Welcome to the World Crypto Con Spotlight series. Today’s guest: Joël Valenzuela.
World Crypto Con
World Crypto Con[1] (WCC) is a platform for industry leaders to share their knowledge of the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, as well as introduce their projects to the world. WCC welcomes both experts and novices to attend; there’s something for everyone.
Our World Crypto Con Spotlight series will be focusing on moments from the conference, speaking to headliners about their experience with WCC.
Thanks to World Crypto Con, we at CryptoCurrencyNews.com[2] had the pleasure of interviewing Joël Valenzuela[3], former writer for Cointelegraph and current news editor and public outreach director for Dash Force.
Today, Joël will be giving you a sneak peek at his WCC talk and telling us a little more about why Dash as a payment system is important.
World Crypto Con Spotlight: Joël Valenzuela
Q: Joel, you are a renowned crypto writer for Cointelegraph, so you’ve seen every aspect of the crypto-world. What is it about Dash that draws you?
A: What drew me to Bitcoin was better, peer-to-peer digital money that anyone could easily use. Dash is currently the best project on the market for that purpose. It has low fees, instant confirmations, private transactions, and a hard focus on being used across the whole world as money.
Q: Tell me about Dash’s influence in Venezuela (or other countries) and how it should inspire other crypto companies to do the same?
A: Dash has turned Venezuela into the world’s first place where you can spend cryptocurrency on just about anything. This is a major, historic achievement that was made possible by a self-funding decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) backing grassroots efforts on the
