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

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.

by joining greenpeace you can get the pennies from them to support your cause aswell as human foot soldiers that actually are in the african waters that know and deal with the issues involved. then add your donations fund ontop to help the cause and trust me, ud be more powerful then just having junk change to afford your own 2 week vacation

but i do agree people sitting in their comfortable homes in america (you) asking for money is not what i call charity.

i also agree that most charities waste their money. EG one guy buying a plane ticket booking a hotel room, boat hire, etc is not really itself helping the ecology.

but joining the teams of people already in africa who have contacts and knowledge of the area to get things changed is alot more powerful then just enjoying a few weeks of taking picture on a boat to add to your blog website.

now give up the charade. if your heart is truly motivated enough then you will see where your failings are and you would be part of the change that is needed when it comes to charities.. not becoming yet another money grabber just to cover your own expenses just to visit another country.

one hint.. mozambique government cannot change the laws of chinese fishermen that fish in international waters.. point your mind toward chinese governments to change how their fishermen work.. and i might start believing you know what your talking about and have atleast a half assed plan on how to effectively use the money. greenpeace are already in mozambique waters helping to uphold the regulations they helped develop to protect the waters... but to change things, talking to chinese government to change their laws is whats needed next then the chinese fishermen will change and leave mozambique waters alone.

here learn something
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGTMdIfz3o
(not one scene involves a guy standing at a mall with a donations form)

now id appreciate the moderators lock this thread and move it to off topic or even scam accusations

starting a .org is the least of your issues.

a charities involves a board of trustee's, director,  treasurer, secretary.
just to get a charity registration number for a international project such as what your site "portrays"

seriously join greenpeace as you.. a single person will just spend the money and none of it will get used helping the ecology of the waterlife of africa.

10k dollars is not much. thats only enough to cover flights to africa, a hotel room for a few weeks and a couple boat hires.

thats not charity. thats a free vacation.

now join greenpace if your heart is in the right place and do it right.

and just for laughs i thought i would dox ya..

seems your a graphics designer and you are one of the developers involved with ripple.... ha ha ha.. such a shame thats all lies as i know who the real developers are.

www.elilang.com

oops hang on you supposedly:

and by the way i see in 2009 when you went on vacation to Zanzibar.

need me to dig any deeper? or will you give up this failed attempt to grab free crypto coin

still doesnt amount to $4k, still no charity number, still no website history before February 2013.

seems you bought a dead domain name. that had no content on it before February.

thanks for playing the game. but next time atleast act like a charity and have it registered and using standard charitiy wording and payment methods. you failed on many points and suggest no one donates to this obvious fake appeal.

goodluck in life. feel free to return when you have some actual charity brochures, registration numbers, information factsheets and not just googled/wiki'd your info to look like you are well established and knowledgable about what is going on in africa.

it might also be worth joining greenpeace to avoid the headaches of setting up a legit charity if your heart is in the right place, as they do what your scam site proposes to do.

then you can have greenpeace accepting bitcoins. knowing that some actual work in the country will be done.

goodluck, thanks for the laughs, bye

Im from the UK so i am experienced in this more then most the american users. local bitcoins does not draw the money out of your account like a direct debit does. it is for you to SEND the funds via the bank transfer method. so your safe with that.

what you should do though if your not meeting them is ensure escrow IS enabled.

all charity requests should go through bitcoin100 as they are good at weeding out proper charities.

well i know its supposedly about marine life but something smells fishy..
especially when the guy is registered in USA promoting an african scheme with:
no charity number
no other methods of accepting donations such as wire transfer credit/debit card.

looks to much like someone made a cheap free website 2 months ago to troll for free bitcoins.

not only the fact that the only donation method is crypto currencies which a true charity would never limit themselves to, but also the total donations bar on the page $4k does not tally with:
https://blockchain.info/address/1P8g1R2n4jyYa2jRhE931gvAqwxZdA8PxR

the reason everyone is acting like sheep valuing bitcoin based on the mtgox price is because no one knows what to base a bitcoin price on if MTGox wasnt around.

me personally..

i want £50 a day (average days minimum wage after taxes in the UK) ($75). so whatever bitcoins an average miner would make in a day is what i would call a fair daily income/valuation.

base it off the proof of work EG the mining costs. (edit: im not a miner, but i think using the mining costs is a fair starting point)

so if an average miner can only get 0.3BTC a day then that puts bitcoin at £150 ($225) per coin. and as difficulty increases and the daily coin production decreases, obviously the per coin price will rise to ensure miners get a fair daily income.

not based on rampant speculation that is tied to nothing but panic and profiteering.

so when i trade with someone in another country using just the clients.. if everyone based the bitcoin price on a average daily production vs average daily minimum wage of their country. then it would create a stable price valuation

i propose for the asset/trading investment of bitcoin to be
XBT

and for the currency version (thinking about far in the future when we will be doing daily transactions in satoshi's)
SAT

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52543.0 Bitcoin100

they already doing a charity drive to get charities to accept bitcoin

using any remote service for storage that is not owned by you is risky.

no matter how much security a bank vault has, there have been hundreds of years of examples of bank thefts involving gaining entry to a vault.

no matter how much security a bank has on its computer systems there are decades of examples of hacking banking institutions.

the only reason to still trust banks is that your money is insured.

with bitcoin it is not insured.

so don't let third parties hold all your funds, no matter how much security they promise they have.

remember if the only copy of the private key is on your hard drive or a piece of paper in your possession then the coins only belong to you.

if a third party service has it, secured or not. there is always a risk.

so only risk what your willing to use/lose.

i think the bitcoin foundation does need to have some fundamental principles lined out that will never change no matter what "agenda's" get voted in or out.

after all if there is only a couple dozen members then it will only take a group of craze minded saboteurs to pay a members fee and then over cast the votes in their favour.

imagine 50 bankers or public-servants buying the memberships purely to control the voting results. to get "agenda's" passed through and then persuade the community to change to the updated clients containing these voted changes.

so this is why i think the OP asked the question..

before donating to become a member, what intentions/fundamental principles does the foundation hold.

EDIT:

i like how this post just earned me to be ignored by 2 of the foundation members. As if them no longer seeing the message makes the points of the message less valid.

a TV drama about courtrooms and lawyers. this episode was more about "anonymous" helping to get justice for a rape victim, but using a guy named Mr Bitcoin as the front man of all things bitcoin and "anonymous"

the last episode featuring the character "mr bitcoin" was last year which was more about trying to prove if he was or wasnt the bitcoin creator.

i personally preferred that episode last year as it was verging NEAR reality by talking about bitcoins a lot more and the mystical true identity of the creator of bitcoin.

this latest episode seems like a stab in the dark trying to highlight "anonymous" as if "anonymous" is tightly tethered to bitcoin.

it needs to get more to a point where localbitcoins is the place people should go to to buy in-out of bitcoins. not the banking infrustructure. i have yet to see media show much about localbitcoins.com.

i have though seen a few TV pres stuff showing mtgox, bitpay, and btc-e (including showing the trollbox where people were swearing) (media facepalm moment)

i think anyone that likes fiat should have their name listed on localbitcoins.com, alternatively if your really into bitcoins and you think your the most knowledgeable person in your town in regards to bitcoin. start up a community exchange website for your town/cluster of villages.

don't rely on mtgox as the centralised valuer of bitcoin

keep the exchanges at BTC but if you personally want smaller amounts you, on your own services or excel worksheets are free to move the decimal place of dollar and BTC..

in the future investors will still want the whole BTC valuation.

but retailer places like bitpay can freely do measurements in satoshi's, bitmills, bitcents.

much like the real world with gold. the spot price is measured in ounces. but on the street/retail level its sold in grams/ coins/ ingots values

i just checked kalyhost is owned by that tibane guy linked to mtgox.. so you can renew with BTC direct on kalyhost.

bid $80

lol well its only a template https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92969.0
the true notes have tamper proof holographic stickers hiding the private key.

which is me just hinting that non escrow non digital non bank backed/insured bitcoins can be done

ill change it for you

here you go heres £35, should be enough for a few pints down the pub

to feed your paranoia.
QR codes are not made by someone with a pen doing dot to dot. in 99% of cases people use googles QR code generator or blockchain.info, or an app designed by a third party to grab the QR Code image to then print out. whats stopping those third parties from keeping logs of every string of code it receives to convert into a QR Code image.....

banks third party services, paypal are the digital protection.

paper notes EG bank notes are irreversible without a fight and maybe a bit of blood, or a slap across the face with a wet fish if refusal to repay occurs. or if your night a fighter. then a small claims court case.

so here is the solution..

escrow for digital protection. (a comparitive to banks, visa, mastercard and the dreaded paypal)

and bitbills, cascasius coins for irreversible instant transactions..

now that is one possible future path bitcoins can take.