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

[bgaf]

The thought is nice and very generous idea OP. But raising a donation from bitcointalk community will be hard task. Also admins here are quite loaded with works and probably thinking a lot of matters. Maybe someone who is trusted here can organize it.

Every country has their own donation group so much better if the donations can handle by their own local community. I think that isnt bad at all and the idea will be easily coordinated since you are dealing with your own local people.

But for raising awareness on crypto due to the virus isnt a good way. Crypto or not, we should think of donations to them. Its gonna look were using this forum to gain more users or what.

[maxreish]

Why not? You have a good point there. But I am seeing a lot of issues in this donation suggestion. I am also in a country where in a lockdown protocol were being implemented. Who's country will this forum choose to donate for? But if they will gonna raise some money here in forum, I am willing to donate as I know the experience of being in a crisis like this.
 
 Still, believing in government's decision and response with regards to this pandemic is the only thing to hold. I mean, they will protect their countrymen especially in this situation.

[target]

So we are now seeing big organizations already doing it and had been accepting BTC. Philantropist I guess will have more trust to these big organizations than sending thier BTC to someone not known for helping. The orgs can do it for those with big hearts.

If anyone can find the WHO and REd cross BTC or donation page where they post their BTC address, post the link here so OP can edit the first post. Maybe users can send any amount.

[joeperry]

This is such a humane initiative however, I do not think that organizing a fund raising in the forum would be effective and  would be supported by the majority. Online initiatives has always been skeptical for many people and thus collection of any mount of money forms would bring suspicions to the minds of people. I would like to believe that each country has their emergency funds that shall be used at this times because they must have it in the first place from the taxes paid by its citizens. And another point here is, would the government acknowledge donations through Bitcoins? And if it is done for promotional objectives as well would it mean that the Bitcoin community is willing to be entangled with the government?

[Asuspawer09]

There's already a BTC charity campaign launched by the Italian Red Cross using the crypto crowdfunding and charity platform Helperbit.You  can donate there,if you want.Bitcointalk,as a forum and an active community, has other purposes,one of them is to provide information about blockchain technology,Bitcoin and altcoins,so more people can educate themselves and learn about the opportunities of the crypto industry.
It's OK to donate coins if you want,but we are not,and we shouldn't be,a charity foundation.

yeah, I think this is already enough and also it might be difficult to handle this kind of money since it is in funds of the community. Maybe donating directly will be a good move or just do that donation by your self, the thing is you could help the community and you could always do it in a lot of ways not just in a donation. We have a lot of trusted users here in the forum or even the admin but I don't think they are going to accept it, handle a big amount of money.

Also, this kind of a worldwide problem so everyone is affected I think it is better to leave it to someone capable.

[target]

How about supporting the team from Folding@Home created by Stanford University who are finding solutions to the virus. They need CPU and GPU resources and help promote BTC at the same time which can be of good caues of the computing powers we spend.

So for those like me who has nothing to donate, try this instead. There talks about this is in this thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232941.0

[sheenshane]

That was a good idea but I think that is not necessary, we are living in different countries and every country which we live in had different financial support status problems. All countries all over the world were suffered on this pandemic virus that keeps spreading until now and for sure no one will be utilized the fund directly send to those who need help.

Actually Binance Charity was already doing this, they help directly to the people of China who were infected with the coronavirus.

Even though this idea is good but I doubt this won't happen, I never heard theymos raising funds so far on this forum.

If anyone can find the WHO and REd cross BTC or donation page where they post their BTC address, post the link here so OP can edit the first post. Maybe users can send any amount.

However, the Italian Red Cross coronavirus Bitcoin fundraiser smashes goal issues new initiative. You can send it here directly to your Bitcoin as a donation.

[bhabygrim]

It would be great and I think Theymus should be the one to handle it if this is going to be named after the forum.
This would help the victims and raise awareness about the crypto.

[Little Mouse]

That was a good idea but I think that is not necessary, we are living in different countries and every country which we live in had different financial support status problems. All countries all over the world were suffered on this pandemic virus that keeps spreading until now and for sure no one will be utilized the fund directly send to those who need help.

A lot of countries need donation which we do not know may be. Most of the European homeless people are passing worst time. In our local, the pandemic is still not outbreak but once it does, most of our people will pass bad days. That's where we can help.

[verita1]

I also think that the idea is good. We can achieve our goal but most importantly we can save lives. There is a serious problem that has allowed the spread of the virus that the most affected countries did not follow the protocol or did not follow China's measures to prevent the spread.

[camito]

As you Can See from different World News people are dying By Covid19, And Despite the Success of china against it, but the world must come together to fight as the world problem. As an Investor, entreperenur, and businessman in Crypto, I see Opportunity for the Bitcoin Community to show the power of it by the donation from the platform and let the world know about it, this will increase the number of people who will trust on Bitcoin and Crypto In general which we all need in order for the people to have financial freedom,

I suggest that it will be good if the platform itself (Bitcointalk) will provide BTC Address for that Donation to avoid theft or unrated address from unknown and after Contribute enough the transaction of exchange to get tools for help have to be done from those stores which accept Bitcoin, that help will be for the currently most affected country/countries

I Belive the Community will help and Understand 

Despite the steps of China fighting COVID-19 being successful, we still see numerous countries especially that of Europe area, that are still struggling and battling this pandemic. We need all the help we can get, and that is a reality. Not all families are given support and some providers are having a dilemma whether to follow or not. This idea is very timely and relevant, having many Bitcoin users investors we have. For sure the safety and security of the funds will be of utmost priority. The remaining question would only be the support from admins and moderators as well as the government itself to accept this kind of assistance. We can hope not only for positive results to the community outside, but also here, the Bitcoin community.

[buwaytress]

I also think it's a good idea but as with any attempt to help, I still think it's better to channel it through an existing fund or effort, and not through an independent effort that is likely to reduce the efficiency or relevance of the aid. I worked in aid for 12 years and it's difficult to see well-intentioned aid get wasted or duplicated.

If you really want to do something, read up: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/donors-and-partners/funding
Sign as a Bitcoin donor or something. If you still feel the need to do something grassroots, I'm sure the local Red Cross in all affected countries will have information on how to donate (Red Cross has a high dollar efficiency).

[MoonWhale]

Not sure on earn or something but you can donate already u know

[so98nn]

bitcointalk is not a charitable organization and unless you can find one that is transparent and has a good history you won't be able to get any donations because of the large number of scams that have been happening over the past couple of weeks using all kinds of methods!

Hold on. China hasn't surely stopped the coronavirus stuff.

the conclusion is based on the statistics they report. the new cases found per day has reduced from a couple of thousands per day to a couple of dozen per day. basically when the chart here called Total Coronavirus Cases plateaus it shows a significant reduction and signals the end of the spread being near.

I am not referring to charts at all. I'm looking after the severity and no medication availability against the coronavirus and raising my concerns regarding it.

The chart is data which is extracted from the WHO and medical / testing facilities but on the other hand china seems to be giving no data at the moment.

Just checkout the WHO site and it seems they have reported too less cases over week and its impossible. As there is no cure, medication so how one can hold back such big crisis.

Just making it science based conversation.

[Kupid002]

I also think that the idea is good. We can achieve our goal but most importantly we can save lives. There is a serious problem that has allowed the spread of the virus that the most affected countries did not follow the protocol or did not follow China's measures to prevent the spread.

we need more people to donate so it will be hear every where in the world. Its actually another way of advertising crypto however many people prepare to donate directly from thier government or any local agency that they know that the help they given will arive to those who really needed it.
Also if for example many member's will donate crypto what govern agency should accept that as donations?

[BTCLife.global]

As you Can See from different World News people are dying By Covid19, And Despite the Success of china against it, but the world must come together to fight as the world problem.
I Belive the Community will help and Understand 

All over the world, people die from many different diseases. And how many people donate funds to help those who are looking for a cure for these diseases? Sometimes you don’t even need to donate money - you just need to become a member of the distributed computing project. For example, the same folding@home, which was remembered only because of the coronavirus pandemic. People do not care until the trouble comes close to their house...

[Sanitough]

I believe this is a good idea, if the forum admin will raise funds for the victims, that would help since people will never doubt of it.
This is the best time to show our help to the people who really needs some help, at the same time, we will be able to show some awareness to the people regarding crypto and this forum.

[LbtalkL]

It was a good idea but I don't think theymos will organize something like this maybe one of the forum member can do it and that is willing to expose his/her identity and risk itself of the threat of covid. As of now, I don't know the identity of theymos and bitcointalk is decentralized. Of course, organizing it needs physical appearance to communicate with the government so they can distribute it to the community or some existing charities. Normal people should stay at home in this crisis and let the officials/frontliners do their work.

[tbterryboy]

You do have a good idea, but I don’t know if they are really going to do such a thing here. This is something that is meant for the admin to start up, because they are the only ones that can be trusted. If the admin can create such campaign and create a particular address for the donation, lots of people here will be happily donate their bitcoins to help countries that are affected by the corona virus.

But since, there’s nothing like that yet, I believe there are still other means that you can help in fighting this pandemic, you can donate through other organizations in your country that handles situations like this. I guess in the past only few individuals did that hence we can expect the same rather than anything officially from bitcointalk.

[nosferzd]

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?