To help make a more informed decision in regard to the following quoted post, I've started this thread to seek input from the Bitcoin community, regardless if you have donated to Bitcoin 100 in the past or not.

Please help Rassah and edd, et al. (I'm not including myself, for I go either way) arrive at a fair decision in this regard. Feel free to start or join into a lively discussion, or simply vote yes or no in your post. I've opted to not take a formal pool, not wanting a hard number count, alone, influence the final import decision.

Thank you in advance,

Bruno Kucinskas

To address an earlier question concerning Vote Hemp, ideally Bitcoin 100 would love to have a Bitcoin donation option remain on a website up to a year, but I am on record in stating that it'll be up to each site's owner(s). Currently, there's nothing written in stone (no pun intended) stating how long such should remain in place.

Now, to address the current concern. Clearly, Bitcoin 100 has a secular clause in place, obviously wanting to stay clear of funding religious orgs, of which has nothing to do with whether or not they provide a wonderful service. Most do.

Likewise, political orgs are mainly off the table, but there may be a tad more latitude in this regard, but I'm not sure. Predicated on what others in the community feel about such, and I'll go along with any outright decision, the best I can offer up is that if Vote Hemp is indeed accepted for a $1,000 USD endowment, that a promise by them of keeping the Bitcoin donation option in place for at least a year may be considered warranted in this case, something they may abide by, unless instructed to take it down due to some legality in the future.

Another solution that comes to mind is perhaps the principles of Vote Hemp may have some other NPO up and running for some period of time, one of which is not closely knit with politics, and may more easily qualify. It's not uncommon for principles of NPOs to attach themselves to more than one non-profit, of which we're well aware and is not a crime.

I hope the above helps in the final decision making and we hope to be able to help you kind folks as much as possible. Although hemp is not my cup of tea (again, no pun intended), I personally have no issue with hemp awareness programs garnering donations or getting an endowment from Bitcoin 100.

We appreciate the fine argument you made after it was revealed to you that such an org may not qualify, hence your request still being on the table and opened for further discussion. That said, let's see what we can go for you fine folks.

Bruno Kucinskas

Thanks a lot, CFT, for you kind donation. Jason will be around shortly to also thank your kindness. I'll be adding [16] to the tally momentarily.

I, too, have just added $10 USD to the cause, and will be adding [8] to the tally referencing this post in Post #2 of this thread: https://blockchain.info/tx/56e3225d46633d692f9c74a19e7bc0f296d39af0c84ea646411655edeb6701fa

$3 of the above donation is in BenTuras' name stemming from the following post.


Running Tally: [1,990] Meals! (based on the exchange rate at time of donations)

Sean's Outpost Bitcoin Address: 1M72Sfpbz1BPpXFHz9m3CdqATR44Jvaydd

Sean's Outpost is operated by Jason King, and all I do for them is maintain this thread.

As seen above, we are only 10 meals away from reaching 2,000 meals served. That only equates to $12.50 USD regardless of what the exchange rate it.

~TMIBTCITW

I'll assume you won't mind then if I donate it to Sean's Outpost (not the Thansgiving fund). I'll add to it, thus it'll act as a bump to keep the thread close to the first page.

Thank you so kindly, Ben, for not only playing, but allowing me to donate to SO in your name.

Thanks to a third Bitfie by an unknown party, and the rise to the exchange rate, the prize pool is as follows: https://blockchain.info/address/1B2pGNTiES3V27cGBm6vu1rA15z5APxumu

If I recall, a while back they had something like 20K new accounts to approve, stating it'll take a month to get through that particular backlog at the time. I'm sure, since then, at least that many from China may have recently signed up to Mt Gox to be taken advantage of take advantage of the arbitrage.

Thank you so kindly, piuk, for your timely and informable reply. Ironically, the last online wallet entity of which I thanked its principle for clearing up an issue went dark about a week later. Please till me that a near future hack is not iminent. 

I guess that also makes FirstBits dead in the water, since they use BC's API to generate FBs, as I've already tried to do to no success.

~TMIBTCITW

Bingo! That may explain why there are two other claims against one of my wallets, being that that's exactly what I did, but done so not realizing the consequence assuming IW was closed and that I had just prior to doing such submitted three claims, with the disclosed url one being one of them.

But, that doesn't explain why my claim on said wallet wasn't included among the other two, let alone why I was never notified about the status about any of the three claims I submitted, in spite of the fact that I made sure I was one of the early submitters, being that two of the wallets contained well over the 50 BTC limit that would take longer to process, all according to the principles at InsatWallet. Last week, I once again resubmitted the two larger wallets, but to date nary a word as to how its proceeding. In re. the smaller wallet that has two other claims against it, I was not able to do anything (read only) when I revisit its URL, assuming since nothing has changed during previous visits, it's still up for review and somehow I'm included as one of the claimants, being the earliest, filing in mid-April, 2013.

For the record, I raised/echoed a concern just prior to the InstaWallet hack due to the amount of BTC I entrusted with them, but was rest assured that all was well, then shortly thereafter, poof! it was gone.

I first came to this thread holding my tongue, but soon started with the vitriol attacks after witnessing that dozens of calls by myself, among others, for the principles of IW to provide a police report went unaddressed. Finally, one was offered up and provided in the French section of this forum, although Boussac created THIS very thread you're reading to provide to us all relevant information as to what's going on, how to proceed during the claim process, etc. The sole purposed of starting that thread in the French section of this forum was to display the police report, of which was in French, understandably, but the post had to be translated and migrated to this thread by some other Bitcoiner, and NOT by a single principle of InstaWallet. Meanwhile, at the time, Davout was nowhere to be found, not having logged in for an extended period of time, in spite of being a moderator of this very forum, albeit probably not paid for said services at the time, but is definitely being paid now by theymos, the admin of this forum, from donated and advertising monies (I have no other reason for including theymos' name in this fiasco). Due to a post I quoted a few posts up, I lower my tone in hope that that would not hinder me in recovering my bitcoins held in three wallets and are still in InstaWallet's control, and on their books, as far as I can ascertain according to the "block chain".

It has been proven that I've been put on at least two InstaWallet's principles ignore lists on this forum, one of which from the very get-go of my posting in this thread, among a couple others. The couple times I've been addressed, is because some other quoted my posts of which was read and couldn't be ignored due to them not being on their ignore list. The same may prove true with this particular post. In fact, if you look at just the last couple pages, max, leading up to this post, none of my posts have been addressed in any capacity by either Davout or Boussac, hence probably still being on ignore, of which Boussac IS on record in stating such that I am.

To date, I have yet to receive a single PM or an email, let alone a helpful post (I may be mistaken with the latter, so please forgive if I am), from anybody at InstaWallet in reference to my three claims, of which now is worth over $800K at today's exchange rate.

Another important concern that even though has been mentioned by at least Boussac, albeit never produced, is exactly what entity conducted the independent audit of IW's database after the attack, and at what point was said audit taken? We already know that a police report was filed at the onset of the attack, according to the documents presented to us, but they weren't shared till a much later date in a very off-handed way.

Now, we learn that not one, but at least two people once working at InstaWallet are no longer employed there. Probably not related at all to what has transpired at Camp InstaWallet at the start of Q2, 2013, but still raises an alarm, at least in my eyes.

Prior to the hack, everybody who had a wallet on InstaWallet was shown a balance of zero when they visited their wallets via their URL key (I believe that's what they meant when they used the word key, although I've yet to find its correct definition even though I've personally asked at least once, seriously not knowing what was meant by the word "key"). When one transferred BTC from their wallet to some other, according to the "block chain" an intermediary address was used. Sometimes, according to the "block chain" a funded wallet was shown to have a zero balance, and only funded when another withdraw transaction was needed, before reverting back to zero, showing the expected balance being stored in a newly created wallet by InstaWallet.

After the hack, three separate wallets were created acting as cold storage for InstaWallet, Bitcoin-Central and some other entity, perhaps it was Paymium, where they resided for a time. Later, one of the wallets was broken up into 1000 BTC wallets around the time the first claim payouts were sent out. I was relieved to learn that at least one Principle of InstaWallet, Davout, was paid his claim in a timely manner, I'm sure so was he, as shown via a tx that included SatoshiDice transactions.

In closing, let's recap. At least two guys are no longer employed at InstaWallet, Davout, who plays SatoshiDice was absent during the onset of the hack, claims are still outstanding, and more than enough funds are still available, according to my calculations, to pay out my 1,123+ BTC claims. Furthermore, Boussac is on record in stating that there were ~3M funded wallets that needed to be sorted through, hence one reason for the 90 day delay in them starting the repayment process. I haven't counted them, but what I've seen on the ~half-dozen payout txs, the total amount doesn't even approach 10,000, let alone 3 million. See for yourselves:

https://blockchain.info/tx/998d15b620272eb71f48cbfb9695d2a2d8a42738b62e7e348611e504acc4baa6
https://blockchain.info/tx/0624989adc022305527674afa44672e736fabf8e06910850a66f7de3a3381add
https://blockchain.info/tx/490a3ec2fb1bdb8a6f8fdcdba66376afdc6519f6560ac14c96452f1c6a86aad4
https://blockchain.info/tx/3f0f291a2807a47566e948a162d8db0bf80dc459435d6e1c9843b656c451ec04
https://blockchain.info/tx/ab6bcf2f9cb4019fae464a9c5adc741403deb163faae93c12272979ea99dca6a
https://blockchain.info/tx/6342536a1b44ebbc08126631b1a999e08ee7685ad38502d40edbe2ff7e355865
https://blockchain.info/tx/0c3b8530af20f5c67a1ff7c1a7e7fd3cacb7ea6b44faa416beaeb0f2c5108f8a
https://blockchain.info/tx/ad80f37d0c494f513734103882a2de1b909f23c0608058ee9da8e3f004d22c5d

According to the final tx above, the following address containing ~2687 BTC https://blockchain.info/address/19qB4iJAs4BYwYfXzWrWmTiSAnwsHCufDV has been moved a couple times prior to splitting up into smaller and smaller segments, but looks like it's still controlled by InstaWallet. Strange that they have such a large amount of bitcoins still available, and even after returning my ~$800K claims, they'll still have over a million dollars of which belongs to them, sans any other outstanding claims, of which would be much smaller than mine.

Bruno Kucinskas

I may, or may not be on a quoting kick today.

What's next? Bedding!

Thanks for the info, bud, but I opted to entrust the funds in escrow to add cred to the endeavor.

EDIT: Just realized you were in reference to simply naming the Bitcoin wallet address and not about not having to put the funds in escrow.

Thanks to Oxford, Bitfie was born, and to bring awareness to the future brand (possibly), a giveaway was deviced: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=341886.0.

TMIBTCITW

BenTuras will now always be recognized as the first person to ever send a Bitfie and a Pi-ie. When asked how he felt about such recognition, along with being the first Guppie, he replied, "I like turtles!"  

This giveaway is now closed due to lack of interest, and all monies will be diverted to BrunoDF.  

Seriously, thanks kindly, Ben, for playing, but the only thing you had correct according to the rules outlined was the inclusion of the tx in your post. A Bitfie is a dollar amount $.99 USD or LESS, whereas you contributed $3.14159. I believe you figured the BTC decimal amount incorrectly, adding one more zero to the right of the decimal point would have resulted close to your chosen transaction amount.

Also, it seems like you're opting to call it a Pi-ing, albeit you used it as an adjective (or is it a verb?).

But, never fear, TMIBTCITW is here--to save the day. Don't want Gavin Superman to receive all the credit here in Bitcoinland.  

Here's how I'm going to remedy the situation:

• I'm going to keep what you sent as part the prize pool.
• I'm going to transfer back to you $3 USD only via a different Bitcoin wallet address, thus you added 14+ cents to the pool.
• You will receive credit, and will always be known as the guy who sent the first Bitfie and first Pi-ie (31.415658 cents).

You're also the first Guppie (pronounced guppy, as in the fish--luckily, I Google that, for I had it mis-spelled--u instead of an o).

No need to edit your post, Ben. Please PM me as to what address you desire the $3 USD rebate sent to. I'm going to PM you now and reference this post.

See, all, how fair and honest I am, albeit possibly all bets are off on the latter if the the pool amount exceeds a million dollars. Fuck me! I can't even do that, for I won't have access to the wallet. Perhaps Rassah could be bribed with a new coffee table.  

TMIBTCITW

The current prize pool is $110.91.

Reserved

Coined words and its representative amounts, along with who made its first Bitfie transaction, to date:

• Stiffie (0.00010000 BTC) (buyandhold)
• Paradiddlie (0.0001011 BTC) (cAPSLOCK)
• Eletie (1.337 cents) (Light)
• Duckie (2 cents) (jeffreylin_)
• Pi-ie (3.14 cents) (BenTuras)
• Nicklie (5 cents) (ajax3592)
• Sexie-giftie (6.9 cents) (jambola2)
• Luckie (7 cents) jambola2)
• Bobbie (7.43 cents) (railzand)
• Un-luckie (13 cents) (jambola2)
• Meaning-of-Lifie (42 cents) (Kith)
• Sextie-ninie (69 cents) (TheNewAnon135)

Pending (will be added to the above once the first transaction is made so that proper credit is given):

• Tree-fiddie (3.50 cents)
• Dankie (4.20 cents)
• Eight-ballie (8 cents)
• Dimie (10 cents)
• Bo-Diddlie (12.30 cents)
• Alienie (51 cents)
• Spoonie (66 cents)
• Get-Smartie (99 cents)

<Mods, feel free to move this to the appropriate section if I erred in its placement. TY.>

<Moved by mods, originally in the Bitcoin Discussion section. Ironically, I don't believe I've ever set eyes on this section before, not knowing that it existed, albeit I probably viewed threads on the Gambling section a couple time prior.>

1B1TF1E6ohQkkbPmRLwnuHUhtxb8Up6Fde

EDIT: View the prize pool here:https://blockchain.info/address/1B1TF1E6ohQkkbPmRLwnuHUhtxb8Up6Fde[/size]

Temporary wallet address until I have Rassah hash a new one and have all the bitcoins transferred to it, using him as escrow of which I will pay the escrow fee: 1B2pGNTiES3V27cGBm6vu1rA15z5APxumu. Once accomplished, the new wallet address will replace the above address, and if by chance any funds find their way into the original address they, too, will be moved to the official address of which Rassah will have control of.

EDIT: The official address is now 1B1TF1E6ohQkkbPmRLwnuHUhtxb8Up6Fde

I have seeded the prize pool as shown with the following: https://blockchain.info/tx/c29422815e8fbbb3750629706049ecbaf6c96c286c630dae2e8615adc9dc61cb

What's currently in the prize pool can be viewed here (will be changed after a vanity address is hashed): https://blockchain.info/address/1B1TF1E6ohQkkbPmRLwnuHUhtxb8Up6Fde (now official as of 11/27/13)


Note: Do not use the above old address. If any funds do happen to hit that address, they will be moved to the official address.

This giveaway was inspired by https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=341212.msg3660938#msg3660938 and has nothing to do with any future website, acting as a standalone endeavor, but inadvertently bringing awareness to bitfie.com if such happens to be developed.

Quoted from the post linked above:


Rules:

• Transfer your Bitfie, up to $.99 USD, to 1B2pGNTiES3V27cGBm6vu1rA15z5APxumu (obsolete, hence the strikethrough) 1B1TF1E6ohQkkbPmRLwnuHUhtxb8Up6Fde (this is now the official address).
• Only one Bitfie per user account may be submitted. Include the word Bitfie in your post so that a quick search on this forum after the drawing can be conducted to make sure there's no duplicate entries by the same user.
  
• Besides including Bitfie to your post, you'll only need to include the "block chain" tx showing your Bitfie to win. Feel free to state whether you're a Shrimpie, Guppie or Whalie, if desire, neither of which will help nor hinder your chances of winning.
• Include a bitcoin wallet address in your post if different than the one used to send your Bitfie.
• One CAN later add a Bitfie to a generic post at a later date prior to the closing of this contest, provided they haven't already submitted a Bitfie.
  
• The winner will be chosen by some yet to be determined random number generator process, choosing a number between 3 and 10,000, inclusive, of which will represent the post number of this thread, thus the winner, provided the post consists of proof of a Bitfie. If the resulting post doesn't include a Bitfie transaction, i.e. some generic post, or the word Bitfie, then an immediate redraw will commence.
• A yet to be determined trusted user will conduct the drawing via a live broadcast with witness viewers on hand, and hopefully recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Such an individual will disclose beforehand if s/he is entered in the drawing and provide the post number if such is the case.
• I will not be partaking in this contest via using a known or unknown user account. Also, there will be a redraw if one of my generic posts is chosen as the winner.
• An attempt will be made to contact the winner via PM prior to transferring the funds, mainly to make sure their correct Bitcoin wallet address is in place.
• Deadline for submitting a Bitfie is when 10,000 posts to this thread is reached, of which the majority will probably be only Bitfie transaction submissions, or exactly one year from the date (to the second) of the creation of this thread, whichever occurs first.
• The entire Bitfie wallet will be paid out in full, regardless of its worth, shortly after the deadline for submissions is reached--10,000 posts or in one year, as stated above.

I've proven myself to be fair and honest in all past bounties and contests I've conducted, and this will not be an exception. Each entrant has nothing to lose but bitcents, and could win over a thousand dollars if the exchange rate rises enough. I'll have nothing to gain from this since I seeded the contest with $100 USD, and the monies will be outta my control once transferred to the newly hashed wallet address controlled by Rassah, a very trustworthy Bitcoiner.

I want to pay Rassah $20 USD for the hashing service and acting as escrow beforehand (ASAP), and dearly hope he doesn't refuse payment, i.e. opting to do it for free. Albeit, a trifle amount probably in both our eyes, it's still a token of appreciation for all the work he's done for me, among others, in the past.

I reserve the right to amend this contest, probably mainly on the grammar aspect but, moreover, adding further clarity to the rules, yet not taking away, hopefully, the overall guidelines of the contest as it stands now.

Feel free to quote this OP, and any grammar edits will be in italics, with any other changes expressed as an edit below my name.

Who, here, wants to conduct the very first Bitfie transaction? If you make it exactly $.1337 USD (13.37 cents), you'll be forever known as the first person to send an Eletie (eat your heart out, Matthew  ). I've already dubbed a $.69 USD Bitfie as a Sextie-ninie, therefore feel free to try your hand at coining new words for other Bitfie amounts, i.e. $.42 is a ___________. The rules our simple: Add ie to the end of word that best describes the number represented in US cents. Added points awarded if the resulting coinage has a humorous connotation, along with being added to the Bitfie master list, yet to be penned.

Bruno Kucinskas

EDIT: To be clear, format your post similar to as follows, of which MUST include the word Bitfie and the tx ID.

https://blockchain.info/tx/c29422815e8fbbb3750629706049ecbaf6c96c286c630dae2e8615adc9dc61cb

Bitfie

.................................

The following is optional info that can be included in your post (plural, if using multiple user accounts to gain an edge):

I sent X cents (USD) or X BTC. (or similar verbiage)

I'm coining it as a/an ______ie. (If I like the coinage, I'll include it in some future master list on some future Bitfie site, i.e. bitfie.com, if developed. Until then, I'll track and list any newly coined Bitfie below.

I'm now a Shrimpie (or Guppie or Whalie). (word it however you desire) (A Shrimpie is one that submits less than or equal to 1 US cent, a Whalie is one who submits between 89 and 99 US cents, inclusive, and a Guppie is one that submits any amount over 1 US cent up to less than exactly 89 US cents.

Coined words and its representative amounts, along with who made its first Bitfie transaction, to date:

• Eletie (1.337 cents)
• Pi-ie (3.14 cents) (BenTuras)
• Sexie-giftie (6.9 cents) (jambola2)
• Luckie (7 cents) jambola2)
• Bobbie (7-8 cents--exact amount pending) (railzand)
• Un-luckie (pending) (13 cents) (jambola2)
• Sextie-ninie (69 cents)

Moving the above to Post #2, since I'll be adding to it periodically.

After one submits, then claims the first Eletie transaction, there's still the option of someone coining, then claiming mEletie, provided the terminology fits the transaction amount.

EDIT: Once this post is quoted, all major grammatical corrections will be in italics.

EDIT: Adding the following to the overall rules:


EDIT: The transfer to the official wallet, under Rassah's control, of which I have already paid him for acting as escrow, is now complete: https://blockchain.info/tx/0bc1562c177a87ecade3e0b4ca158142aea22c8d2a344355486b3dc0ed8fce15

Again, the official vanity Bitcoin wallet address for the Bitfie giveaway is 1B1TF1E6ohQkkbPmRLwnuHUhtxb8Up6Fde

If purchased at ~$900 USD, in about two weeks, or more, you'll recognize a positive ROI.

Exactly! Soon, the mantra will be, "I have more bitcoins than you!" To prove they truly do have access to a particular address, they send a bitcent to the one that doubts them. Care to guess what such a transaction could be referred to as? Hint: Bitfie.

SOB! Upon penning that last word, I thought, "Surely not!" And, NOT! But, now: http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=bitfie.com&prog_id=GoDaddy

So, what is a Bitfie? A Bitfie is a minute Bitcoin transaction, usually under a US cent (penny) in BTC, but can be upwards to $.99 USD at the exchange rate at the time of the transaction, thus proving that one truly is a Bitcoiner. If the lowest Bitfie (under a US cent/penny) is sent, one is considered a Shrimpie, whereas one sending the highest allowable Bitfie (within 10% of the max) is considered a Whalie. All those sending a Bitfie in between the two extremes are dubbed a Guppie (no "s").

Taking the above one step further, one sending a $.69 USD Bitfie could be referred to as a Sextie-ninie. I'm sure other words could be coined to coincide with other Bitfie amounts.

To illustrate how powerful the above could be, consider Twitter. How many woman on Twitter, having mega male followers, would love to have a percentage of said base send them a Sextie-ninie--$.69--via Bitcoin if they want to truly show their love?

Great idea, but how do you monetize such a site? Thinking! ... Got it! Register a user name on the site after you send your very first Bitfie, only supplying proof of the/a "block chain" tx and an email address, then the proper title (Shrimpie, Guppie or Whalie) will be automatically (via API) affixed next to your moniker. The higher the status one is, the higher the discount one is entitled to from the growing list of entities that accepts Bitcoin payments, simply because they're a Bitfie'er (perhaps, may need to re-coin that one, but it will suffice for now). The site makes money via either or all of the following: Affiliate programs; Membership fee from the advertisers; Banner ads; Email marketing.

And, to hedge my bit: https://twitter.com/Bitfie

~TMIBTCITW

PS: Thank you, Oxford.

Why does Bees Brothers come to mind?

You got the "will" part right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

I just realized that that scene was spliced, probably due to retake days later. Notice the chair is different with no flag as a backdrop, and his collar is flat, whereas in the beginning of the scene the collar was in a stiff-up position. It's possible it's not even the same shirt given how the the scene predominantly framed just his head showing very little of the shirt.

I'm going to PM piuk to see if he can shed some light on this.

FirstBits doesn't recognize nor generates them either, now. Mongo still so sad.