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As you Can See from different World News people are dying By Covid19, And Despite the Success of china against it, but the world must come together to fight as the world problem. As an Investor, entreperenur, and businessman in Crypto, I see Opportunity for the Bitcoin Community to show the power of it by the donation from the platform and let the world know about it, this will increase the number of people who will trust on Bitcoin and Crypto In general which we all need in order for the people to have financial freedom,

I suggest that it will be good if the platform itself (Bitcointalk) will provide BTC Address for that Donation to avoid theft or unrated address from unknown and after Contribute enough the transaction of exchange to get tools for help have to be done from those stores which accept Bitcoin, that help will be for the currently most affected country/countries

I Belive the Community will help and Understand 

Your idea isn't bad, but most likely theymos (admin) isn't going to raise money for donations. Probably he will not involved with any kind of fund related matter on forum. There is so many reason and that's why admins never hold users fund. But I believe forum have enough fund (raised from donations, forum ads auction & fees) to donate for most effected countries. But question is, will government accept bitcoin donations? If not then nothing can be done. If government accept bitcoin donations then it will be a positive move for whole bitcoin community. But don't expect raise funds from community via forum admin.

I also see the challenge from the governments, and sure we have a long way to go for them to accept bitcoin but I believe this is one among the best move to get new people whose later will influence many governments 

It's a good idea, we pray against lockdown in Nigeria, otherwise, people are going to die more from hunger than the virus itself due to past years of government failure and treasury looting in the oil-rich West Africa nation. I doubt Theymos will be interested in this suggestion, he leads an anonymous life, so he wants to keep his reputation intact.

Very laudable idea, the Covid-19 pandemic has become a global  fight for everyone. We are all at risk irrespective of the part of the world where one resides. I believe if there is a way where bitcointalk as a community can raise funds through donations to support in a way to fight this virus, it would really help. However there are challenges, how and where to spend the donations at the end of the day is a big issue.

I also don't expect that theymos would start collecting money. But maybe one or few trusted Bitcointalk members could start such initiative. I don't know how much money here on Bitcointalk we can collect, probably not that much, but I think even small donation matters in this situation. And yeah, I doubt that governments would accept Bitcoin donations. But maybe we can donate through charity organisations, there are some which accept Bitcoin.

But how can you be sure that the donations will be utilized to reach the appropriate and affected countries and patients?
Or maybe a member or members can be involved with WHO in collaboration to ensure it is utilized well to the target groups and to rehabilitate affected country.

Supposed to say that theymos did collect some donation to help fight the pandemic, on what organization do you think we need to send it to? WHO? CDC? Italy? Accumulating of funds isn't really the problem here, it's the one where you send it too. And these organizations does not always accept donations all of a sudden just because someone is willing to give them. I know a lot of us is in the spirit of giving and helping and I don't think money is always the solution on problems like this one. Just by staying at home and observing social distancing can be a big help for your country to reduce the spread. Us intervening right now is the last thing they want us to do.

There's very little chance that theymos will be interested in doing this, it's simply not in his style, and if you check his recent post history, he doesn't think that this pandemic is actually serious. And if someone wants to donate Bitcoin, some big organizations already started receiving Bitcoin donations. I don't think that the virus should be viewed as an opportunity to get good publicity, this is what (some) politicians do, and we should be better than them.

This would be a great initiative on the part of the crypto community. Also, we can take advantage of this to increase the exposure of bitcoin and the whole blockchain technology because i am sure people would be asking what crypto is and how it came into existence. Also, these donations are going to help the people who are in need of funds to take care of themselves in times like these.

Why wait for Theymos or this community?

We can do our share by donating, lots of organizations are readily accepting crypto as donations already.

I think this is unnecessary to run a donation campaign moderated by the forum administration to collect money for fight against covid19. Anybody can submit a direct donation to any government he thinks it deserves it, in any usual form, not necessairely in btc. The first goal here is to help fighting the virus and not spread the world about bitcoin.
Make it easy by convert your btc into fiat and send them to one of the government's box dedicated for donations.

However, bitcoin has already offered a great solution by its caracteristic as electronic cashless system which help people make touchless money exchange.

That's a good initiative, but there's no need to make any donations for the current situation from this community IMO, every country is sufficient for their financial needs, this is not a disaster like a volcano eruption near a community, a typhoon, forest fire where lots of victims and affected. And not with the mods or admins, you can make fund raise for this with you or anyone who is interested but theymos won't do this.

This idea is really good, by this way the bitcoin will be more familiar to anyone, they will know how bitcoin or other cryptocurrency can help our country especially with this time, when crisis are still happening in our world, it is really good because it will help a lot of people who is suffering from the virus, in a way that a lot of people got temporarily unemployed, there are so many poor people who really afraid of this virus because for sure they will suffer from hunger because of being lack of money, but I don't think that admins of this forum won't raise fund for the people who is affected by the virus.

My unpopular opinion:

If you are planning to help, just help in silence. This is not really the time to be thinking about promoting Bitcoin and and other cryptocurrencies through donations. I can't imagine to see a donation with "Donation from Bitcointalk community" label on it. The move is just the same with politicians taking advantage of the situation by having their faces and their names placed on the relief goods/items they give to their constituents.

Hold on. China hasn't surely stopped the coronavirus stuff. They are just trying to isolate the numbers by not providing to WHO.  There is no solid proof of China stoppage because it's next to impossible to stop the coronavirus spread so quickly and suddenly halt the process. Being vaccine industry employee I have worked on so many articles and there is no clue on how this can be stopped immediately.

Speaking about the DONATIONS . .

Yes, donating can help but this donation shall be given to R&D facilities where work on the Corona is going on.

You might say donations shall be given to patient treatment, hospital but prevention is far better than cure.

In this case prevention is to look for vaccine, send it worldwide and immunise everyone.

However, this will need huge amount of money as cost of highly qualified equipment required in biotech firms are upto the sky.

So if any donations are going to be done by this forum then it has to go to research facility first.

bitcointalk is not a charitable organization and unless you can find one that is transparent and has a good history you won't be able to get any donations because of the large number of scams that have been happening over the past couple of weeks using all kinds of methods!

the conclusion is based on the statistics they report. the new cases found per day has reduced from a couple of thousands per day to a couple of dozen per day. basically when the chart here (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/) called Total Coronavirus Cases plateaus it shows a significant reduction and signals the end of the spread being near.

There's already a BTC charity campaign launched by the Italian Red Cross using the crypto crowdfunding and charity platform Helperbit.You  can donate there,if you want.Bitcointalk,as a forum and an active community, has other purposes,one of them is to provide information about blockchain technology,Bitcoin and altcoins,so more people can educate themselves and learn about the opportunities of the crypto industry.
It's OK to donate coins if you want,but we are not,and we shouldn't be,a charity foundation.

Unnecessary. Doing as such would most likely lead to additional popularity of the platform, but it isn't really advertised outside ( or there is no need to ) and additionally, if you wanted to help to fight the virus, there are already a lot of other avenues for such. I don't know for other countries, but a few countries' red cross groups have already started fundraising activities. Just recently Italy has already achieved its initial goal just after 3 days and is now continuing the said activity with an increased goal. The Dutch Red Cross also accepts donations through Bitcoin. A lot more trustworthy since it's an official group worldwide, which really helps avoid all the scams and such happening cause of the virus.

You have a good idea. This forum is the best place where all crypto enthusiast all around the world unite and show our support to eradicate this pandemic. However, that's the problem as — we are too big to handle such kind of fund raising. Who is willing here to stand as the leader? Who is willing to assess the funds entering? Who are going to buy supply of necessities especially alcohol and masks? No offense but I'm getting a little bit skeptical that someone here will volunteer himself which is understandable because it was a huge responsibility.

The thought is nice and very generous idea OP. But raising a donation from bitcointalk community will be hard task. Also admins here are quite loaded with works and probably thinking a lot of matters. Maybe someone who is trusted here can organize it.

Every country has their own donation group so much better if the donations can handle by their own local community. I think that isnt bad at all and the idea will be easily coordinated since you are dealing with your own local people.

But for raising awareness on crypto due to the virus isnt a good way. Crypto or not, we should think of donations to them. Its gonna look were using this forum to gain more users or what.

Why not? You have a good point there. But I am seeing a lot of issues in this donation suggestion. I am also in a country where in a lockdown protocol were being implemented. Who's country will this forum choose to donate for? But if they will gonna raise some money here in forum, I am willing to donate as I know the experience of being in a crisis like this.
 
 Still, believing in government's decision and response with regards to this pandemic is the only thing to hold. I mean, they will protect their countrymen especially in this situation.

So we are now seeing big organizations already doing it and had been accepting BTC. Philantropist I guess will have more trust to these big organizations than sending thier BTC to someone not known for helping. The orgs can do it for those with big hearts.

If anyone can find the WHO and REd cross BTC or donation page where they post their BTC address, post the link here so OP can edit the first post. Maybe users can send any amount.

This is such a humane initiative however, I do not think that organizing a fund raising in the forum would be effective and  would be supported by the majority. Online initiatives has always been skeptical for many people and thus collection of any mount of money forms would bring suspicions to the minds of people. I would like to believe that each country has their emergency funds that shall be used at this times because they must have it in the first place from the taxes paid by its citizens. And another point here is, would the government acknowledge donations through Bitcoins? And if it is done for promotional objectives as well would it mean that the Bitcoin community is willing to be entangled with the government?

yeah, I think this is already enough and also it might be difficult to handle this kind of money since it is in funds of the community. Maybe donating directly will be a good move or just do that donation by your self, the thing is you could help the community and you could always do it in a lot of ways not just in a donation. We have a lot of trusted users here in the forum or even the admin but I don't think they are going to accept it, handle a big amount of money.

Also, this kind of a worldwide problem so everyone is affected I think it is better to leave it to someone capable.

How about supporting the team from Folding@Home created by Stanford University who are finding solutions to the virus. They need CPU and GPU resources and help promote BTC at the same time which can be of good caues of the computing powers we spend.

So for those like me who has nothing to donate, try this instead. There talks about this is in this thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232941.0

That was a good idea but I think that is not necessary, we are living in different countries and every country which we live in had different financial support status problems. All countries all over the world were suffered on this pandemic virus that keeps spreading until now and for sure no one will be utilized the fund directly send to those who need help.

Actually Binance Charity was already doing this, they help directly to the people of China who were infected with the coronavirus.

Even though this idea is good but I doubt this won't happen, I never heard theymos raising funds so far on this forum.

However, the Italian Red Cross coronavirus Bitcoin fundraiser smashes goal issues new initiative. (https://cointelegraph.com/news/italian-red-cross-coronavirus-bitcoin-fundraiser-smashes-goal-issues-new-initiative) You can send it here directly to your Bitcoin as a donation.

It would be great and I think Theymus should be the one to handle it if this is going to be named after the forum.
This would help the victims and raise awareness about the crypto.

A lot of countries need donation which we do not know may be. Most of the European homeless people are passing worst time. In our local, the pandemic is still not outbreak but once it does, most of our people will pass bad days. That's where we can help.

I also think that the idea is good. We can achieve our goal but most importantly we can save lives. There is a serious problem that has allowed the spread of the virus that the most affected countries did not follow the protocol or did not follow China's measures to prevent the spread.

Despite the steps of China fighting COVID-19 being successful, we still see numerous countries especially that of Europe area, that are still struggling and battling this pandemic. We need all the help we can get, and that is a reality. Not all families are given support and some providers are having a dilemma whether to follow or not. This idea is very timely and relevant, having many Bitcoin users investors we have. For sure the safety and security of the funds will be of utmost priority. The remaining question would only be the support from admins and moderators as well as the government itself to accept this kind of assistance. We can hope not only for positive results to the community outside, but also here, the Bitcoin community.

I also think it's a good idea but as with any attempt to help, I still think it's better to channel it through an existing fund or effort, and not through an independent effort that is likely to reduce the efficiency or relevance of the aid. I worked in aid for 12 years and it's difficult to see well-intentioned aid get wasted or duplicated.

If you really want to do something, read up: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/donors-and-partners/funding
Sign as a Bitcoin donor or something. If you still feel the need to do something grassroots, I'm sure the local Red Cross in all affected countries will have information on how to donate (Red Cross has a high dollar efficiency).

Not sure on earn or something but you can donate already u know

I am not referring to charts at all. I'm looking after the severity and no medication availability against the coronavirus and raising my concerns regarding it.

The chart is data which is extracted from the WHO and medical / testing facilities but on the other hand china seems to be giving no data at the moment.

Just checkout the WHO site and it seems they have reported too less cases over week and its impossible. As there is no cure, medication so how one can hold back such big crisis.

Just making it science based conversation.

we need more people to donate so it will be hear every where in the world. Its actually another way of advertising crypto however many people prepare to donate directly from thier government or any local agency that they know that the help they given will arive to those who really needed it.
Also if for example many member's will donate crypto what govern agency should accept that as donations?

All over the world, people die from many different diseases. And how many people donate funds to help those who are looking for a cure for these diseases? Sometimes you don’t even need to donate money - you just need to become a member of the distributed computing project. For example, the same folding@home, which was remembered only because of the coronavirus pandemic. People do not care until the trouble comes close to their house...

I believe this is a good idea, if the forum admin will raise funds for the victims, that would help since people will never doubt of it.
This is the best time to show our help to the people who really needs some help, at the same time, we will be able to show some awareness to the people regarding crypto and this forum.

It was a good idea but I don't think theymos will organize something like this maybe one of the forum member can do it and that is willing to expose his/her identity and risk itself of the threat of covid. As of now, I don't know the identity of theymos and bitcointalk is decentralized. Of course, organizing it needs physical appearance to communicate with the government so they can distribute it to the community or some existing charities. Normal people should stay at home in this crisis and let the officials/frontliners do their work.

You do have a good idea, but I don’t know if they are really going to do such a thing here. This is something that is meant for the admin to start up, because they are the only ones that can be trusted. If the admin can create such campaign and create a particular address for the donation, lots of people here will be happily donate their bitcoins to help countries that are affected by the corona virus.

But since, there’s nothing like that yet, I believe there are still other means that you can help in fighting this pandemic, you can donate through other organizations in your country that handles situations like this. I guess in the past only few individuals did that hence we can expect the same rather than anything officially from bitcointalk.

We are not involved in politics, we are simply trying to help everyone in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with helping on behalf of the Bitcointalk community, thereby drawing attention to the cryptocurrency industry?

Don't make me repeat myself again please.

This is a splendid idea. At the moment Red Cross Italy,  are demanding for bitcoin donations to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak

The idea is very good, but only for this there must be trust, it is necessary that the site administrators create the address. Well, it’s not clear which country this money should be transferred to, and how exactly, because most likely they will have to be exchanged for fiat anyway.

Actually there are many ways to send your donation you can even send them directly to thier bank account.  There are many local agency accepting a donation even news media also accept donation and give the bank account you can send the money you want to give .
It will hard if we will donate in crypto we dont know who will be the one who would accept that donation and if the donation we sent use right.

I agree that they wouldn't likely donate, maybe they are using that funds for a project and we can't blame if they don't donate. Donation is something that is given without a hevy heart and a pressure from the crowd will only make it worse. The other better scenario is when they donate which is addressed by the quote so it is a very icky situation for the forum to join in.

Your idea is really good because this is about helping each other and this is what we need in this kind of crisis.

But i also want to say that World is facing this problem meaning each governments has their own issues to settle and i believe that instead of seeking or contributing for another country people will choose their own countrymen that needs Help.

And me also?i would love to contribute if there is a Donation asking here but sorry to say that i will prioritize my own people .

Yeah, I think if one wants to donate and wants to do this with Bitcoin, it's better to do this on an individual basis rather than as a community. However, if the op wants to increase BTC visibility while helping to research COVID-19, there is an option for that without donating money. I remember there was a thread about Joining a Bitcoin-related group as a part of the Folding Home project, but I cannot find it right now for some reason... In any case, there've been some helpful suggestions mentioned in this thread already.

The idea is good, but it wont get a big response. And here is sadly why
There is charity signature campaign Bitcointalk Charity Program Signature Campaign - Give Hope To Everyone... (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124375.0). The topic was created one year ago, and so far they did not raised a lot... Even thought I see people really wear its signature. Sadly, bigger part of this forum is here to earn, but not to help :(

It is a good idea but unnecessary,
The government of every country is doing its job to fight the Coronavirus, let them do the job and just support them by following their orders. Also, I don't think that the admins of this forum will do the first step just to raise enough money.

I agree I think their are already a lot of trusted charity where we could donate and help the people from the coronavirus. Also it might be difficult to handle this in the forum since it is all about money and for sure the project is going to raise a big amount of funds here in the forum and we don't know what could happened next from that. If we really want to help their are always a lot of ways to help people and this idea in my opinion is unnecessary.

There is nothing wrong with that, but lately there have been many scams about donations for COVID-19 viruses using cryptocurrency, of course this will also be an impact because this is very detrimental to cryptocurrency, and it's best if you really want to make donations. It's better for you to give historically what was done before so that donors can trust more.