Topic: Bitcoins to the South Pole! - page 2. (Read 14932 times)

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And.... we have a flag. Reddit user Frankros says that it will be delivered at the hotel within one hour.

can't quite make out what I'm looking at. Some sort of bit-bills?

Awesome that your goal was reached.  I would certainly love to support this endeavour!

I am just a European bitcoin broker and adviser. And yesterday I was told that I had the best looking physical wallets in the world

I have bigger plans, though

oh, allright. I've been following loosely on reddit.

Sorry for not reading this thread thoroughly.

kudos to you for the name of your trading platform, btw (it is a trading platform, right?)

As I have stated earlier this is out of my hands. The reddit user frankros is on it: http://www.reddit.com/user/frankros

It is in his hands now and I believe he will deliver.

It seems the funds are raised, right?

Will the flag be produced and delivered in time?

There has been some confusion on the name. His name is "Fayçal Hanneche" but I have accidently written it as "Faycal Hanneche" on the sticker. The letter "ç" does not exist in Scandinavia where Fayçal has lived for many years so he has "internationalized" his name. The "international" version is Faysal, not Faycal. Faysal is also what he prefers.

This is going to be a great achievement. I can't wait to hear back from them.

Goal reached! 15 BTC donated to 1Gt1anYr6gEuiNgacFouhy4RUNQFH3YY9Y. Donations are still accepted though. Now it is up to Faycal and the ones responsible for bringing the flag to him in Cape Town.

The latest update on the mission is that it has been delayed for one day due to bad weather on the Novolazarevskaya Station in Antarctica.

I congratulate Sirius Money on such an awesome publicity stunt. I hope it'll work out and did my part by ways of a small donation.

BTC 0.46 left to reach the goal of BTC 15.

So who's going to push this over the edge quickly so the flag can be delivered on time?

I have sent you a bunch of personal information proving my connection to Faycal along with my contact information and instructions on how you can confirm my claims through the coindesk reporter who interviewed Faycal by email, Richard Boase. This should confirm that Faycal is onboard with this.

Regarding the srsmoney.com domain vs. the siriusmoney.com domain: srsmoney.com is being outfased but is currently registered at Jakob Høppermann who is a former partner in my company. He is now not involved with Sirius Money. Proof that Jakob Høppermann has been involved with my company:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c4C1inaPCxkJ:guide.lokalavisen.dk/profil/sirius-money-aps-1300543+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=dk&lr=lang_da%7Clang_de%7Clang_en%7Clang_no

Regarding the spelling of Faycal's name, I have no idea why there exists an ambiguity. Maybe it is a non-western name which can be translated in various ways just like "Peking" and "Beijing"?

Faycal does not have the private key to 1Gt1anYr6gEuiNgacFouhy4RUNQFH3YY9Y, only I do. In the 1st post that I wrote on this, I requested an escrow (because I know the paranoia of the Grand Old Men of this forum) but none came forward so I took it upon myself. I run a Bitcoin broker business and my credibility in this community is worth a hell of a lot more than 15 BTC. Excuse my French. Besides, if there is time, you can contact Faycal and ask him if he trusts me on this.

You are welcome to dig as deep as you like (should be fun) but keep your accusations to yourself. They are potentially very damaging.

The only mistake I have made was not to sign the donation address but this address was first published in the Coindesk article so I thought that that added credibility/validity to the request.


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I truly am perplex with why the spelling of Faysal's name was changed from the actual to Faycal and shown as such on a sticker that's going to be on his sled when all previous media, including himself, spells his name Faysal as shown on his official website.

http://transantarctic.wordpress.com/


Also, the domain srsmoney.com redirects to siriusmoney.com, although...

Best candidate I've come across for a flag:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1prw47/iconic_bitcoin_design_for_south_pole_needed/cd5hnyx

Hey All!

I've sold my Zippo Lighter on all continents except Africa and Antarctica. I can't think of any thing cooler than having someone at the South Pole buy a LIGHTER with bitcoins.

Here's the thread...

From Antarctica, I'd offer a discount If you send .25 btc (And this goes to anyone who is in Antarctica) I'll send you a Zippo Lighter.

PM me your address and send the btc to: 1HhY3mPvkHxz6RFEhsFwk1FDj5TMnMxu5H

I'd love for this to happen! Zippo lighter purchased from Antarctica!

Cheers!

I have relayed the information that I can. This is out of my hands now and up to the community.

Flag can be carried to the South Pole provided that it is delivered in the reception of the hotel RADISSON BLU HOTEL WATERFRONT, CAPE TOWN: http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-capetown before Monday evening, November 4th. And provided that Faycal survives and that this mission is a success.

No it wouldn't! Jason King of Sean's Outpost does it. I've seen his work in Atlanta, and it looks pretty damn good.

~TMIBITW