Final Project – KeeganD

1. Background:

For this project, I, along with a friend, organized the University of Maine’s first Blockchain & Crypto club. Since a week or two after my initial Intent for this project, we’ve been meeting twice a week. refining how we run it, and recruiting members and spreading the word. This club was intended to provide a resource for the students that have an interest in everything they’ve been hearing in the news and social media lately about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies, but who don’t necessarily know how, or just don’t want to, jump into it themselves. We split our focus between the technology, how it works, and it’s practical applications and the finance side; trading, investing, etc.

1. Explanation:

We had been meeting in Chadbourne Hall, 420, Tuesdays and Thursdays, which we have recently switched to Mondays and Thursdays after finding a lot of people that worked better for. We meet for about an hour, sometimes going over when the discussions good, we’ve set up a club account on both TradingView and Binance. Tradingview is basically a weird hybrid of social media and finance charting, it’s a place to post investment and trade ideas, and see what the community thinks of it, additionally, it just as super powerful charting tools.

Binance is an actual exchange where you buy and sell Crypto. We plan to keep a log of ideas and purchases through our TradingView account next year when the club is in full force, (as right now we are “unofficial” due to missing the deadline for new clubs, however, that seems to be our only barrier, we are on track for next year,) and actually make purchase and trades on our Binance account every club meeting. This serves as a powerful way of both providing first-hand experience trading, with 0 risks or barrier to entry to any new club members, and provide a reason to want to come back every day, to check in on our account and put your input into the next trade.

To help stay connected we have established a discord server (similar to slack,) and to also help recruit new members, we’ve put together both a public facebook page as well as a group for the club.

1. Credits:

This club was Co-Founded by Claudio VanDuijn and myself, and I would like to thank Neil Shelley for being our official “faculty adviser” and Jack Lampinen and Tyler Rollins for helping get the club off the ground initially.

1. Simple Budget

I’ve put $50 into the club to finance our Binance Account and give us something to trade with. Aside from that, the only expenses we’ve incurred were printing fees for club posters. Next year, we should have actual funding as an official club, so hopefully, that will be covered next time around.