The bitcoin mineathon for charity

[strideynet]

I had this idea to 1. Help people in need and 2. Raise awareness of bitcoin.

We would every year have a week long mineathon. Where you give up your hash power for charity!
We would donate along as the charity lets us have a thank you on their site to the bitcoin miners and a link to a
Bitcoin website. There is two ways this can be done. We create a special pool with no pay per share. Or we get people to direct their miners to the charities login on a good mining pool.

It would be great if the people with a thash setup would donate just 10 minutes of mining time each day it runs! People could just donate if they wanted. I just think it would be nice to raise awareness of the bitcoin.
If people could post charities and which system to mine with it would be great.
This is a bitcoin commitee project. More about the bitcoin committee in the projects section the the forums.

[ralree]

I'd rather just mine for myself, take profit taxable, and donate USD... easier for everyone, and I can write it off..

[Akka]

Why don't donate BTC directly? There is already a service for that: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52543.msg627057#msg627057

THX to Phinnaeus Gage aka Bruno

[strideynet]

I just liek the Idea of generating a large donation over a week you see. That way charities recognize it.
If it only 30 bucks they have people donating 6000. So in order to get a shiny place in their website or whatever you must donate a large sum.

[matthewh3]

I had this idea to 1. Help people in need and 2. Raise awareness of bitcoin.

We would every year have a week long mineathon. Where you give up your hash power for charity!
We would donate along as the charity lets us have a thank you on their site to the bitcoin miners and a link to a
Bitcoin website. There is two ways this can be done. We create a special pool with no pay per share. Or we get people to direct their miners to the charities login on a good mining pool.

It would be great if the people with a thash setup would donate just 10 minutes of mining time each day it runs! People could just donate if they wanted. I just think it would be nice to raise awareness of the bitcoin.
If people could post charities and which system to mine with it would be great.
This is a bitcoin commitee project. More about the bitcoin committee in the projects section the the forums.

I like the idea of using bitcoin mining for benevolence to raise awareness of bitcoin.  You should be able to choose which charities to donate to.  Maybe someone could just start a webpage showing how much bitcoiner's have donated to charity in general.

[strideynet]

Yes

[strideynet]

Fair enough. Cause = corruption and no one want wants to help
Cause = Africa's stuck in a deep economic hole.