When I got involved in bitcoin back in 2012 or so, I was amazed at how strong the community was and how it was capable of self-organizing while still remaining decentralized. Seeing that grassroots movement reminded me of the culture I experienced when I was a part of the Pirate Party movement some years earlier.

I could best sum it up by stating that when people share a given goal and are incentivized to work towards that goal by virtue of the goal itself, great things happen .

Fastforward to today and the Bitcoin Cash movement, and I see striking similarities on how people behave, and believe that people, our community, is what gives our token value. The remainder of this article will focus on one of our of many examples of why this community is a community of doers, and how that is helping us break down the barriers to adoption.

The Simple Point of Sale for Bitcoin Cash story.

On the 11th dec 2017, I had a meeting with a merchant, the owner of a small café in the 2nd largest town in Sweden, about bitcoin. During this meeting it was decided that the café were to drop support for BitcoinCore and add support for BitcoinCash instead, since the number of customers paying with bitcoin had dropped over the past year and customers recently started asking for Bitcoin Cash support instead.

As a result of this I found myself needing to solve the issue of accepting Bitcoin Cash and since Bitpay that had previously been used refused to share any details on when they would implement Bitcoin Cash we decided to cut out the middleman and find a different solution.

After asking around and trying to get help on reddit with regards to replacing the Point of Sale system from bitpay I stumbled upon a post about a user adapting Real Simple Bitcoin Payments for Bitcoin Cash, but no code was provided, just a success story.

Since time was of the essence, I forked the project and made the necessary changes, touched up the user interface and translated it to Swedish.

This is how it now looks (in english):

The day after we were live and I decided that since this was useful to me, it may be useful to others and took some hours to restructure the code and add support for translations and made a really simply file to hold the translation which looks a bit like this:

"en": "See transaction details", "es": "Ver detalles de la transacción",

What happens in a community of doers?

I decided to ask for help in reddit and on twitter to see if there was more people who could help translate this project and in just four short days people from various places around the world helped out and translated the Simple Point of Sale for Bitcoin Cash project to nine new languages: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, German, Finnish, Khmer, Malay, Spanish and Vietnamese

There has been alot of talk about how Bitcoin Cash is better than the alternatives, and I am glad to see that people are investing their time and effort into building actual adoption by not only engaging in conversation, but by actually doing real tangible work.