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

[[btc]]

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...

[TheButterZone]

3 members including me now...

Backend updates...

• renamed a js to cjs because despite it working fine before, there was a breaking change made by GitHub I guess
• more stupid Node 20->24 action crap, to shut up the workflow warnings
• recoded for github-script v8 compatibility
• added cache: 'npm' which doesn't seem to have sped up the action at all
• had dependabot bump the form-data version for me
• stripped out the original (& intent successful?) test-run code for the state machine, after seeing the action running on GitHub comments that didn't include the test-run command from me
• optimized the state machine so it never accidentally commits an unchanged file to repo history

[TheButterZone]

There would be a 4th member now, if only the username they claimed they have, actually existed...

[Pmalek]

Best of luck with the initiative!

This is the first time I hear about Freecycle to be honest. I thought it must be a US or UK-only type of service, but it isn't. There are many locations all over Europe as well. Almost nothing in Russia, though. Same thing in Africa and South America. There is no town in Croatia either. The closest ones to me are Sarajevo in Bosnia and Belgrade in Serbia.

[TheButterZone]

Best of luck with the initiative!

This is the first time I hear about Freecycle to be honest. I thought it must be a US or UK-only type of service, but it isn't. There are many locations all over Europe as well. Almost nothing in Russia, though. Same thing in Africa and South America. There is no town in Croatia either. The closest ones to me are Sarajevo in Bosnia and Belgrade in Serbia.

Thanks. It's funny, sometimes you'll see the island countries (countries that are islands or have islands vs landlocked with not even an island in a lake) have Freecycle Towns, but Tenerife has 2 on 1 island, while none of the other Canaries have any. I only looked there closely because of bitcoinkook on Nostr, who's been cleaning up trash on Fuerteventura as #SatsForTrash & partly inspired BTC2Free.

And today's update is... another person tried to register with a nonexistent username , so I added a script that validates the initial submission & any edits until they actually put in one that exists!  

I'd just been looking up their profile, but I'd rather be seeing that they're already a member of at least one town, versus only registered on the site - and also if their GitHub & Freecycle profiles bear any resemblance. Things you can only check if you're logged in to Freecycle, which you/bots don't need to be, just to see if the username exists.

[TheButterZone]

Update: One of the members had a TX but the state machine didn't update/leave a comment on their issue, so added...

• Permission for issues: write
  
• Corrected bot email format
• Debugging inside findIssueForUser()
• Retries for GitHub comment failures (exponential backoff)
• Persistent failure queue JSON
• Automatic retry of queued notifications every run
• No state advancement unless comment succeeds
• Prevention for silent loss of notifications

ETA: Aw crap it was a spend not a receive, so hopefully fixed here.

ETA2: They got an incoming & the notification fired, now to see if a spend ever again fires a notification, regardless of coding against that.

[TheButterZone]

What I've been doing is pinning posts that I GPG-clearsigned with my Bitcoin-OTC WoT key, containing the same address I put on BTC2Free, on my Nostr (npub19ctmsmtf9jtehddhctwmnacwqtnkh0p43tafttrgzdgy0wlppcpq50zf83), eg.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

#BTC2Free

As numbers increase/decrease, this offer may be superseded by a newer post on Nostr - my deletion requests are often disregarded by relays.

Send https://preev.com/btc/usd?usd=92.09 to bitcoin:bc1q4xs2vezxa946gcxrmptfe8hquu99wmp8uanst0
& I'll give away

* 96 gallon capacity Toter wheelie bin

Cracked near the wheel so slightly that I missed it the first few times I looked for damage; but in better condition than most used bins I've seen. Also, has address painted on the side.

* ~22.45 lbs of bagged CRV (PET #1) inside the Toter Bin.

Those PET #1 CRV containers are in plastic bags, which is why that weight is approximate.

* 13.825 lbs of bagged PET #1 outside the bin (contained elsewhere) that won't fit.

These bags' weight excluded.

* $8.65 worth (by count) of mixed material CRV containers

* 1 quarter, 2 dimes, 3 pennies

to a random on Freecycle San Diego (currently 11060 members).

bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=TheButterZone
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So that's a specific commitment to [receive specified amount to their BTC2Free profile address]->[post exact offer on Freecycle] that anyone can make anywhere they can post ads, then if they're successful, comment the proof of giveaway on their BTC2Free issue.

[TheButterZone]

Sad, now there is an equal number of people who have tried to sign up with invalid Freecycle usernames as valid ones. The auto username validator works!

The latest invalid just deleted out their issue, but I see the original before edit!

[spinderella]

<3

[TheButterZone]

And of course GitHub goes down after I approve the first legit member in a while.

Not only that, it wasn't deploying the page via GitHub Actions anymore, so I've added that to the process-submission workflow & hopefully refactored it so the actions-bot doesn't comment that it was changed until the page deployment is successful.

[TheButterZone]

GitHub's cron is running closer to hourly now, with a rare miss. Since I webhooked the repo into a private channel on my Discord, the state machine notifications are kinda annoying with their frequency  

[TheButterZone]

And of course a few days after I say that, GitHub had an incident with actions, falsely marked it as resolved, and the last cron run was 0527 UTC.

[TheButterZone]

Prepping new batch of Freecycle posts now; a few will be from prize proceeds to my BTC2Free address, the rest reposts after they expired.

Latest GitHub cron interval took almost 8 hours while the workflow's every 60 minutes. God knows when the next one will run & I'll get to see the BTC2Free address monitor alert.

ETA:
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/103010214
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/103010246
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/103010042

ETA2: 5 hours, 15 minutes for the cron interval to get it.