Yesterday we held in Santander the first Blockchain Conference in the North of Spain, www.innorthvation.com
It has been until now basically Madrid and Valencia were all the  blockchain / crypto events took place, so this is an important breakthrough.
The format of the event, with Crown as main sponsor,  was not the typical were exhibitors have a stand and people walk around visiting the booths they have interest.
It was performed and a way that each project had either 15 minutes or 30 minutes to give a speech and present their projects.
We spoke about Crown for 30 minutes. First I did an introduction in spanish of what is Crown, where it comes from, and its main current features. Then @calnaughtonjnr  took the microphone and talked about what our devs our working and our upcoming releases.
Right after our speech, G-ME took the scene and made a fantastic presentation. Many questions about the product and its integration with the Crown Platform were answered during and after their conference.
The other speakers were:
Aeternity
LindaHealthCare
RSK
G-ME
El Dorado Exchange
Grupo Versia
Octopoket
Helvetia Fintech
And the meetup organizers from other regions from the north of Spain also presented In what they are working
During the coffee break, lunch, and after the last presentation there was time to talk to the visitors and do some networking
There were aproximately 125 visitors, all of them quality visitors, a few bankers, investors, business owners and some public workers.
Some contacts were made, with special emphasis in these three; an important tech investor from the región, a start up interested in social and sustainable projects in food and clothing looking for a way to use the blockchain capabilities, and the cyber security school of Santander, that has the some of the top scholars of the country, with some awards behind them, and is interested in exploring the blockchain using Crown as example.
Innorthvation is an ongoing project that will continue organizing events and Crown will be part of the team that wil work to make blockchain more accesible to as many users as possible.

Fantastic Blockchain conference will take place in Santander, Spain this weekend. Innorthvation 18 will have Crown as main sponsor and speaker. We will perform a conference explaining Crown from its history, present and future. There will be a booth all day where we will attend visitors. Looking forward to this first Blockchain Event in the North of Spain with Crown as principle actor.

It is indeed a good idea, but in this particular project we want to fund now, the concern is how to make sure the funds go for sure to the final users of the money. Lets see how we can manage, we will for sure.

SHORT RECAP OF ACTIONS DONE IN SPAIN, NOV-DEC 2017


Not to bore anyone, I am going to point out the most important actions done in Spain the past couple of months:

-   Contact step by step the most important meet up groups around the country, work in progress.

-   Attend conferences, meet blockchain enthusiasts and talk about our project

-   Start the collaboration thanks to @crownfan with G-ME. This is just the beginning because the G-ME founders @lostjoker are already Crown fans and are pushing in Madrid to spread the word of Crown. Not only this, but also they have more projects to build on the Crown blockchain, and the next one can be announced in aproximately one month.

-   Tried a cooperation with an investor from Barcelona, but this is on hold since he is more interested in the trading side of crypto and not so much in the use of the platform

-   For the last two weeks I have worked to convince the most introduced guy in Santander in the blockchain world that Crown is a serious project to count on.
This is achieved, and next week we are making a presentation of Crown for the blockchain and bitcoin Santander community.
The next step is make Crown sponsor and big part of a project they are building to make Santander the biggest hub for blockchain in the north of Spain. This project is still in progress, in early stages. It will be called INNORTHVATION (innovation made in North of Spain). Today I had the first meeting to see how we can cooperate, and as early as next month hopefully we will have our first event. More info about this will follow in the next weeks.

-   In the meantime I am working to figure out how to use Crown to help the funding of a water pump infrastructure in one village in Tanzania, something a friend of mine is working on since he visited the village this summer. The use of Crown to help foundations must be a key feature of Crown

-   From my knowledge of Turkey from my previous job, I have been also trying to spread the word of Crown there. I have a friend @fthforever who is interested in Crown and he will try to become ambassador. Since last month he is already talking to everyone about Crown in Turkey and hopefully he will continue and be part of the team.

-   Start the twitter account in Spanish @crown_esp.  Trying to get followers step by step, but it is difficult. People follow the official page which is fantastic, I will make a bigger effort from now on, I request the help of all the community to follow

The G-ME collaboration is going to push us big time here in Spain. And this is just the beginning, next month we will announce a new project in another real use case for the Crown blockchain.

Great timing for a Crown presentation in Santander, Spain on 28th of December. The G-ME-CROWN kickstarter video plus the road map released next week. Fantastic!

Love the new calculator too, fantastic job!

Hello, last night I had the first contact with the bitcoin [Suspicious link removed]munity in Santander. It is small but one of the oldest in Spain. The organizer is a guy really focused on good blockchain projects with real use cases as main goal. He is going to investigate Crown, he had some bad experiences. When he does and finds out all our good features, he will help me with a presentation of Crown for Santander, Bilbao and Leon, main Hubs in the north of Spain. We will do it after the kickstarter video, which will be a great plus. Also he is planning a summit in Santander bringing people from all the north of Spain, I will try we are sponsors and exhibitors, this will be 20th January. Companies like Bitwalla, Aeternity and RSK from Argentina will exhibit.

In Spain we are working on a partnership that will be announced formally in the next days. The partner is a company with years of experience in creation and management of  startups in the technological field. We will collaborate by providing services in our platform for their new product, which is a Personal Global Tracker called G-ME. They are recording in the next days a video campaign to present the product in Kickstarter, and we are going to be in it. It will be massive exposure for Crown as a leading blockchain platform used in a real use case. More info will follow as developing teams of both interested parties will start today. We are very excited so stay tuned for more!

Fantastic job everyone! I will be updating my wallet today too

Hello, next tuesday 14th Crown team will be attending a conference in Madrid about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies by Adriá Aguadé. Hope to meet good people there and make some first contacts to inform about Crown possibilities. info about the conference here