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Title: Asked a society to accept bitcoin donations and they created a way now :) Post by: SebastianJu on April 17, 2014, 02:52:13 PM I post this so you guys can see that asking for accepting bitcoins might work finally. I wanted to help a moderate sized society named LobbyControl e.V. (https://www.lobbycontrol.de), mainly working in Germany and the EU, fighting Lobbyism in the negative form, for more democracy and transparency and against things like CETA/TTIP which are a great example how negative lobbyism works.
They were open to it and after some time explaining how it could work i could convince them to use bitpay.com to accept donations. They can collect address data in case the donor wants a donation receipt that way. Though anonymous donations are possible too through that way. And Bitpay allows automatic transfers to a bank account. In fact you don't even have to bother much with bitcoins which is a big plus for interested parties. Though everything runs under the name of Bitcoin at the frontend. The site address isn't yet implemented into the main websites menu but the page exists already at https://www.lobbycontrol.de/unterstutzen/bitcoin-spenden/ and will be bound into the menu in the next time. It would be cool if you could donate something to them too so they see that Bitcoin is worth the effort. I guess spreading the word can only help bitcoin. In case anyone feels the need to donate for some other society that don't accept Bitcoins yet... simply try and ask them. Maybe a nice donation proposal can convince them even more to invest the work... ;) Thanks for listening! Sebastian Title: Re: Asked a society to accept bitcoin donations and they created a way now :) Post by: nkocevar on April 17, 2014, 05:44:33 PM I post this so you guys can see that asking for accepting bitcoins might work finally. I wanted to help a moderate sized society named LobbyControl e.V. (https://www.lobbycontrol.de), mainly working in Germany and the EU, fighting Lobbyism in the negative form, for more democracy and transparency and against things like CETA/TTIP which are a great example how negative lobbyism works. They were open to it and after some time explaining how it could work i could convince them to use bitpay.com to accept donations. They can collect address data in case the donor wants a donation receipt that way. Though anonymous donations are possible too through that way. And Bitpay allows automatic transfers to a bank account. In fact you don't even have to bother much with bitcoins which is a big plus for interested parties. Though everything runs under the name of Bitcoin at the frontend. The site address isn't yet implemented into the main websites menu but the page exists already at https://www.lobbycontrol.de/unterstutzen/bitcoin-spenden/ and will be bound into the menu in the next time. It would be cool if you could donate something to them too so they see that Bitcoin is worth the effort. I guess spreading the word can only help bitcoin. In case anyone feels the need to donate for some other society that don't accept Bitcoins yet... simply try and ask them. Maybe a nice donation proposal can convince them even more to invest the work... ;) Thanks for listening! Sebastian Good job! I am looking forward to giving generously to some charities next time I get some bitcoins.... Maybe I can do some convincing to the charities im looking at :) Title: Re: Asked a society to accept bitcoin donations and they created a way now :) Post by: SebastianJu on April 17, 2014, 07:34:27 PM I post this so you guys can see that asking for accepting bitcoins might work finally. I wanted to help a moderate sized society named LobbyControl e.V. (https://www.lobbycontrol.de), mainly working in Germany and the EU, fighting Lobbyism in the negative form, for more democracy and transparency and against things like CETA/TTIP which are a great example how negative lobbyism works. They were open to it and after some time explaining how it could work i could convince them to use bitpay.com to accept donations. They can collect address data in case the donor wants a donation receipt that way. Though anonymous donations are possible too through that way. And Bitpay allows automatic transfers to a bank account. In fact you don't even have to bother much with bitcoins which is a big plus for interested parties. Though everything runs under the name of Bitcoin at the frontend. The site address isn't yet implemented into the main websites menu but the page exists already at https://www.lobbycontrol.de/unterstutzen/bitcoin-spenden/ and will be bound into the menu in the next time. It would be cool if you could donate something to them too so they see that Bitcoin is worth the effort. I guess spreading the word can only help bitcoin. In case anyone feels the need to donate for some other society that don't accept Bitcoins yet... simply try and ask them. Maybe a nice donation proposal can convince them even more to invest the work... ;) Thanks for listening! Sebastian Good job! I am looking forward to giving generously to some charities next time I get some bitcoins.... Maybe I can do some convincing to the charities im looking at :) I hope so. Bitpay.com does a good job here to make the process really easy. Title: Re: Asked a society to accept bitcoin donations and they created a way now :) Post by: counter on April 17, 2014, 08:10:38 PM Good work getting them on board and good for them for taking a chance and recognizing the potential of Bitcoin and the benefits it can bring. This is a good step in the right direction and maybe others will do the same thing down the line.
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