Dash Mall Conference
Galerías Los Naranjos Shopping Center, Caracas
Entrepreneurs and store tenants of the Galerias Los Naranjos Shopping Center stated their intention to adopt Dash - Digital Cash, among their forms of payment in the near future.
These statements were made within the framework of an event held by Dash Venezuela on May 27th, designed for the entrepreneurs and merchants of the shopping center. The meeting counted with 2 conferences about Dash and other cryptocurrencies, dictated by experts in the subject and that was followed by the installation of a Dash City.
Among the attendees there was Interi Diseños, Century 21 Los Naranjos, Al Natural Restaurant, La Mansión de San Pedro locksmith, and Caracas Ophthalmology Unit, as well as members of the board of directors.
"I'm not hesitant to enter Dash," said Douglas Albornoz, owner of the La Mansión de San Pedro locksmith shop. "I am very happy with all this, because it is the system to which we are going to enter the world. This gives me international coverage and gives me confidence. "
On the other hand, Roberto Mujica, owner of Interi Diseños, a company specializing in home automation, claims to be close to incorporating Dash into his business, and comments that "Dash Venezuela is doing a good role in encouraging businesses and is boosting its scope to entrepreneurship to convert them into multipliers of information ".
For Patricia Torrealba and Joan Gonzalez, real estate agents of Century 21 located in Galerias Los Naranjos, the incorporation of Dash adds "as a financial alternative to payment methods", Torrealba explains, and highlights: "Blockchain will continue to evolve, and the best is take it from the beginning (...), is the evolution of the economy ".
Finally, two members of the Caracas Ophthalmology Unit, which has an office in the shopping center, assured that "we are going to take all the lessons of the conference to evaluate the incorporation of Dash".
"In an area like ours, the speed, and the volume of transactions, are advantages that the adoption of Dash can give us," explains Evelyn Goncalves, manager of the unit's administration of the shopping center.
Conference and Dash City
The conferences were in charge of the founder of Dash Venezuela, Eugenia Alcalá and Lorenzo Rey, engineer specialist in home automation and co-founder of the support center Dash Help.
The event began with the intervention of Rey, who addressed the public of entrepreneurs with a talk entitled: "Cryptocurrencies for entrepreneurs", in order to introduce attendees, mostly beginners in cryptocurrencies and chain technology of blocks, to issues related to value, commercial exchanges and the place occupied by cryptocurrencies in current commercial transactions and their legality in the national territory.
The expert highlighted some of the advantages offered by Dash - Digital Cash, as a form of change. Between these, they emphasize: the speed of payment, the low commissions and the possibility of making cross-border payments of immediate form; as well as the Dash governance system, which provides greater stability to the currency and the possibility of better investing digital capital.
Eugenia Alcalá, founder and director of Dash Venezuela, spoke about the growth and work that the Venezuelan organization has done, and presented the success stories of entrepreneurs who have adopted the cryptocurrency among their payment methods.
She talked about the case of Ilegal, the Venezuelan clothing brand, which has several stores, one of which is located in the CCCT (one of the most important malls in Caracas), where customers can cancel their purchases through the digital currency, and the NGO Regala Una Sonrisa, which has managed to serve more than 500 people in street situations, thanks to the donations received in Dash.
During the presentation, Alcalá said that there are currently hundreds of businesses that have already adopted the currency and more than 10 K registered users in the Dash Venezuela database. Counting more than 2,700 registered transactions per event, the country is emerging as the second in the world in number of downloads of the mobile wallet of Dash.
Among the reasons that facilitate the adoption of Dash in Venezuela, Alcalá highlighted the figures of sustained growth that the organization has lain in the national territory, currently counting with more than 20 Allied Communities throughout the country.
Then a panel of questions and answers was held, with Eugenia Alcalá, Lorenzo Rey and Meilyn Alejo, the Finance Director of Dash Venezuela answering the public's doubts.
Finally, the guests experienced the Ciudad Dash experience, with the presence of 20 entrepreneurs, and then they went through the interactive tables, where they answered questions and signed up to attend our training for entrepreneurs and merchants.
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In the face of doubts about the legality of cryptocurrencies in the country, the experts quoted articles 1, 2 and 9 of the constituent decree of April 4 on cryptoactives in Venezuela, where the commercial use of cryptocurrencies and related activities is recognized:
"The Venezuelan State will promote, protect and guarantee the use of cryptocurrencies as means of payment in public institutions, private, mixed or joint ventures, inside and outside the national territory," reads the ninth article of the decree.
EVENT SUMMARY:
Total attendees: 112
Total entrepreneurships at DASH City: 20
Event photo album:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/dashcaracas/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1883075551989954