How to Try Cryptocurrency — and Help People in Need — with Two Clicks
Crypto offers us crazy, exciting opportunities to build economic abundance in unprecendented ways…but it needs to be easier to use. Here’s how we’re addressing this challenge at Seeds.
You’ve probably hear the word ‘Bitcoin’ a bunch by now. But what *is* cryptocurrency? And how can it be beneficial for you and those you care about?
When I speak about the evolution and benefits of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether, and Seeds tokens, I like to evoke this quote:
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are linked using hypertext.”
-Farmer & Farmer
In case it’s not obvious, the above is a description of the internet. Cryptocurrency has multiple applications, and in one practical sense, it can be described in a similar fashion: it is a decentralized network of value creation and exchange… aka money.
As I write this (in December of 2019), it’s unlikely that this point of time in terms of crypto adoption is equivalent to that of internet adoption in 1989. Maybe it’s more like the equivalent of what was going on in 1993. Which is to say, most folks aren’t necessarily even aware of the ways that crypto is likely to transform and improve many aspects of their lives in the very near future.
But in order to get there, crypto needs to be easier to try. This is a big part of our mission at Seeds, the crypto social good startup I founded.
Anyone can redeem a Seeds token, our cryptocurrency, to ask for monetary help, and receive it as a gift from our community. No strings attached. Our mission is to create a world in which we have an economic system of abundance supporting all of us, so that the old, defunct, extractive network of arbitrary gatekeeping is rendered obsolete.
To that end, we’ve created a way for you to try crypto with two clicks, while simultaneously helping people in need. We invite you to visit the Seeds site to give it a try.
When you go so, you’ll receive 10 SEEDS of your own, you’ll help someone in need who has redeemed SEEDS to make a Request for Help, and you’ll be supporting our community, which, to date, has given $1200 to a formerly homeless Detroit mom so that she could attend community college, has kept a Kenyan family from losing their home, has allowed a girl in Palestine to throw a birthday party for her mom, and lots more.
All of these are examples of instances in which folks redeemed Seeds tokens to make Requests for Help. Thanks to our community, their wishes were granted.
Cryptocurrency has never been easier to try. If you’re at all curious, visit Seeds and give us a shot with a couple of clicks today. I think you’ll be glad you did, you trailblazer, you. :D
