Bitcoin needs to clean up it's reputation - Support the good cause.

[Kprawn]

We get 1 link to 1 persons blog, and we deny, what is there in front of us?

I watched a lot of interviews, with people who are new to Bitcoin, and the first thing, they mention is MtGox and Silkroad. We cannot deny, that the nay sayers and the Press will jump on  those type of events, to push crypto currency down.

We need to look for some positves, and I highlighted only one, which can be used as a example of what good are done with BTC

We do not even speak about the unemployment reduction and entrepreneurial genius at work, in the BTC community.

Well, if you believe, BTC has a great image, remember my post, when you are confronted with the Silkroad and MtGox comments coming from potential new adopters or
negative press.

I just commented, on what I experienced from listening to Podcasts and watching videos and reading blogs. 

Why push someone down, if he wants to do something good?

[Este Nuno]

I think it's a good thing that you posted this. I don't think there is anything negative about donating with bitcoin and it being converted to fiat as opposed to donating with fiat directly. Bitcoin as a wide reach and people who would have otherwise known about the cause might find out solely because they've been informed they can donate in bitcoin.

[Ron~Popeil]

The quickest way to clean up bit coin is for people to be smarter with their funds. Bad actors will always exist, but if we are smarter about how we manage our currency they will be less successful and less frequent.

[Honeypot]

Quickest way is to have people stfu about 'huuuurrr government' and get their heads out of their collective 'educated' and 'enlightened' asses.

[franky1]

We get 1 link to 1 persons blog, and we deny, what is there in front of us?

I watched a lot of interviews, with people who are new to Bitcoin, and the first thing, they mention is MtGox and Silkroad. We cannot deny, that the nay sayers and the Press will jump on  those type of events, to push crypto currency down.

We need to look for some positves, and I highlighted only one, which can be used as a example of what good are done with BTC

We do not even speak about the unemployment reduction and entrepreneurial genius at work, in the BTC community.

Well, if you believe, BTC has a great image, remember my post, when you are confronted with the Silkroad and MtGox comments coming from potential new adopters or
negative press.

I just commented, on what I experienced from listening to Podcasts and watching videos and reading blogs.  

Why push someone down, if he wants to do something good?

although donating is a 'puff piece' of PR/media attention. just throwing funds at a greedy charity is just as bad as throwing funds at mtgox.

i would by-far love to see more positive media around true charity such as seans outpost, which has clear start to end display of funds movement and usage, no greed, and actual display of end user benefit.

i however do not like to see a puff piece advertising how bitcoins are thrown into blackhole charities.... no matter how positive the articl would be wrote.

bitcoin meant to be different, and setting new trends. where we control the true value and we control who gets it. so why waste oppertunities like this to just throw it at greedy FIAT loving office workers.

so again apart from "corporate charities" anyone care to mention some proper charities with less middlemen and more end users?

[btcxyzzz]

After Silkroad

For normal people, Silk Road represents huge civilization advancement.

[cbeast]

You could always donate to the Red Cross.

[franky1]

You could always donate to the Red Cross.

pfffp greedy F**kers,, no thanks

Haiti disaster raised over $200mill, less then $30mil moved into Haiti, but no one knows how much was spent on actual food, water, clothing etc..

so i thank you for posting that link as it was actually the Haiti crap in regards to red cross a few years back, that woke me up to these corporate greedy mo-fo's

[moriartybitcoin]

After Silkroad and MtGox and all the negative things being associated with crypto currency, we need to have more people from the community supporting causes like,

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-helps-anti-poaching-teams-new-charity-campaign/

Enough of the bad Press, let's get behind projects like these, and show the world, what BTC is really about.

If you have any other projects, like this, please post them, there are people who care, about the world we leave behind. 

Bitcoin is not 'about' anything, any more than gold is 'about' something.

Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency, period.  Bitcoin is 'about' drugs if you buy and sell Yayo on Silk Road.   Bitcoin is 'about' charity if you donate some of your BTC to help starving kids in Africa.  Bitcoin is 'about' whatever you want it to be about ...

[Skele]

If you want charity, there are some others that have charity in mind like Dogecoin.

Bitcoin, among other stuff,  supports and gives value to those cryptos so it is entirely made for other causes, one of them, innovate

economy and start a new age...

[cbeast]

DOGE

We're not DOGE.

We're a a whole different animal entirely.

I like DOGE because of the fundraisers. In fact, this is the only reason I own any DOGE.

Enough with the joke coins already. No Doge is not a different animal. You do not support Wikileaks, EFF, or anything serious for that matter. Where was Doge during the Typhoon in the Philippines? How many homeless people did dogecoins feed in the last few years?  Where is the Doge 100 list of charities?

Sadly, if dogecoin was actually takes seriously, it would also be used by criminals because that would mean it has actual value. Dogecoins are today's Garbage Pail Kids of the cryptocurrency toyland. Enjoy the laughs while you can.

[Beliathon]

Ending the war on drugs, with compassion.

[cbeast]

Enough with the joke coins already. No Doge is not a different animal. You do not support Wikileaks, EFF, or anything serious for that matter. Where was Doge during the Typhoon in the Philippines? How many homeless people did dogecoins feed in the last few years?  Where is the Doge 100 list of charities?

Sadly, if dogecoin was actually takes seriously, it would also be used by criminals because that would mean it has actual value. Dogecoins are today's Garbage Pail Kids of the cryptocurrency toyland. Enjoy the laughs while you can.

Do you need a hug?

Down, boy! Sit.

[Ron~Popeil]

DOGE

We're not DOGE.

We're a a whole different animal entirely.

I like DOGE because of the fundraisers. In fact, this is the only reason I own any DOGE.

Enough with the joke coins already. No Doge is not a different animal. You do not support Wikileaks, EFF, or anything serious for that matter. Where was Doge during the Typhoon in the Philippines? How many homeless people did dogecoins feed in the last few years?  Where is the Doge 100 list of charities?

Sadly, if dogecoin was actually takes seriously, it would also be used by criminals because that would mean it has actual value. Dogecoins are today's Garbage Pail Kids of the cryptocurrency toyland. Enjoy the laughs while you can.

The criminal thing is actually an interesting point. You don't hear about a lot of doge scammers either.

[cbeast]

DOGE

We're not DOGE.

We're a a whole different animal entirely.

I like DOGE because of the fundraisers. In fact, this is the only reason I own any DOGE.

Enough with the joke coins already. No Doge is not a different animal. You do not support Wikileaks, EFF, or anything serious for that matter. Where was Doge during the Typhoon in the Philippines? How many homeless people did dogecoins feed in the last few years?  Where is the Doge 100 list of charities?

Sadly, if dogecoin was actually takes seriously, it would also be used by criminals because that would mean it has actual value. Dogecoins are today's Garbage Pail Kids of the cryptocurrency toyland. Enjoy the laughs while you can.

The criminal thing is actually an interesting point. You don't hear about a lot of doge scammers either.

You don't hear about scammers in litecoin, namecoin, ppcoin, or any other altcoin either. There is nothing special about dogecoin there.

[Nerazzura]

Bitcoin is like a kind of money. The way you are using it depends on who holds the amount of BTC, just like the other currency Dollar, Euro etc. No need to clean up! The people who think BTC is not good really don't know BTC is what.

yes .. for those who are too busy working in the office, selling in the market, and those who do not like computers or networks bitcoin be a foreign thing. especially if they do not follow forums that talk about bitcoin., and because they do not understand, they finally refused bitcoin. when they are not aware that bitcoin is simple

[Justin00]

Exactly.
Sad but true.
Everyone is just in it to try make as much $$ as possible.
That includes 'the foundation' and any websites, faucts etc etc.
Maybe 2-3 years the vision was all hippyish, now its just selfish make as much money as possible.

again, sad but true

Bitcoin isn't really about charity though...sort that sounds harsh, but you say "show what Bitcoin is really about" as if it were made to support charities like this.

[cbeast]

DOGE

We're not DOGE.

We're a a whole different animal entirely.

I like DOGE because of the fundraisers. In fact, this is the only reason I own any DOGE.

Enough with the joke coins already. No Doge is not a different animal. You do not support Wikileaks, EFF, or anything serious for that matter. Where was Doge during the Typhoon in the Philippines? How many homeless people did dogecoins feed in the last few years?  Where is the Doge 100 list of charities?

Sadly, if dogecoin was actually takes seriously, it would also be used by criminals because that would mean it has actual value. Dogecoins are today's Garbage Pail Kids of the cryptocurrency toyland. Enjoy the laughs while you can.

The criminal thing is actually an interesting point. You don't hear about a lot of doge scammers either.

You don't hear about scammers in litecoin, namecoin, ppcoin, or any other altcoin either. There is nothing special about dogecoin there.

Ummm...people aren't scamming other people for Litecoin, Namecoin, PeerCoin and Dogecoin?

What planet are you guys on?

The one where news media reports Bitcoin crimes only. Outside of forums and Reddit, nobody reports altcoin scams. Like I said, nobody hears about them.

[Cicero2.0]

I think the USD should clean up it's reputation. No other currency has been used for so many crimes and scams. Mexican drug cartels use to do business and institutionalized fraud runs rampant in the USD economy.

[ChuckStrawberry]

Negative things are connected with BTC not because of Silkroad or MtGox but beacause of lots of people still think it's  something to pay for drugs or cp.