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Can Bitcoin save Argentina 🇦🇷? The country is in yet another currency crisis, with the peso down 45 percent against the dollar and inflation at 25+ percent. In Venezuela 🇻🇪 consumer prices are expected to increase 14,000% this year, a currency collapse that has millions scrambling to pay for basic necessities.<\/span><\/p>\n

In both countries, Bitcoin transactions are soaring, with citizens turning to the cryptocurrency as a more stable store of value than the nation-state can offer. CoinDesk’s analysis “Can Bitcoin Save Argentina<\/a>?” reports the mission of our co-founder Santiago Siri, who visited Buenos Aires earlier this month to discuss a crypto proposal with government officials: to diversify a portion of the country’s official reserve holdings, shifting away from US policy-dependent dollars to cryptocurrency — which many Argentinians are increasingly holding. For a country with no success in containing its inflationary crisis, maybe the time has come to look to bitcoin.<\/p>\n

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Our proposals continue to attain a new order of thought-leadership with mainstream media reporting on our activities: the new issue of WIRED features Santiago Siri and the Democracy Earth mission to\u00a0 “tokenize the like”<\/a>\u00a0in the feature story,\u00a0 Meet the Man With a Radical Plan For Blockchain Voting<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
Just last week, millions of Argentinians watched Santi on national television: the\u00a0 #SiriConFantino<\/a>\u00a0interview on\u00a0Animales Sueltos<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>was the #1 trending topic\u00a0\u00a0on 🇦🇷\u00a0 Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Watch the full interview in Spanish\u00a0 here<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0segment highlights\u00a0 1<\/a>,\u00a0 2<\/a>,\u00a0 3<\/a>, and click below to watch our favorite excerpt:<\/p>\n
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SiriusXM host Randi Zuckerberg talked blockchain with Santi on\u00a0Dot Complicated –\u00a0<\/em>click below for some great studio outtakes!<\/span><\/p>\n
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Co-founder Pia Mancini – along with Interment luminaries 🇬🇧 Sir Tim Berners-Lee\u00a0and 🇹🇼 Digital\u00a0Minister Audrey Tang\u00a0–\u00a0has been named one of the\u00a0 100 Most Influential in Digital Government.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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In August, Democracy Earth was an impact sponsor of the Chicago\u00a0Voice of Blockchain\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>event.\u00a0The conference was a visible reminder there is no lack of builder and influencer focus and momentum on blockchain for social good initiatives. We were proud to take the stage with partners The Good Country and the\u00a0Women’s March in a panel discussion on the role of blockchain in building new models of global citizenship. Citizenship enrollment for The Good Country opens\u00a0this week<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Development Update<\/strong><\/div>\n
Recent and imminent milestones include:<\/span><\/p>\n
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Bringing more Sovereign functionality on-chain and making the\u00a0VOTE<\/em>\u00a0token migratable and upgradeable<\/span><\/li>\n
Advancing Sovereign development on a UI revamp and furthering blockchain integration<\/span><\/li>\n
Seeking tester\/user input on\u00a0Democracy Earth development priorities on the Sovereign\u00a0alpha platform – to review and vote on features, click\u00a0👉Vote.Democracy.Earth<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We are conducting an ongoing case study with our partner\u00a0 The Fourth Group<\/a>, as part of a coalition\u00a0to define citizenship in the global age. Check out our interview with CEO and World Economic Forum Global Shaper Alvin Carpio about the initiative on the 🎧\u00a0 Democracy Salon podcast<\/a>.\u00a0 Stay tuned for the next phase update in November, and catch the next development update by subscribing\u00a0 here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Token Pre-Sale ad Public Sale Update<\/strong>
\nWe are very pleased to announce the opening of our global public token sale is slated for November 15, 2018. The price will be $0.12 per token, offering 200 million tokens for a total potential raise of $24 million.\u00a0 The public sale will be open to all buyers around the world, excluding banned jurisdictions (China, NY, others).<\/span><\/p>\n
For accredited investors, the Foundation is extending the pre-sale purchase until the opening of the public sale November 15th. Pre-sale tokens are available with 6-month and 12-month lock-ups, priced at $0.08 and $0.06 respectively. Verified accredited investors excluding NY and China can start the\u00a0pre-sale SAFT<\/a>\u00a0execution process now.<\/p>\n
Click the button\u00a0to view the entire information package at our\u00a0 token sale website<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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To chat with a founder join our\u00a0 Telegram ICO Group<\/a>. S<\/span>ign up for notifications for the \u00a0DEF Founders Tour\u00a0<\/a>and regular updates on conferences, MeetUps, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Herb Stephens will hold investor meetings in New York\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>November 1-4<\/span><\/li>\n
Pia Mancini is a\u00a0featured speaker at CryptoSprings 2018 in Palm Springs October 2-4 (🎟️\u00a0tickets<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n
Santi Siri will deliver a\u00a0keynote at Ethereum’s much-anticipated annual developer’s conference\u00a0Devcon4\u00a0<\/strong>in Prague Oct. 30-Nov 2 (<\/span>🎟️\u00a0tickets<\/a><\/span>), the C20 conference in Argentina November 18, and at\u00a0the\u00a0 DGov 2018<\/a>\u00a0distributed governance conference in Athens Dec 7-9.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Thank you for reading! Follow us on\u00a0 Medium<\/a>\u00a0to stay up to date on interesting news (like this post on “tyranny of the majority<\/a>” by our Democracy Earth Ambassador at the Hague🇳🇱). And as always, thanks for being part of the Democracy Earth community!<\/span><\/p>\n
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Democracy\u00a0Earth\u00a0Foundation is a\u00a0501(c)(3) nonprofit in San Francisco, California.\u00a0 Democracy.Earth<\/a>.\u00a0 On twitter<\/a>.
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