I started writing this on December 14, 2018, and despite the prolonged bear market in cryptos, my brain tickles from excitement. You see, a year ago crypto stole my heart and my sleep and so far this year, it may have very well stolen some of my money. Despite all of this, I’m excited to work closely with the WUG team as an advisor on a project that makes sense for blockchain technology.

This piece is the first of many more to come as I walk you through my journey into blockchain technology, how I ended up as an advisor and why I am excited about the potential of the WUG ecosystem.

UTILITY FOR THE WUG PLATFORM, DESPITE BLOCKCHAIN

The following picture is me somewhere in Pittsburgh on June 27, 2017. The reason why this picture is relevant, is because I was on a sales trip with Erman Koc (he took the picture), Founder, CEO of WatchUGot and it was during this trip that he started discussing the idea of a platform he was working on for his startup company. The idea was simple, a social network for viral challenges. It made sense, but I wondered if the concept could be improved upon.

Javier Castenada

I asked Erman as we drove, “what if the platform caters to charities?” I mean, the Ice Bucket Challenge was great at bringing awareness to ALS, but it left money on the table. For sure there were many of us participating in the challenge who were willing to donate but had no easy way to trust or figure out how to donate. Doing the challenge was easy, but makings donations didn’t come with instructions.

Even without an enabling ecosystem for participants to make donations the ice bucket challenge generated 115 million. I wonder how much more it could have achieved if it was EASIER to make donations in a place you could TRUST. Unbeknownst to me at the time, that day I unofficially started my journey to become an advisor at WUG.

FOCUSED OF IDENTIFYING AND SOLVING A PROBLEM: YES PLEASE!

I want to make emphasis on a topic more important than my own journey. The fact that the team at WUG had already planned to create the platform that you can download and start enjoying today, not as part of a roadmap months or years after the ICO. The team identified a problem they still want to solve today, and the existence of blockchain technology or lack thereof would not have changed that. From the summer of 2017 and forward, the team started on a journey to enable a better world by empowering charities with the ability to monetize on viral challenges. A journey they started despite blockchain. In the next blog I will talk about why blockchain technology makes sense for the project vs traditional methods so stay tuned.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HAVING A VISION DESPITE BLOCKCHAIN

Let the following tweets sink in for a minute.

If you have not figured it out by now, I am excited to be an advisor for this project as I believe WUG is focused on solving a problem. Blockchain technology is being integrated into the platform with a purpose. The reality is that blockchain technology cannot solve every problem as some projects lead us to believe. Traditional methods do often work better in some scenarios, but at WUG the team and I believe the technology makes sense for this project. If you are wondering how, stay tuned for my next blog and we will continue my journey as an advisor and how the team decided to integrate blockchain technology on the platform.

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