How could bitcoin be used to address civil rights issues with the gay community?

[URSAY]

This is a serious question.

Bitcoin needs to be attached to more positive things.

How could btc be used to directly benefit the gay community?  How could btc lead the way in this area of civil rights?

Let's try and keep this thread positive please.  If you have issues with gays, this is not the place to have those discussions.

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[CtrlAltBernanke420]

I think the protocol may be useful for voting in the future.

Bitcoin helps eliminate money from society. That would solve a myriad of issues.

[linuxer]

I think brothels should start accepting bitcoins and in gay communities they should sell their ass for bitcoins.



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[URSAY]

Maybe someone can comment on particular gay rights organizations who do good work that I can contact about accepting btc donations?

[davidpbrown]

Ok.. serious answer.

I think there is a link between what Bitcoin is trying to achieve and the 'gay community'.


Whenever I see the 'gay community' fighting their corner, its frustrating because I wonder that they would they would do better fighting from majority rather than fighting from niche. Everyone needs friction and a rush of dopamine and how.they.get.that.should.not.matter.to.other.people.

If they instead were to fight for "sexual freedom" widely, they'd have more success engaging the majority and that would then lend itself to a more interesting and more important problem of people being selfish to one another; of people imposing their will on one another, which in turn lends itself to bigger questions about our economies's and our militaries' behaviour.

So the parallel then with what Bitcoin is trying to achieve is with the arguement that people should not be selfish - they should not inflict their stupidity on other people. We should have an economy and a money that reflect those values and Bitcoin is a good option for that then, avoiding third party interference in what we want to spend our money on and with whom.

[debianlinux]

A vision flashed before me:

You walk into a dingy bathroom and notice a crude hole cut into the wall at about waist height. Scrawled just above this hole in barely legible print are the words, "For a good time point your miner to 1FWzsfKbQijhL7R7AZhg1oumsfTTBD7iVS"

[threeip]

Maybe someone can comment on particular gay rights organizations who do good work that I can contact about accepting btc donations?

http://www.hrc.org/ - I'm seeing the stickers everywhere.

[edd]

Maybe someone can comment on particular gay rights organizations who do good work that I can contact about accepting btc donations?

I'm not familiar enough with any of them to recommend one but I'm sure Bitcoin100 would be willing to donate $1000 to a reputable organization willing to put up a bitcoin donation option on their website.

[CtrlAltBernanke420]

I also think this current young generation, just needs to wait for the old people to croak and die. If they put it into bitcoin before they die, there is no inheritance or estate taxes, just sales tax or capital gains one wishes to give to their heirs

[cryptoanarchist]

Convince the gays in West Hollywood to take it in the butt for bitcoin - that should do it.

[Elwar]

Perhaps Bitcoin can make it easier to get marriage out of the government's hands.

That way at least marriage could be equal.

By getting marriage out of government's hands, I mean two people having a contractual relationship for their monetary relationship (ie replacing the marriage "license") with things like multi sig encryption where the two people control the money.

[Raoul Duke]

1 word: buttcoin

[drrussellshane]

This thread is gay.

Why should bitcoin have to do with sexuality at all?

If queers want to use bitcoin, then queers will use bitcoin. But I don't want any sort of association whereby when one thinks "bitcoin" one thinks "gay" and vice-versa.

[JimCGSavings]

LGBT owned businesses can accept and advertise accepting Bitcoin as a payment option.

[Singlebyte]

This thread is gay.

Why should bitcoin have to do with sexuality at all?

If queers want to use bitcoin, then queers will use bitcoin. But I don't want any sort of association whereby when one thinks "bitcoin" one thinks "gay" and vice-versa.

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What a stupid thread......

[Littleshop]

This is a serious question.

Bitcoin needs to be attached to more positive things.

How could btc be used to directly benefit the gay community?  How could btc lead the way in this area of civil rights?

Let's try and keep this thread positive please.  If you have issues with gays, this is not the place to have those discussions.

Bitcoin will probably not help gay people specifically because bitcoin empowers both the rich and the poor nearly equally.  Economic inequality is not a problem for the gay community and gay rights groups are not economicly persecuted like wiki leaks and other free speech groups.  The gay community is looking for legal equality and that is mostly a political endeavor not an economic one.  This is not saying that a group like the HRC would not benefit from taking Bitcoin donations, it just won't help them more then a conservative group doing the same.

[bbit]

You know how I know your gay?

When your like Buttcoin

[wtfvanity]

This is a serious question.

Bitcoin needs to be attached to more positive things.

WTF? Bitcoin needs to be attached to more positive things? Gay community is a more positive thing?

How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit kittens?
How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit yoga?
How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit victim advocates?
How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit singing?
How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit religion?

Your title and your OP don't seem to jive.

[Rassah]

One thought I had: keep your assets in bitcoin, and you don't have to worry about passing on your wealth to your spouse should you die. No issues with estate or inheritance taxes (gay couples have to pay taxes on things they own if their spouse dies, while married couples just treat it as inheritance), and no issues with parents that didn't approve of their kid being gay coming in and taking all your stuff, because they are family and you legally are not.

A vision flashed before me:

You walk into a dingy bathroom and notice a crude hole cut into the wall at about waist height. Scrawled just above this hole in barely legible print are the words, "For a good time point your miner to 1FWzsfKbQijhL7R7AZhg1oumsfTTBD7iVS"

Change from "miner" to "phone" and change the long string of text to a QR code, and DO IT!

How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit kittens?

BTC addresses under kitten photos on icanhascheeseburger to vote for best kitten pictures, with proceeds going to animal shelters? Animal shelters and cat rescue charities setting up webcams where you can watch the kittens play, and send in bitcoins to keep them fed and well cared for?

How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit yoga?

Having to contort into crazy positions just to try to explain to idiots why Bitcoins are not tulips?

How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit victim advocates?

"Assassination politics" against victimizers, paid for with anonymous bitcoin maybe?

How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit singing?

Musicians from around the word selling their music for bitcoin, especially in financially restrictive places like Iran, Argentina, and India?

How could bitcoin be used to directly benefit religion?

... um... The question was about "positive" things  

[UncleBobs]

If YOU have issues with gays, this is not the place to have those discussions.

Ummm, right back atcha....