You can see our dilemma here as we don’t want any aid we send to go to waste and this is an open source project so funding it will come out of our own pockets. So we have two unique issues, both requiring a unique approach.

We decided as a team to leverage the power of cryptocurrency to solve the cash issue and since crypto is borderless and can be moved all around the world. We all pulled together personal funds to help fund this endeavor. We spent weeks attempting to find every spare penny we all had to fund this campaign of #FoodNotLambos, you see crypto has been way too focused on getting rich quick, buying things, and riding your lambo to the moon, but BCI has always been about returning the wealth to its community, which is why our project is open sourced, no salaries and we don’t charge any fees for anything from within our project.

So now that we have the cash we purchased some Bitcoin. We now have the funds and it’s a matter of how to use them. Obviously previous attempts to send food and aid into the Venezuela have been met with huge resistance, so we need to find a way around this. Being a team comprised of developers and project managers it wasn’t long before we all came to the conclusion of if we can’t get food and aid in, let’s utilize what’s already there.

We quickly developed a plan with Carlos to send him the Bitcoin and have him purchase everything he could from local markets and stores. We managed to find local vendors who we informed of our plans and they were so happy to hear of our efforts. They offered us amazing discounts on items to further our funds even more. By the time it was all said and done we ended up with 5000kg (11023 lbs) of chicken and 7500kg (16534 lbs) of rice and corn flour. Enough chickens were purchased for each person in the village.

So we have now 27557 pounds of food, that is just shy of 14 tons, now we have the issue of how to transport and deliver all this food. So now that we solved the money, and the logistics of getting the aid there the last piece is getting it to the people in need. Now Carlos has gotten two massive food trucks to get the food and deliver it.