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Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on January 30, 2012, 06:57:49 AM

Public television run by volunteers isnt a service or a charity organisation? What do you call it then ? After all the hit pieces in the media about bitcoin you dont want to support a media startup that will disrupt their lying and propaganda ?

There are already several projects underway to help disrupt the propaganda and they are not on our list. I don't mean to be harsh but it sounds like your focusing on a group of protesters who's biggest need is electricity to charge their iPhones. There are millions of people in the world who lack basic needs, that is where I would like to see our bitcoins go. It's not just about Bitcoin. As I said before, start a separate donation thread and see what the interest is. I'll be happy to give a donation there.

Totally true, but you really have to pick your battles. The way I see it, you can only solve one problem at a time. Is it going to be keeping some silly kids alive a few more days, or is it going to be helping to change the world's political system?

I'd say buy everyone a tank and the problem is solved.

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Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on January 30, 2012, 06:57:49 AM

Public television run by volunteers isnt a service or a charity organisation? What do you call it then ? After all the hit pieces in the media about bitcoin you dont want to support a media startup that will disrupt their lying and propaganda ?

There are already several projects underway to help disrupt the propaganda and they are not on our list. I don't mean to be harsh but it sounds like your focusing on a group of protesters who's biggest need is electricity to charge their iPhones. There are millions of people in the world who lack basic needs, that is where I would like to see our bitcoins go. It's not just about Bitcoin. As I said before, start a separate donation thread and see what the interest is. I'll be happy to give a donation there.

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Quote from: giszmo on January 30, 2012, 06:31:55 AM

Hi,

I've been following the Bitcoin100 quite some time now and somehow it feels like it lost inertia?

I'll stop you right there. This is 2012 and shit's about to get real.

The inertia should pick up soon, gizmo. And Matthew is Wright--in 2012, shit is goin' to get real!

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Quote from: giszmo on January 30, 2012, 06:31:55 AM

Hi,

I've been following the Bitcoin100 quite some time now and somehow it feels like it lost inertia?

I'll stop you right there. This is 2012 and shit's about to get real.

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Public television run by volunteers isnt a service or a charity organisation? What do you call it then ? After all the hit pieces in the media about bitcoin you dont want to support a media startup that will disrupt their lying and propaganda ?

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Hi,

I've been following the Bitcoin100 quite some time now and somehow it feels like it lost inertia? In the original post there is no link to a website despite the length of the thread and the money that went into this venture. No success with the organisations that were contacted, etc.

It has been brought up before: Iran had 100% inflation in one month now. Charities in Iran that hold their money in IRR must be crazy. They can not hold USD neither due to the embargo. As there is not much BTC in Iran by now, they can not easily convert their IRR to BTC but they should have supporters abroad that can convert their €, $ or ¥ to BTC and send them there. Why would the red cross care about BTC? They know that no normal person would go the difficult way to convert $$ to BTC to send them ... well ... $$. In Iran there is a very good reason store value in BTC.

Also I doubt anybody would worry to get fiat for BTC in Iran.

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Quote from: BTCurious on January 30, 2012, 12:24:49 AM

This is what came out of my photoshopping. Now I'm really going to sleep for about 2 hours (6:23 AM >_<).

Cheers

Here's the photoshop file for anyone who wants to take a stab: http://ge.tt/9AEPNvC

Great job - much better! Thanks.

Bruno, take the file from the above link and use it in place of the one I gave you.

I like that one as its reminiscent of the orange bitcoin logo.

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Quote from: gnar1ta$ on January 29, 2012, 10:19:08 PM

I'm not sure I would call occupy anything a charity. They are not providing a good or service and CryptoxMedia is already heavily involved in the Bitcoin community. We will only get more Bitcoin community projects looking for donations if we do this. You should put up a donation thread like what was done for archive.org. I would donate to that seperatley. It's a -1 for me.

Communty television is a charity. What do you think pbs is ?

CH99 is simply under the umbrella of Occupy and it can also be an avenue to promote bitcoin.

I thought the idea was to have some reciprocation and get bitcoin out there in the community ?

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on January 30, 2012, 02:00:18 AM

You guys are great. It only took me 45 minutes to figure out how to get that file unlocked. I normally do jpeg or png, not whatever that was. But I got it. I don't have Photoshop, but my sister does. I've never used it, but wish I had it. Maybe theymos will get me a copy for my birthday. Grin

Actually you can click the small version, and then it ~~takes you to a large png~~should take you to a large png, except that doesn't seem to work at the moment. Try this link instead: http://ge.tt/9EMVbvC

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Quote from: MemoryDealers on January 30, 2012, 01:22:37 AM

I don't have time to monitor this thread in detail, but getting more charities on board with bitcoin is very important.
I just sent in another 90 BTC. (So far 100 BTC contributed)

Please keep up the great work!

Thank you so kindly, Roger, for your generous donation. We're doing our damndest here. If we need your help with anything, or something needs to be brought to your attention, we will surely do such.

I'm sure Rassah will see this and take care of the bookkeeping end as far as this transaction goes.

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Quote from: BTCurious on January 30, 2012, 12:24:49 AM

This is what came out of my photoshopping. Now I'm really going to sleep for about 2 hours (6:23 AM >_<).

Cheers

Here's the photoshop file for anyone who wants to take a stab: http://ge.tt/9AEPNvC

Great job - much better! Thanks.

Bruno, take the file from the above link and use it in place of the one I gave you.

You guys are great. It only took me 45 minutes to figure out how to get that file unlocked. I normally do jpeg or png, not whatever that was. But I got it. I don't have Photoshop, but my sister does. I've never used it, but wish I had it. Maybe theymos will get me a copy for my birthday. Grin

Thanks to everyone who had a hand in creating this header for the website. Special thanks to CornedBeefHash for jump starting it.

Now we can move on to the official logo. The one with the hands that Matthew was so kind to offer up for inspiration. The following is my latest suggestion. Feel free to add your own creative styles to it.

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on January 29, 2012, 08:45:24 PM

Let's start working with this image and see how it progresses. Perhaps start with the truism that white, black, red and yellow people populate the globe. Tighten up the Bitcoin logo image in the center, having it pronounced as much as possible. I kind of like the gray outer circles/design, but it doesn't have to be gray. Only stating that I like the concept. It kind of reminds me of TV's early Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) symbol.

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I don't have time to monitor this thread in detail, but getting more charities on board with bitcoin is very important.
I just sent in another 90 BTC. (So far 100 BTC contributed)

Please keep up the great work!

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^SEM img of Si wafer edge, scanned 2012-3-12.

This is what came out of my photoshopping. Now I'm really going to sleep for about 2 hours (6:23 AM >_<).

Cheers

Here's the photoshop file for anyone who wants to take a stab: http://ge.tt/9AEPNvC

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^SEM img of Si wafer edge, scanned 2012-3-12.

Definitely not "sans", it's with serif. I don't have the eyeburningorangeonorange though.

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Quote from: BTCurious on January 29, 2012, 11:44:50 PM

Any idea what font that is?

I think it's called "EyeBurningOrangeOnOrange Sans"

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Any idea what font that is?

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We should definitely use yours. I'm using Sothink Logo Maker but it could be the copy of the coin logo I downloaded.

If you give me your source files (Like the Bitcoin "B"), I could run them through photoshop, if it's not too much work (Not sure how much this logo maker did for you, I'm actually quite busy atm >_<).

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Here you go Bruno.

I'm seriously wondering what program you made this with. I really like the design, but the pixellation is horrible. If I just put the coin over yours in photoshop it looks like this:

Which is a lot smoother than your version (although the letters pixelation is still there).

Perhaps you could use a different program? The design itself is pretty nice.

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I'm not sure I would call occupy anything a charity. They are not providing a good or service and CryptoxMedia is already heavily involved in the Bitcoin community. We will only get more Bitcoin community projects looking for donations if we do this. You should put up a donation thread like what was done for archive.org. I would donate to that seperatley. It's a -1 for me.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on January 29, 2012, 10:01:04 PM

Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on January 29, 2012, 09:00:41 PM

I am currently setting up a tv show for Occupy Melbourne and next week Im demonstrating bitcoin to a few of my mates at OM who Ive been talking to my friends there about it and they are keen to accept them as a donation method.

You could pledge to fund the rise of a tv show dedicated to the 99% and know it would be the first tv show partly founded by bitcoin.

The less we have to raise through traditional channels the better and we can get the corrupt bankers in compromising interviews etc. In return we would have a segment devoted to bitcoin in the show for such things as interviews with famous bitcoiners and how to use them/accept them etc.

This is slated to appear on channel 31 here in melbourne as a 1 hour tv show and additionally as a pirate/community radio station right in the centre of Melbourne.

What better way to promote bitcoin to people than through a community television show dedicated to all things in the social movement sphere ? 100 btc would almost fund the show for 12 months (because we are all volunteers) meaning we need to raise even less through traditional means and not have to suck advertisers ass.

Visit us here https://www.facebook.com/groups/omtvwg/

In a side note if you want to be a bitcoin reporter join the group above Cheesy

Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on January 29, 2012, 09:20:57 PM

We really want to avoid becoming a registered business if at all possible and bitcoin is the best way to do that imo.

The less we are in thrall to the local government the more we can hold them to account. For instance recently we found out the gov has been hiring a private company to spy on community organsations. We want to do an investigative piece on this company and expose them further. Also we will be showing the reactions of authorities to people doing such tings as taking a nap in supposedly public owned areas but which in reality governments has signed over to private companies.

If you have any info on bankers,corporations and governments acting badly come to us first and we will expose it where shows such as sixty minutes will ignore it.

After a couple PM's to and from CryptoxMedia, and viewing this https://www.facebook.com/groups/267743436592740/
I now feel that at the very least we need to discuss what Bitcoin 100 can do for OM, if anything. CryptoxMedia, please give us any more relative information to help further your request. Thank you, Mate.

OK GO!

~Bruno~

I pm'd you just now on what we are doing at ch99 as for OM im doing a bitcoin demo next friday/saturday. I expect there might be an official btc address appearing on occupymelbourne.org soonish.

The one reservtion I had when trying to convince them to do this is the risk of them putting up a donation address then receiving no donations. Where bitcoin100 comes in is showing the viability of this method of online donations and then they are more likely to embrace it rather than go the paypal route.

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Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on January 29, 2012, 09:00:41 PM

I am currently setting up a tv show for Occupy Melbourne and next week Im demonstrating bitcoin to a few of my mates at OM who Ive been talking to my friends there about it and they are keen to accept them as a donation method.

You could pledge to fund the rise of a tv show dedicated to the 99% and know it would be the first tv show partly founded by bitcoin.

The less we have to raise through traditional channels the better and we can get the corrupt bankers in compromising interviews etc. In return we would have a segment devoted to bitcoin in the show for such things as interviews with famous bitcoiners and how to use them/accept them etc.

This is slated to appear on channel 31 here in melbourne as a 1 hour tv show and additionally as a pirate/community radio station right in the centre of Melbourne.

What better way to promote bitcoin to people than through a community television show dedicated to all things in the social movement sphere ? 100 btc would almost fund the show for 12 months (because we are all volunteers) meaning we need to raise even less through traditional means and not have to suck advertisers ass.

Visit us here https://www.facebook.com/groups/omtvwg/

In a side note if you want to be a bitcoin reporter join the group above Cheesy

Quote from: Bitcoin Oz on January 29, 2012, 09:20:57 PM

We really want to avoid becoming a registered business if at all possible and bitcoin is the best way to do that imo.

The less we are in thrall to the local government the more we can hold them to account. For instance recently we found out the gov has been hiring a private company to spy on community organsations. We want to do an investigative piece on this company and expose them further. Also we will be showing the reactions of authorities to people doing such tings as taking a nap in supposedly public owned areas but which in reality governments has signed over to private companies.

If you have any info on bankers,corporations and governments acting badly come to us first and we will expose it where shows such as sixty minutes will ignore it.

After a couple PM's to and from CryptoxMedia, and viewing this https://www.facebook.com/groups/267743436592740/
I now feel that at the very least we need to discuss what Bitcoin 100 can do for OM, if anything. CryptoxMedia, please give us any more relative information to help further your request. Thank you, Mate.

OK GO!

~Bruno~

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