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The donation address is: 15EhGBC8JBBVDKQ9yp1AqCb1xnzQLk6QHX

Check details here: http://blockchain.info/fb/15ehgb

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2013.4.22 17:48

The donation will be terminated after 100 donation received.

2013.4.23 21:09
100 donations received, the goal achieved, this charity donation is terminated.

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A powerful earthquake jolted China's Sichuan province Saturday near where a devastating quake struck five years ago, killing at least 70 people and leaving more than 2,000 hurt, prompting worries the death toll will climb.

USAToday: Earthquake in China leaves 113 dead, 2,600 injured (updating):
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/19/chinas-sichuan-earthquake/2098249/

FoxNews: More than 100 dead after earthquake strikes China's Sichuan region
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/20/at-least-2-killed-after-earthquake-strikes-china-sichuan-region/

I'm an early user of Bitcoin (since 2011, not that early...), and I have been supporting bitcoin culture openly in China from the very beginning.
My blog is lixiaolai.com, (older archive was moved to wordpress.lixiaolai.com). Here's my first post on Bitcoin in May, 23, 2011:

此物一出天下反 （it was born to subvert）http://wordpress.lixiaolai.com/archives/10589.html

I'm calling for a BTC donation to help lushan earthquake refugees ...

HELP LUSHAN!

I have a good public reputation in China online community, since I'm a famous teacher, and a writer of several popular books, and financially independent.

This is the donation receiving address (a new wallet created):

15EhGBC8JBBVDKQ9yp1AqCb1xnzQLk6QHX

anyone can see donation records here: http://blockchain.info/fb/15ehgb

... and after going back to beijing (I'm on a short trip in Nanjing) tomorrow night, I'll launch a website for donation as soon as possible, and keep every expense updated online.

Thank you all, I'll keep you posted.

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2013.4.20, 18:49

Any suggestion? please help me!

2013.4.20, 18:49

for Chinese BTC users: Do NOT buy BTC from any exchange center in China, since the price is relatively high. If you don't have any BTC, please donate money through other means.
中国BTC用户: 请不要在国内任何交易中心购买比特币作为捐款，因为国内交易所的价格溢价过高。如果你没有比特币，请使用其它方式捐款。除了我们之外，还有很多其它渠道捐款。

2013.4.20, 20:29
Thanks franky1, I hereby promise that all funds will get spent at the area, and no fund will be spent on plane tickets, hotel rooms, care hire etc...

2013.4.20, 20:46
now confirmed, the first donation is 0.841342 BTC, from one of my friends.

first donation from unknown received: 0.035BTC

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2013.4.20, 21:18

Since China is of a country with restrict financial regulation (it is not allowed to sell/exchange "virtual currency" into RMB without specific license), I originally planned use my own RMB deposit.

However, one of my friend proposed a workaround:


and instantly, another friend proposed that he could forge 3D printed "coins" as auction targets...

It seems a nice solution, since by such a manner, the donation could be amplified...

any more suggestions?

2013.4.21, 12:36

63 donations, 20.15481305 BTC in Total.

2013.4.21, 19:14

This is the first time I organize a charity donation.
这是我第一次组织慈善募捐。

I hereby promise that all funds will be spent on rehabilitation of lushan.
我在此保证，所有的善款都用于芦山灾后重建。

No fund will be spent on alleged charity management, such as travelling tickets, hotel rooms, etc. I’ll personally cover such costs.
绝无任何款项用于所谓的善款管理，诸如交通费用，住宿费用等等。我将独自承担此类开销。

I will not spend any fund directly, since I’m not a professional in such an area. I’ll find a professional and trustable individual or organization (NOT including Red Cross of China), and have them take over the fund spending.
因为我并非此领域里的专家，所以我绝不会直接花费这些善款。我将找到一个值得信赖的个人或者机构（绝不可能是中国红十字会），将善款交由他们处理。

Private charity donation is not as simple and easy as imagined in China. Please keep patient.
私人慈善募捐在中国并非想象得那么简单和容易。请务必保持耐心。

The reasons why I chose Bitcoin as donation currency is:
我选择比特币作为募捐工具的理由是：

Bitcoin is ideal for international donation, since bitcoin transactions is faster, and less troublesome than that of any “real currency”.
比特币是理想的国际捐赠工具，因为它的“转账”非常快，相比任何“真实货币”来说，更少麻烦。


I’ll further organize private/public auction meetings with physically 3D printed BITCOIN (tokens of remembrance) as auction targets, by which we could amplify the amount of funds.
我将进一步组织私下的以及公开的拍卖会，将募集到的比特币通过3D打印方式制作成纪念品，进行拍卖，以便进一步放大募集金额。

In case the auction is not successful, I’ll use my personal RMB deposit to cash the funds out.
万一拍卖会并不成功，我将用自己的人民币存款将那些比特币折现。

I hereby promise the exchange rate of BTC from donation is set to the highest price (MtGox USD) within the period of donation.
我在此保证，最终折现汇率将以捐款活动期间最高汇率（MtGox USD）计算。

As of this editing time, 22.92700228 BTC received, 71 transactions of donations. THANK YOU ALL.

2013.4.22 10:14

85 donations, 24.17135348 BTC

I ， as a Chinese user,was watching TV all day about this earthquake at west of Sichuan province. I drived to the town last year, that's a simple city and villages deep inside great mountains,far from big cities like Chendu or Chongqing. The road condition is very bad, because it near the center of Wenchuan earthquake , and the public traffic system was totally destroyed at that time , and recovering slowly.

I travelled to west Sichuan province several times. There are great views ,but poor natual resource. It's fourtune that the rainy season has not come, or the rescue action will be much more difficult. So we may have better result than Wenchuan earthquake.

I personally is a fan of OP poster. I learn bitcoin from him and @virushuo . And i bought his book before. I'll send donate to the address listed above tomorrow. Anyway I want @xiaolai will publish the usage of this fund later, and keep it open enough.

i request all people seeking donations for charity causes to go through bitcoin 100.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52543.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52543.0)

With their proposals of how the funds will be spend as well as how you are personally linked to the area involved to ensure the majority of funds get spent at the area and not on plane tickets and hotel rooms, car hire etc.

then you will see if your scheme is valid you will get much more investment.

I have donated 0.5 btc from 19e8ZbdB2kTi4YWWFhPrSLnRD9GDysZJAe.

Donated, also fully support you, fully support people in Sichuan.

the latest official number is 156 dead. So lucky it happened in morning not night so people already get up. And it's weekend ,the students are not gathered in rooms.

Thank you! I'll follow your suggestion.

The good news is the road from Ya'An to LuShan,the center of the earthquake is paticially fixed.
The bad news it is evening now. And it begin to rain.

Many medical teams , rescue teams, firemen and army have entered. But due to damage of the road, many wounds have to walk out.

The electric is not recovered, and Mobile phone network is not recovered.
Hospital is running by disel electric maker.

Over 5000 wounded. Most of heavy wounds have been transfered to Ya'An or Chengdu.
But camps are mot enough, people cannot stay inside buildings because many small earthquakes continue.

My android phone wallet is out of coin, and I will donate tomorrow.

今天溢价不高了。。基本和mtgox持平。

Here is my donation:

http://blockchain.info/tx/37842a39280a57a313750792e8b90af26db6249647089afb4f141e45e6c31a1e

1 BTC

Today btc123.com has just received this 1 BTC as an advertisement income which is the 1st ads income of the website.

Best wishes to the refugees and the people who are helping them.

Thank you all, we have almost 30 donations received! within several hours... :)

Thanks for the honor. ;)

I just donated some satoshi's, and here are the models on thingiverse.

Let's kindle the love.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328)

http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/f5/33/26/df/76/btcs_preview_featured.jpg
http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/24/a0/1f/69/27/100btc_preview_featured.jpg

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328)

Finished.

This QR code stamp and the techniques involved could be helpful in this event around.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77449 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77449)

http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/8e/b9/85/91/fb/qr_code.jpg

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77449 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77449)

thank you!

beautiful design!

69 donations received.

I hate to be so negative (seems like that's happened a lot with me lately).  But how can we confirm this money will reach it's way to the victims who need it ?   Not saying I doubt the OP but I would need some more evidence before I donated something like bitcoin to someone I don't know.  Lots of charity scams in China as I'm sure the OP would agree with, I feel like bitcoin would make it a heck of a lot easier to run such a charity scam.

I respect and appreciate anyone looking to donate money to help out any of the victims,  for me personally though I'm going to stick with one of the more well established charity groups in this situation.

One viable solution occurs to me with 3 simple steps.

1) needless to say, everyone could track their donations on blockchain.info anytime they wish to.
2) the bitcoins collected could be sent to a quick auction in exchange for RMB or USD. This event ought to be made public and everyone can see the inventory of real-world money.
3) this money goes to a trustworthy third-party NGO, who will be responsible for the public disclosure of all the charity activities that follow.

Nasty things could happen in each step if operated by evil hands, where I can only trust the operator, in this case, lixiaolai, who has been active in Chinese bitcoin community for a considerably long period of time.

If things could be handled in a decentralized manner, that'll be very cool and I'd be too happy to see such an application where bitcoin accelerates charity come true.

I understand your doubt.

But please TRUST me, I'm not an anonymous guy, I have always been using my real name in this community, or any other online community, （lixiaolai, xiaolai, 李笑来, 笑来；lixiaolai.com，twitter ID: @xiaolai）。

I think I CANNOT get an amount of donation larger than my reputation.

I personally don't doubt you. But you never know, especially when dealing without people online instead of face to face.  Bitcoin itself also raises some problems when it comes to charity and donations.  Just another example of one of the growing pains of bitcoin I suppose.

If/when you're in Beijing I wouldn't mind meeting in person and giving you some RMB instead or if you know of any reliable charaties out here in China I can donate to please let me/us know.  Anyways, thanks for your efforts and I hope you understand my doubts about charities or the internet or bitcoin and donations isn't anything personal towards you or anyone else.  Unfortunately the internet is full of people posing to be someone or claiming to do something, and it ends up being a scam.

I'd love to meet you in person! I'm going back to Beijing right now, on a train...

I'll send a private message to you, and give you my mobile number.

I personally trust Xiaolai though we never meet face to face. He is one of the earliest bitcoin users in China and he also put efforts to promote bitcoin in China and communicate with the beginners online at weibo.com. Apart from bitcoin, he was also a famous English teacher at the New Oriental School. Xiaolai get his reputation, and most of us in the bitcoin community at weibo.com donated during the last 30 hours.

Right now, there are 76 donations as observed from http://blockchain.info/address/15EhGBC8JBBVDKQ9yp1AqCb1xnzQLk6QHX. I think it is a good start for bitcoin donation in China, and it is absolutely not a scam. I am not familiar with bitcoin donation otherwhere, but I think it must be the first time that bitcoin is used for donation in China and get more and more people involved.

So now I should say charity. More and more people try to donate by bitcoin so as to get it public and transparent. The One Foundation(http://www.onefoundation.cn), 壹基金，launched by Jet Li is such a reputable, public and transparent charity foundation. Some bitcoiners who might not know this project  contacted the One Foundation last night and asked for accept of bitcoin donation. It comes true this evening that the staff of One Foundation announced that the One Foundation accept bitcoin donation (http://weibo.com/huoqingchuan), and the donation address is: 1DUMifqLdCRvx6tAzafwDC2tKRntRAAm3z . Now bitcoin and bitcoin donation get more exposure, and many micro blogger/weibo/twitter think bitcoin donation is a new way for transparent donation. Of course, there may be a lot need to be done for a good bitcoin donation for charity, but it is stepping outside.

This bitcoin donation is absolutely not a scam, and it is a donation to help lushan earthquake refugees.

I support Xiaolai.

Added a bit of my secret ingredient to the original design, enjoy...

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328)

http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/84/df/8b/3f/9e/btc_composition_preview_featured.jpg

instructions for manufacturer

a) glue the middle part and the bottom part together
b) print a paper wallet and crop it with proper size, as well as necessary instructions. Put the paper wallet in the chamber inside the middle part
c) glue the middle+bottom part and the top part together

Everyone could understand this design cuz it's simple:

People can sell pre-loaded bitcoin wallet with exactly the balance on the top part as souvenir, or, in this case, a target for charity auction.

The most interesting fact in this design lies in the bottom part. It is a replaceable part with various functionality
examples

a 3d qr code with a bitcoin receiving address
http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/24/4a/6a/ef/11/qr_code_preview_featured.jpg

or

a qr code stamp with a bitcoin receiving address
http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/05/22/97/b0/6d/qr_code_stamp_preview_featured.jpg

or

anything occurs to you, maybe bluetooth? great..

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77328)

ps: anyone got a better idea for the junctions? Glue is not durable, especially in the chamber parts, which needs the operation primitive of open/close.

thank you all. hope be up to 100 donators today.

Be aware that someone might change the donation receiving address!

Use the address in the original post!

The donation will be terminated after 100 donation received.

as of replying this post, 89 donation received.

I can guarantee OP's trustworthiness,  as you can see by checking his weibo/twitter account, he is a very famous public intellectual /activist/speaker in China.

Thank you for trusting me.

I can talk a bit more about the implications of Xiaolai's experiment here, and why it's worth doing for its own sake: there are high financial barriers restricting money flow from/into China(no international credit card acceptance, paypal operates separated from its other branches, etc), this, combined with the facts that it's simply practically impossible to register a charity organization accepting foreign donations without heavy government interference(even government employees have difficulties getting permission for receiving foreign grants--they may suspect that you will work as an agent for foreign anti-CCP organizations, yes I know, incredible isn't it?) and government-sanctioned "charity" organizations are so hopelessly corrupt that the state-operated Red Cross is actually one of the most hated organizations in China, has prevented foreign donations from going to those they are intended to help.

With Bitcoin, this financial barrier can be effectively circumvented, any trustworthy individual can accept donations from anywhere in the world, something no other payment method can achieve currently. SO Xiaolai is eesentially going to set a precedent with his actions.

I knew Mr.Lixiaolai before, and my mother is Sichuanese, I think Mr.Li can be trusted.so i sent donate to the address from 1BKt84akCKhLq9j7vhtx7BeiGCsQWeNNHZ

god blessing Sichuan.

YES, this is a PRECEDENT.

Oh yea! If you really are Chinese, then why do you use L's instead of R's?  ;D

Seriously, Xiaolai is the real deal deal: https://twitter.com/xiaolai

I spent a half hour(+) Google-Fu'ing and reading his blog(s), including over at archive.org. Everything seems to jive.

Please give whatever you can and/or feel comfortable with giving, and safely assume Xiaolai will do with the funds exactly what he states he will do. Perhaps, he'll be kind enough later to present us pics/proof of his efforts, but even if he doesn't, all's good.

@Xiaolai: I hope my endorsement helps with this endeavor, bud.

~Bruno K~

PS: If you want to see what a fat Chinese guy without a hair outta place looks like: http://web.archive.org/web/20100103130815/http://www.lixiaolai.com/

Bitcoin is helping people everywhere without banking bureaucracy and without fees:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1cx12u/more_than_260_btc_donated_to_china_earthquake/ 

100 donation received! thank you all!

Now we're entering the 2nd phase, use 3D technology to print BITCOINs, and organize a public auction.

The 2nd phase was ended.

Due to several legal issues, I decided not to start an auction of 3D printed Bitcoins.

The amount of Bitcoin is exchanged to RMB by myself, with the highest rate during the donation period ($167), and adding up some changes, equivalent to ￥33,000。（31.54615348 *167 * 6.14 = 32346.7948）

See details in Chinese:
http://lixiaolai.com/first-public-charity-donation-in-china-for-lushan-3rd-phase