Our Venezuelan community has been benefited through Reddit by the use of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) with tips done in quantities that range from 100 satoshi to thousands of dollars to fund some good cause.

However, for the average Venezuelan, BCH is still unfamiliar. Besides the regular Redditor, I could dare say that BCH presence is almost none existent for Venezuelans. There is a larger community of Venezuelans that have commited to freelancing on line and are used to being paid with USD through Paypal or with Bitcoin (BTC). As of now, those users exchange they gains using BTC through platforms like Localbitcoin or some other exchange unfamiliar to Venezuelans but pretty familiar to the rest, and even create a portfolio with a variety of cryptocurrencies. The second most popular crypto in Venezuela is Ethereum, a crypto that is also the second most popular worldwide.

For Ethereum trading, Venezuelans go to Localethereum. So far, either the latter one or the one for BTC (Localbitcoin) are the ones pretty much in use for Venezuelans because of their popularity and reliability.

Even among Venezuelan Redditors there’s still a little distrust regarding the use of BCH, but little by little it has covered more ground. The greastest challenge has been the use of BCH on an everyday life, something that doesn’t get the trust of skeptical users yet.

As of today, an initiative by the /r/vzla mods was born. It consists of creating a platform inside Reddit for the Venezuelan community to trade cryptocurrency, including BCH of course. This initiative is still developing but it promises to be very beneficial for those who still haven’t found a better way to use BCH for buying, selling and trading with other cryptos.

In my particular way, I have had to go around several ways to finally put my BCH in use. The BCH I’ve received so far have been tipped by members of the communities spreading awareness about Bitcoin Cash like /r/btc, /r/bitcoincash and other less active communities. Those communities have some users in common who have approached to our community of /r/vzla to tip away generous amounts of BCH. They have also spread the love for BCH in every other sub. Well, I digress. Going back to my own story, regarding the ways to go around the use of BCH, basically I have gone through several steps:

· First, I claim my BCH balance through a BCH valid address. In this case I use Uphold for this.

· Then I offer the equivalent of BCH in USD at AirTM, a platform that has made possible buying USD for Venezuelans without going through all the hassle our government has imposed to us in terms of buying fiat.

· After funding my AirTM account with the Uphold USD, I offer that balance in USD for our own currency the VEF to finally get a bank transfer for the amount offered.