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MrDove is an acronym for a new charity event and a poke at the dovish behavior of the Federal Reserve bank.

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MrDove's intent is to donate money to the homeless in a unique and uplifting way that encourages others to do positive things. The MrDove team will produce a serious yet entertaining video with the hopes of inspiring others to participate in similar events. All donated bitcoins will be converted to dollars and dropped from a DJI built drone over an area of poverty-stricken Americans. The event will be recorded by several HD cameras and a link to the YouTube video will be tweeted from @MrDoveMoneyDrop.

Please consider making a donation to the designated escrow account.
1CashDrop8FjtHybnkPLNSe2BgLpy5B8r1

I have agreed to collect BTC for this "charity event" because as a drone owner I found it interesting.
I am collecting no fees and will release the funds to "MrDove" upon a reasonable demonstration that the event will take place.
Anyone interested in donating BTC for the drop can send to: 1CashDrop8FjtHybnkPLNSe2BgLpy5B8r1

https://talkimg.com/images/2024/01/11/3QYac.png (https://blockchain.info/address/1CashDrop8FjtHybnkPLNSe2BgLpy5B8r1)

donated a $1, Not much but still can help someone out :)

https://blockchain.info/tx/d9496b52c1bfd9865cf0bfdff56be6dfd43228959b366a3e6317fea89a528cd3

Seems great. Has some issues, but I guess it can work.

I'll donate a couple bucks next week :)

Great initiative, some bits sent. Bitcoin is perfect for charity over net.

ok, i just want to say how this is a briliant idea, please consider making any other profit gained through youtube ad partnership
or something similar to be also donated, so that people would know youre honest with your intentions.
really hoping to see this go live!

cheers

There are no plans to profit through a YouTube ad partnership. Any currency received through any means will go towards dropping dollar bills on the homeless from a drone.

Thank you. Your donation is appreciated.

This is the best idea I have ever heard/seen. Let me get to my wallet tomorrow morning and I'll hopefully donate something.

Sounds like a cool idea. Just hope the money doesn't drop else where. And if the homeless guy happens to be sleeping or on the side of the building(which is true in many cases), then dropping it would be difficult.

The drop will take place during a time with little to no wind in an area heavily populated with homeless. We also have a designated "hype man" who will be wandering the area ahead of time handing out breakfast bars and supplies while alerting the homeless of what will be taking place.

Sounds like a good idea, but isnt it better to just give it to them?

Isn't dropping a bunch of money on a group of wanting persons going to incite a riot?  Or at least some pushing/shoving/fighting?  What's stopping non-homeless from hanging out and grabbing cash, too?  Great idea, but I think the execution of it needs a little work.

hmm, seems donation funds arent that going in fast..
if only each forum user can donate $.50 that would be awesome.

Nice idea,i will donate something

I think you overestimate the greediness of homeless people and underestimate the amount of planning that has gone into this event. I think a riot is far more likely to occur dropping $1 bills on Wall St. The area this drop will be taking place is highly populated with transients and it is very unlikely that there will be anyone nearby who isn't in need of charity.

But they will just use it on drugs and booze!  /joke   

This weekend I will try to send 5 dollars in coin for the cause.  If I get tied up in something I will still be sure to send 2-3 USD worth.  :)  Cool idea man

Great idea, I'll be sending a donation soon ;)

Event like this can possibly cause stampede where some old and young people can possibly get hurt and even death. If you drop this in my place.

I suspect you have had very little interaction with true homeless people if you believe they will stampede over dollars. That is what rich people do. Homeless people are generally very appreciative and supportive of one another in these types of environments. I suggest you take some time yourself to visit with some homeless people in your area. You might be surprised by their generosity.

Please watch this to gain some perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdqtktkZn0

Love this.

gonna up this, hoping people would support a good cause :)

Sent a small amount to support your idea : https://blockchain.info/fr/tx/6e0ff73a20e8d1844fc55ddbf35ea6a45566af171a20f4c1eaecfa6885a23f51

(Yeah it's not a lot : But if everybody did it... )

Good luck with that :-)

I have verified the identity, employment, & home address of 3 different members on the MrDove team and have also seen a video showing them trying out various dropping apparatus prototypes.  I believe they are sincere in their efforts.

Will surely send some to help you out! Altought there may be some cons the pros just beat it! Congrats on the idea.

Hope this help!

https://blockchain.info/es/tx/13934418a273bda80ab39e703c944c88ef414db5a291d27df445b96b8e704862

I find this a very cool idea!

Thank you for the donations Glucose & Weed!

how much do u need to get before u do the drop?

We were hoping to raise more than $600 for this event. If anyone is interested in making a large donation we would be happy to include a special thanks at the end of the video where we can display your name or website as a sponsor of the event.

good...  Best luck for your project

I remember the time when random people used to tip people standing in a protest with a bitcoin QR code. Looks like no one cares for good causes anymore.

I sent a little bit :) https://blockchain.info/tx-index/64986c22ca267b56b9cfada46d7724b54d91e17ee051d2f870ad7f88cba7b098

This is very good, makes me sad when I think back to when I was homeless.
Unfortunately my satoshis belong to someone else.

I really hope this goes well, and keep up the great work, you are a good person for doing this.

I sent a cheeky 0.013
https://blockchain.info/tx/d145c609e60174d61cf6d7bc196a6089849e415933771fe46e4aa2e3d581e438

I like this idea , I'll be sending a donation

Happenings like that are sure good for publicity of bitcoin. But I am not sure if this will really help those poor people in need. Giving money to poor people is not always the best solution.

https://blockchain.info/tx/cf3987aa4feb88a5bcb6af5dc158f7766c2d54c246d650deddcf6e145845b860

sent a little to help out the cause. good luck

Thank you!


Thank you!


This is not meant to publicize Bitcoin. Please see our intent to "encourage others to do positive things" & "inspire others to participate in similar events." We will be providing the homeless with breakfast bars before the event and not only money.


Thank you!

sad that this has a little support.. cmon guys even just pennies, it can help alot. :(

I think it would be good if the earnings you make from a signature campaign is donated. I am going to donate 10% of my earnings from Bit-X every week.

Nice idea!
Probably if most of us donate only a small percentage of our signature earnings it would get to a quite ammount of .BTC's.

From Bit-X a Senior Member like yourself could donate 10% for example. And that could be as high as 0.03!
If 20 Senior Members can do this that is more than half a bitcoin. If the rest of the members ( Hero , Full ) chip in, it can lead to 1.2 / week.
Which I think is for a good cause. So @BitcoinStriker should we start this and see where it leads? I am doing this regardless.

I appreciate the passion I am reading from users wanting to help raise funds. We had hoped to raise more than $600 by now so that we could make arrangements for a drop on March 10th. We are now officially pushing that date back and hope to see some growing support this week. If we have failed to reach our goal by March 15th and it looks as though fundraising has slowed to the point where this fundraiser is a failure then we will consider whether the community would like us to return the donated funds or hand them out to the homeless along with some food and supplies. Hopefully this is just a precautionary explanation. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far and a special thanks to OgNasty for helping us to accept Bitcoin and also for sending us a huge box of granola bars to hand out at the event!

wow that's such a good act from OgNasty , as well I would prefer MrDove to you to keep the funds I sent I know is not a big amount of money but here my grain ofsand. Best hope to the  charity event.

I think if someone wants to quite gambling and is just bitcoin earning for some spare cash and not for there bread money, they should look at this.
I will put this link in my personal message. I will try to get some people to donate.

Watch this video of my favourite football player; Zlatan Ibrahimovic. If you were wondering why my personal message was #805million
805 Million (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDJjcL9Ya4c) I watch this a lot and I thought about this.

Honestly, if this was filmed great and put on YouTube, you probably would make more than the donations received. Then you could do it again.

I'll watch it on YouTube once you do it.

Just to reiterate we will not be entering into an ad partnership with YouTube and there will be no income from the completed video. There will be no profit of any kind for the MrDove team or anyone else involved with the event. The goal is once again to "encourage others to do positive things" & "inspire others to participate in similar events" and I do not think that making people sit through advertisements before seeing the video is the way to accomplish either of those goals.

No worries, once YouTube tried to show me an ad and that was enough for me to block the ads on all devices I use. Sometimes a video won't play on mobile then. In that case, I just report the video for not working--it'll work later.

Go ahead, make money off the video. People love those sorts of videos.

Actually someone else told me they had this idea, to collect money for charity, and to take half. I wonder how transparent, what happens with the btc given, this will be.

I'll be using a long trusted contact to convert the BTC to USD and physically mail it to MrDove.  I think that is as transparent as I can be for them.  They are adults in their mid and late 30's with kids as well as good jobs.  I don't think they want to make money on the video, or else they would have just used their own money for the drop.  From my discussions with them, I believe they liked the idea of the community funding a non-profit project like this because it would give it more appeal.  One of my terms for them however, was that they profit in no way from the event or video.

We hoped that using OgNasty would provide as much transparency as possible. It is unfortunate that others think it is acceptable to take half of the money donated for charity. So far all of the private messages I have received are from parties wanting to piggyback on this idea for their own profit. This was not the sort of response I had expected or hoped for. If anyone has any recommendations for how we can act more transparently or give assurances that we are doing this only for the joy of helping others and encouraging others to give to charity by making it appear fun with an uplifting video then please feel free to post your ideas.

We are currently $586 from our goal.

Well we got some good news.
Bit-X has increased their payouts. I have a potential earning of 0.3 / week. So I will hopefully manage to get 0.15 - 0.2
I will donate 15% / weekly earnings and hopefully keep this thing alive! I will talk to a few guys part of the campaign.

Enjoy. Glad I can help!
https://blockchain.info/tx/75cdf6bc6cb4c4d60bcec28ed874d5eeebea4cf690543619e081145c24c21bc2

I sent 0.075

I will commit to donating 15% of my weekly Bit-X Sig Campaign Payout ;)

Ah that's awesome dude! Thanks for helping out. Try get more guys on board  ;D

Yes. According to last months total payout, if everybody gave 10% of their payout, we would hit our goal by the end of this month ;)

I am going to go into the Bit-X thread and try to get people to do this...

Converting bitcoin to fiat?  No thanks.

That is a good point. I think the OP should point out how he / she will be doing this.

So we will walk around handing homeless people bitcoin. They cant go to mcdonalds and buy food with it, it is useless to them...

You are taking this idea the wrong way!

Instead of dropping fiat from the sky to some random people on the street, while everyone forgets it was bitcoin a minute ago, I prefer you take a homeless guy to a restaurant that accepts bitcoin and I WILL PAY for his meal! make a video of me paying a homless guy for the meal across the world with bitcoin!  , hell make 20 videos of those kind of ideas!

You do realize that the restaurant would be using a service like bitpay to immediately exchange the bitcoin to fiat, right?  Your stance is incredibly ignorant.  However, MrDove has repeatedly stated his goal is to encourage others to do similar events.  It sounds like he's inspired you to buy a meal for a homeless person and I hope you follow through with your idea.  If you want to participate in this idea, the donation address is on the OP as well as my second post.   ;)

No. You idea is just very wrong to begin with. You are trying to promote bitcoin and you think that poor people are just a tool and a dummies who will look nice on a promotional video.. I can assure you poor people do not care about bitcoin at all.

Bitcoin is money at the end of the day. But you are right, some beggars just want alcohol and some just want shelter.
But bitcoin (in some parts of the world) can give you those things. 

Sure they will be using Bitpay, I have no doubt.
Ask any reasonable man and woman, what would be a smarter thing to do, throw money from the sky or buy a homeless a hot meal from across the world (which would show how simple it is to donate / transfer money over bitcoin).  you can't swipe a credit card at a resaurant from across the world..


Excuse me, but what was the point of throwing money from the sky to random people on the street? If it's pure donation purpose then I would prefer donating personally.

What was the reason bitcoin created for anyway ?

Largest donation yet. Thank you Equinoxx!


We are all very proud that you are thinking of ways to donate to charity. I wish you loads of success with your idea.


I have stated the point. We hope to "encourage others to do positive things" & "inspire others to participate in similar events". If you have been inspired to donate something personally then I already consider this event a success.

Cool idea MrDove I will be able to donate some BTC lately right now I'm out of BTC til I convert my fiat into it :) nice to know there's still good people on the globe. Keep the good work.

This has been done already by a very popular youtuber. It actually works well and was great to watch. Ill try and find the video.

here you guys go the official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4JBAdIdBtM


cheers

It doesn't matter if it was done before. For reasons;
1. This is bitcoin
2. If someone recorded a fundraiser doesn't mean there shouldn't be any others :)
3. This is bitcoin!

I didn't post the video to hate on the op. If you actually read the thread a lot of people were optimistic if it would actually work. And I posted the video as proof as its a good idea and works well.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be hostile! :D
As CrackedLogic said, this is one of the best ideas ( In Bitcoin )
I hope this does well.
#805millionnames (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDJjcL9Ya4c)

I hope it does well to looking forward to it.

That's awesome.  Maybe MrDove and the donators could consider sending the BTC held in escrow to Dennis Roady Deeds if there isn't enough for an event?

Enjoy the 0.1!
https://blockchain.info/tx/9a0493a3a59c99e42defeb036d01f6b8967fad946ee522d2c6997fa455bba3f3

I will be donating some soon, when my btc order comes in. I'm a huge drone fan, so this is right up my ally!
!

Great video with a more civil approach. We are not ready to give up on this idea yet though. If we do call off the event then the bitcoins can be donated however people see fit.


Thanks! Your donations keep us positive about our hopes to make this happen.

We are 10% There!

Are you promoting this anywhere other than this forum? I followed your twitter account but it only has one tweet and it directs people here.

That's a great idea. He would probably do this video and would be good for the bitcoin community.

Not much. We reached out to a few businesses that accept bitcoins but they did not respond.

No website or page with info for non-bitcointalk members?

I'm sending you a PM. I'll be happy to help promote this where I can and I trust OgNasty's judgement, but if I'm going to vouch for you myself, I'll need a little direct confirmation that you are legit. I hope you don't take offense but I've been burned before.

No website or anything yet. We want to see if we are capable of pulling this event off before trying to turn it into a charity organization instead of a charity event. No offense about wanting our identities. I am not sure we want to trust just anyone with our identifications but if that is holding back donations then we could ask OgNasty to release our identities to a donator if we fail to deliver a video of a money drop.

I understand your reservations but you might have already reached the limit of what this community will donate. Threads get buried quickly so even if there are more members who might contribute, they might never see it. Exposure elsewhere may be necessary to reach your minimum.

It's a fine line, I agree. Raising too much poses its own set of problems.

Honestly this is an awesome idea and I hope everything works out, for all of us.  I've donated a couple of dollars... but I don't think that's enough, I'll definitely donate more once the first "drop" happens and all goes well.

Cheers,
monbux

I agree, they might try a free sig campaign. let some members do a free advertisement

At worst this sounds like an awful scam. At best this is terribly insensitive way to help the homeless.

How arrogant of you to drop money from the sky over homeless people or poor areas. You don't have any respect for those you help.

Did you even watch this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4JBAdIdBtM

Im gonna help that poor ppl there altough i can't give much

What a good service, never tought that you will do this kind of service

Nice job MrDove

Even you can't give a lot, it's okay. At the end of the day you are giving and that's what it's all about.

I'm starting to think now that maybe dropping money isn't the best option.  They could be dropping other stuff, like food as Equinoxx shared in that video.  Or clothes.  Just a thought.

Money is usually a universal salve. Clothes may not fit, food allergies may be a concern, etc, but money is almost always accepted.

I have mixed feelings about how the delivery is happening but think overall it is a good thing rather than anything negative. I have to subscribe to this thread though and will try to send a small donation when I can.

I respect your opinion. We are not trying to be arrogant. We are trying to encourage people to donate money directly to the less fortunate by making it seem fun.


Drones cannot carry much weight and you do not want to drop heavy objects on people. We thought dollar bills would not be threatening.

haha, very true, but I was thinking like something in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4JBAdIdBtM
Do you have any dates planned, any estimates of when the first "drop" will happen?

The picture that comes to mind when you say you are "Dropping dollar bills" is a drone overhead dropping a bunch of money and a bunch of people scrambling to try to get it and fighting over it. Hopefully the delivery method will be planned out as this would be very sad to see.

Op has said that the people that receive the money will be less aggressive and more appreciative.

Really? This is arrogant of you to barge in to someones thread and call them a scam, when OgNasty has reviewed it and declared it legit! And then, if it is not a scam, you are calling it insensitive? They will be dropping money via a drone to help homeless people, and to boot they will be walking around before hand giving out snack bars. You have no respect for people trying to do a good deed.

This is a terrible, disrespectful, insensitive way to "help". Please just give it directly to them, don't make them hop around scrounging for scraps. Are you going to also film and broadcast the natural selection at play where the most physically fit of the homeless get the most cash? This is just frightening. You are certainly well intentioned but goddamn pull your head out of your ass on this. besides you would be wasting a good portion of the cash to natural phenomenon this way. come on.

That would not make for a very exciting video. Please read what we are hoping to acheive. If you would like to make a video showing you donating to the homeless we would love to see it.

Not planning on doing that. I don't see what I have to do with anything. I didn't post a thread saying I was going to give money to the homeless, you did. We're talking about your project since you came on a public forum and posted a goddamn thread about it. Now stop dodging people's comments. Parachuting the money is a terrible idea. You are reducing the plight of the homeless to a circus show. Do you want to help the homeless or make an exciting video? Is watching homeless people struggle and jump around trying to reach for falling banknotes your idea of "exciting"? Here's how you can make it exciting: find a girl with huge tits and film her donating the money. That's still more dignifying.

are you anywhere near the amount you are looking for yet? i really thought this would take off with a few members supporting it.

I wouldn't support this not because I'm against giving money to the homeless and supporting them to get off the streets but if you give directly there's a very high chance that money will end up funding drugs/alcohol. If you want to donate money to support homeless people then I'd recommend giving it through the more formalised and proper channels which is more likely to help the homeless people.

What happens if you dont reach what you want? Will we get refunded, where will the money go? I was for this idea but it is getting a lot of negativity.

This is the problem you face. Rather use the money to buy items /food yourself and get the drones to deliver it to them. Not drop it over them. Try putting this on kickstarter or indiegogo

We are happy with the support we have received so far. Many supportive messages from people with wonderful charities have started to come in. The rising exchange rate has also helped us to raise over $100 now. If we use only $1 bills it could still be a nice drop. I do hope to continue seeing that number rise but think we will see a drop and a food handout even with the limited funds raised so far.

I think along the same lines. Instead of giving them money, its better to offer them meals and other kinds of things, which does not lead to them using the money for wrong things.

You should offer meals and other kinds of things to the homeless in your community. We strongly support that. For people who want to donate in the way this thread describes we have created this opportunity. It is a little disheartening that people have decided to play the moral police and discourage our charity effort. We choose to believe that all homeless people are not drug addict alcoholics and will use the money responsibly without the help of someone to spend it for them. We also believe they will appreciate money raining from the sky and will not be offended at all by it.

i can agree with this. the homeless folks might appreciate a ht meal rather than 1$ bills dropping from the sky. maybe if the donations go high enough you could set this up

I'm creating a crowdfunding site that accepts fiat and crypto, hopefully it will be completed in a month or so,  by that time you should be in the throws of phase two of this program with video in hand.  

If all goes according respective plans, you could start a campaign on our site (PICISI -- the crowdfunding site coming soon) and we will be willing to be an official sponsor of the campaign, and we will get you other sponsors too.

Quoting the OP as it states nothing about refunds being not allowed. This is not working out so I feel like my 0.188 is not doing anything.
Transactions:
0.1 (https://blockchain.info/tx/9a0493a3a59c99e42defeb036d01f6b8967fad946ee522d2c6997fa455bba3f3)
0.075 (https://blockchain.info/tx/75cdf6bc6cb4c4d60bcec28ed874d5eeebea4cf690543619e081145c24c21bc2)
0.013 (https://blockchain.info/tx/d145c609e60174d61cf6d7bc196a6089849e415933771fe46e4aa2e3d581e438)



If this doesn't work out. Please send the 0.188 to:
1noxxi91kqtThrsYXk4iKjsr7TDiSDkzw

MrDove has told me previously that they would have no problems issuing refunds if this project gets abandoned.  I last spoke with their drone operator yesterday (cool guy) who gave me an update.  I've seen videos of them testing the carry load and a crude dropping mechanism.  They aren't happy with the dropping mechanism in it's current form and that is what is holding back a demo video and another push for donations.  I'll urge them to speed up the process of a public demo video, even if the dropping mechanism sucks, to reassure folks that they are actually putting work into this.  The drone in the videos I saw was a DJI Phantom (not sure what model exactly) if that hasn't already been mentioned.

Ok. You can do the refund, I will be glad to donate at a sooner time. Thanks for understanding.

And if it doesn't take place, you reimburse everyone ? People who sent from online wallets other than blockchain will be hard to reimburse !

Ideally I would like to donate the funds to another charity, as without signed messages or reimbursing the sending address it would be opening the door to nickel and dime scammers.

I have provided signed addresses for both of the addresses that I used to donate. Can I get a refund please?

This is sweet, good on you for doing this (or to the guy in the vid). I'll spread the word.

I'm on vacation and do not have access to this wallet.  I should be home in roughly 48 hours and will be able to fulfill your request.  A shame that these donations to the homeless are being taken back, but that is your choice.

+1, some beggars are professional, they beg money on the streets, but they get 2X-3X money total than ordinary people salary.

Chinese biggest media CCTV has reported several times, almost 99% beggars in China are fakes beggars, they don't have injuries or physical disability.

They are scammers, they scam people's sympathy.  :'( :'(

I also read some news about beggars in US or Europe. They have good houses and cars, but they pretend to be beggars to scam people in the streets. FXXK them!!

Let's say no to them! Almost of them are fakes. If they are really homeless, food is much precious than money.

I appreciate what you're saying but it is a big misconception that all homeless people are drug addicts / alcoholics, I'd even say a majority of them want to better themselves if given half a chance. The stereotype portrayed by the media of pissed-soaked tramps drinking paint stripper is far far from the truth.

Really hope this money drop goes well (plus it's good PR for bitcoin ;) )

It really is. But some people have made some valid points about this idea not working.

Your donation to the less fortunate has been refunded.  My apologies for the delay.

If anyone else would like to remove their BTC from the mouths of the homeless, let me know with a signed message and I will be happy to oblige.

You can keep my small donation for another charity in case the project doesn't take place ;) I think it's a good alternative.

wtf getting a refund for a donation so sad

I would be totally fine with that, and I'm hoping that many others should as well...

You can keep my $1 and save it for the next project of yours. Feels bad that the Money drop is not gonna happen

Personally, I think it's a disgrace. You're basically taking money out of the homeless mouths as the op said. Shame on you

Thank you. The worst thing that will happen with the money is that it gets donated to the homeless without a cool video. Maybe someone will donate enough to make the video worthwhile or the Bitcoin rate will go up enough to where we can make it happen with the funds raised. I am glad that some people donated and I hope that spirit is not lost on the current situation.

I like this idea.

it is very cool

you must watch this
http://youtu.be/UDh3LsB7qYM

It looks like this effort has pretty much died.  The MrDove team has stated they have given up on a community funded charity drop and are going forward with their own private effort.  They urged me to find a public Bitcoin charity to donate these coins to.

Anyone have a good charity suggestion?

Nepal Earthquake Relief.

https://www.redcross.org/combined-donate?donationProdId=prod9150029&retrieveData=1&flow=oc1

https://www.igot.com/nepal/help_earthquake_victims/

I'd be ok with you donating my money there - but honestly, you could also just give my $5 (I believe) to help fund their "private" efforts.  Either one is fine by me.

I agree.

Or maybe to Rand Paul's presidential campaign?

 ;)

I'd like to stick with the theme of helping the homeless if possible.  I could send it to the MrDove team to help with their private efforts, but I don't like the lack of transparency there.  Anyone know of any Bitcoin accepting established food banks?

https://www.austinfoodbank.org/bitcoin this is the only food bank i saw upon searching

Since there were no other suggestions, I have donated the entirety of the BTC held in escrow to the Austin Food Bank.  Thanks to those who tried to make this a success.  It is possible something like this may be tried again in the future, but for now I'm bringing this to a close (I don't want to hold the escrow funds forever).