looking at the 'buy/sell philly' stuff month ago.
seems the OP is using the EXACT SAME address to buy/sell items (facepalm)
seems the OP wants to pretend that the addresses are escrow/safe..(facepalm)
funny thing is though
"How can an address be confirmed safe? If this page grew large the admins would be in charge of a lot of money at once. It just takes one asshole to bring this whole idea down"
.......
"It’s only one admin at the moment (me) and I’m trying to build trust by starting with small transactions to collect positive feedback. Its the only way I can think of doing it."
how can brolikk say his funds are escrowed (third party held) if he is the only person (facepalm)
to m i just see it as a guy that for 1 week went out and handed out say $25 of food to half a dozen homeless. and is now pretending its a daily/lifes ambition in the hopes people will send him thousands of dollars in exchange for the $25 of food
this concept is not new. and if he wanted to do it right/ethically. i would have seen it done other ways
sorry but my spidey sense is really tingling with this one
other points to raise.
a) title of topic... um the homeless dont get crypto. so its not crypto for homeless
b) none of the descriptions show of active daily commutes to feed the same people, it seems more of a 'one free meal for a pic' PR campaign. rather than on ongoing feed and help the homeless ongoing
c) if the OP cared about homeless health and effectiveness of funding. homemade sandwichs can be made for 10x cheaper and be of a healthier option
The buy sell thing was just one of the first projects I wanted to get involved in to maybe do something cool with crypto. I didn't like the openbazaar because of how user-unfriendly it was and really liked facebook marketplace type transactions. It get absolutely 0 adoption because nobody was interested in switching from ebay and other better alternatives. I fully understand because of buyer protection.
This homeless thing is just something I am doing for fun - literally when I have some free time after class or maybe during a lunch break. I actually may go buy some supplies from the store to make sandwiches and whatnot but I have to walk around all day in the hospital/clinic and I don't even have access to any place to store food if it is perishable. It was just easier to stop by fast food places when I had a few minutes.
My mentality was that this amount of help to the homeless is better than nothing, a lot of them typically do not use any sort of charity because of a lack of knowledge - AND I get to do something involving crypto (even if it's HODLING the donations and spending my own money).
And go to the fucking site please - I spend much more than $25... The halal guys ALONE cost $40 and that was just 2 trips out of 9 (I reimbursed the Korea/NYC food too - which was well over $60 in bitcoin cash). There are enough pictures at this point where you can EASILY see that I am spending a significant amount of time and money trying to help homeless people for real. And I personally would prefer to get different people every time - it seems more fair to me. I don't care if it is "inefficient" in anyone's eyes because I think there is a certain humane element to this because I am going in person face to face - this isn't something that you can just tie to a monetary value.
For those of you who support this - I appreciate it - I truly do. But to those who are criticizing it because I had a failed prior project and also didn't even check the freaking website to see if it was legit... do some research first please.