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You can keep my $1 and save it for the next project of yours. Feels bad that the Money drop is not gonna happen
Thank you. The worst thing that will happen with the money is that it gets donated to the homeless without a cool video. Maybe someone will donate enough to make the video worthwhile or the Bitcoin rate will go up enough to where we can make it happen with the funds raised. I am glad that some people donated and I hope that spirit is not lost on the current situation. |
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I wouldn't support this not because I'm against giving money to the homeless and supporting them to get off the streets but if you give directly there's a very high chance that money will end up funding drugs/alcohol. If you want to donate money to support homeless people then I'd recommend giving it through the more formalised and proper channels which is more likely to help the homeless people.
I think along the same lines. Instead of giving them money, its better to offer them meals and other kinds of things, which does not lead to them using the money for wrong things. You should offer meals and other kinds of things to the homeless in your community. We strongly support that. For people who want to donate in the way this thread describes we have created this opportunity. It is a little disheartening that people have decided to play the moral police and discourage our charity effort. We choose to believe that all homeless people are not drug addict alcoholics and will use the money responsibly without the help of someone to spend it for them. We also believe they will appreciate money raining from the sky and will not be offended at all by it. |
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Please just give it directly to them
That would not make for a very exciting video. Please read what we are hoping to acheive. If you would like to make a video showing you donating to the homeless we would love to see it. What happens if you dont reach what you want? Will we get refunded, where will the money go? I was for this idea but it is getting a lot of negativity. We are happy with the support we have received so far. Many supportive messages from people with wonderful charities have started to come in. The rising exchange rate has also helped us to raise over $100 now. If we use only $1 bills it could still be a nice drop. I do hope to continue seeing that number rise but think we will see a drop and a food handout even with the limited funds raised so far. |
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Please just give it directly to them
That would not make for a very exciting video. Please read what we are hoping to acheive. If you would like to make a video showing you donating to the homeless we would love to see it. |
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At worst this sounds like an awful scam. At best this is terribly insensitive way to help the homeless.
How arrogant of you to drop money from the sky over homeless people or poor areas. You don't have any respect for those you help.
I respect your opinion. We are not trying to be arrogant. We are trying to encourage people to donate money directly to the less fortunate by making it seem fun. I'm starting to think now that maybe dropping money isn't the best option. They could be dropping other stuff, like food as Equinoxx shared in that video. Or clothes. Just a thought.
Drones cannot carry much weight and you do not want to drop heavy objects on people. We thought dollar bills would not be threatening. |
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No website or page with info for non-bitcointalk members?
I'm sending you a PM. I'll be happy to help promote this where I can and I trust OgNasty's judgement, but if I'm going to vouch for you myself, I'll need a little direct confirmation that you are legit. I hope you don't take offense but I've been burned before.
No website or anything yet. We want to see if we are capable of pulling this event off before trying to turn it into a charity organization instead of a charity event. No offense about wanting our identities. I am not sure we want to trust just anyone with our identifications but if that is holding back donations then we could ask OgNasty to release our identities to a donator if we fail to deliver a video of a money drop. |
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Are you promoting this anywhere other than this forum? I followed your twitter account but it only has one tweet and it directs people here.
Not much. We reached out to a few businesses that accept bitcoins but they did not respond. |
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That's awesome. Maybe MrDove and the donators could consider sending the BTC held in escrow to Dennis Roady Deeds if there isn't enough for an event? Great video with a more civil approach. We are not ready to give up on this idea yet though. If we do call off the event then the bitcoins can be donated however people see fit. Thanks! Your donations keep us positive about our hopes to make this happen. |
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Largest donation yet. Thank you Equinoxx! Ask any reasonable man and woman, what would be a smarter thing to do, throw money from the sky or buy a homeless a hot meal from across the world (which would show how simple it is to donate / transfer money over bitcoin). you can't swipe a credit card at a resaurant from across the world..
We are all very proud that you are thinking of ways to donate to charity. I wish you loads of success with your idea. Excuse me, but what was the point of throwing money from the sky to random people on the street? If it's pure donation purpose then I would prefer donating personally.
I have stated the point. We hope to "encourage others to do positive things" & "inspire others to participate in similar events". If you have been inspired to donate something personally then I already consider this event a success. |
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Actually someone else told me they had this idea, to collect money for charity, and to take half. I wonder how transparent, what happens with the btc given, this will be.
We hoped that using OgNasty would provide as much transparency as possible. It is unfortunate that others think it is acceptable to take half of the money donated for charity. So far all of the private messages I have received are from parties wanting to piggyback on this idea for their own profit. This was not the sort of response I had expected or hoped for. If anyone has any recommendations for how we can act more transparently or give assurances that we are doing this only for the joy of helping others and encouraging others to give to charity by making it appear fun with an uplifting video then please feel free to post your ideas. We are currently $586 from our goal. |
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Honestly, if this was filmed great and put on YouTube, you probably would make more than the donations received. Then you could do it again.
I'll watch it on YouTube once you do it.
Just to reiterate we will not be entering into an ad partnership with YouTube and there will be no income from the completed video. There will be no profit of any kind for the MrDove team or anyone else involved with the event. The goal is once again to "encourage others to do positive things" & "inspire others to participate in similar events" and I do not think that making people sit through advertisements before seeing the video is the way to accomplish either of those goals. |
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I appreciate the passion I am reading from users wanting to help raise funds. We had hoped to raise more than $600 by now so that we could make arrangements for a drop on March 10th. We are now officially pushing that date back and hope to see some growing support this week. If we have failed to reach our goal by March 15th and it looks as though fundraising has slowed to the point where this fundraiser is a failure then we will consider whether the community would like us to return the donated funds or hand them out to the homeless along with some food and supplies. Hopefully this is just a precautionary explanation. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far and a special thanks to OgNasty for helping us to accept Bitcoin and also for sending us a huge box of granola bars to hand out at the event!
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Thank you! Thank you! Happenings like that are sure good for publicity of bitcoin. But I am not sure if this will really help those poor people in need. Giving money to poor people is not always the best solution.
This is not meant to publicize Bitcoin. Please see our intent to "encourage others to do positive things" & "inspire others to participate in similar events." We will be providing the homeless with breakfast bars before the event and not only money. Thank you! |
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how much do u need to get before u do the drop?
We were hoping to raise more than $600 for this event. If anyone is interested in making a large donation we would be happy to include a special thanks at the end of the video where we can display your name or website as a sponsor of the event. |
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Thank you for the donations Glucose & Weed!
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Event like this can possibly cause stampede where some old and young people can possibly get hurt and even death. If you drop this in my place.
I suspect you have had very little interaction with true homeless people if you believe they will stampede over dollars. That is what rich people do. Homeless people are generally very appreciative and supportive of one another in these types of environments. I suggest you take some time yourself to visit with some homeless people in your area. You might be surprised by their generosity. Please watch this to gain some perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdqtktkZn0 |
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Isn't dropping a bunch of money on a group of wanting persons going to incite a riot? Or at least some pushing/shoving/fighting? What's stopping non-homeless from hanging out and grabbing cash, too? Great idea, but I think the execution of it needs a little work.
I think you overestimate the greediness of homeless people and underestimate the amount of planning that has gone into this event. I think a riot is far more likely to occur dropping $1 bills on Wall St. The area this drop will be taking place is highly populated with transients and it is very unlikely that there will be anyone nearby who isn't in need of charity. |
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Sounds like a cool idea. Just hope the money doesn't drop else where. And if the homeless guy happens to be sleeping or on the side of the building(which is true in many cases), then dropping it would be difficult.
The drop will take place during a time with little to no wind in an area heavily populated with homeless. We also have a designated "hype man" who will be wandering the area ahead of time handing out breakfast bars and supplies while alerting the homeless of what will be taking place. |
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