Hey guys! Together with Trevor , one of the Kinny tip bot founders I am really excited to announce the first UK Kin community meet-up!

Why? Starting April 2018, when i went to New York at the ambassadors meet-up, i always wanted to make this happen. But it always seemed that kin is not ready! I feel kin is ready now more then ever, with the mainnet launch, with developers joining the ecosystem, with exchanges, wallets integration and marketing efforts just around the corner!

When? I propose Friday 1st of February 7Pm as our date!

Where? I propose citizenM Tower of London Hotel lobby bar , 40 Trinity Square, London EC3N 4DJ , just outside of the Tower Hill Station! I already meet Alex Frenkel at this location After the TNW conference and we had a nice chat about the future of kin!

What to expect? This is a 100% community driven meet-up, made to connect the London and Uk community, not funded by Kin Foundation, so any costs will be covered individually! Not a problem, some beers and a good chat is all we are looking for! In the end, a decentralised community shouldn’t rely only on Kin Foundation to start doing things!

I really hope we can have at least 5–10 people joining our first meet-up, so if there is any feedback or suggestions or you just want to confirm, please send me a message on reddit! Looking forward meeting our UK community friends!

Before I start this , let me introduce myself: I am Bogdan Popa, a romanian living in London UK. I’ve been with kin since the TDE and went like many of you from excitement to disappointment and then excitement again. This is my first medium article so bear with me, I am working to become better every day:)

When Yoel, our community manager sent me the confirmation email telling me that i will be part of the NYC Kin Meet up early April i got mixed feelings. I was super happy to be a part of it, but worried about how an online community can engage in real life and be creative in such a short period of time. After our NYC arrival and a great meatball dinner in a cool Soho bar with some of the guys, it took me a little to fully get it. The connection was real , all these guys flying from 4 continents had a common purpose: to promote kin , the crypto project many of you spent time watching closely in the last months. And we all have a story that brought us to NYC, so Yoel gave us the opportunity to stand up and share a few words about us. By the way, the moderation team is way cooler in real life than you thought and a bonus..they cannot ban you in real life :)))

Passing a piece of knitting wool from one to another we shared our short biographies, our fun facts and we created a network of stories. As the vast majority of us were just a reddit , twitter or telegram username without a face , getting to see each other was kind of emotional. But one guy stood out as the most anticipated face to know. Dillon King, aka The Kin Yoda, one of our community’s most engaged members. Starting as a reddit contributor and also moving to telegram, Dillon managed to stand out as a clear and positive voice, slaying FUD like a pro.

And his respect among the community members was noticed also by the coindesk reporter Brady Dale:

“ And it was clear that certain levels of rapport had been established. This particular hit home during the (not really necessary) ice-breaking round when one community member in particular introduced himself. ’Hi, I’m Dillon, ’ Baltimore’s Dillon King said. Everyone broke into applause. ’And I don’t actually look like Yoda.’ ”

So probably many of you asked yourselves …what is an ambassador??!! Well, we tried to get an answer and found out that an ambassador is the mortar to link the bricks while building the Kin Foundation. Our mission is to be here and help each new member with the information they need in order to understand why kin is so special. But such a big group needs leaders and Dillon seem to me the best candidate to articulate our thoughts into content. I would like your feedback on this. I always considered that the easiest choices in life are the natural ones, and having Dillon as a strong voice to link around seems that way. I would like Ted to see this and transform his respect for Dillon’s work into a chance for him to be part of the team.

Moving forward, the ambassadors will work on: developing content (articles, audio, video) to educate the newcomers, hosting meet ups in their local relevant communities(targeting big cities first) and many others. So if you think you want help us grow the communities and you think you are relevant for the community and also here for the long run …who knows…maybe you will be the next kin ambassador.

So i hope i got you excited about our group and i want to use Fred Wilson’s words to end this “ If they don’t laugh at you, you’re not doing it right” ! So let the others laugh about you, calling you an idiot cause “ 10 trillion coins bro”. I will use an Oscar Wilde quote to give a bit of romance to this piece of knowledge: “ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” Whenever you thought there is a good moment to get behind something big, now is the time to get behind KIN. From The Ambassadors: We salute you, we want each of you more engaged and more knowledgeable everyday and we look forward to the moment when we will all meet as a big family.