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I saw this today in one of my local charity shop's window..  it wasn't there a few weeks ago.  


http://s30.postimg.org/m5y9a2o5t/shop_01.jpg
http://s30.postimg.org/k03yfkkpd/shop_02.jpg

Very cool. Where is this shop located?

Are you sure that it's the shop that has set that up themselves? Maybe you're donating to some random dude who just taped his address to the window.

AKA the OP.

Haha, that hadn't actually flown through my mind. You might be right. It's awful to distrust everyone but in these times you have to.

What country is this?  I was looking at the reflection of the glass and the neighborhood seems interesting.  England?

Next Time I walk by I'll go into the shop and try to take a photo of the thing from the inside... as the sign is inside the shop.

The name of the charity shop is "Last Chance Animal Rescue"  It's located in Bromley, London, UK.

http://www.lastchanceanimalrescue.co.uk/last-chance-charity-shop.html

And what tells us it's not your btc address?

You think I went into the shop.. closed the door... taped a sign to the window  from the inside.. hoping no staff would notice and then do the same thing again next week..?

How hard could it be to do, really?
I'm not saying I think you did, but how can you prove that you didn't. :/

i have the most skeptical mind of all. i have ripped apart many scammers and i will keep doing so.

but this sign is genuine. its not a sign put up for 20 seconds just for the sake of taking a picture, as i have also seen this sign before.

with that said, keep this in mind.

the volunteers/manager put this up, but who is to say that those working inside give 100% to the actual cause and its not used purely to pay the manager a wage/give them a bonus.

Well I think readers here should just take this as what it is: A local charity shop posts a bitcoin address in their window - they are not asking *you* to donate, but they offer their visitors an option.
In my opinion, that's simply great. Donating to charities is one of the things where bitcoins works pretty well. Of course you need to check wether they actually do what they claim to do and what you want to support, and whether your donations are being spent responsibly. But that's not different from fiat money donations.

Onkel Paul

They should put it on http://www.lastchanceanimalrescue.co.uk/donate.html too.

Ah ok, that's reassuring. Where is this shop located? :)

Pretty cool...
How can we be sure that the btc's will be donated and not scammed though? :)

hahahah

aweeeeeeeeesome! i cannot wait until i see it on steam/flights/shops/public transport etc... :D

No going back now. Only forward with a thunder!

It wouldn't be very smart to just send money to the address on the window. If you really about to donate you should meet the owner of the shop so he can prove that it's really donation to his shop. If you're going to donate like only $2 in bitcoins and you just send those few bitcents then you can do it blindly without knowing where those bitcoins will really go  ;D

Do they accept payment in Bitcoin for items or is it just a donation address? Cool to see either way.

Thats cool.

A store near me with pic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=450273.0)

Nothing fresh, move along

Would be cool if more charity shops do this. It'll really get the older generation talking about it.


What store is that? You don't seem to say.

I'm also curious why nobody has given ( the OP especially ) the name of the shop.

It's just privacy reasons. Unless like a lender wants info for loans I would give it to them, then they would know where the business is at. Other wise it would give away the name of my home town publicly. Prob same for OP.

Maybe it's a sexshop and that's why he's avoided the question. It does say no soliciting lol.

A charity sexshop with a teddy bear outside?

Not this one, you idiot. Do you even read posts before you comment on them?

The good thing about charities and charity shops is that I think bitcoin enthusiasts like to spread awareness and adoption this way by donating so it's win win giving/spending money to charity really.

I read them but I didn't notice the link haha, that's my bad.
No need to be offensive, everyone's human.

I tend to agree. I see this as a fine example and an inspiring development.  People helping people.  :)

Charity is a wonderful application for bitcoin. It would be especially good if a charity and recipients had customized addresses so we could see that the funds actually go to the place they are supposed to.

Vanity addresses? Definitely possible for them if they wanna generate something simple.