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I would avoid any political, religious, or ideology based charities, as they are way too divisive. This one was especially so on just this forum alone.

The problem with getting rich, buying their forum, and banning them is with the buying part. Buying means the other party was willing to sell, and the price was right. If you buy out their forum, it means either their leader, or all the important members got enough money that they themselves are willing to let the forum go. In short, buying them out = making them comfortably wealthy. I won't do that, just as I won't ever buy a membership there, because I don't want to give them even a penny of my money.
If Bitcoin does take off and make you rich, it would be way cheaper and satisfying to hire professionals on the black market to hack and screw with the forum to make it unusable, or trace member's real life ID's and make their real lives horrible. That's what I would do, anyway.

Not just bitches. Long distance relationships just don't last, no matter who is involved.


I once got an internet girlfriend, and we sort of dated for about two weeks, until I found out it was a guy (my age, kind of cute, apparently very girly with trans tendencies). Thats about when I figured out that I'm not very particular when it comes to my date's sex. Was so in love I just didn't care. It only lasted a bit over two years though. We're still friends, too. So not all "she turned out to be a dude" stories end horribly.

There is a flaw in your buyout idea. I'm driving home so I'll let you figure it out

you didn't miss anything. it's pretty much devolved from a Bitcoin forum to a "Lets everybody pic on Atlas" forum

Oh, hey, another idea! Let them know what we are up to and what's going on, and see if, instead of receiving the Bitcoin100 donation, they would be willing to "pay it forward" and use one of their own new BTC they got from their huge windfall to be part of the Bitcoin100 themselves, donating 1 BTC to whatever charity we pick next?

If this is long distance, do everything in your power to make it not be, or prepare for extreme heartache. You have a year, maybe two at most.

After some consideration, I think I would change my vote to a yes as well. How about we just let those who pledged/donated say if they want their portion to go? We don't have to donate an even 100 amount, this time, do we? I am also a tad concerned that some of the people who donated 10BTC may have wanted this to go to an actual charity. Honestly I have never even heard of Archive.org until yesterday. But they have voluntarily jumped through lots of hoops to do what they did.

I agree with BitcoinPorn that the main purpose of Bitcoin100 is to promote Bitcoin by giving charities incentive to accept it, not to simply donate to charities. Archive.org put up a Bitcoin donation address, and received numerous donations in return. I believe that our Bitcoin100 funds are limited (note how many were only able to pledge 1), and should not be spent casually, and that donating them to archive.org will not serve their intended purpose. As far as i know, these funds have not been promised to anyone yet, and I suspect archive.org's acceptance of Bitcoin will not be influenced by any decision Bitcoin100 makes.
That said, I will abstain from any actual voting, and will send the funds wherever I am asked to.

I don't really have a favorite person. I like myself lots... Does that count?

Also, I still quite vividly remember watching on TV when president Clinton got the privilege to meet and talk to Mr Rogers on stage in front of cameras. Though I think I miss Sherry Lewis and Lambchop more. And Red Green (Steve Smith), though he's not dead yet, just not making any more shows (for some reason I think Phinnaeus would be a huge fan of his shows)

Winter solstice = Yuletide = Saturnalia (= Christmas). It's all the same holiday.

The fact that we have cool gadgets like iphone and android phones, or even just PCs and operating systems, which were designed by brilliant people with competitive monetary incentives, kind of goes against that theory.

I thought he was born in mid to late spring, when sheep were giving birth, too?
And anyway, this whole holiday was stolen from Yuletide and Saturnalia, which were celebrations during the year's coldest and darkest time, marked by a big "f you" to the shitty period with huge celebrations, excess, and depravity. That fits way more for Bitcoin, as something introduced during a really shitty time as a big "f you" to those causing the situation, which will hopefully, with the help of unrestricted capitalism, bring a long period of unbridled excess and depravity (beyond what we have already seen on these forums).

But that's exactly what the Fed does, taking over the USD chain through proof of stake, having the largest reserves and control, and just printing money to lend. Who cares if I am making my money worthless bit by bit, as long as I can keep converting it into other assets? It's not like others will just dump all their money because it's slowly losing value. They wont have a choice but to keep using it if it is sufficiently established.  They already do that with USD.

Then maybe we should do some of the work? Can someone please whip up a "Donate in Bitcoin" orange/brown rounded button similar to paypal for them to use? It will be a convenience for other charities going forward, too.

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Though maybe it can work if we donate the current 60BTC amount first, then let them know there were objections to hiding the Bitcoin donation option behind a link, and tell them the rest of the 40BTC pledged will likely be donated after it's fixed?

westkybitcoins, note how many people here have spent hours discussing and learning about Bitcoin, for month, and yet who still don't understand economics or the basics of how money/investment/lending works. To learn a field, not only do you need to learn a lot of background and seemingly unrelated topics to understand the whole picture, topics you may find boring or tedious, but very often unless you are taught by a professional, you won't even know what topics to study, since many of these topics you won't even know exist. This likely goes for every field of study out there.

Thank you! Non-round numbers are very upsetting to us accounting types. So much so that I was about to take those bitcents and stash them away from the public address until we actually make a donation.

I imagine it would see meatbags as being these wonderful things that think up and create processors and hardware for AI to live on, so it may end up working with us and taking care of us just so we can keep providing it with faster processors and more hardware.

This whole RBE thing is still way too greatly dependent on the false assumption that we as a human species are not lazy. We are practically genetically programmed to collect as many resources as possible while doing as little as possible, since "doing" wears us out and makes us die faster. I am unconvinced that anyone would voluntarily go through the extremely grueling work of obtaining an advanced degree/education in any subject without knowing there will be a major payout at the end of it, which would give you an advantage over your peers. Why bother studying engineering, software development, biology, or resource allocation (economics), including all the parts you are guaranteed to have absolutely no interest in, but which are still essential in your field of interest, when you are already provided everything you need, and "someone else will just do that work for you"? From personal experience, I can tell you that brilliant people would much more likely end up slacking of, spending their days playing videogames, reading random books, or just debating random things on forums for hours rather than do any inventing work for the rest of you. Or they would end up forming an exclusive community where they can competitively to compare their levels of brilliance, use it as reputation, and invent their own barter and money system, exchanging their ideas only amongst each other, as a sort of a game to see who can collect the most "smart" points. Brilliant people are quite arrogant and competitive after all. And then the rest of you would be screwed.