Topic: 100000 BTC for Wikileaks! - page 2. (Read 4080 times)
lol i applaud you for starting the first donation, but with only 0.02 BTC, it's gonna take quite a long while for 100k
It doesn't have to be one single transaction of 100000, though that would be nice. You have to start somewhere.
Maybe we can do this auction style. For example, I started with 0.02 from address 175x6g9ZS1Weo9cHDbj8eeCeF1hnh9XAMk, so that makes me King Shit of this thread. If you can give more than 0.02, then you can take that title from me.
I suppose there should be a rule that you post your address here before donating to confirm. (Though I screwed that up myself.)
Maybe we can do this auction style. For example, I started with 0.02 from address 175x6g9ZS1Weo9cHDbj8eeCeF1hnh9XAMk, so that makes me King Shit of this thread. If you can give more than 0.02, then you can take that title from me.
I suppose there should be a rule that you post your address here before donating to confirm. (Though I screwed that up myself.)
100,000 BTC is a lot, with the amount of greed these days, i don't really see the community donating that much just to keep them running for a year
Yeah, great initiative. But 100000 is not that amount which community could send as donation ...
If you followed Wikileaks in the news the past year, you'll know how easy it was for them to lose service from centralized tx services like Paypal Mastercard, as well as losing server space from Amazon. In the case of Amazon, however, the damage was mitigated by the still (somewhat) decentralized nature of the web-- within days of Amazon dropping the site, there were hundreds of mirrors all around the world. That mirroring was probably the greatest example yet of the power of the net to route around censorship (to reference John Gilmore).
It would be great to see something similar happen with BTC donations routing around the damage that centralized tx services have caused to Wikileaks. If you've followed global events at all in the past year you'll know the importance of their releases. At present 100000 BTC would cover their operating expenses for a little over a year.
If you read my other posts you'll see that I have serious doubts about the future of Bitcoin. Nevertheless, there's no arguing that BTC are extremely valuable at the moment. So if you do believe in them, what better way to advertise them than to have a very big, public example of exactly what is wrong with centralized payment services, and, therefore, what is right about Bitcoin?
You can get Wikileaks' public BTC address by going to their website and clicking the "Donate" link. You can also request an undisclosed address from them (though that won't be as strong a statement as everyone donating to the same address).
Ok, that's my two cents... (literally, check Bitcoin Explorer!)
EDIT:
On this thread, there exists:
1) A king.
2) Subjects (i.e., former kings).
3) Wind (trolls).
If you want to take over the castle, you must:
1) post an amount greater than that of the current king's army. (Use all 8 decimal places to make it unlikely that anyone else can claim to be making the same donation.)
2) after you have posted to this thread, send the amount you posted to the Wikileaks address mentioned above.
3) Once your transaction appears on Bitcoin Explorer, post again to lay claim to your new kingdom.
Once you lay claim, all former kings become your new subjects and are constrained to the following choices: a) lavish praise upon you, b) answer your queries and provide guidance, or b) be silent. Any subject who defies the king will be tossed out of the castle into the wind.
Caveats: Hearing the sound of the wind is natural. Talking back to it is not, and if kings are caught talking directly to the wind, they are automatically declared insane, and the kingdom reverts back to the previous king. Also, kings can't accumulate armies from past donations.
It would be great to see something similar happen with BTC donations routing around the damage that centralized tx services have caused to Wikileaks. If you've followed global events at all in the past year you'll know the importance of their releases. At present 100000 BTC would cover their operating expenses for a little over a year.
If you read my other posts you'll see that I have serious doubts about the future of Bitcoin. Nevertheless, there's no arguing that BTC are extremely valuable at the moment. So if you do believe in them, what better way to advertise them than to have a very big, public example of exactly what is wrong with centralized payment services, and, therefore, what is right about Bitcoin?
You can get Wikileaks' public BTC address by going to their website and clicking the "Donate" link. You can also request an undisclosed address from them (though that won't be as strong a statement as everyone donating to the same address).
Ok, that's my two cents... (literally, check Bitcoin Explorer!)
EDIT:
On this thread, there exists:
1) A king.
2) Subjects (i.e., former kings).
3) Wind (trolls).
If you want to take over the castle, you must:
1) post an amount greater than that of the current king's army. (Use all 8 decimal places to make it unlikely that anyone else can claim to be making the same donation.)
2) after you have posted to this thread, send the amount you posted to the Wikileaks address mentioned above.
3) Once your transaction appears on Bitcoin Explorer, post again to lay claim to your new kingdom.
Once you lay claim, all former kings become your new subjects and are constrained to the following choices: a) lavish praise upon you, b) answer your queries and provide guidance, or b) be silent. Any subject who defies the king will be tossed out of the castle into the wind.
Caveats: Hearing the sound of the wind is natural. Talking back to it is not, and if kings are caught talking directly to the wind, they are automatically declared insane, and the kingdom reverts back to the previous king. Also, kings can't accumulate armies from past donations.
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