From the comments on my recent post where I brought up the idea of using crypto as a (last-resort) way of self-funding our intended grain facility...

I have seen that every commenter only chose to judge me from my intent of embracing crypto, rather than from my primary motivation: getting our intended facility installed. 

So, I am writing this follow-up post to explain how I ended up mixing my work on stemming extreme poverty here in our region of Busoga, with crypto. 

And  all I can say is:

Just last year, in 2024, Timnit, a former Google employee, sent her colleague Meron to visit us at the UCF (here in Kamuli), to see how best they could support our work. On her visit, Meron instead said they wanted to train us on bitcoin and crypto, and asked us to give her team a day when they can come back to train us. We didn't (we never invited them back).

Why? Everyone at the UCF thought this isn't what we needed. None of us had previously engaged with crypto, and we simply didn't see this as relevant to our goals in any way. 

So, what I can say is: my recent U-turn (of wanting to engage with crypto) is only out of a quest to find an alternative way of funding our intended grain facility, because to date, there isn't any other hope that anyone out there will help on this. 

The farmers that we work with on our sorghum project (who have heard about our goal of installing this facility), as well as the people at the UCF, believe getting this grain facility installed will be very emancipating in our work.

So please, before you try to make me look bad just for trying to find alternative ways of bringing about some change in our region, please think about all the years I have spent straining my head trying to make things work, amidst endless challenges.

Also:

It isn't as though I, or the UCF, already have the money to invest in crypto, or that I now intend to divert the little money that the UCF raises from our supporters into crypto. If so, I wouldn't even have posted it on this forum. I wouldn't have bothered to get anyone's views.

My idea of posting that message was that: since the people on this forum probably understand the challenges people like us face, if they believe in my idea, then, I only need them to help me raise a separate, one-time $10,000 specifically for this -- at least since there isn't any other way for us to raise the full $814,000 for the intended grain facility. 

Lastly:

When you read that post, you realize that I have now removed any mention of the crypto token JellyJelly, not because I was trying to hide something, nope.

I have removed the words "JellyJelly" from that post because I didn't want readers to focus on a specific token. I wanted people to focus on my idea itself, i.e., buying those tokens that have real utility, when they are still at very low prices, then holding until their prices go up.

And the reason I had originally named JellyJelly as one candidate, is because it both a) is being developed by a very sound team (the founder of VENMO and a former Facebook VP), b) is going to be the sole means of payment on the social media app JellyJelly.com, and c) is currently at its lowest price ($0.004)*

* again, not to justify anything, but the price of JellyJelly has now gone up by more than 180% from the time I posted that message six days ago, from $0.004 to $0.019.

Just to reiterate:

My goal isn't crypto. My goal is anything that helps us defeat extreme poverty, and in this particular case, anything that helps us get our intended grain facility installed.    

Anthony