Topic: [ANN]Donationcoin (DON) | Revival | Cryptopia | Scrypt PoW - page 20. (Read 35474 times)

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Thank you for the reply.  The fact is that it is difficult to trust anyone so you're response is correct. 

I had a company in mind for the escrow, but there have even been doubts about them relating to raising donations for particular campaigns.  I guess we'll have to see if these charities take you up on your offer. 

I see you have an affiliated charities link on your homepage for charities which have taken you up on your offer.  This is great so people know which charities have accept their donation.  Right now we have one, but more will follow.

Here's a list of about 100 charities which are rated 4 star by charity navigator which have donations under 3.5 million per year.  I would suggest adding some of these to your mailing list as these charities are probably looking for non-traditional ways to increase their donations.  It is going to be difficult to bring the Red Cross on board until you have lined up several smaller charities I think and until donationcoin have proven itself.  You may be shooting for the moon which is good, but first we need to just liftoff. :p

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.results&overallrtg=4&size=1&scopeid=2

I wouldn't email to everyone on this list.  Autism, cancer, kid and animal charities are all popular I would think whereas some of the charities devoted to the arts or media may be too narrow of a field to consider.  If people want to donate to Himalayan Tap Dancers (not a real charity... I hope) then they should probable do an individual donation.   

I would also stay away from politically-charged or controversial charities.

Good luck.

Amazing to see Donationcoin nethash raise up from 6-9MH/s all the way up to this:



Would be interesting to know who the top 4 anon miners are.

We have been added to the vote at https://bleutrade.com/voting



Don't forget to also vote for us on Swisscex too!!!

https://www.swisscex.com/voting

We feel the same way. This will enable more charities to be included.

Also I have spent the morning updating little bits and pieces on the site, forums etc.

Updated the OP.

Updated the FAQ too - http://donation-coin.org/faq/

Splitting the big amount into pieces of 250K to charities is a good change. More charities can join Donationcoin!

A good friend of mine and real forward thinker, Mark Bennett, is really supportive of Donationcoin and is helping to write up our press release.

He has an amazing background in writing and I am sure most here have heard of Fortean Times, Mac User and Press Dispensary for which he has written.

Please have a look at his works here:

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fbi/3223/the_orgonite_experiment.html

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/106/reengineering_the_ark.html

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/688/we_are_witnessing_the_dawn_of_an_unknown_science.html

https://www.pressdispensary.co.uk/releases/c992618/Giant-Vegetables-Produced-Again-with-Aid-of-Wonder-Resin-Orgonite.html

(I believe the Mac User articles were "to print" but please look as I couldn't find them)

Just had a look on Swisscex and realised that Donationcoin without the BTC votes has the most organic votes out of all the coins.

The two coins ahead of us have paid in the region of $400/BTC to be in the position they are.

We have 1200 organic votes.

**ORIGINAL POST UPDATED**

Also we are not giving as big an amount to American and British Red Cross and instead splitting more 250K amounts to more charities. So please put forward worthy charities that you believe deserve inclusion.

We agree with all your points except that we don't have a trustworthy enough escrow for such an amount.

Also in terms of transferring the coins to the charities it is much easier to be able to converse, assist and transfer the Donationcoin in an easy process.

Spencer Lievens

tl;dr Take the language out about charities supporting this coin unless it is verifiable.  Get a third-party escrow to handle the pre-mine and let the charities control their wallets.



I support your coin, but I have a few issues which might give people pause when considering Donationcoin and I think you should consider revising the preceding text.  I would consider removing the first line completely.  In addition, there is no proof that any of the wallet addresses other than maybe the BloodBankers addresses is actually owned by the respective charity.

In my opinion, the best thing for this coin (as most people do not trust premines no matter how good the intentions) would be to put these coins in escrow with a trusted third party.  When the coins mature and organizations such as the British Red Cross begin accepting them they can verify their wallet address through an official Twitter account, a page on their website or some other official means (not an email as those can be easily forged).  Once verified the third party can then transfer the.

To the skeptic what this looks like now is that names are being thrown around which really don't officially support the coin.  People are being asked to donate to wallet addresses which are not officially supported by the charities.  Both of these throw up red flags to new miners of this coins.

I understand that the wallets are there to convert DON to FIAT and then donate FIAT to the charities, but what needs to happen is that you need to donate the DON and let the charities convert to FIAT from their own wallets.  There is very little trust in the community for premined coins in addition a premined coin which also asks you to donate to wallets addresses that they also own provides even fewer assurances that this isn't a scam.

I'll say one last thing with regards to scammers and I'm speaking in general and not about this coin or its creators.  I've seen quite a few scamcoins for coins which actually had promise and the potential of the coin to be worth millions for the creators was ruined so they could make a few thousand dollars.  They essentially gave away the potential to make a few million in order to make a few grand.  I think that this coin has the potential to become widely used, however, transparency and trust is needed in order for this to happen and I would hope that if there were any intention to defraud miners and investors that the creators of this coin or any new coin would think about the long-term potential of this coin rather than trying to make a couple of thousand because that will not last long.  Good luck.

We have received a reply from the British Red Cross donation helpdesk.



This does not write off the British Red Cross from excepting Donationcoin at all.

This in fact shows their interest and keenness to get involved once the coin is in further circulation.

Also that they will be watching with interest.

Good news is this is just their Donation help desk which the general public would email concerning their payments to the British Red Cross and we have emailed more than just this address.

We are awaiting their responses and also the American Red Cross.

As stated in the emails we have sent out to the charities (which is public in this thread) the supported charities section of our site contains wallet addresses created by us the developers to enable people to donate for the time being. The 'Affiliated Section' of the site contains the charities which have their own wallet and control their share of the premine.

Bloodbanker.org has confirmed delivery and the mass mailout to the other charities has been sent out to the charities contained within our 'Supported Charities' section.



Also Direct Relief as you can see in the thread have responded on Twitter to our tweet to them stating their 250,000 coins are waiting for them.



There is no SCAM and you have nothing to base this statement on. We have openly and transparently shared all information on what we have done and what we are doing. We have IRC and you are welcome to live chat with us there or to add us on Skype: DonationcoinDevelopers to talk further.

Please see http://www.donation-coin.org/supported-charities & http://www.donation-coin.org/affiliated-charities

Here are our sent mails from yesterday (Not enough space horizontally to show all the email addresses we sent to)


This is in the post above in this thread:

(Your post suggests that you haven't actually read the thread in it's entirety)

Can someone please explain to me how they were able to get "official" level of support from such a huge range of international charities - all of which have an address already - when this coin has 5 people in its subreddit and no trusted mining pools, and is clearly brand new.
This stinks to high hell as being the worst of all the scam coins to date.

Please, prove me wrong by showing a letter of official recognition by some of these charities. So far, the only proof is that they have addresses, which is absolutely no proof whatsoever.

Quick message to request all that are mining Donationcoin to pay Cryptsy a quick visit and send a support ticket requesting the addition of Donationcoin to their voting platform.

Do not worry Thread7 we are concentrating our efforts on the coin and researching these technologies for future fundraisers and events.

Today we sent over 100 emails out to 17 charities various email addresses and conversed via live chat to overseas charities in the USA.

We are now awaiting responses and will update as they come in.

The drinkable book and water out of thin air look like great products.  However, I would suggest to the devs to concentrate on the coin itself, exchanges, and getting affiliated with charities.  (Unless these products are charities in themselves).  Things like this could cause you to get sidetracked from the true mission of getting widespread usage of Donationcoin.

And another sh**post from the world famous DemetriusAstroBlack.  Let's all hope that the gatekeeper of "good cause" coins Demetrius find us worthy in the future.  Afterall, giving... whatever the amount... has no value unless there is some personal gain in it for Demetrius.  LOL