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May 18, 2013, 11:10:20 AM |
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Hi there Ashley - while I am not criticizing, I want to warn you that you`re unlikely to have a success with this in this particular location. I haven`t been here long, and I have already seen this exact tactic being used as a scam.
I am not calling into question either your physical ailments or your desire to do good for others, but you need to recognize how easy it would be for someone with less pure motives to use this kind of technique to pull at people`s heart strings in order to persuade them to donate money for such a seemingly worthy cause. In addition, for me personally to donate anything to any cause I would need to have a very clear, technical breakdown of how exactly those donations would be used to actually help that particular cause. Putting bitcoins into a wallet controlled by someone else doesn`t directly help with research into diseases or any one disease. I mean, if you were running a laboratory researching cures for various diseases then you could cash out those bitcoins into your local fiat currency (£, based on your previous posts) and then use the donated money as cash in order to defray operating expenses.
On the other hand, if you are just planning to cash out those donated BTC and then given them to a charity yourself, then anybody else could do that process themselves, claim the fiat currency donation for tax purposes, and still have the satisfaction of helping ease the suffering of humanity from myriad diseases. At this stage you haven`t specified any charity that you plan to donate to, nor have you itemized when, how, how much, or under what circumstances you will make those donations.
Based on this post, I applaud you for having your heart in the right place. But there is absolutely not a snowball`s chance in hell on a midsummer`s day that I will donate a single bitcent to even the noblest campaign set up under these particular conditions, and I think most people on this forum would share my view.
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