How About Bitcointalk raise Money in BTC to Donate on fight against Coronavirus

[Bttzed03]

My unpopular opinion:

If you are planning to help, just help in silence. This is not really the time to be thinking about promoting Bitcoin and and other cryptocurrencies through donations. I can't imagine to see a donation with "Donation from Bitcointalk community" label on it. The move is just the same with politicians taking advantage of the situation by having their faces and their names placed on the relief goods/items they give to their constituents.

We are not involved in politics, we are simply trying to help everyone in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with helping on behalf of the Bitcointalk community, thereby drawing attention to the cryptocurrency industry?

Don't make me repeat myself again please.

[LEON331300]

This is a splendid idea. At the moment Red Cross Italy,  are demanding for bitcoin donations to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak

[FanatMonet]

The idea is very good, but only for this there must be trust, it is necessary that the site administrators create the address. Well, it’s not clear which country this money should be transferred to, and how exactly, because most likely they will have to be exchanged for fiat anyway.

[Akiko]

If you want to donate then better to look for the charity group that is already in this forum and they are working well on their previous charity program. Honestly, I’m looking for this one too especially on my place because I want to donate some money and I want to help many people in my place, but its hard to do charity right now because your action is limited due to the lockdown.

Actually there are many ways to send your donation you can even send them directly to thier bank account.  There are many local agency accepting a donation even news media also accept donation and give the bank account you can send the money you want to give .
It will hard if we will donate in crypto we dont know who will be the one who would accept that donation and if the donation we sent use right.

[Meowth05]

Your idea isn't bad, but most likely theymos (admin) isn't going to raise money for donations. Probably he will not involved with any kind of fund related matter on forum. There is so many reason and that's why admins never hold users fund. But I believe forum have enough fund (raised from donations, forum ads auction & fees) to donate for most effected countries. But question is, will government accept bitcoin donations? If not then nothing can be done. If government accept bitcoin donations then it will be a positive move for whole bitcoin community. But don't expect raise funds from community via forum admin.

I agree that they wouldn't likely donate, maybe they are using that funds for a project and we can't blame if they don't donate. Donation is something that is given without a hevy heart and a pressure from the crowd will only make it worse. The other better scenario is when they donate which is addressed by the quote so it is a very icky situation for the forum to join in.

[Reatim]

Your idea is really good because this is about helping each other and this is what we need in this kind of crisis.

But i also want to say that World is facing this problem meaning each governments has their own issues to settle and i believe that instead of seeking or contributing for another country people will choose their own countrymen that needs Help.

And me also?i would love to contribute if there is a Donation asking here but sorry to say that i will prioritize my own people .

[kryptqnick]

There's very little chance that theymos will be interested in doing this, it's simply not in his style, and if you check his recent post history, he doesn't think that this pandemic is actually serious. And if someone wants to donate Bitcoin, some big organizations already started receiving Bitcoin donations. I don't think that the virus should be viewed as an opportunity to get good publicity, this is what (some) politicians do, and we should be better than them.

Yeah, I think if one wants to donate and wants to do this with Bitcoin, it's better to do this on an individual basis rather than as a community. However, if the op wants to increase BTC visibility while helping to research COVID-19, there is an option for that without donating money. I remember there was a thread about Joining a Bitcoin-related group as a part of the Folding Home project, but I cannot find it right now for some reason... In any case, there've been some helpful suggestions mentioned in this thread already.

[TopTort777]

The idea is good, but it wont get a big response. And here is sadly why
There is charity signature campaign Bitcointalk Charity Program Signature Campaign - Give Hope To Everyone.... The topic was created one year ago, and so far they did not raised a lot... Even thought I see people really wear its signature. Sadly, bigger part of this forum is here to earn, but not to help

[kayvie]

It is a good idea but unnecessary,
The government of every country is doing its job to fight the Coronavirus, let them do the job and just support them by following their orders. Also, I don't think that the admins of this forum will do the first step just to raise enough money.

[Bitcoinislife09]

It is a good idea but unnecessary,
The government of every country is doing its job to fight the Coronavirus, let them do the job and just support them by following their orders. Also, I don't think that the admins of this forum will do the first step just to raise enough money.

I agree I think their are already a lot of trusted charity where we could donate and help the people from the coronavirus. Also it might be difficult to handle this in the forum since it is all about money and for sure the project is going to raise a big amount of funds here in the forum and we don't know what could happened next from that. If we really want to help their are always a lot of ways to help people and this idea in my opinion is unnecessary.

[valuater]

My unpopular opinion:

If you are planning to help, just help in silence. This is not really the time to be thinking about promoting Bitcoin and and other cryptocurrencies through donations. I can't imagine to see a donation with "Donation from Bitcointalk community" label on it. The move is just the same with politicians taking advantage of the situation by having their faces and their names placed on the relief goods/items they give to their constituents.

We are not involved in politics, we are simply trying to help everyone in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with helping on behalf of the Bitcointalk community, thereby drawing attention to the cryptocurrency industry?

There is nothing wrong with that, but lately there have been many scams about donations for COVID-19 viruses using cryptocurrency, of course this will also be an impact because this is very detrimental to cryptocurrency, and it's best if you really want to make donations. It's better for you to give historically what was done before so that donors can trust more.