Bitcoin Forum

Allright, I didn't see any other sub forums that was suitable.

Let's get to the point:

From time to time I visit certain web-sites and find the information I am presented with valuable.

I never used to donate anything anywhere, but since bitcoin came I've actually done a few small
donations here and there, and also received some!

There's a couple of sites that I find useful, I won't link here (so I won't be accused of trying to
get attention to these sites. :) )

Anyway, the first site, I wrote an e-mail to the owner, explaining I wanted to donate 1 BTC to him
if he provided me with a bitcoin adress within 7 days. This guy was probably a non-techie, so he
did not reply. I sent a follow up mail later on, explaining the offer was still available. 1 BTC at the
time was enough to buy him a diner from the store in my country. Still no reply from him. Well, then
I would not bother him anymore, that's okay.

Today I sent a mail to the admin of another site. This site tracks numbers for telephone sales
agencies. Basically what it does is that you can google a phone number that did an incoming
call to your phone. More often than not, you get a hit on his site. And there people make
comments about the various numbers, what the ppl calling wanted and so forth. I find it useful.

Anyways, I sent him a brief e-mail, telling him I liked his service, and told him I'd donate 0.5
bitcoins to him if he gave me a bitcoin address. Less than 1 hr later, he responded that he'd not
used bitcoin before, but he had now aquired a bitcoin address which he gave to me. So I'm now
sending him 0.5 BTC. This is of course not much, but all helps.

Esp. for tech savy web site operators, bitcoin is a good way to receive tip. Bitcoin services
that's operating these days all have a bitcoin address, but there are heaps and heaps of tech-
sites where they don't even know about bitcoin.

So if you know about a good blog, or a good site, that you find valuable to you, if they don't
already have a bitcoin address that they can use to receive donations, send them a mail,
and offer to donate bitcoins to them. After all, who says no to 'free' money? At least quite
a few will reply positively, so if 100 people on this forum does this from time to time, suddenly
we have new bitcoiners, and then the snowball rolls. The more people know about bitcoin,
the more popular it will become.

Of course major media attention gives the biggest effects, but we shall not underestimate
word of mouth. :)

Tought I wanted to share this story, as I found it exciting that this web admin produced
a bitcoin adress I could donate to.

According to MagicalTux, accepting donations in bitcoins is probably illegal in US. Just a heads up.

I understand. But luckily I don't live in the US. :) There's a lot of stuff that's illegal in the US though. :)

I think it's very obvious what site owner you should contact about your Bitcoin donations: somethingawful.com and its owner, Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka. He had a fallout with Paypal a while back, so he may be receptive.

He's the leader of the Super Secret SA Freemason Society and has more bitcoins than anyone else does combined.

I lol-ed.

Nice initiative op.


:D

Yeah, but I just learned that BTC donations are illegal in the US. And I've never had much use of that somethingawful forum anyway.  ;D

That's one of the lies the statists spread to keep the sheeple clinging to their debt-ridden fiat currency. Don't buy the hype.

Or a good YouTube video / YouTube channel.

You just called MagicalTux a liar?

I'm just being ironic, but it's not easy to get that across here. :)

No just VERY MISLEADING.

Yes, that's a good one too. I'm considering offering up my bitcoin adress on my youtube channel, I will probably recieve not many donations as my audience is very non-tech since it's a non-tech channel, but I can try, and see how it goes. :p

And as you say, of course, if there's a good youtube channel, contacting the youtube channel owner offering a donation is not bad either. :)

No, not a liar. He was just goxing around. :)

I'm just saying you never know. There's little doubt that a BITCOINTELPRO campaign is being waged on the community by the FBI - the only question is the scope.

No worries about that yet. By the time they have caught up on all the Bruce drama we will be well into 2012 ;)

Even if you dont get a lot of donations its still a non-anoying way of propagandizing Bitcoin.

They have planted all the Bruce drama to destroy bitcoins from the inside its a coop effort between the FBI and the Free Masons.

My guess is they'll release a pdf... and maybe make a powerpoint slide or two.  
But hey..  even if they release the kraken, I expect they'll only succeed in making it difficult for US citizens.  Bitcoin will still be useful without the US.

Yeah until the bankers come in and purge us all.

According to MagicalTux, the concept of "force majeure" means he had no potential liability from the resulting consequences of him giving a full copy of the database, passwords, logins, and e-mails included, to a third party who did not need the authentication table whatsoever. According to MagicalTux, "force majeure" also protects him from liability for the consequences of him ignoring reports of SQL vulnerabilities and successful hack attempts on individual accounts for weeks before the real problem.

MagicalTux's lawyer is probably just his imaginary friend from the third grade...

Now I am curious about this...

How can accepting magic beans as a donation be illegal?

To solicit a tip in bitcoin, one merely needs to provide a Bitcoin address for the sender to use. Because it is a direct transaction, there is no intermediary sucking fees from the transaction (except for the bitcoin transaction fees, which cost about penny at current levels).

Here is just a subset of those doing exactly this: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Donation-accepting_organizations_and_projects

However, if the recipient doesn't already know of Bitcoin or doesn't accept bitcoins currently, two services can be used to give an amount that is held in escrow by the intermediary and the recipient then can claim the funds using the intermediary's web site. This is something Flattr just recently added as well -- they refer to it as "unclaimed things": http://flattr.com/support/unclaimed

These two services that do this with bitcoins are: http://www.YouTipIt.org and http://www.PayBitBack.com YouTipIt lets you send a tip to any TipIt already registered on their site but also they offer the ability to send a tip to any Facebook user. If the user is not already registered with YouTipIt, the funds will be held in escrow until they are claimed by the Facebook user.

PayBitBack follows the same concept except theirs is a Twitter based escrow system.

Magic beans don't exist. They used to, but everyone was afraid that one of these days a giant would follow someone back down the beanstalk, and so a very determined, concerted effort was made to find every single last magic bean on earth and burn them. The celebration would have lasted for years, were it not for the fact that MagicalTux woke up because his alarm clock went off.

That's wrong, he stated he wasn't sure they were legal since they are not explicitly legal.

That's what you get for hiring your imaginary friend as your lawyer.