Hey, blockcrushr,
Looks like you have noticed my tweed and decided to join the discussion. Thank you for that!
That's a great idea. Do you have anyone doing this currently? That would be a great thing to roll out, assuming people are comfortable with being on YouTube receiving assistance. One thing I will say is that the scheme we have proposed has more anonymity and perhaps dignity designed in.
Well, I would like to explain a bit more about this. FAILCoin was created over 2 years ago as an answer to the many scams, which we are witnessing with cryptocurrencies, but it is now developing as a way to help people and just for fun. Below you can see a screenshot of our Beta wallet. The idea is
very simple. The wallet will pick up specific hashtags from Twitter (Facebook is currently a problem), and for the homeless (or just people in need) the hashtag will be probably #FAILdonations. You can just click on the specific tab and see everything with provided links. No need to visit websites, read forums and such. There are actually good amount of people involved in this, despite we are looking silent. FAIL team currently has 2 members from England, Bulgaria: 2, Russia: 1, Indonesia: 1, Netherlands: 1, Greece: 1, South Korea: 1, Thailand: 1 and France: 1. Six of us revealed our real identities (we will be soon presented on our thread, website etc...). It's
extremely hard to achieve that, because all of us are working only for a share of the project (i.e. FAIL coins) and we all know that most of the people would prefer to take their $5 in Bitcoin, instead of working for something greater.
Sadly, we are still in the middle of our developing, but we will deliver.
P.S. Why anonymity? People who are making videos on YouTube are known either way. People who send coins could have their privacy, because only their wallet address will be known.
#1 - It's a proof of concept of how blockchain technologies can be used to solve human problems.
#2 - I'm not an expert on homelessness or hunger, so one goal of putting it out is to get feedback from a wide variety of stakeholders. To see if it is feasible, desired, and a first step towards actually implementing it.
I know why you wrote your white paper, but my point was that the people in general are not tech savvy. Our idea about this is again very simple. We will create a short video (which will be most likely narrated on 5+ languages), where we will explain on how this works. Of course, we intend to write something like a white paper too, but everything will be explained in a simple manner. In my humble opinion, we all must try to explain things simple if we want better adoption of the cryptocurrencies. What is that I mean? I mean, for example, you probably don't know/understand the technology, which is behind your sink in the kitchen, right? You just know that you can turn it on and drink water (or pour it in order to cook) and then turn it off. it's not your job to know HOW this water is coming to you. I believe that we just need to talk with people and just show them how to "turn on and off" their wallets, without complicating things.
That's one point of view and you are certainly entitled to it. Although, it's well known that that's a reason people do not give. According to this study,
http://cmfmedia.org/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Public-Perceptions-Homeless.pdf, 45% of people surveyed think people panhandle because "it's an easy way to pick up cash". I'm trying to find more specific statistics about people's attitudes towards this. I know that I personally would be more likely to give if I know the money will be used for food.
Believe me,
I know! I don't need to read this, because I live in Bulgaria, where sadly, begging is also a business. There are many beggars who are earning more money per month, than the average salary of an average person here. We again will try to keep things simple. Watch video below for reference:
Now, this guy didn't spend his money on alcohol, right? Did you liked him? Personally I did and I would not mind to send him 5 coins for example. This particular video has been watched by almost 45 million people, right? If only 1% of them are interested (or know about) cryptocurrencies, then we talk about 450,000 people. If only 0.05% decide to participate in the given campaign, you have 2250 more people who helped the guy and knows about you.
It sounds simple indeed, but I know very well that it would be
extremely hard to achieve that.
Cheers,
Spartak
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