We have quite a big announcement to make today….Bitcoin Cash Fund is now the Bitcoin Cash Association (BCA) and was founded in Switzerland with 10 members. To remove any confusion about our purpose we decided it was appropriate to change our name. After a very long road we now exist as a legal entity and can make even more progress going forward. We want to thank the many people who have helped us drive adoption of Bitcoin and those who helped us get to where we are now.

With our new name we have a new website www.association.cash and a new twitter handle @bitcoincasha, reddit handle u/cashassociation and logo...

We felt that this would be a good time to also do a review of everything we have done over the past year, and boy there has been a lot going on!

Community Projects

SpendBCH

Advertising

Guides

Meetups

Community-building

Partnerships

Outreach

Websites

Videos

Community Projects

TXHighway

Visualize the difference in speed and scalability by comparing Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Core's transactions using our highway themed blockchain visualizer. Unlock a bonus sprite with each donation back to the Bitcoin Cash Fund and monitor your address.This project executed with massive success!

FindBCH

What's more exciting than a little treasure hunt? The Bitcoin Cash treasure hunt initiative is underway as we speak. Members of the community are now hiding Bitcoin Cash paper wallets around the world. As of writing this, we have been slowly pushing it out to ensure all kinks are worked out. There are currently over 100 wallets hidden in 10 countries across 4 continents. A number of wallets have already been claimed, these are also shown on the map.

BCHTruckTO

This is was a really interesting community project to advertise Bitcoin Cash in Toronto during Canada day on 1st July. An LED billboard truck was driven around Toronto. Not only did display Bitcoin Cash ads, but it also gave away free Bitcoin Cash by displaying private keys that contain some BCH.

BCHpizza.org

To get the ball rolling for the bchpizza.org project, we provided a bounty for all 100 cities in celebration of Bitcoin Pizza Day. Lots of tasty pizza was had all round!

NakamotoStudies

Unfortunately, like many areas of the Bitcoin ecosystem, SNI was subverted from the inside by people who are now unfortunately against the original structure of Bitcoin that Satoshi designed and built. One of the main founders, Daniel Krawisz, who produced the significant majority of non-Satoshi content for SNI, is no longer a part of the project.

In response to the situation, Derek Magill has built a new site http://nakamotostudies.org/ to carry over the torch of the original Satoshi Nakamoto Institute website.

We understand the importance of keeping this original content uncensored and fully transparent to the public. Therefore we provided $1000 to the project and will look at providing further funding in the future to build out the site.

Gitcash.io

The Bitcoin Cash Association partnered with new the new project GitCash.io, a new Github tipping bot powered by Bitcoin Cash. The new platform will reward developers in Bitcoin Cash for building out requested features and solving bug reports for the popular cryptocurrency in GitHub.

Inspired by the Reddit Tippr bot, GitCash provides a quick and easy way to reward fellow Github users and show appreciation for the developers writing the open source code. It supports custom user profiles, a complete tipping event history, and a full-featured wallet capable of generating and sweeping password protected BIP38 paper wallets.

BCH Quiz

The Bitcoin Cash Association provided its support to a project called Crypto-College in China. A team has built a BCH quiz application on the very popular Chinese platform Wechat. The app allows users to test and expand their knowledge on Bitcoin Cash and the blockchain.

Support from BCA will come in the form of Bitcoin Cash to be given away in a monthly prize pool. The BCA has donated $1000 to be used for the next month’s giveaways. Once a month those that have scored above a certain percentage on the quiz will be randomly selected to receive a cash prize in the form of BCH. The prizes will be $500, $150 and $50 in BCH. $300 worth of Bitcoin Cash will also be split between all the people that successfully complete the quiz. Hoping to show those unfamiliar with the cryptocurrency just how useful it can be. The initial test run of the quiz last month managed to get 365 people to take part, and we are sure that the project can reach over 1000 new people in the next month.

BCH Geek Hackathon

Recently BCH Geek hosted an event in Hangzhou, China that brought developers together from all around the world to compete in building apps on the Bitcoin Cash network. There were a total of 11 teams participating and the contest hosted some pretty large firms such as Bitmain Technologies, BTC.top, and ViaBTC to name a few.

The winner and runner up were presented with Cash prizes (Bitcoin Cash of course) that were provided by sponsors such as the Bitcoin Cash Association. Industry leaders spoke on a number of topics and future projects and expressed how important events such as this are for the development and progress of Bitcoin Cash.

SpendBCH

Starting June 22, 2018 and running to July 22nd, the Bitcoin Cash Association launched an ongoing bounty campaign in Venezuela called #SpendBCH that will reward users with a $5 worth of Bitcoin Cash (average months salary in Venezuela) for onboarding a new merchant. We feel it is important to try and create a closed loop economy, that means we need to provide BCH users with places to spend their money, and provide merchants with customers who want to spent BCH. The SpendBCH campaign aims to to kickstart this process. So far we have already on-boarded over 30 businesses to Bitcoin Cash and are expanding the campaign to other countries in South America at the beginning of September.

Advertising

We have up until recently been running ads on youtube and twitter with some excellent metrics. Unfortunately, certain sites are making it very difficult/impossible to run ads for Bitcoin Cash right now. In fact Bitcoin ads are now banned from twitter, Facebook, reddit and youtube. We have just started running ads on non-social media sites to test engagement and value for money. Advertising a cryptocurrency is proving to be tricky, but we are working ways around it, and will evaluate in the future if this is effective way of spreading awareness.

Guides

Making it as easy as possible to enter into the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem is key to achieving mass adoption. As most of you know, understanding cryptocurrency ecosystems can make your head spin. We are continuing to develop a set of guides to make the process of joining the BCH ecosystem as painless as possible. These guides are then being added to bitcoincashers.org.

Meetups

The growth of Bitcoin Cash meetups has been one of the biggest successes of the Bitcoin Cash Association. There are now 105 meetups all around the globe in roughly 40 different countries. No other cryptocurrency has achieved this kind of success on the ground. We have been providing meetups with funding and merchandise for giveaways, prizes, snacks and drinks and have provided real-time support and documentation including presentations and flyers to continually improve the quality of every event.

Community-building

We have been working hard to lead the wider Bitcoin Cash community with a positive and proactive voice, that we hope will help keep us all focussed on the end goal...electronic peer-to-peer Cash for everyone around the world. We have also been building an awesome community of doers on Discord which anyone can join at bitcoincashers.org/chat. We have also expanded to instagram, with great success in a short span of time. We also host regular competitions to increase community engagement, and keep everyone positive during periods of lower BCH prices. To further our commitment to reaching as many people around the world as possible, this week we are launching 3 new Bitcoin Cash Association accounts on twitter, each will operate in a different language. Spanish, Japanese and Korean. We will look into expanding to more accounts with more languages in the future. All our social media accounts are used to promote all the amazing activity that is happening every day in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem.

Parnerships

Purse.io

We have partnered with Purse.io to launch their site-wide Bitcoin Cash services. We have provided them $5000 which they have matched with another $5000 to offer customers who spend using Bitcoin Cash $10 in BCH cashback with every purchase. The campaign was a great success that expanded the actual use of Bitcoin Cash as money.

YeeCall

The BCA entered a strategic partnership with top-rated messaging app YeeCall. YeeCall has over 33 million users worldwide and is growing its user base by the day. The app offers high-quality internet calls, HD video & voice, and real-time instant messaging. Most importantly, it now features an integrated Bitcoin Cash wallet.

r/MillionaireMakers

For those that are unfamiliar, r/MillionaireMakers is a subreddit that submits a post every month for a cash giveaway. All a user must do is comment on the post to be entered into the drawing, then the moderators of the page selects a certain block in the future to provide a provably fair and random way to pick a winner from the pool of comments. The premise is that once the winner is announced, every participant is to send the winner $1 each. If there are 1 million people that send the participant $1, then we’ve just made a millionaire.

The Bitcoin Cash Association is helping promote future drawings, offer programming support, and add $200 in BCH to the pot of each draw to rapidly get this great sub up and running again. We have already supported 2 draws which were a great success! You can always find the most up-to-date draw at redditmm.com .

Outreach

BCHforSchool

Educational program aimed at students and teachers of Secondary Education for the diffusion of Bitcoin Cash as a new and better economic system based on virtual currency.

The purpose of the project is to teach Bitcoin Cash to young people high school students located in low-income communities of the city of Acarigua-Portuguesa-Venezuela.

According statistics a large percentage of young Venezuelans have not heard of cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin Cash. For this reason, it promotes this project funded by The Bitcoin Cash Association, not only with in order to impart information about our virtual currency but also to benefit with the donation of a combo of school supplies to students to participate and attend the talks.

Whatsapp BCH Meetup/presentation

An interesting test project was implemented to start virtual meetups/presentations in a Wechat with great success at very low cost. We will be looking to expand this strategy in the future.

Websites

This website is a simple home for the Bitcoin Cash Association. It will be receiving some updates in coming months to provide the community more transparency on what our organisation gets up to each month and who is involved.

Our broad strategy for the site is to onboard new users, new businesses, and get the Bitcoin Cash community more involved in spreading adoption and more connected within the ecosystem.

The site will act as a funnel for a significant amount of our marketing initiatives. Online ads are the bread and butter of online marketing, but for them to be effective you need have clear actions you expect your target to take once they click on the ad. This meant we needed a site that we had full control over so we can carefully guide potential new users/businesses to take a specific action. Each page/section on the Bitcoincashers.org site has a specific purpose and guides people to take a specific action.

Videos

What is Bitcoin Cash?

This is the project that started everything for the Bitcoin Cash Association last November. When we put out a call to the BCH community for a small amount of funding to create a short video about Bitcoin Cash, a spark turned into a blaze and signalled a great need for an organisation like ours to drive adoption. This video explains what Bitcoin Cash is on a very simple level for people new to cryptocurrencies.

Barber Ad

This was the first video ad that we produced for Bitcoin Cash. It was a fun concept about the character George forgetting to bring his wallet to the barber shop, but he discovers a whole new way to pay.

Satoshi Vision Recap Video

Satoshi’s Vision Conference Tokyo brought together developers, researchers, businesses, and Bitcoin Cash and other cryptocurrency enthusiasts from around the world. It was a huge success, setting the brand up for further amazing conferences in the future. We created a video to capture this great event and get people excited about other Bitcoin Cash conferences in the future.

Bitcoin Cash Documentary

We are still making progress on the Bitcoin documentary detailing the history leading up to the fork on August 1st and the reasons why Bitcoin Cash is so important. The next block of filming is actually happened yesterday at the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy Opening event, and it was a great success.

We are currently looking at getting footage in Colombia/Venezuela and South Sudan as well, to show people that truly need Bitcoin Cash yesterday.

How does Bitcoin Cash work?

This is a short animated video explaining how Bitcoin Cash works on a deeper level. We want to help people understand the underlying technology, economics and incentives that make Bitcoin Cash a truly global cash system. Concepting, storyboarding and voiceover are all complete and the animation work is now under way.

Guide to buying Bitcoin Cash from Bitcoin Depot ATM

This is a simple but high quality explainer video where the CEO of Bitcoin Depot provide a nice and simple guide on buying Bitcoin Cash using one of their ATM’s.

Giving out Bitcoin Cash with Jeffrey Tucker

This was a really fun video of the great Jeffrey Tucker giving out Bitcoin Cash to all the eager guests at the opening of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, and showing just how fast and easy it is to use.

Finances