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From: Galen Douglas
Hi Rassah,
I run a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and I am interested in learning more about Bitcoin 100’s donations and bitcoin donations in general. I would love to put a Bitcoin donation link on our website but I am not sure if there are any legal implications I need to be aware of. I would love to know more!
Projecthandup.org
I have everything setup but bitpay’s donation button code generator has a bug so I am waiting for them to fix it. I have a bitcoin donation page with everything on it but the donation form’s formatting is messed up.
And from Seth of brotherlyhands.com: P.S.: This is totally separate from Brotherly Hands. Do you know of anyone interested in supporting with
bit/litecoin the founding of a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of ancient mythology, arts and forbidden history?
It would be great if you could get me in contact with someone. Please feel free to forward my email address to such individual(s).
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You were basically, instructed to think of her as an idiot. Boatloads of money were spent to create that effect.
You followed your instructions.
Reality does not matter, image does.
Well, that's what I think has gone one with Palin. Standard Democratic party playbook, of course.
Maybe, though I doubt much of her statements and interviews were taken out of context. In my eyes, she proved that she was an idiot by opening her mouth. (In my ears?) |
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Pretty silly arguments here
Guns are bad and used by criminals. I would feel safer without guns, and we can have security protect us
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Those places with gun restrictions and high gun deaths just have corrupt security
Anyone else see a problem with this?
Let me guess, you gonna give those security guys guns?  I would give everyone guns. Just in case the security becomes corrupt and decides they want to be in charge. |
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Please enlighten me as to who the illuminati were and why the people in charge are not them. Where are they now? I normally abstain from using the word illuminati, but when it's used, it's referring to the top of the power structure that entangles earth.
Can you use Wikipedia? I said, search the wiki for it. Maybe read some books (for entertainment, read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Although ficton it has a lot of Illuminati history in it too). But the Wiki entry is fairly quick. And history books do not validate truth, many rewrite history to fit the viewpoint of whoever created them.
I have firsthand knowledge that Freemasons pull most of the strings behind the curtain. I have firsthand experience that the government works with beings of a higher awareness.
Oh, well, in that case, I have firsthand knowledge that the Illuminati was a group that existed a long time ago, was formed to fight the church and the monarchy (kings/government), and were all destroyed or discredited (mainly with clams that they are satanists or shadow government) because they didn't stay anonymous. By the way, I know Freemasons. I have first knowledge of them too. They're not really all that powerful. Mostly a bunch of old men, afraid that their fraternity is disaearing because younger generations don't care to join. At this point they are basically lodges for guys to hang out and drink and stuff. I know you don't actually believe Obama is the head of the show, do you?
Of curse not. The president doesn't have all that much power. It's in the constitution, the laws, and everything else. All the president can do is propose ideas, talk in front of cameras, and sign bills given to him. It's Congress (House and Senate) that has all the power, and they are under obligations to corporate and special interest lobbyists. |
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Also I think that was one of the reasons that their price was $100 above all other exchanges, they were selling at a premium (somehow artificially manipulated the exchange to sell their own bitcoins at a premium) to slowly compensate the loses. At least that's my little conspiracy theory  Aww, don't leave us hanging! Explain how someone would manipulate prices like that! |
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Pretty silly arguments here
Guns are bad and used by criminals. I would feel safer without guns, and we can have security protect us
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Those places with gun restrictions and high gun deaths just have corrupt security
Anyone else see a problem with this?
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It's not a matter of belief, it's the limitation of their optics. They operate under presumptions set forth by authorities without question.
Out of curiosity, how are you linking "profit" and "authority?" |
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Haven't you heard? The first rule of a despot is to keep the enemy warring against itself, inflame it into bitter factions.[/i]
That's really all that smearing Palin is about. Unfortunately. That's all it's ever been about, from the very beginning of those campaigns.
Huh... I never actually cared about her political views, and just thought that she was an idiot. |
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Um... that's exactly what the Illuminati fought against: they were against the idea that anyone or anything could claim to be anyone's supreme overlord...
Then why do we have governments? Why aren't we in anarchy if the illuminati thinks so highly of it? Why are we moving towards a world government? Because governments and churches convinced gullible people like yourself that the Illuminati were satanists or secret government types, and killed, imprisoned, or exhiled them. Seriously, read the wikipedia entry on them. Or any actual history books. They, uh, were against empires too. And kings, and rulers, and governments. So they wouldn't have built any empires. They WERE for science and study of reality though.
Were perhaps, but clearly who ever is in charge of the world now is not against empires, nor rulers or governments. Yeah, that secret group of people that is in charge right now is called Governments and Churches. And I guess now corporatists. Nothing secret or shady, and definitely not the Illuminati. How many wars are being fought in the name of religion?
Um, have you looked at the Middle East, and conflicts between India and Pakistan lately? Also, in my opinion, government is a form of religion, too, so... Why would an organization that fought so much against authoritarian power, want to subjugate themselves to some authoritarian despot?
Are you defending the elitist bastards that commit genocide and enslave humanity? No, I am defending the illuminati, who were against those things. If you are going to attack a group, at least learn about the group you are attacking first. it's as if you're now consciously pretending that the 'illuminati' (or whatever you want to call the top of the hierarchy)...
I like to call them governments, dictators, despots, and corporatists. Illuminati is an actual thing, and an actual group that existed with actual goals and beliefs. I could talk about how the Cherokee or the Greek Scholars are evil despots, because they are secretly controling the world, but that doesn't make sense, because those are also actual groups with actual history that don't actually do what I claim they do. Illuminati are not a catch-all adjective to describe any group you don't like. Don't continue to besmirch their good name just because the church and the government is folloing you ito it. Friend, I laid down in a lawn the day Hell's Angel's and Mexican drug cartels made appearance in Holly Springs, lapping around me for the entirety of the day. Let's see you lay down at peace in the presence of death before calling someone else fearful.
That sounds stupid. Being afraid of actual things that can actually physically hurt you is a good thing. It's being afraid of different opinions, things that can't hurt you, that's a bad thing. |
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How is it possible that they don't have enough money to cover customer withdrawal? hard to fathom..
Where did you hear that? |
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So how does this work? I just joined an organization called "Purshoeing Joy", which just sent almost 5,000 pairs of shoes to people in Guatemala. I'm out of Fort Myers and I do all their marketing, the founder is down there right now actually distributing the first batch of shoes we were able to gather in Georgia mostly. The founder is terrified of Bitcoin, but I'm very much invested in the idea.
Are there minimum requirements?
Dan
Only requirement is that the charity is secular, non-political, and has a website that it can stick a bitcoin donation onto. If he's terrified of Bitcoin, just use a merchant processor that will convert coins to dollars or euros or whatever. |
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If you are perceiving nothing, no perceiving can take place. What you are perceiving is nothingness.
Even if you're meditating as you say, which I have practiced letting go of my senses, you're still perceiving everything rather than nothing. You still hear your heart beat, your breath, see the colors in your eyes. You are just becoming one with it all, transcending beyond the physical realm of what we perceive something to be and into a state of unity with the surrounding energies. Absorbing and merging with the very noise of the universe, if you will.
Yes, I am "perceiving" nothingness, which means the universe is nothing. When I do that, I don't hear anything, see anything, or feel anything. No colors, no sounds, not even pitch black emptiness. I just turn off my mind, and get nothing from my outer senses, and no thoughts in my mind. I just can't do it for very long. |
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed from within our Universe. This indicates a lack of equilibrium and hints that an inverse of energy must exist for existence to be possible.
And it does! Even before the hadron Collider experiments, we figured out that there are equal parts matter and antimatter in our universe. You put everything together, and it will all cancel each other out. Hadron Collider experiments substantiated that by showing that mini big bangs happen on a quantum level, which also have both matter and antimatter. |
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BFL, arguably the largest Bitcoin business in existence, does not use WOT.
How did that turn out? From what I've been told, 50,000+ units shipped, and more orders coming in every day, so I guess they did OK. |
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Is BitcoinSniper logansrynche?
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Refer to the first post. You may perceive nothingness but you can not perceive nothing.
But... I can. I can quite literally make myself percieve nothing. Does that mean that nothing exists? You're not making yourself perceive nothing, you're making yourself perceive a conceptualization of nothing. Again, how could you perceive nothing if you are there perceiving it? I turn off, or rather actively ignore, all my senses, and stop myself from thinking about anything at all. Completely blank mind. So, yes, I am perceiving nothing, meaning there is nothing in the universe. |
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Refer to the first post. You may perceive nothingness but you can not perceive nothing.
But... I can. I can quite literally make myself percieve nothing. Does that mean that nothing exists? |
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That's a really cool feature. I love this wallet. Now if only I could sign messages with it...
I implemented message signing for mycelium. It is very very likely that it is part of the next feature release.
We also use signing for other stuff internally
You'll get both, the cool feature, and message signing  |
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It's Wednesday, so I can FINALLY officially announce Mycelium's newest project that they have been working on so hard for the last... quite a while (if you're wondering why that feature you kept asking for isn't added yet, this is part of the reason).
This Wednesday, at the Inside Bitcoins conference in Berlin, the team behind the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet and the much anticipated yet continuously delayed BitcoinCard, will demo a major new feature of their wallet, called Local Trader. This new feature is a person to person exchange, similar to LocalBitcoins.com, built directly into the bitcoin wallet software. As Jan Møller, one of Mycelium’s lead developers explains, “Mycelium Local Trader is a trading platform for the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet which allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin. The initial idea comes from one of the biggest problems in Bitcoin: How to get your first bitcoins?” The feature is still being finalized, but is fully functional on testnet, and is expected to be released later this month. At first, the trader options will be limited to “Continuous Seller,” where someone creates an offer to sell bitcoins and waits for buyers, and “Instant Buyer,” where someone who wants bitcoins right now can browse a list of sell offers in their area, and ping one to ask for a trade. When asked why the option to instantly sell bitcoins for cash was not available yet, Jan commented, “We wanted to attack what we believe is the most common problem: Getting your first BTC.”  To set up a sale offer, the user first has to load their bitcoin wallet with some bitcoins. Since both the wallet and the trading platform are within the same app, the seller profile actually knows if they really have coins to sell. Once the seller presses the “Sell Bitcoin” button, Local Trader automatically registers one of the wallet’s bitcoin addresses on the exchange server as the key associated with the seller account. Like PGP, this bitcoin address and private key are used to authenticate with the trading server, where your user id, sell offers, trade history, and reputation are stored. Likewise, the private key is used to authenticate API requests to the server, a method that may mitigate the API key theft issues recently experienced by some exchanges, and in the future may be used to authenticate and possibly encrypt communications between users. For now, it just keeps all communications secure, and has the added benefit of being able to import your trade account, along with all its history, simply by importing the associated private key from a backup. In the Sell Order menu, users can create sale orders that include their location (obfuscated to a 1km square block), the exchange used for the price, seller fee, minimum and maximum amount they are willing to sell, and a custom message that buyers will be able to see when they select their offer. Sellers are not limited to the amount of sale offers they can create, and can make sell offers with different fees for different amount traded, different locations, and even set negative fees if they need to swap their bitcoins for cash quickly. For anyone looking to buy bitcoins, they just have to press “Buy Bitcoin,” and they are instantly presented with a list of 20 closest offers in their area, sorted by distance using their phone’s GPS. Here, buyers can see offer details, such as nickname of the seller, their rating, price, distance, and minimum and maximum they are willing to trade. Clicking on an offer also expands it to show any custom notes the seller may have included. Initiating a buy offer is as simple as typing the amount you wish to buy into the text entry field on the seller’s offer, and selecting Buy.  Once an offer is accepted, the seller’s wallet receives a notification, and the trading app switches to a window where the buyer and seller can see the amount and the price being offered, as well as a chat window they can use to negotiate the terms and location of the trade. The price can be changed and refreshed to the more recent exchange price as many times as the traders want before they agree on the trade, up to the point where they meet and swap cash. When each of them agrees on the terms, they hit Accept Offer, and the trade will only be considered accepted when both of them have agreed. However, the trade must go through within 24 hours of the buyer’s initial offer, otherwise it gets automatically aborted. Once the two traders meet, the buyer hands cash to the seller, the seller hits “Cash Received,” and bitcoins are automatically sent to the sellers wallet, minus whatever fees were negotiated on.  Another brand new feature that comes with Local Trader, which will likely be ported to other parts of the wallet, is the “Transaction Confidence” graph. Since Mycelium servers are connected to hundreds, if not thousands, of nodes, they are able to track transaction propagation through the network in real time. Transaction Confidence, expressed in percent, shows a close estimate of how much of the overall Bitcoin network has heard about the transaction. The idea is that, if most of the network has already heard about the transaction, double-spending it becomes much more difficult, and the chances of it being included in the next block approach 100%. So, if the confidence is high enough (it reaches high 90’s within a few seconds), you can be fairly sure that this transaction will be included in the block, and do in person trades with zero block confirmations. No more awkward waiting for 10 minutes (or sometimes as long as 50 as I had the unfortunate experience of at a local McDonald’s) just to make sure that both people are confident enough the transaction won’t fail. Trader feedback is the only feature still undergoing the final stages of development, and will be automatically calculated based on the number and size of successful trades, response times, and trade aborts. For their part, Mycelium plans to charge about 0.5% per transaction for the service, but, like LocalBitcoin, will not object to people using the service to trade directly, bypassing the fee, since they believe enough people will find the convenience of trading directly through their system, along with maintaining a trade history and reputation, to be worth the small fee. |
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