And one more! From: Frankie
Dear Kate,
Please meet my friend Dmitry. We met in business school and he now runs a foundation that is looking for worthy nonprofits to donate to. He just donated $1,000 each to my friend Jessie Morey's IBME and my friend Amy's Primate Education Network. I think he will really appreciate the Eureka! Recycling mission.
Dmitry's foundation is called BitCoin100. They arose out of the generosity of a few early BitCoin adopters to promote the value of the currency for nonprofits: when donors make their donations in BitCoins, the recipient nonprofit keeps 100% (hence the name). None of the funds are lost to credit card or processing fees.
BitCoin100 donates $1,000 to selected nonprofits who agree to accept the currency on their donation page. It doesn't take much work to get it set up, but I know the money could do a lot of good helping with new initiatives at Eureka.
@Dmitry, Kate and I are old friends from my renewable energy days. She works for Eureka! Recycling, a terrific nonprofit in Minneapolis/ St Paul that works towards improving municipal recycling and building a zero waste future. A $1,000 donation would be a big help with their projects.
Good luck!
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And my buddy Frankie from college keeps them coming  Dear Megan,
Please meet my friend Dmitry. We met in business school and he now runs a foundation that is looking for worthy nonprofits to donate to. He just donated $1,000 to my friend Jessie Morey's IBME and my friend Amy's Primate Education Network, and I realized I hadn't reached out to you! I think he will like the Girls Rock! DC mission.
Dmitry's foundation is called BitCoin100. They arose out of the generosity of a few early BitCoin adopters to promote the value of the currency for nonprofits: when donors make their donations in BitCoins, the recipient nonprofit keeps 100% (hence the name). None of the funds are lost to credit card or processing fees.
BitCoin100 donates $1,000 to selected nonprofits who agree to accept the currency on their donation page. It doesn't take much work to get it set up, but I know the money could do a lot of good helping with scholarships for your program.
@Dmitry, Megan is a great friend of mine who helps run the DC chapter of the fabulous nonprofit Girls Rock!. They run an annual summer camp to build self confidence and leadership skills for young girls, culminating in a live concert for rock bands the girls create together. Recently they started offering an after school program as well. Their impact for the girls is huge and $1,000 would make a big difference for them.
Good luck!
Frankie
Grace,
Please meet my friend Dmitry. We met in business school and he now runs a foundation and is looking for worthy nonprofits to donate to. He just donated $1,000 to Jessie Morey's IBME and I thought of you next. I think he will like your Capital Area Food Bank mission.
Dmitry's foundation is called BitCoin100. They arose out of the generosity of a few early BitCoin adopters to promote the value of the currency for nonprofits: when donors make their donations in BitCoins, the recipient nonprofit keeps 100% (hence the name). None of the funds are lost to credit card or processing fees.
BitCoin100 donates $1,000 to selected nonprofits who agree to accept the currency on their donation page. It doesn't take much work, but I know the money could do a lot of good for the Food Bank.
@Dmitry, Grace is a good friend of mine who is thoroughly dedicated to improving others' lives through food. She's also a good friend of Jessie Morey.
Good luck!
Frankie
Not quite right on the reason for the name, but the charity seems sound. I'm still waiting for a reply to "do you have a website?" for the second one. Comments? |
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More explanation: How can we get a determination as to whether or not we qualify?
From votehemp.com/mission_goals.html ...
"Vote Hemp is a national, single-issue, nonprofit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and free market for industrial hemp, low-THC oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, and to changes in current law to allow U.S. farmers to grow the crop. Our ultimate goal is having hemp grown on a commercial scale in the U.S. once again and for the crop to be able to be processed here as well. We educate people on the issues surrounding hemp, register voters, and build coalitions to fulfill our mission.
Vote Hemp is working to shift federal regulation of industrial hemp farming out of the hands of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and get hemp farming regulated on the state level.
Vote Hemp also works to defend against any new laws, regulations or policies that would prohibit or restrict hemp commerce or imports.
Vote Hemp is not a drug policy organization, nor do we take positions on drug policy issues other than the improper classification of hemp as a drug.
Vote Hemp was founded in May 2000 by members of the hemp industry and was incorporated in the District of Columbia as a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization. Since then Vote Hemp has emerged as the unquestionable lead political activist organization of the hemp industry. We have demonstrated that Vote Hemp is a strategic organization working for meaningful change in Washington, DC, a necessary precursor to expanding the hemp industry in the U.S. and worldwide.
To get a deeper understanding of the mission of Vote Hemp please read The Vote Hemp Treatise: A Renewal of Common Sense: The Case for Hemp in 21st Century America, written by Erik Rothenberg, President of Atlas Corporation and a former Director of Vote Hemp.
Donations, bequests, and in-kind donations to support this effort can be made online. You can also find sample letters and easy ways to contact elected officials; see theVote Hemp Action Center.
Some of the best pages to start with on the Vote Hemp Web site are our Federal Legislation page, State Action page, News Coverage page, and our Download Centerpage. There you can find information on the new bill H.R 1009 which was recently introduced in Congress, what kind of hemp legislation has been introduced in yourstate, the latest in hemp news, and find just about everything else.
Please also check out our What Can I Do? page for all kinds of ways to get involved and help out.
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Thanks for your time.
With respect,
Just to be clear, we're not talking about psychoactive marjiuana, we're talking about the substance that can't get you high, less than 0.3% THC content, legal to grow almost everywhere in the world except America, in a situation that thus depresses the global hemp market and even prohibits research into the crop, which stands to serve enormous benefits to mankind in the form of biofuels, building materials, biodegradable plastics, even superconductors. Just wanted to make it clear we're not trying to legalize drugs. We're trying to get a separate defintion for hemp as distinct from marijuana. Not to get all evangelical. But ... Hawaii is looking to use hemp for phytoremediation to remove contaminants left in the ground at old army bases. And - no joke - struggling farmers in Tasmania are being kept down by US hemp prohibition. http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/1892518/hemp-report-positive/An example of our regs damping down international demand: Naturally Advanced Tech http://www.hemp.org/news/category/cannabis/naturally-advanced-technologies-incNaturally Advanced had been focusing its business on a hemp-based fiber, with operations based in Vancouver, Canada, where laws don't restrict the use of hemp. In the last year, the company has focused on proving its technology with flax fiber, which is more readily available in the U.S., said Naturally Advanced spokeswoman Erin Brunner And it turns out that hemp-derived carbon nanosheets outperform graphene at a fraction of the cost in supercapacitor electrodes. Wrap your head around the possibilities inherent in that. Now maybe it becomes clear how it became illegal to even grow this plant to be researched at universities in this country. Thanks for your consideration. With respect, Alex B-Z I'm kinda 45% - %55 on this (slightly against), since, although I do think anti-hemp laws are stupid, this isn't really a charity, either. |
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LightRider's idea of capitalism makes me think of trying to defend the idea that all sex should be banned, because while some people may be having sex for lovemaking or procreation, sex also involves rape, and rape is apparently just as much a part of lovemaking as everything else is.
In this case, making love, the voluntary exchange, is capitalism, and rape, which may have the same result (procreation, or in other sense profit), is corporatism and plunder. I and other pro-capitalists here are doing the equivalent of trying to point out that sex, and making love, has many uses and is the best way to progress forward, while Lightrider is doing the equivalent of saying that rape and making love are all the same thing, and that sex should be completely abolished.
Madness!
Now you're just trolling. I for one, already pointed out several times that trade is mostly not voluntary. Neither is sex. We either have sex, or our species dies out. So let's ban sex, along with all it's involuntary coersion and rape and stuff *trollface* |
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I seriously doubt Theymos meant he will be spending the entire 6,000BTC on a new forum. From what I'm guessing, some small ("normal") amount will be spent on the forum, and the remainder will be kept as a huge pile of money as a sort of a "bitcoin defense fund." Like if we needed to buy a politician, or fund some project to fix a recently badly-broken bitcoin bug, or something.
Since I look at the pile of money as "someone who is a huge supporter of bitcoin has a ton of money for 'just in case' scenarios," I'm all for it. Besides, I think theymos is trustworthy, and at this point, much of the money he holds isn't even in his trust.
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Fact:
The cartel can hide how much hashrate it has, by using many IP addresses and sharing transactions until it has 50+% or more and is ready to move to the next stage.
Fact: moving to the next stage, i.e. announcing to the world that they do have 51% power, will be tantamount to them shooting themselves in the foot. Bitcoin will crash, as will their investments, OR they will be seen as hostile, and punished. IP or not, you can tell who has how much hashing power by how much each bitcoin address gets paid. The reason you can tell that BTCGuild, Ghash.io, Eligius, etc have so much hashing power is not from their IP addresses, but from the bitcoin addresses from the blocks they publish. Let's say BTCGuild and GHash both owned 33% of the hashing power, and were actually owned by the same person, so you couldn't tell that someone owned 51% of the hashing power. What could this person do with these two pools that would not immediately expose them as having majority hashing/decision control, send bitcoin into a panick, and have miners leave those two pools en-masse? So, if you are using an Amazon wallet app, and I am using some other wallet app, and you try to send me coins, how will I know whether you sent them if you only send them to Amazon's servers? It would essentially cut everyone using Amazon clients off from the rest of the bitcoin network. Why would anyone want to use such an app? Bitcoin transactions primarily work because they are propagated P2P through the network from person to person. Miners just sit on the perifere catching these transactions as they pass by and adding them to blocks.
Fact: You are conflating the publication of block solutions with the propagation of transactions before the fact. You are assuming that bitcoin wallets must wait for a solved block (~10 minutes) to see whether someone sent them money. That's not how it works. If your case was ever encountered, where you tried to use your Amazon wallet app to send me coins, and your app only send the transaction to Amazon's miners, I would claim that you have not sent me any money, since it hasn't shown up on the network (not within the first 10 minutes), and walk away, OR notice that your software is hiding transactions, and consider you suspect. Besides, with version 0.9 that's coming out, you would be sending me money from your Amazon app in the form of a signed transaction, and I would be the one to broadcast it. As a recepient of the coins, I have incentive to broadcast it to everyone I can, not just to your Amazon. So... You don't understand well the way Bitcoin works.
Fact: You are full of shit. And have quite the gall to come in here as some newbie who only recently heard about bitcoin, doesn't even own any, and spends time trying to shit on it without even understanding the basic underlying technology, telling me that I'm the one who doesn't understand. Fact:
If the cartel waits until they have 80 or 90% of the hashrate and transactions before attacking, then you will not get most of the commerce on your new fork. You lose.
The cartel's customers are not going to change which websites they send their transactions on. They will be happy with the service they are getting.
Fact: the cartel's customers will be VERY unhappy when their currency crashes 90% in value, as large holders and investors dump the now broken currency for something else. That is what you, and those guys who wrote the Selfish Mining paper, are ignoring, or refusing to connsider. Cartels will own 100% of mining. No improvement at all for humanity. Worse we will be on a public ledger with no privacy nor anonymity. This is the 666 system.
How would miners know which address belongs to whom, if no IP's are tied to it, and their miners may only hear about a transaction after it has passed through multiple clients? And don't forget, if a 51%+ cartel implements nonstandard changes, their blocks will not be accepted by any of the clients, and won't even propagate. Their 51% will instantly become 0%, because, again, bitcoin rules are enforced first by the clients, and second by the miners. None of that makes any sense. This: "Worse we will be on a public ledger with no privacy nor anonymity."does not work, because of this: "How would cartel miners know which address belongs to whom, if no IP's are tied to it"There is no identifiable information that miners, even 100% miners, can get on people's bitcoin addresses. IP's are not tied to them, and neither is anything else. As for this: "And don't forget, if a 51%+ cartel implements nonstandard changes, their blocks will not be accepted by any of the clients, and won't even propagate. Their 51% will instantly become 0%, because, again, bitcoin rules are enforced first by the clients, and second by the miners." if that does not make any sense to you, then you need to figure out how bitcoin and its distributed consensus system works, before telling others they don't understand how bitcoin works. I would explain it to you, but I don't want to waste my time on someone as full of shit as you. And that doesn't happen often. |
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While the infinity example was obviously intended to be humorous, please tell me you're aware that there is a mathematical proof demonstrating some infinities are larger than others.
If you are talking about Cantor's diagonalization, where the number p differs by a decimal digit from every real number n, and thus has no real number partner, the my answer is that p can not exist, or is an imaginary number. The reason is that since there is an infinite number of real number n's, you will never come to a conclusion on what p must be. In other words, it will take an infinite amount of n numbers for p to be created, or put another way, it will take an infinite amount of time, calculations, attempts, or whatever, in order to create p. So you will always get closer to creating p without actually creating it. |
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Awwww. Just got this in the mail Hi there. Alex with Vote Hemp here with a quick question. Just how prominently do you expect Bitcoin 100 orgs to display their acceptance of bitcoin donations? We're adding a bitcoin donation option to http://www.votehemp.org/contribute in the next day or two and I want to let my guys know if they also need to put some sort of indicator on the landing page as well - at the moment we don't reference any contribution options on the index page. "contribute" is an option under the "Take Action" drop-down. Thanks for your time and for all that you do. Have you heard about Bitcoin Black Friday? That and Bitcoin100.org are what enabled me to convince my bosses to add a bitcoin donation option, by the way. With respect, Alex Guys, please verify and confirm, but my first reply had to be to point out that Bitcoin100 can't donate to political orgs  Fraid you're right, Rassah. They clearly identify themselves as a "lobbying organization". I just got a reply to my concern/objection: Rassah;
I understand - though personally I do not consider lobbying for industrial hemp cultivation to be political in the partisan sense, any more so than lobbying for hunger relief or AIDS treatment or fair treatment of political prisoners is political. We're about as non-partisan as one could possibly get. It was with this in mind that I reached out.
I've also passed on info on BitCoin 100 to some of the people working on Bitcoin Black Friday, hopefully they'll be in touch.
Thanks for your timely response.
W/ respect,
ABZ
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1) Except you can logically prove that reality cannot only be objective, and so your assumption is wrong.
I'm still looking for such proof. 4) If you were a microbe on an elephant's butt, would you know that the ground you're walking on is an elephant?
Nope. but I wouldn't throw out random subjective coonclusions about what ground I'm walking on, either. I would only use conclusions I can observe and come to, and get closer to the correct answer by process of elimination (I should be able to tell it's not dirt, sand, or a furry fox butt). I wouldn't subjectively make up some story that sounds great, and claim that it's just as valid a conclusion as everything else (as the "God did it" folks do) |
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ok, you´re booked for center stage.
(writes a note to other orga team members that evening entertainment section is sorted)
You might be in for a surprise.  The surprise is the best part. |
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Awwww. Just got this in the mail Hi there. Alex with Vote Hemp here with a quick question. Just how prominently do you expect Bitcoin 100 orgs to display their acceptance of bitcoin donations? We're adding a bitcoin donation option to http://www.votehemp.org/contribute in the next day or two and I want to let my guys know if they also need to put some sort of indicator on the landing page as well - at the moment we don't reference any contribution options on the index page. "contribute" is an option under the "Take Action" drop-down. Thanks for your time and for all that you do. Have you heard about Bitcoin Black Friday? That and Bitcoin100.org are what enabled me to convince my bosses to add a bitcoin donation option, by the way. With respect, Alex Guys, please verify and confirm, but my first reply had to be to point out that Bitcoin100 can't donate to political orgs |
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did they mention 2nd life?! lol?! deary me
I thought it was very ironic when Mercedes mentioned Second Life as example of virtual currency, in the contect of more regulation = better, coonsidering SecondLife econoomy was BOOMING for years with no stop in sight, until US told Linden Labs to regulate it, and forced them to ban all interest bearing accounts (banks, stocks, loans, financial services) and ban all games of chance (gambling). The economy absolutely tanked, and never recovered since, with SecoondLife becoming a glorified chat room. Yay regulations! Wow. I never realized that. I just assumed SL had pretty much died a slow death through apathy, not through what amounts to financial terrorism. It would be very interesting to see if LL could replace linden$ with Bitcoin. Apathy was part of it, but SL's peak was about where Bitcoin was a year ago. They were just starting up with new stock exchanges, investment services, and tons of new businesses in-game that were making real money. The regulation thing make the currency tank in value by something like 75% in a couple of weeks, and all the business types abandoned it. It's why I was so excited to see what will happen after Pirateat40 scheme last year: Every time something like that happened, be in it the real world with Ponzi, or videogames like SecondLife or others, someone would step in, say, "I'm taking control here!" and change things to the boring regulated stuff we're used to. Bitcoin was the first example of what would happen if no regulators stepped in to take charge and control things. Turns out the answer was, people will learn their lesson and avoid high interest yield accounts and ponzi schemes all on their own. Who knew. |
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did they mention 2nd life?! lol?! deary me
I thought it was very ironic when Mercedes mentioned SecondLife as example of virtual currency, in the context of more regulation = better, considering SecondLife econoomy was BOOMING for years with no stop in sight, until US told Linden Labs to regulate it, and forced them to ban all interest bearing accounts (banks, stocks, loans, financial services) and ban all games of chance (gambling). The economy absolutely tanked, and never recovered since, with SecoondLife becoming a glorified chat room. Yay regulations! |
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*Necrobumping because I'm just in the mood and this thread is hilarious by now.
Yeah, it was already hilarious when it was just posted, now it's pure bitcoin history gold. "How to make an ass out of yourself using the words Bitcoin and Never in the same sentence". Does Bitcoin Economist write for Wired by any chance?  Maybe he is Joe Weisenthal of businessinsiider.com http://www.businessinsider.com/author/joe-weisenthal |
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There will be strippers!
I volunteer! I'll be selling my ticket now.   |
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There will be strippers!
I volunteer! |
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I would love to support and be a part of this organization, though like others I am also concerned about the beurocratic concerns with a large fund sitting in one place, and people fighting over who should get what.
Perhaps it can be set up as a venture capital competition, where people with science and tech ideas can compete to get funding for their ideas, which can either be loans or grants. I often point out that incentives drive everything, and we have to figure out how to structure the incentives in this proposed organization so that there is some risk involved with making bad decisions, and rewards for making good ones. Just sitting on a large pile of ever growing money is a massive incentive to just continue to sit on it.
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The fund is growing rather slowly... Is there a deadline for donations, at which point we just send whatever we have over?
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