BTC2Free

[TheButterZone]

People donate Bitcoin.
Participants offer items on Freecycle in return.

Turning magic internet money into generous real-world giveaways.

https://thebutterzone.github.io/

Currently in beta. GitHub account required for directory submissions.

https://github.com/TheButterZone/thebutterzone.github.io/issues

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People donate Bitcoin.
Participants offer items on Freecycle in return.
Turning magic internet money into generous real-world giveaways.

+1, man. Hope this works out, you would getting bitcoin exposure to over 12,000,000 people, across over 5,000 towns, if your initiative gets big enough. Good luck!

[MarryWithBTC]

People donate Bitcoin.
Participants offer items on Freecycle in return.
Turning magic internet money into generous real-world giveaways.

+1, man. Hope this works out, you would getting bitcoin exposure to over 12,000,000 people, across over 5,000 towns, if your initiative gets big enough. Good luck!

I am surprised that you understood this so easily. I have been wrapping my head around to understand this correctly. I know the idea of Freecycle, but the wordings of Op seems to get me confused.

Please is this the clear meaning of op?
1. People donate bitcoin
2. Other participants offer real-world items
3. Those items are then given away to people and it will be funded by the donated bitcoins?
Is this the idea?

[TheButterZone]

People donate Bitcoin.
Participants offer items on Freecycle in return.
Turning magic internet money into generous real-world giveaways.

+1, man. Hope this works out, you would getting bitcoin exposure to over 12,000,000 people, across over 5,000 towns, if your initiative gets big enough. Good luck!

I am surprised that you understood this so easily. I have been wrapping my head around to understand this correctly. I know the idea of Freecycle, but the wordings of Op seems to get me confused.

Please is this the clear meaning of op?
1. People donate bitcoin
2. Other participants offer real-world items
3. Those items are then given away to people and it will be funded by the donated bitcoins?
Is this the idea?

People donate bitcoin to the participants who then give away real-world items to people.

Did you look at the page to see how it works & do you want to have another AI make it so clear that nobody can misunderstand how it works?

[MarryWithBTC]

People donate bitcoin to the participants who then give away real-world items to people.

Thanks for explaining. This is clearer than what was said in Op.

People donate Bitcoin.
Participants offer items on Freecycle in return.

Yes I visited the page where I have to input my address and username.
What if I want to be a donor? How do I get the address I'll send to?

[TheButterZone]

People donate bitcoin to the participants who then give away real-world items to people.

Thanks for explaining. This is clearer than what was said in Op.

People donate Bitcoin.
Participants offer items on Freecycle in return.

Weird, because the OP was written by AI (the best one out of 3) but I wrote my reply unassisted other than copy-pasting from OP.

Yes I visited the page where I have to input my address and username.
What if I want to be a donor? How do I get the address I'll send to?

Click the button for it on the entry.

[TheButterZone]

No signups? What's the holdup?

Nobody wants a Freecycle account (or has any spare possessions to offer there)?

Nobody wants a GitHub account (which you probably have even if you aren't a developer, because that's where bug reports often go)?

Nobody wants on-chain BTC (which you can wait for indefinitely to confirm before you offer items on Freecycle, because instantaneous settlement isn't necessary when the receiver of goods isn't who paid for them)?

ETA: Would've helped if I watched my own repo for all activity... I thought I'd get an email of any new issues other than my own by default, now I will.

[TheButterZone]

2 members including me now...

Added a state machine that should check members' BTC addresses (with block explorers' free APIs) every hour for a new TX with at least 1 conf, save the Unix timestamp of the newest one, and comment "A new Bitcoin payment to your registered address has received its first confirmation." in their GitHub issue they used to sign up.

Then they'll be emailed the comments by default, see it's time to check what the amounts were, and get down to posting equivalent value items on Freecycle.

I kept TXIDs & amounts out of the process, since only the address+timestamp is needed for the state machine to operate in public (& the address is necessarily public anyway for receiving donations).

This is subject to GitHub's cron actually running every hour, and looking at the action log, it is not firing 24 hours a day (even with "21 * * * *" to avoid the top of the hour rush) but it is firing sometimes...