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You've heard Diaspora has had trouble with Paypal (shocking!) Well, now they accept Bitcoin, and can never again be cut off from donations. Show them some love! Gonna tweet this... https://www.diasporafoundation.org/donateThanks to Bit-pay and some of the guys on this thread ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49048.0) for making it happen. Diaspora and Bitcoin have many natural synergies, hopefully this leads to a nice relationship and cross promotion between the two communities.
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October 21, 2011, 04:22:07 PM |
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If you clicked this tab, you know what to do. <<< it looked to me quite rude, but is better than nothing.
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October 21, 2011, 04:25:16 PM |
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Small donation sent. It doesn't take much, just enough for them to realize 'Really? Wow, that was easy".
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1AeW7QK59HvEJwiyMztFH1ubWPSLLKx5ym TradeHill Referral TH-R120549
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October 21, 2011, 04:31:08 PM |
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If you clicked this tab, you know what to do. <<< it looked to me quite rude, but is better than nothing.
I agree. Simple link somewhere (at least to weusecoins.com) would be much better than this.
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October 21, 2011, 04:49:23 PM |
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does anyone else have trouble seeing (much less responding to) Diaspora blog comments?
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Keyur @ Camp BX
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October 21, 2011, 05:00:13 PM |
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You've heard Diaspora has had trouble with Paypal (shocking!) Well, now they accept Bitcoin, and can never again be cut off from donations. Show them some love! Gonna tweet this... https://www.diasporafoundation.org/donateThanks to Bit-pay and some of the guys on this thread ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49048.0) for making it happen. Diaspora and Bitcoin have many natural synergies, hopefully this leads to a nice relationship and cross promotion between the two communities. Wallet powered by Camp BX ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) One question for the community: some people who see the mysterious looking string on the website are asking the right question: "What is Bitcoin?" Diaspora team wants to include a link to explain what Bitcoin is. What ONE link would you recommend be put up there? Is http://www.weusecoins.com/ still the best way to go? Thank you, Keyur
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October 21, 2011, 05:01:14 PM |
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You've heard Diaspora has had trouble with Paypal (shocking!) Well, now they accept Bitcoin, and can never again be cut off from donations. Show them some love! Gonna tweet this... https://www.diasporafoundation.org/donateThanks to Bit-pay and some of the guys on this thread ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49048.0) for making it happen. Diaspora and Bitcoin have many natural synergies, hopefully this leads to a nice relationship and cross promotion between the two communities. Wallet powered by Camp BX ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) One question for the community: some people who see the mysterious looking string on the website are asking the right question: "What is Bitcoin?" Diaspora team wants to include a link to explain what Bitcoin is. What ONE link would you recommend be put up there? Is http://www.weusecoins.com/ still the best way to go? Thank you, Keyur Yes Keyur... absolutely WeUseCoins.com
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October 21, 2011, 05:02:53 PM |
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woot! I updated my signature :-)
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Electrum: the convenience of a web wallet, without the risks
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BitPay Business Solutions
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October 21, 2011, 05:07:49 PM |
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Wallet powered by Camp BX ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Nice job! If they need a more automated solution for tracking and reporting, Bit-Pay can handle that and we will auto-forward the Bitcoins to their CampBX Wallet.
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BitPay : The World Leader in Bitcoin Business Solutions https://bitpay.comDoes your website accept bitcoins?
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Keyur @ Camp BX
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October 21, 2011, 05:26:10 PM |
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Wallet powered by Camp BX ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Nice job! If they need a more automated solution for tracking and reporting, Bit-Pay can handle that and we will auto-forward the Bitcoins to their CampBX Wallet. Thank you Tony! Agreed: A simple wallet works well in the near term but as Diaspora's Bitcoin revenue stream grows, we can set them up with a more feature-rich solution. - Keyur
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October 21, 2011, 05:28:20 PM |
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I do not think Diaspora is a wise use of cash. There are far better free software projects to donate to. Diaspora raised more than 200k last year to write a simple web application, it's still not finished... and they need more? Both http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/ and https://n-1.cc/ (elgg) are projects made on much small budgets and teams (appleseed is one guy AFAIK), and they're far better. Your money won't be efficiently used if donated to Diaspora. I would pick some piece of free software you use often or you think Linux needs, and donate to that ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) TBH the diaspora guys come off clueless when you watch their initial fund-raising video. The software itself is pretty bad and requires all these esoteric dependencies rather than using tried and tested libraries. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxQgfQD24M
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October 21, 2011, 05:34:22 PM |
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I do not think Diaspora is a wise use of cash. There are far better free software projects to donate to. Diaspora raised more than 200k last year to write a simple web application, it's still not finished... and they need more? Both http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/ and https://n-1.cc/ (elgg) are projects made on much small budgets and teams (appleseed is one guy AFAIK), and they're far better. Your money won't be efficiently used if donated to Diaspora. I would pick some piece of free software you use often or you think Linux needs, and donate to that ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) TBH the diaspora guys come off clueless when you watch their initial fund-raising video. The software itself is pretty bad and requires all these esoteric dependencies rather than using tried and tested libraries. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxQgfQD24MWow genjix you just crushed our dreams lol
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October 21, 2011, 05:37:32 PM |
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When we have an organization like diaspora adopting BTC, can we make a point of encouraging them to spend their bitcoins instead of cashing them out? It is better for the bitcoin economy and easier for them to use.
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October 21, 2011, 05:43:00 PM |
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Curious about bit-pay's role, since the diaspora donation site seems to contain a fairly typical bitcoin address. Does bit-pay automatically pay out USD when bitcoin arrives at that address?
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October 21, 2011, 06:06:20 PM |
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One question for the community: some people who see the mysterious looking string on the website are asking the right question: "What is Bitcoin?" Diaspora team wants to include a link to explain what Bitcoin is. What ONE link would you recommend be put up there? Is http://www.weusecoins.com/ still the best way to go? I have mixed feelings regarding weusecoins' video. I think that common people should learn about bitcoin without the crypto/mining/P2P stuff. For example, I like bit-pay's presentation, but a link there may not be appropriate for this situation. So yes, weusecoins is the best we have I think... Anyway, congratulations on this ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Is bit-pay involved or are the coins manually withdrawn by diaspora?
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October 21, 2011, 07:04:06 PM |
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Is bit-pay involved or are the coins manually withdrawn by diaspora? Wallet powered by Camp BX ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Nice job! If they need a more automated solution for tracking and reporting, Bit-Pay can handle that and we will auto-forward the Bitcoins to their CampBX Wallet. Thank you Tony! Agreed: A simple wallet works well in the near term but as Diaspora's Bitcoin revenue stream grows, we can set them up with a more feature-rich solution. - Keyur
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October 21, 2011, 07:44:33 PM |
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I do not think Diaspora is a wise use of cash. Following up from I. Goldstein's response in newbies: I investigated diaspora when people were slamming it the other day on HN. Installing it took some unix experience and reference to bug reports, but that is not too surprising for alpha software. I got it running in developer mode pretty painlessly, seemed to work pretty well. There are people actually using it for its intended purpose out there, and a large group of volunteers contributing to it (my wife has a friend who contributes about half a day a week to QA and tech support of the diaspora software. At the time I investigated, I knew of his interest in diaspora, but did not know about his volunteering for it. I installed it without his help, using only documentation available on the web.) There is an account of how they used their earlier funding and a summary of their expenditures and progress linked from their donate page. They have been drawing a salary of $28k each plus a housing allowance, which seems very modest and worthwhile, considering the progress they have made. It seems like a vibrant project with a good chance of meeting its intended goals, goals which I fully support.
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October 22, 2011, 01:52:47 AM Last edit: October 22, 2011, 02:18:31 AM by netrin |
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I do not think Diaspora is a wise use of cash.
There are far better free software projects to donate to. Diaspora raised more than 200k last year to write a simple web application, it's still not finished... and they need more? This is an embarrassingly correct statement. How much bitcoin have we returned to Genjix, Gavin, Stefan, or any other bitcoin project we use most or foresee future value? I'm making a list of the software I use most and the charities to which I already donate euros. Maybe we can start a general donation campaign thread. I wrote to Amnesty International this summer and received no response and again just now. An organization such as AI would have far more impact, for world good as well as for bitcoin acceptance, than Diaspora. These videos make the point, vote with signatures, letters, and money/bitcoin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwl2aFNsW30There are resistance movements who REALLY NEED bitcoin!?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEwkrnw9g84
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