Proposal In Making G$ A Means Of Payment For Haircut

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#1

In a bid to make gooddollar easily accessible and making G$ generally acceptable. I am suggesting we pay for the haircut of about 100 to 200 people. I have access to one or two barbers shop. We will create a big banner asking people to get a free haircut but first they have to download the gooddollar app and create an account. There will be copies of small fliers where brief introduction about gooddollar will be written on it.

After which their haircut will be paid for in gooddollar. On the flier will be my contact where they will be able to access me if they have questions regarding gooddollar. With this we are not just teaching them crypto, we are teaching them crypto using Gooddollar. They will also learn how to send and receive G$.

Subsequently they will be taught how to pay for services using G$. They will also get to pay for their other haircuts using G$.

With this we must have achieved a lot.

1 We would have had a merchant or two who accepts g$ as a means of payment

2 A lot of consumers who will use G$ as a means of payment

3 A lot of app users

4 A lot of newbies invited to crypto using Gooddollar

Etc

Estimated Budget is as Follows

1500n per haircut which is like 17,000 G$

Banners and fliers should be roughly 8,000n around 94,000 g$ depending on how many barbers shop I visit.

Transport should be around 12,000 g$ per day depending on how many number of days we runs the program for.

I suggest we run the program for 200-500 persons

Calculating for 500 persons, estimate of 8,500,000 g$. The team can decide numbers of persons but I believe we are trying to reach a large number of people. The more the better.

Haircut 8,500,000 g$

Banners an flier for 3 different barbers shop
282,000 g$

Transport 36,000 g$

Total 8,818,000 g$

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#2

Hello friend, I think the proposal fits more in a great Funded by GoodDollar Grants, there you can apply and the team would evaluate the impact of your idea and the cost to finance your project

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#3

sounds like an interesting idea.
see this proposal:

#4

Hi @MAMQ01 @Meri_Fernandez

I love @Ewuoso idea and I’d nominate that we discuss this in an upcoming community call and a few ideas on how to fund initiatives like this.

What is the right forum to discuss this proposal vs. Ewuoso submitting a “final, official” proposal?

Thanks!

#5

Where is the proper place to apply

#6

I’ll write to you internally, if friend Oliver also has interesting ideas

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#7

you got some good high numbers there,
well we should maybe share an idea or two so we can access a couple more barbershops.

#8

Nice idea! Wait to see it in the real life.

#9

why barbershops tho? I don’t see the connection…

What about airtime minutes or something else more useful and more closely related to UBI and crypto?

  • Something to do with cellphone and data (people need it to access gooddollar)
  • Something to do with utilities, subsidize a portion of their power bill (utilities is one of the main things people spend their UBI on)
  • Maybe something in the medical field, like a checkup or some sort of exam (eyes, diabetes… something that’s relatively inexpensive quick and easy to do that maybe citizens don’t regularly have access to
  • Something related to debt like student loans
  • Something food related

These are just a few options that I feel are more in line with gooddollar mission and the concept of UBI. I believe they’ll have more media traction than barbershops which in turn will bring more new users to strengthen our base

#10

@thalescb86 Good questions and great ideas. I haven’t seen you here before! Would love to learn who you are and what’s brought you to GoodDollar.

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#11

I think this is a great idea. We should proceed in this way to pave the way forward for G$ to become a great financial medium in terms of crypto

#12

The goal of my campaign was to put the use of G$ to test. How people react to using and accepting G$ as a means of payment. It could be anything as long as it involves buying and selling of goods or exchange of services.

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#13

A friend of mine introduced me to one of the project members and it sparked my interest.
I found out about bitcoin in 2017 and got hooked. Given my background in IT and data analysis plus fluency in English, I figured out I am in a great position to study and understand the technology to educate Brazilian people about it - since less than 5% of the population can read English and this infinite fiduciary currency BS stealing people’s wealth really gets in my nerves.
And I took it upon myself and even put together a course about the origins of money and how it transformed into what we have today, crisis, hyperinflation, the break of the gold peg, creation of credit cards and global economy as a background to ease them into bitcoin and crypto.
Then Tiago told me about GoodDollar and the UBI distribution. I researched more and took a liking to the initiative. I like how there’s a DAO behind it and it’s much more than just another altcoin out there, really attempting something worthwhile to pursue and actually helping people using the power of blockchain :slight_smile:

#14

I believe they’d react the same as using and accepting BTC as means of payment… Most people aren’t ready yet to let go of the fiduciary system and don’t trust crypto. The lightning network was developed for fast and small TXs in BTC aimed to replace fiduciary currencies, while GoodDollar’s proposal is the distribution of UBI.
I would love to see utility service providers accepting G$ as payment

#15

I strongly support your ideas or wishes

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#16

I loke the idea but kindly dire me where can I begin