"We are all in it together"

so if you cannot see any local shops accepting bitcoin, then this is an ample opportunity for you. speak to local shops tell them about bitcoin, find someone locally that has enough "reserve" that would happily exchange bitcoins for local currency to become the shops exchanger.

there is no magic company out there that will do this for you. it involves finding some like minded guys that live near you and forming your own little bitcoin group to then establish local services.

become the local economy.

meanwhile in the USA 12,000 restaurants can now deliver fastfood to people with thanks to their online gateway.
https://www.foodler.com/user/Bitcoin.do

so look for any online services that connect to local restaurants and persuade them to accept bitcoin which then ripple effects down to the individual places in towns without the local shops having to do much work or even realsie their customer paid via bitcoin.

kind of. but i think the OP is more of live location data rather then a generalised town that a localbitcoin member lists when they register.

so if im at home, work or stopping at a petrol station it wil show a half mile radius my current location that way if there is 5 people in my town the customer will see the person closes to them in walking distance.

might be worth presenting this to localbitcoins as a new feature to add geolocating

sorry not a high end coder, so i will write this as a layman.

have like cloudflare, have mtgox.com as just a public page display server with a hidden backbone server (ip not revealed) that the public server is just php scripted to echo a page from a different server that actually does the trading.

thus separating the engines and trading platform server from the public viewing server.

have some code in the public viewing server that if X attempts are done a second per ip without a session ID (logged in user) = no function and where under x attempts that have a validated captcha or valid session ID belonging to a member, would then call the backbone server.

thirdly have another server that grabs the live market data to echo out to different places like clark moody. so that that clarkmoody and the other thousands of ticker services are not also draining resources directly off the main trading engine server

atleast then, those that are already logged in don't have page freezes and it reduces some of the lag on places like clarkmoody. especially if they tighten up tcp/ip access methods.

id even go to the extent of having 20 domain names that once your logged in you can access it through mtgox1.com or mtgox2.com that way unless these script kiddies had enough power to DDOS 20 ip addresses at once, people could still log in and trade

couple months ago walletbit said they were in contact with justeat in their Hungary, Europe office thanks to my suggestions, but then walletbit went quiet. No updates if a meeting ever happened. so it looks like it has to be a community effort and not a payment gateway effort.
kinda strange though

so my list so far for me and a few people i know to pester.

thailand
http://www.chefsxp.com/restaurants.php
http://foodbyphone.com

UK
http://just-eat.co.uk
http://hungryhouse.co.uk

europe
http://just-eat.com

canada
http://just-eat.ca

USA
http://seamless.com

anymore to add??

i know.. very great news
I'm using the foodler as an example link to show the other delivery companies that bitcoin is not just for investing in, that they should jump aboard the band wagon and get free press advertising them such as
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130417-908270.html

cant get bigger then the wall street journal to tempt the late night office workers into ordering food from their computers.

if you have listings of national websites that link to many retailers/grocery stores that deliver, ill draft, redraft and triple check my grammar and spelling (like i do on any business communications) to then use this great example as the president to snowball more merchants onboard

(my forum grammar is generally a relaxed rush job after a few shots of whisky. so don't use my forum grammar as a example of how i professionally talk to businesses)

after months of tempting different online food delivery sites.. guess what

you can now buy fast food with bitcoin
https://www.foodler.com/user/Bitcoin.do

boom 12,094 restaurants across america now accepting bitcoin. boom

i started rambling about it last year and kept it in a few peoples minds to keep pushing people to hammer it home to merchants over the months to think about accepting bitcoins. and it seems one of them has listened so far,

next stage is if a restaurant in your town is linked to the foodler service you can use it to spread the word to other places locally to you that arn't yet accepting bitcoin, but would benefit from it..

so tell you local 7-11 that your local restaurant xyz(whatever it maybe) is accepting bitcoin and allow the other retailers to start looking into bitcoin as the information moves up the chain of command. aswell as any keep and smart guys out there to contact the HQ's of national/international retailers direct

my next step is to keep pushing
http://www.chefsxp.com/restaurants.php
and
http://foodbyphone.com/
and
http://just-eat.com/

first of all. get yourself registered as a charity with your government then people may start seeing you as legit.

second of all. get yourself registered as a charity with your government then people may start seeing you as legit.

thirdly. show exactly how the money will be used wisely EG having a photo gallary of you personally handing out bottles of water/food/clothing/blankets to those affected

fourthly. see the funds roll in as those, like me that do have a heart donate a lot when they see the money being used wisely. but big donators don't just throw money at every hand that comes begging, just because they ask for it.

the things i look for are:
1. for a long term charity : registration numbers
2. for short term disaster relief: plan of how the funds wil be converted to local currency, then how the local currency will be used. and preferably if its a local disaster relief. someone that actually lives in the area to be hands on in the project and not just a middle man taking a cut on the income.

instead of after 5 minutes getting paranoid and writing a post claiming thief id advise you to go here

https://bips.me/contact

and contact them

if no positive result after 48 hours, then allow the standard paranoia people would feel after not having access to their coins to begin.

 (reasonable time to expect a response from any business whether online or bricks & mortar)

satoshi wrote a paper with some clever maths in it. then helped develop V1 of the client.....

so why would the CIA/FBI want to find him?

all of his calculations and coding is open source so its not like he has any coding secrets that prevent governments doing anything differently..(thats the beauty of open source)

and if the governments want to take over bitcoin they would just start paying gavin andresen and chums a salary.

Satoshi's importance from a government prospective is irrelevant.

but from a Nobel prize or historical point of view only there would be reason to want to know who satoshi is, just to give the guy a pat on the back for a job well done

this guy https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=17928

owns the true blockchain.info service

i see only 1 thing that needs to be on dhenson's wish list.. more bricks and mortar retailers.. the others already have solutions.

but to add one to his list which others would also like

2. a proper well updated and fully checked and filled business listings page. a one stop shop for all bitcoin businesses

bitcoin being attacked??
nope

services that use coin being attacked?
yes

mean while in the land of fiat
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/20/world/asia/south-korea-computer-outage
http://www.itproportal.com/2010/10/25/how-bank-hackers-beat-barclays/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/21/td-hacked-bank-online-attack_n_2924897.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/u-s-bank-website-hackers-used-advanced-botnets-diverse-tools-6238850
that was just a 10 second google search.. not to mention all the armed robbery's and such that banks have had over the centuries..

so should bitcoin worry?
no

so should services that use bitcoin worry?
yes

services especially exchanges should learn from these DDOS's and hacks to ramp up security and system infrustructure to reduce the risk.

in short they are still looking into it and ensuring all of the FIAT to bitcoin businesses register as money transmitters.

so yea nothing new. all they care about is the fiat side of things

the reason for the post is that the guy has probably premined his blockchain and wants to make bitcoin sound bad to get some free advertising for his coin.

what he doesn't realise is FIAT can take days to transfer. yet shops accept it instantly. why? because they use escrow services. we commonly call these FIAT escrow services banks or credit cards. but hell... i can think of many other methods to get around the confirmation times.

bitcoin does not need to change. its the infrustructure around it such as bitpay and mtgox that should change to streamline the small/instant transactions.

take starbucks. if they open a mtgox account and start accepting MTGOX codes. then customers simply deposit a daily amount into mtgox while taking their morning shower and then its fully confirmed to make codes with by the time they walked to a starbucks.  bish bash bosh.. instant transaction with confirmed funds. no waiting around

it doesnt have to be mtgox. i purely used mtgox accounting system as a example of a system already inplace

i request all people seeking donations for charity causes to go through bitcoin 100.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52543.0

With their proposals of how the funds will be spend as well as how you are personally linked to the area involved to ensure the majority of funds get spent at the area and not on plane tickets and hotel rooms, car hire etc.

then you will see if your scheme is valid you will get much more investment.

by joining greenpeace you can get the pennies from them to support your cause aswell as human foot soldiers that actually are in the african waters that know and deal with the issues involved. then add your donations fund ontop to help the cause and trust me, ud be more powerful then just having junk change to afford your own 2 week vacation

but i do agree people sitting in their comfortable homes in america (you) asking for money is not what i call charity.

i also agree that most charities waste their money. EG one guy buying a plane ticket booking a hotel room, boat hire, etc is not really itself helping the ecology.

but joining the teams of people already in africa who have contacts and knowledge of the area to get things changed is alot more powerful then just enjoying a few weeks of taking picture on a boat to add to your blog website.

now give up the charade. if your heart is truly motivated enough then you will see where your failings are and you would be part of the change that is needed when it comes to charities.. not becoming yet another money grabber just to cover your own expenses just to visit another country.

one hint.. mozambique government cannot change the laws of chinese fishermen that fish in international waters.. point your mind toward chinese governments to change how their fishermen work.. and i might start believing you know what your talking about and have atleast a half assed plan on how to effectively use the money. greenpeace are already in mozambique waters helping to uphold the regulations they helped develop to protect the waters... but to change things, talking to chinese government to change their laws is whats needed next then the chinese fishermen will change and leave mozambique waters alone.

here learn something
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGTMdIfz3o
(not one scene involves a guy standing at a mall with a donations form)

now id appreciate the moderators lock this thread and move it to off topic or even scam accusations

starting a .org is the least of your issues.

a charities involves a board of trustee's, director,  treasurer, secretary.
just to get a charity registration number for a international project such as what your site "portrays"

seriously join greenpeace as you.. a single person will just spend the money and none of it will get used helping the ecology of the waterlife of africa.

10k dollars is not much. thats only enough to cover flights to africa, a hotel room for a few weeks and a couple boat hires.

thats not charity. thats a free vacation.

now join greenpace if your heart is in the right place and do it right.

and just for laughs i thought i would dox ya..

seems your a graphics designer and you are one of the developers involved with ripple.... ha ha ha.. such a shame thats all lies as i know who the real developers are.

www.elilang.com

oops hang on you supposedly:

and by the way i see in 2009 when you went on vacation to Zanzibar.

need me to dig any deeper? or will you give up this failed attempt to grab free crypto coin

still doesnt amount to $4k, still no charity number, still no website history before February 2013.

seems you bought a dead domain name. that had no content on it before February.

thanks for playing the game. but next time atleast act like a charity and have it registered and using standard charitiy wording and payment methods. you failed on many points and suggest no one donates to this obvious fake appeal.

goodluck in life. feel free to return when you have some actual charity brochures, registration numbers, information factsheets and not just googled/wiki'd your info to look like you are well established and knowledgable about what is going on in africa.

it might also be worth joining greenpeace to avoid the headaches of setting up a legit charity if your heart is in the right place, as they do what your scam site proposes to do.

then you can have greenpeace accepting bitcoins. knowing that some actual work in the country will be done.

goodluck, thanks for the laughs, bye

Im from the UK so i am experienced in this more then most the american users. local bitcoins does not draw the money out of your account like a direct debit does. it is for you to SEND the funds via the bank transfer method. so your safe with that.

what you should do though if your not meeting them is ensure escrow IS enabled.

all charity requests should go through bitcoin100 as they are good at weeding out proper charities.

well i know its supposedly about marine life but something smells fishy..
especially when the guy is registered in USA promoting an african scheme with:
no charity number
no other methods of accepting donations such as wire transfer credit/debit card.

looks to much like someone made a cheap free website 2 months ago to troll for free bitcoins.

not only the fact that the only donation method is crypto currencies which a true charity would never limit themselves to, but also the total donations bar on the page $4k does not tally with:
https://blockchain.info/address/1P8g1R2n4jyYa2jRhE931gvAqwxZdA8PxR