In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Bootstrap plan 2.0 -- a series of tax incentives issued by a Puerto Rican government -- caught a wave of Blochain entrepreneurs and investors looking for a Hub to host their decentralized ideas, projects, and capital.

1. PUERTO RICO
The Enchanted Blockchain Island

2. WHAT IS THIS LECTURE
ABOUT
• Situation overview
• Opinions from within
• Solutions journalism
• Near future vision

3. THIS LECTURE IS NOT
ABOUT
• How Blockchain works
• If Crypto is merely a tulip mania
• Deep quantitative analysis

4. WHO AM I?
Writer
Entrepreneur
Documentarian

5. HOW IT
STARTED
Puertopia documentary

6. PUBLIC OPINION: PUERTO
RICO
• Most of the Blockchain news which involve Puerto Rico
seem to follow the same path provided by The NY
Times article: “Making Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico”
from Feb 2 of this year
• There are occupants and there is local population

7. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT
TWITTER REACTIONS
FOLLOWING THE ARTICLE

10. WHAT IF THERE ARE
MORE THAN TWO
CAMPS?

11. SOLUTION JOURNALISM
• Amplify contradictions
• Widen the lens
• Get to people’s motivation

12. CONTEXT: PUERTO RICO

13. PUERTO RICO
Location and population

14. PUERTO RICO
Political status and unemployment

15. PUERTO RICO
Hurricanes and energy

16. PUERTO RICO
Education and brain drain

17. PUERTO RICO
Local startup culture (gateway to LATAM)

18. PUERTO RICO
Debt and JONES ACT

19. PUERTO RICO
Bootstrap plan

20. WHO ARE THE PEOPLE
MOVING TO PUERTO
RICO?

21. HOW LONG THEY ARE IN
CRYPTO?
statistics by Jordan Clive (www.jordanclive.com)

22. POLITICAL VIEWSstatistics by Jordan Clive (www.jordanclive.com)

23. ANNUAL INCOME
statistics by Jordan Clive (www.jordanclive.com)

24. THEIR DISTRIBUTION

25. BLOCKCHAIN AND FINTECH

26. Bootstrap 2.0 (Tax haven)
BLOCKCHAIN AND
FINTECH

27. Real Estate market opportunities
BLOCKCHAIN AND
FINTECH

28. BLOCKCHAIN AND
FINTECH
Product adoption speed

29. WHAT'S NEXT?
QUESTIONS TO FURTHER
INVESTIGATE
• What will happen to Puerto Rican debt
• Tourism situation
• Real estate prices
• Local culture
• Status of Puerto Rico
• Maritime trade - special economic zone?

30. THANK YOU
• Further reading
• Special mentions
• www.kichmedia.com
• www.kich.wtf
• www.weblegacy.tv
• Special mentions: www.jordanclive.com and
www.teamhouse.io

31. Q&A

32. ARTICLES TO REFERENCE
• Complicating the narratives by Amanda Ridley Medium
• A Century of US Intervention created the immigration
crisis by Mark Tseng-Putterman Medium
• Puerto Rico Blockchain Transplants by Jordan Clive
• Don’t let a good crisis go to waste by Christopher
Mellon New America
• Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto by Nellie Bowles Rico
New York Times
• I survived the Eternal Boy Playground, Will Puerto
Rico? Bailey Reutzel CoinDesk