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I have been quite fortunate in life. I've always been super interested in new technology which led me getting involved in bitcoin in 2010. I obtained a substantial amount and made quite a bit from it. I'm currently worth $26 million, My finances are $2million in cash and bonds., $10million in stocks, and the remaining in bitcoin which is around $14million in current prices. I'm already an old person so the $2million in cash and bonds is more than enough to last me for the rest of my life.

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I've been able to buy everything I have ever wanted and knowing that I'm not getting any younger I would like to give back to society. I don't have any children and no living family members so I'm 100 % sure I want to donate the majority of my wealth to good causes. I have done a lot of research on charities but I'm also looking for suggestions for smaller foundations and lesser known causes

I want to hear what causes are close to your heart.  I already posted in some other places but want to hear your suggestions on how this wealth will be best used before my time is past.

are you a nigerian prince?

Maybe you should actually read my post, I'm not asking for anything.  i've come to accept the very real fact that I don't have many years left to live.

Exactly what came into my mind when reading OP but guess he isn't a prince yet since he didn't ask for some cash to send his wealth lol.

OP since you don't have much time left to live (based on your words) you might consider donating some of your wealth to the development of the forum used the donate (https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html) menu also recently the community have been discussing on charity program (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5150882.msg51354271#msg51354271) you can write to theymos to be a major sponsor.

I donated a few times to The Water Project[1] simply because I find the water crisis on poor countries like Africa quite devastating. I mean, clean drinkable water should be accessible for everyone but unfortunately, these people aren't that fortunate.

Anyway, this is just a suggestion. As always, dyor. :P

P.S. They accept Bitcoin through BitPay.

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[1] https://thewaterproject.org/

since you love bitcoin and you claim to have amassed your wealth because of it maybe you could start donating to different bitcoin-related projects that have been working for free and have been working hard to make bitcoin better all these years. there are lots of small projects to big projects that you can find on GitHub and Project Development board. i won't introduce anything because it would look like advertisement/begging but you might have favorite open source projects that you use or have seen. donate some to those.

Maybe you can try to donate your $1 million of money (or more) to various crowdfunding projects. In my country, there is some crowdfunding website such as KitaBisa, where anyone can list their project, funding target and so on. I bet you can nearly help all project listed here with ease.

You could also send that money to help open source development of some projects. Bitcoin was already mentioned, so I guess you can also donate to Linux, Krita, or other open source projects which most of the time lacks funding. You can also 'donate' that money via Patreon to artist/anyone which product something that you supports or like. You can also donate it to a social business foundation run by Muhammad Yunus.

Note: I'm not related to any business or services I've mentioned above. However, I did use or contribute to those sites once in a while. Do your own research, never forget it.

It is going to be difficult to believe you for someone who got involved with bitcoin in 2010 but you just registered in this forum in May 2019. This looks scammy.

https://news.bitcoin.com/6-philanthropic-projects-that-accept-cryptocurrency/
https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-donate-charity-using-bitcoin/
http://bitcoinforcharity.com/bitcoin-charity-list/
https://blog.wetrust.io/12-nonprofits-that-accept-cryptocurrency-504e4285622b

You also might look at information about The Pineapple Fund, which is an anonymous person who donated about $55 million in bitcoins to charities recommended by people on Reddit and Twitter.

Don't judge based on OP date of registration on this forum becasue my own case was like that, so many of us knew Bitcoin without getten involved into the happenings of this forum. I possessed Bitcoin since 2015 but got into this forum late in 2018 and stay active in 2019, please based on your rank, it will not be professional if OP is be judge based on his/her registration date without looking into what he/she stated as a good course for him/her to donate.

Nothing in OP looks scamming and let's not discourage Op becasue of our instinct toward him/her.

Well you never know right? He could be an active member on here but doesn't want to use his main account to avoid people tracing who he is.

Message to OP, I know this is a bitcoin forum but why don't u try funding other promising projects too like Monero? https://forum.getmonero.org/

Oh. Weird. Someone into bitcoin since 2010 and is not a member of this forum.

But if this is serious then try travelling the world if you still can. And you will see what's best for your money.

Emancipation of Mimi, can you sign message with some of your bitcoin address as proof that you really possesses amount of coins you are talking about? That's actually the only way that users of this forum believe that you have serious intentions, since we have such posts from time to time, but nothing happens at the end.

If you need help with message sign : How to sign a message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0)

Here is also one way to help people with your bitcoins : Bitcointalk Charity Program - Give Hope To Everyone $1 Is A Big Thing For Them (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124375.0)

What’s the deal with everyone accusing OP? :P

He is literally just asking for charities and projects to donate. If I had millions left, I would do the same thing. And I absolutely wouldn’t want to compromise my privacy and security by signing messages or publishing my BTC address for the sake of getting believed by some random dudes in a cryptocurrency forum.

Just chill. In the worst case he is just a troll.

First: you can expect a lot of begging :P

Have you seen the Pineapple Fund (https://pineapplefund.org/)? If not, it's a good start to see what someone who donated 5104 BTC did with his money.
To be taken serious, he started with a signed message. That proves ownership of the funds. People make up all sorts of claims without being able to back them up.

I like this suggestion. Coindesk (https://www.coindesk.com/hard-core-fund-collects-50-btc-in-china-to-support-bitcoin-developers) has a recent article on Bitcoin Core funding, which has always been a bit of a problem. Miners take the money, not developers.

As far as I know, the forum doesn't need money.

What kind of privacy and security are you talking about? He is not make his account on this forum with his real name, address or with something like that, so signing message would not endanger anything. Unless you think our two admins would check his IP address (if he is not using TOR, VPN) and made a great effort to find him and take his coins from him ::)

This is not what the OP is asking for, and the forum certainly doesn't need any money. That was already said many times by theymos. This forum holds hundreds of bitcoins.

Maybe someone is able to connect an address with his real identity and perhaps OP would prefer to keep to himself his intentions of donating his bitcoins, or to whom he would donate them. There are many legitimate reasons why someone would want to compartmentalize their identities.

OP, look at Pineapple fund (it was already mentioned above) if you're looking for ideas where to donate.

This is an old Nigerian scammers trick. "I have millions and I want to invest in your project" Just read some letters from here and you will understand what I'm talking about. https://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm  If you will offer him any business, he will accept it. But,..... then he or "his" "lawyer" will contact you asking for contract "legislation" fees e.t.c.. "before releasing funds"  If you will pay that "fees" you will never hear from that dude again. Don't waste your time. And he received merits for his post.... That is really ridiculous. If you don't believe me, ask him to sign a message from a wallet with even 1 BTC in it.

Nobody's falling for that I hope ::)

OP might be trolling or trying to pull a scam, but it's not really outside the realm possibility with how much the price of BTC has increased.

This is quite close to my heart. I try donating to Akshay Patra whenever I have something to spare.

The Akshay Patra. (https://www.akshayapatra.org/) If you watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sWHjNe4T_Q), you cannot stop yourself from giving something to them. A mere $20 can help in feeding a poor hungry child for a year.

I think you can be of great help to them. A very minuscule portion of your wealth can impact a vast audience through this initiative. If you need more help in knowing about the initiative or connecting with the authorities of this foundation, feel free to DM me and I will arrange for all meetings.

That should be interesting. As he claims to have so many millions, a proof of having a few thousand dollars would be nice.

We are so used to scammers around here that we need to be vigilant

I call BS. Of course, I’d like to believe in the power of rainbows, with pots of gold at the end, and so forth. It would make a nice story, one of those that hits the headlines and such, but sadly, here the story seems to come to an end …

Either you also posted on Reddit just over 5 months ago under a different name (@EvanDelrona), and made 6 Million $ worth of BTC in that gap(*), or this is simply a case of plagiarized copy/spin/paste (see https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/a9zkd1/millionaire_looking_for_good_causes/), posted on the 27th of December 2018:

(*) BTC on the date of publishing the Reddit post was around 3798 $. On the date of your post on Bitcointalk (yesterday) it was something like 9917 $. That means that 8M$ in BTC at the time of posting on Reddit should be something like 20,8 M$ (not 14 M$ stated in the OP).

http://archive.fo/7QrMG
http://archive.fo/kmnU0

I've already given quite a bit of BTC away since that post.

My bitcointalk.org username is posted on my reddit account under profile information.  https://www.reddit.com/user/EvanDelrona

Ok, that links the Reddit account and the Bitcointalk account, although it’s understandably nearly impossible to believe this to be a true story, and I for one am particularly weary of this sort of stories.
 
If it were true, to add credibility and get proper focus answers, it would be interesting to see some proof without doxing yourself. On the other hand, if you’re simply trolling, then there is nothing to prove to begin with.

@Emancipation of Mimi: to take away all doubt: can you sign a message from a Bitcoin address that holds a considerable amount? If you're legit, it sucks being questioned like this, but unfortunately people make up all kinds of stories for all kinds of reasons.

If you don't know how to sign a message, see How to sign a message?! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0).
If you don't want to expose your Bitcoin address in public, you're welcome to send me a PM and I'll vouch for whatever you sign without publishing the address.

This is becoming funny. Do you still believe an fairy tales ? I bet 1 BTC that he will not sign anything, because he does not have any bitcoins. I already explained who this dude is. (Probably) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5156712.msg51551195#msg51551195


Post at least one TXID of your any "give away" transaction.

You had 20 billion,gave some BTC, and now you have 26millions?

bitcoin price went up after that reddit post, about tripled in value.  That is how his net worth grew even after donating bitcoins.

As long as OP doesn't ask for funds from us.... I guess it doesn't matter if we believe in him or not xD

OP, you can donate to some charities specially those who are dealing with kids and cancer and their welfare, schooling, education and providing them with a very good life.

As you mentioned, you don't have much time, nothing would feel better than to donate to a cause that nurtures fighter kids that is fighting for their lives striving for a better life.

If theres a God, he will not be happier. And you will get forever blessings and prayers from the parents of the kids even when you pass away.

I hope if you are true, you donate it to some good causes that involves the most innocent and defenseless of the society :)

I can smell bull shit here to be honest.

You say you got most of your fortune from Bitcoin, so I would think that it would be the most appropriate thing to "Pay it forward" to the technology that gave you that fortune.  ;)

If it was me, I would make it exciting and I will launch a competition for the person or group who can make a video of their project on how to promote Bitcoin to the masses.  ;)  <They must place a promotional video of what they are doing on YouTube with their Bitcoin address and then you can judge the entries>

A $1 000 000 prize for the best project, will get massive attention from the media and that in it self will be beneficial to everyone. Hire a small team of people to do the marketing and adverticements on social media and pay them in Bitcoin.  ;)

You probably gonna find a lot of places to donate money.
What we (me and my wife) do after we got our first kid is to donate money to kids with health issues.

There is nothing better than to give a sick innocent child a chance to live.
You gonna feel much better (worthy as a human being)  after that, trust me.

Our cases we find on the TV,  because I now they are true stories. There are so many kids waiting for expensive live saving treatments.

Thats pretty cool OP, unfortunately there are a lot of negative people on this forum that can't imagine anyone would do anything out of kindness.  Usually it is a reflection of themselves because they can't imagine even giving a dollar away of their money.

Also its not like this guy is crazy wealthy, maybe if he was claiming to be worth a few billion it might be far fetched.

I don't think questioning what some random person on the internet says is negative. If someone wants to give to charity then there are thousands of charities that they can donate to but there's no need to make a song and dance about it and I think that's what people are questioning and I think it's being logical to do so. Call me cynical if you wish but this looks like a complete attention seeking troll post and I'm not surprised people are saying it also looks like a Nigerian scam email. As they say Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Maybe Bill Gates will sign up here sometime asking for advice on what charities to donate to. If he did I don't think people would be amiss if they didn't believe that Billy Boy was looking to give away some funds. If op wanted to prove us all wrong he could easily do so but I doubt he will and until then I'll remain cynical of his true intentions.

This sounds like a scam introduction :D. People with any serious money never discloses how much they have because its dangerous.
Simple as that, be careful here ;)

?  You can look up the net worth amount on every famous actor, athlete, and businessman.   No reason to live like a hermit because a few outlier events that happen.  Do you see people like Vitalik or Roger Ver being kidnapped or attacked? No you don't, stop being so paranoid, that is no way to live life.

Good to see still we have some good souls on this earth. :)

I don't know much of the charities online but personally lot of people ask me for something and I will help them as much as I can whenever I got the opportunity so if you are seeing someone then give some money.

You also can look for charities on your locale and research about them before donating because most of them will be scammers.

Not everyone who's rich is a famous person. You also don't know about the precautions (if any) Vitalik or Ver are taking. They're also famous enough that it wouldn't be a smart idea trying to kidnap them as more resources would likely be devoted to find someone known.

Many many of this people above u mentioned got their earning public anyway. Even when they won't disclose exact amount you know they have millions of $ for example. Second group of people you mentioned are people that disclose that information to get something from it. Look im wealthy man, so i know what im saying or im successful so listen to me etc.

I am a music therapist and have found it to be the most healing technique you can provide for people of all ages.
I would like to start a foundation for music therapy for the following

1. All school age children
2. Kids and adults of all ages with special needs
3. Adults with varying conditions, emotionally, or physically

Who would have thought that trying to donate money to a good cause would be met with so much suspicion and hostility?

If you are a fraud it would be quickly comprehended when you start asking for money..to temporarily cover your own money, currently unavailable.

But I thank you for reaching out and your efforts to be generous.

Maybe because millionaires do not come to this forum and offer money just like that, and there is no reason why we should believe that this is truth, until proven otherwise. Some others have suggested (including me) that OP is sign message with at least part of his wealth, publicly or privately to someone of trusted members. This has not happened so far, and there is no one in this forum who can confirm that he has got donation from OP.

I also check OP Reddit post, and there the situation is identical - he post some 6 months ago and not a single user is say thanks for your donation or anything like that.

Since you ask for help, feel free to post here in the event of something positive.

I don't think this user is trying to scam, but he is very likely trolling and has no intention of sending his money anywhere. Also, would you send me money if I asked for it under the guise of helping a charity? You shouldn't unless I provide pretty good proof that the money will get to where I say it will and even then I'd still be suspicious. Dozens of users/scammers come here just to try collect money for charity when in most instances it will go straight into their pocket. We actually get waves of these spammers every time a natural disaster happens and they're just trying to prey on users goodwill and take advantage of human misery/tragedy to enrich themselves and it doesn't get much lower than that. We also have no reason to believe any money sent to you will go anywhere other than yourself and that's why we shouldn't just trust random people on the internet because this board is rife with unscrupulous characters who literally would steal from charity if they could.

Thanks, you're right. Ok, Forewarned is forwarded. And I will post here when I get something going with my project.

Seen one billionaire that was giving millions to random gofundme campaigns.  Things like this do happen, I mean there are thousands of billionaires in the world and lots of people worth over 10 million.  They have more than enough money for 10 lifetimes, might as well give some away you know.