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While I'm really interested in what he's planning on doing with bitcoin, I don't get why people would donate to him. It's not like this dude is poor or something. lol.

P.S. As we speak, his wallet know holds 0.66679955 BTC

Source: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JDQ2Q1pP5jS8epKbCmifd5ZMoBqaGcMTH

I also can not understand what is special about this donation but people rapidly send him the money and despite the fact that very fast. On his account 0.71644283 BTC

I can't be bothered to figure out what this bloke's schtick is, though he seems to annoy lots and lots of people.

Even if I did develop an understanding, why the fuck should I give him any money for the ejaculations of his mind? Is he planning to give me some for reading them?

I did not get any donations as a inventor looks people like to have things in hand before handle you anything related to fiat.
I have to put my product on the market for people give their fiat in return of the service my tool will offer.
This guy just talks and receive money this thing is very strange to me.

Even so if I put my address here to get donations my post will be erased for some reason admin don't like.
My tool is in mouth health department hopefully will be a success ... On the papers everything look perfectly.

If anyone interested in became a partner can PM and we start from there.

 

I wish someone would do that to me too  :P I guess it's the name you make. Once you have a name you create loyal followers. People are generous. As we speak now the amount is: 0.72268666 BTC!

Here is the donation page by the way: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate/

I found other guy is doing the same on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvGs5bGwWiM)(video description):
https://daverubin.com/#donate
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MjT133uzRfN6CwnkyhXZ4d2vci9vEiBAN

I think its more a case of if you enjoy his lectures, why not send him a few pennies. there are tons of content creators who by no means can compare to the amount of free lectures and vids he put out. gonna be interesting to see what he comes up with as a competitor to Patreon, why didn't he go with Steemit or the like.

That makes sense. Is his lectures free at all? Genuinely curious. I  need to do research on the dude. All I've seen is him being on Joe Roegan's podcast.

Also, he should be using a SegWit address. 🤷

He has some views which I very much agree on, mainly regarding freedom of speech and political correctness, and some views which I think are outright crazy, such as his denial of climate change. A lot of people seem to really hate him for his views regarding freedom of speech and gender pronouns. He has loads of free material on YouTube - from appearances on various podcasts and news stations, to lectures and seminars.



I mean, that's pretty much the basis behind literature, music, or any other art form.

Never heard of this douche, I certainly won’t be sending him any of my hard earned money though.

I guess I don't really get the Patreon model.

A product or a film is something I'll consider paying for. Just existing and being unpleasant about various factions isn't really enough to compel me to deprive my ailing mother of food in their favour.

Never heard of him either, I would rather send donations to edward snowden instead. Goes to show though that BTC is another stream of revenue, people are more willing to give perhaps anonymously so bitcoin is a good way to collect funds

Is this news that everyone will start raising donations by utilizing the existence of bitcoin as a payment tool?
what is the real purpose of Jordan Peterson? so he really wants to use Bitcoin as his medium
I became tetarik to be able to raise donations with cryptocurrency based  ;D ;D

Support Dr. Peterson’s Projects (https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate/) explains his plans with funding. This seems to be his official site.

Note: never trust third-party websites when you're looking for a donation address!

He's quickly gaining popularity be being a well-spoken advocate against basically anything SJWs stand for. I like him!
I hate to admit it, but I first read about him on 9gag. This interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYvjt5lGX0) lead to the creation of many memes.
So you're saying......

This 'deplatforming' will lead to crypto exchanges doing the exact same thing. Indeed they do already - https://mobile.twitter.com/getongab/status/1081255271429681153

Exchanges will be the new gatekeepers in a way that deffo isn't the spirit of BTC. Let's hope P2P and decentralised exchanges become more of a thing. Of course the ideal scenario is the end of the need to cash out at all.

He is currently in a row with YouTube regarding censorship as well, over a video posted by his daughter. As such, he seems to be trying to move to a decentralized video service, and has just uploaded lots of his lectures, Q&As and interviews to BitTube. For the people who were interested in seeing more of his stuff, you can access it here: https://bit.tube/jbpeterson



This pisses me off, and is actually something Peterson touches on in several of his lectures, in regard to universities and "safe spaces". The whole point of universities is to be presented with new ideas, to encourage people to think for themselves, to grow as person by examining your believes and learning to defend them. If you try to silence everyone who says something you disagree with, then you will live your life as an infant.

I don't know much about Gab, but from what I understand it is largely used by neo-nazis and white supremacists. While I abhor these people and thoroughly disagree with what they have to say, we shouldn't be removing their right to say it, and Coinbase (or anyone else for that matter) shouldn't be deciding for us. Having said that, Coinbase are in a tricky situation, as being seen to support racist and hate groups could jeopardize their business. But silencing others, no matter how much you disagree with what they say, is not in the spirit of a free and decentralized system.

If you want to be a vile asshole expect others to not wish to enable you. No one's obligated.

While I'm fine with Coinbase giving scum the boot - it's their business, their choice to choose who they do business with and as soon as you deposit Bitcoin there you have left a free and decentralised system - it is a bit of a taster of things to come.

Exchanges are the blunt tool authorities will try to pin their attempts to enforce their will on. I wonder what happens if and when it becomes clear the need to exchange is starting to dwindle.

It's not much for someone like him. It's a good thing but I saw an interview with him where he claimed to be earning more than 80000 dollars a year from all the donations and speeches that he's giving and he's selling his book that more or less doubles it. Someone who gets more than 10 thousand a month won't even blink when he receives another 1 thousand a week in crypto donations.

in fact, absolutely anyone can make money in this market through donations because people themselves willingly give their money

As I write, there is an unconfirmed transaction. He now has over 1.4+BTC in his account, probably he felt the easiest way he could receive donations is through bitcoin, and someone who is an apologist of the bitcoin is trying to create public awareness about the bitcoin too.

It's strange for a guy like Peterson, who claims to be fighting for freedom, to cry about censorship when a private company doesn't want to have business with him. Youtube and Patreon don't have any obligations before him, they aren't government companies and they can't be counter as public space.

I agree with you both. These are private companies and can host, or refuse to host, whichever people and viewpoints they like. And yes, if you don't like their terms and conditions, you are free to stop using their service and move elsewhere. I just have a general dislike whenever anybody - be it a person, company, government, university, etc - tries to decide which ideas other people are and are not allowed to hear. I'm more than capable of deciding that for myself, thanks.

Yes. He used to (still does?) teach at a couple of extremely prestigious American and Canadian universities and almost every one of his courses is recorded and uploaded in their entirety on his Youtube channel; assuming it stays up.

He often makes it a point to say that he explicitly chooses not to put ads on his videos. People are likely just providing incentive for something they want to see continue, hence donations.


That's a good episode of the podcast. He should be using a SegWit address, but I imagine his son takes care of the technical aspect of most things; Bitcoin included. Blame Julian ;)

I believe the financial censorship that has been raging recently is going to cause a lot of big-names to seek something decentralized and without such capabilities. The reaction is going to be much more potent than the action, in this particular case.

The fact that your political beliefs, or failure to comply with another's can result in your financial ruin simply because Paypal, Patreon, Youtube, etc. refuse to host those ideas means that Bitcoin is looking really good going into 2019.

I enjoy Jordan Peterson
Listened to all his podcasts and have never donated via patreon

I will likely send him $5 worth of BTC

Not sure why people hate on him for accepting BTC donations

Well just a bit drama of it putting some btc on his wallet so that everyone will going to follow. Charities and other foundations work were also considered as business. You can nake much money on it by asking people to donate so that you can continue your good deeds by putting a video showing how selfless you are and kind. People will get sympathy and will donate. I just wish that I was wrong. LOL

Maybe he gives something different for people live, so people are willing to donate some money to him. We know that if we can give something benefits to other people, we will get the other benefits, it's a law attraction. We don't know what actually he did before, but we only know that he accepts the donation from many people and day by day, the donation amount still increase. As we speak, I see his balance 1.43300837 BTC. Wow, its fast collecting money from the people :D

I believe you didn't get the context, and how significant this is for Bitcoin and censorship-resistance. Jordan Peterson is being deplatformed and censored, Bitcoin will help him keep going. A demonstration of the power of a decentralized form of "money".

Not quite. He is voluntary leaving Patreon as a protest against Patreon deplatforming other people based on their political views. Also, the man worked full time as a professor of psychology at the universities of Toronto and Harvard, as well as having a full clinical practice of 20 patients a week. He gave up both to instead give guest lectures, interviews, Q&As, panels, author books, etc, which all pay well. Any time he wanted to, he could go back in to private clinical practice, which also pays very well. Sure, he was probably making a lot of money through Patreon, but he's not exactly counting on donations to "help him keep going".

But having the same effect if he starts accepting Bitcoin, and tell the users who were banned from Patreon, to follow his move as a protest against censorship, and a journey towards censorship-resistance.

The honey badger does not care. 8)

I guess some people are drawn to people who think out of the box and when they value their outlook on life and their views on controversial topics, then they feel obligated to donate money to them. 

He is now turning away from Patreon and trying to create a new platform where freedom of speech is encouraged, no matter how controversial it might be.  :P

True, and he is a fairly well known (albeit controversial) speaker. Perhaps this is where the next wave of adoption comes from - speakers and users abandoning platforms pushing their own agenda of censorship and moving towards decentralized platforms, and taking all their fans with them. Having said that, in that scenario I would fully expect the opponents of these controversial figures to start claiming that bitcoin is enabling hate-speech, or something equally stupid.

Currently it's over 1 BTC now, https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JDQ2Q1pP5jS8epKbCmifd5ZMoBqaGcMTH.
But I won't trust this address that they are all coming from donations, there could be some trick to hype people in donating, just like crypto its anonymous, so it could be fabricated though.

I am sure that that members of this forum is not the man's market but one thing is sure that he can be doing well accepting Bitcoin for donations for the work he is doing and whether we agree with things he is into what can not be denied is that the donations are coming. Well, we have to understand that with billions of people all around the world one can easily find the niche he can work with and a captured audience can be find elsewhere even with view we don't agree or may not be mainstream. I am sure that there can be others that can inspired to also use Bitcoin as the medium to accept donations (and I think there are already many doing this but of course their success may not be worth mentioning).

Well he might have probably seeing the easy as to doing transactions with bitcoin

This would get more authors or others in various sectors to get involved even more

This is all bitcoin that's about to get immediately dumped.
Donors are contributing to price drops.
Unless Peterson starts actively working towards merchant adoption, that is...

An easy response would be, "What Bitcoin enables is freedom to transact with anyone, to and from anywhere in the world, without banks, or middlemen, or the need to trust anyone".

It truly works, and the blockchain is the only type of ledger you can buy drugs with. Try it! Hahaha.

I would not send him any BTC but the guy seems to know what he is talking about and most of the time makes logical arguments. If you have never heard of the guy I suggest you watch his interviews with Joe Rogan. The guy who got Elon Musk to smoke weed on his podcast.

Just youtube Joe Rogan Experience and Jordan Peterson, you might not agree with his vision but maybe you will learn something from him.

the donation is too small for only $ 800 and it is in the form of bitcoin, so it seems that it does not have significance and is not too special, at least donations that are suitable for bitcoin must have more than 1 bitcoin so that the world will be in an uproar.

Did you check the address at all  https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JDQ2Q1pP5jS8epKbCmifd5ZMoBqaGcMTH , the address has more than 1.4BTC currently close $6000, this is interesting because to me it seems people are just sending funds to the address just to sympathize with him or maybe to promote BTC and thanks goodness now the transaction fees have gone down

Peterson is demonstrating poor judgement.

The "political views" of the person he's defending are all part of a curious trend to (in effect) demonstrate that the only people that need free speech in 21st century faux-liberalism are football gang members and corporate apologists.

"Liberal? How selfish. And racist!" is the effect that these people are achieving in practice. Peterson is foolish to associate with such people, which is strange when he otherwise seems so smart.

The people think that he, through his research and help, as a psychologist deserved for these donations, or maybe they think that he will spend this money on new discoveries in psychology. Nobody forces anyone here, people just won't throw money off to someone. Everything has its own explanation.

Why on earth would this guy be taking donations when he is already a millionaire and can fund any projects he wants with his own money.  I never liked this guy and think he is absolutely crazy.  Just another rich person trying to protect the status quo.

He accepts donations because people send donations, it really is that simple.
Now why people donate to an already wealthy man - maybe his knowledge helped them in their life and they want to return the favor. However if you're considering a donation, please remember that there's other causes your money can go to - lifechanging surgeries of kids in 3rd world countries, orphans, research of uncurable illnesses, etc...
Peterson would gladly become even richer for his work, but he doesn't really NEED your money.

Most of you guys really have no idea who he is.   No idea how he has changed so many peoples life's (including mine) and influenced true good in this world.   Dr. Peterson being involved in bitcoin is good for bitcoin and crypto, lopsided win for us, not the other way around.  He deserves 100 BTC and i hope he gets them.  We should influence him to spend them as BTC though and not exchange for CAD or USD. 

I bet he is a great influencer that is why. Being a clinical psychologist and a professor with some media interviews about his views in life will definite change a person's visions in existence.
Considering also that he is a great author. Thus, people idolizes him for being a positive enthusiast. Bringing optimistic approach with honest objectives in living.

At this moment the wallet is holding 2.21576706 BTC which is huge just from December to this moment that show's Jordan Peterson as a great influencer with his books and motivational speaking. But what the donation is for is what we are not clear about.