Introduction

What objectives should guide your community?

How to Create a Bitcoin Community

What objectives should guide your community?

Once you've identified the city (or geographic area) for your community, it's time to define what you want to achieve.

These goals can be set right at launch or refined later, once several members have joined and your group is actively engaged.

Here are some points to guide your thinking:

1/ Why am I creating this community as a bitcoiner? Is it to share knowledge? Educate others? Learn from more experienced peers? Meet like-minded people? Get involved in the Bitcoin ecosystem? Connect with professionals? Or simply have a drink and make new friends?

Your answers will shape your positioning and motivation.

If your goal is to share knowledge and educate people about Bitcoin, focus on creating educational content (articles, podcasts, videos, presentations, flyers, etc.), saving others countless hours of research. You can even go further by organizing workshops, presentations, and conferences.

If your aim is simply to meet other bitcoiners and share experiences, you can take a more relaxed approach, like meeting up for a drink. This way, you will create social bonds more easily. However, always remember that drinking beer is not the right path to build tomorrow's world.

This is why setting concrete goals and projects is essential.

2/ Should I give my community a physical dimension? If yes, what kind of events should you organize?

Your first event will likely be a meet-up. Its main purpose: to bring together bitcoiners in your area.

However, as we'll see later in Examples of projects and initiatives, a meet-up can be built in many ways, with many objectives:

Combine networking with an educational presentation on a Bitcoin concept;
Host a professional demonstration of Bitcoin solutions;

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Depending on the subjects (technical talks or hands-on workshops), it may even make sense to organize additional events outside your regular meet-up.

3/ How do I want my community to contribute to the Bitcoin ecosystem?

This is a more advanced question, but it’s worth thinking about early on.

If your vision is to create a tight-knit, motivated community focused on orange-pilling as many people as possible, then:

Collaborate with existing communities to access broader information, open-source resources, and valuable support when needed.
Organize and delegate tasks within your group to expand and scale your efforts effectively.

Set short, medium, and long-term goals A practical way to plan is by setting goals for each time frame:

Short-term: build a social media presence and set up community communication channels.
Medium-term: create educational resources (articles, flyers, videos).
Long-term: launch regular physical meetups.

Once meetups are established, you could aim for:

Short-term: host workshops or presentations on specific topics Medium-term: run Bitcoin awareness or education campaigns Long-term: create a formal association or partnership with a bar that accepts Bitcoin as payment.

Be prepared: building a community takes effort

Creating a community doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, motivation, and organization. At times, it can even feel discouraging, especially when no one shows up, and you feel like the only one carrying this mission on your shoulders.

That's why this course is designed to share valuable resources and tips, helping communities grow effectively and eventually become self-sufficient..