imagine that you are seeking for a job and end up being robbed?

This is the story of the article:

https://free2z.cash/alberdioni8406/they-offered-jobs-they-stole-savings

That instead giving the job seekers a solution, they left them empty handed. This North Korean group is hitting just where people are in masses - the job market posing as crypto and AI recruiting agency. In the end, all who accessed the link downloaded a malware that hit their machines and stole all their savings.

Just imagine how desperate is that. You were looking for a job to sustain your life and ended up robbed and losing all your money. This is dangerous and people should be aware to avoid being tricked into it. Always be alert as cyber criminals are more smarter than ever.

I just published the story behind BCH Local.

After an honest reality check from one of my BCH OG friends, I researched why marketplaces fail and why I’m still building this one in Mozambique.

Here’s the full story 👇
https://alberdioni8406.substack.com/p/bch-local-building-a-marketplace

I'm a strong believer that crypto should be useful in real-life so that people can give it importance. Doesn't matter for people if crypto is money but can't be used for what they need.

It's like having value that can only be seen virtually but in fact doesn't serve for anything in real-world. In order to that sentiment to change towards adoption, there must be places where people can use their crypto. Merchants, more vendors, more marketplaces and services are needed around decentralized currencies.

If people can pay for their coffee, TV subscriptions, pay for a mobile voucher and even pay for a beer in the next pub, people will start noticing and open their minds to accept that crypto is just money. Without that we are facing a harsh reality that crypto adoption will take another decade to be mainstream.

Another thing: "useful crypto will be the ones serving as digital cash - affordable to use as fees are lower, fast to confirm and borderless.

I spent the whole day building something that I call **BCHLocal-Mz** that will be huge if I plan it correctly and it get a meaningful impact. I'm building a Bitcoin Cash marketplace - the first and most biggest one in my country to accept BCH for services and products.

It will also be a great onboarding tool for people in my region and the impact will be something remarkable.
Below is just the small image of the platform and yeah that is something new, different and directed for young and active people who want to get an experience as sellers or buyers using Bitcoin Cash.

Already in love with it. In the coming days I will be finishing the MVP and launch the public site.

Be in touch 🙏.

I'm building around an idea that will revolutionize how people with Bitcoin Cash in my country. I want that everyone can use it to purchase things that matter for them and also sell things on it - a marketplace. It's a huge plan that needs some great investment but that won't stop me.

Bitcoin Cash should be used everyday so it gain exponential importance in people's life. If they find it useful to purchase and sell things that matter for them they will definitely have it stored to use.

I'm still working on that plan and I have made the MVP that I will share soon. I want something that will open ways even for those ones that never used crypto around here. I want everyone to be able to know, use, and give much importance to transact in Bitcoin Cash than in local fiat. My concept is clear:

- people should be able to purchase, sell, store and do everything in Bitcoin Cash.

So let's see what in the next days I will have to show the community. Be in touch and let's make a revolution.

BCH is money and people should use it.