So now your responsibility is to pay it forward, Justin.
Find a few talented people like yourself with skills and change their lives.
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So now your responsibility is to pay it forward, Justin.
Find a few talented people like yourself with skills and change their lives.
I do feel a sense of responsibility or obligation, especially for our return to Cambodia. Specifically for Hive, there is a lack of Cambodian content creators. I would really love to open a 1 or 2-hour after-school program to combine English/computer literacy/photography/crypto/Hive-blogging.
Perhaps I'm a bit of a dreamer, but I'd like to turn a whole village on to crypto, and get local people to learn how to make crypto transactions via smartphones. Already, banking and access to cash are big problems for those living way out in the countryside.
If we lived in area like this, and could offer a buyback service for crypto, or better yet, make it so the school and perhaps our restaurant accept crypto payments at a cheaper rate than USD/Cambodian riel.
This would give a more tangible sense of value to locals. In this way, somebody that holds some crypto but doesn't want to study or buy anything from us, could sell it to a local kid who could use it. I have so many ideas, but what will and will not work will only crystalize when we are there on the ground. There are also some laws concerning crypto in Cambodia now, so if what we're doing becomes too public, the government will want to get involved.
You mentioned talented people, and I think there are many in Cambodia, they just need an opportunity, so I really hope we can provide that. Already I get a lot of joy from the ASEAN Hive Community and how many lives it has impacted. Thanks again for being a part of my Hive journey in the very beginning, and especially for giving some sage advice.
There are talented people in every country however it is hard for most to visualize the path of honesty and hard work. Often hardship or circumstances in their life show them a path that is short and dishonest. We see them in hive too. People get rewards and they sell rewards. Thinking that’s fine as this is magical internet money. No it’s not. It is our hard earned money. The stakeholders money that they keep powered up so that hive has value. There is no other source of money.
This is very true. I am surprised that my daughters have chosen to only spend less than 5% of their crypto earnings so far. This is only because they can see the future value of what HODLing can do. We have a cousin Hive-blogging in the Cambodian countryside, and we've set him and guided exclusively through the internet from abroad.
He is able to survive day-to-day on what he earns locally, so he likes the fact that his crypto is harder to access, as it makes it more likely he will save it for the future. I think this is a good approach to show other Cambodians, live on what you have and build up this crypto nest egg on the side. It's all nice to envision but there's no way to know how such an experiment will go unless we attempt it. I am very optimistic.