Dipo Olowookere
On Saturday, July 13, 2019, over 120 persons, including businessmen, students, crypto traders, blockchain analyst, crypto experts, local media companies and many newbies to cryptocurrency attended the first ever CoinCola meet up in Lagos.
The event took place at the prestigious Tayo Aderinokun Lecture Theatre located in the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and also had the presence of the CEO of CoinCola, Mr Allan Zhang; the Business Manager of CoinCola, Mr Ivan Chan; an International staff of CoinCola, Mr Abby and the Regional Manager for CoinCola in Africa, Mr Samuel Joseph.
Mr Chan, in his speech, said CoinCola seeks to connect Africans to the future of finance, while Mr talked about the outlook of blockchain technologies, his thoughts on Libra coin by Facebook, strategic goals of CoinCola, the unique characteristics of CoinCola and the business use-case models of CoinCola.
During a short speech presentation, Mr Samuel Joseph spoke about the core features of CoinCola, such as fast escrow market, inbuilt exchange, face ID recognition system and a hint on how students of UNILAG can make money from CoinCola.
Moreover, the meetup participants had the opportunity to participate in several CoinCola games, such as “find your family” fly your airplane and a chance to win N100 worth of Bitcoin. The game session was led by Abby and assisted by Samuel Joseph.
Over the course of the event, the Regional Manager for CoinCola Joseph Samuel held a round table session with some key leaders in the Nigerian crypto space such as Chris Ani, Tony Nwabishop, a Dash representative, a pro trader and the CEO of CoinCola Allan Zhang.
The round table discussion was centred around bitcoin’s adoption in Africa and why crypto is a better way to carry out remittance. The session lasted for over 25 minutes with great inputs from all members of the round table.
