How About Bitcointalk raise Money in BTC to Donate on fight against Coronavirus

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Quote from: nosferzd on March 24, 2020, 03:41:53 PM

Quote from: Bttzed03 on March 23, 2020, 12:32:32 AM

My unpopular opinion:

If you are planning to help, just help in silence. This is not really the time to be thinking about promoting Bitcoin and and other cryptocurrencies through donations. I can't imagine to see a donation with "Donation from Bitcointalk community" label on it. The move is just the same with politicians taking advantage of the situation by having their faces and their names placed on the relief goods/items they give to their constituents.

We are not involved in politics, we are simply trying to help everyone in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with helping on behalf of the Bitcointalk community, thereby drawing attention to the cryptocurrency industry?

There is nothing wrong with that, but lately there have been many scams about donations for COVID-19 viruses using cryptocurrency, of course this will also be an impact because this is very detrimental to cryptocurrency, and it's best if you really want to make donations. It's better for you to give historically what was done before so that donors can trust more.

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Quote from: kayvie on March 25, 2020, 08:09:07 AM

It is a good idea but unnecessary,
The government of every country is doing its job to fight the Coronavirus, let them do the job and just support them by following their orders. Also, I don't think that the admins of this forum will do the first step just to raise enough money.

I agree I think their are already a lot of trusted charity where we could donate and help the people from the coronavirus. Also it might be difficult to handle this in the forum since it is all about money and for sure the project is going to raise a big amount of funds here in the forum and we don't know what could happened next from that. If we really want to help their are always a lot of ways to help people and this idea in my opinion is unnecessary.

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It is a good idea but unnecessary,
The government of every country is doing its job to fight the Coronavirus, let them do the job and just support them by following their orders. Also, I don't think that the admins of this forum will do the first step just to raise enough money.

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The idea is good, but it wont get a big response. And here is sadly why
There is charity signature campaign Bitcointalk Charity Program Signature Campaign - Give Hope To Everyone.... The topic was created one year ago, and so far they did not raised a lot... Even thought I see people really wear its signature. Sadly, bigger part of this forum is here to earn, but not to help Sad

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Quote from: hatshepsut93 on March 22, 2020, 05:48:53 PM

There's very little chance that theymos will be interested in doing this, it's simply not in his style, and if you check his recent post history, he doesn't think that this pandemic is actually serious. And if someone wants to donate Bitcoin, some big organizations already started receiving Bitcoin donations. I don't think that the virus should be viewed as an opportunity to get good publicity, this is what (some) politicians do, and we should be better than them.

Yeah, I think if one wants to donate and wants to do this with Bitcoin, it's better to do this on an individual basis rather than as a community. However, if the op wants to increase BTC visibility while helping to research COVID-19, there is an option for that without donating money. I remember there was a thread about Joining a Bitcoin-related group as a part of the Folding Home project, but I cannot find it right now for some reason... In any case, there've been some helpful suggestions mentioned in this thread already.

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Your idea is really good because this is about helping each other and this is what we need in this kind of crisis.

But i also want to say that World is facing this problem meaning each governments has their own issues to settle and i believe that instead of seeking or contributing for another country people will choose their own countrymen that needs Help.

And me also?i would love to contribute if there is a Donation asking here but sorry to say that i will prioritize my own people .

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Quote from: The Cryptovator on March 22, 2020, 01:29:58 PM

Your idea isn't bad, but most likely theymos (admin) isn't going to raise money for donations. Probably he will not involved with any kind of fund related matter on forum. There is so many reason and that's why admins never hold users fund. But I believe forum have enough fund (raised from donations, forum ads auction & fees) to donate for most effected countries. But question is, will government accept bitcoin donations? If not then nothing can be done. If government accept bitcoin donations then it will be a positive move for whole bitcoin community. But don't expect raise funds from community via forum admin.

I agree that they wouldn't likely donate, maybe they are using that funds for a project and we can't blame if they don't donate. Donation is something that is given without a hevy heart and a pressure from the crowd will only make it worse. The other better scenario is when they donate which is addressed by the quote so it is a very icky situation for the forum to join in.

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If you want to donate then better to look for the charity group that is already in this forum and they are working well on their previous charity program. Honestly, I’m looking for this one too especially on my place because I want to donate some money and I want to help many people in my place, but its hard to do charity right now because your action is limited due to the lockdown.

Actually there are many ways to send your donation you can even send them directly to thier bank account. There are many local agency accepting a donation even news media also accept donation and give the bank account you can send the money you want to give .
It will hard if we will donate in crypto we dont know who will be the one who would accept that donation and if the donation we sent use right.

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The idea is very good, but only for this there must be trust, it is necessary that the site administrators create the address. Well, it’s not clear which country this money should be transferred to, and how exactly, because most likely they will have to be exchanged for fiat anyway.

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This is a splendid idea. At the moment Red Cross Italy, are demanding for bitcoin donations to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak

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Quote from: nosferzd on March 24, 2020, 03:41:53 PM

Quote from: Bttzed03 on March 23, 2020, 12:32:32 AM

My unpopular opinion:

If you are planning to help, just help in silence. This is not really the time to be thinking about promoting Bitcoin and and other cryptocurrencies through donations. I can't imagine to see a donation with "Donation from Bitcointalk community" label on it. The move is just the same with politicians taking advantage of the situation by having their faces and their names placed on the relief goods/items they give to their constituents.

We are not involved in politics, we are simply trying to help everyone in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with helping on behalf of the Bitcointalk community, thereby drawing attention to the cryptocurrency industry?

Don't make me repeat myself again please.

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Quote from: Bttzed03 on March 23, 2020, 12:32:32 AM

My unpopular opinion:

If you are planning to help, just help in silence. This is not really the time to be thinking about promoting Bitcoin and and other cryptocurrencies through donations. I can't imagine to see a donation with "Donation from Bitcointalk community" label on it. The move is just the same with politicians taking advantage of the situation by having their faces and their names placed on the relief goods/items they give to their constituents.

We are not involved in politics, we are simply trying to help everyone in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with helping on behalf of the Bitcointalk community, thereby drawing attention to the cryptocurrency industry?

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You do have a good idea, but I don’t know if they are really going to do such a thing here. This is something that is meant for the admin to start up, because they are the only ones that can be trusted. If the admin can create such campaign and create a particular address for the donation, lots of people here will be happily donate their bitcoins to help countries that are affected by the corona virus.

But since, there’s nothing like that yet, I believe there are still other means that you can help in fighting this pandemic, you can donate through other organizations in your country that handles situations like this. I guess in the past only few individuals did that hence we can expect the same rather than anything officially from bitcointalk.

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It was a good idea but I don't think theymos will organize something like this maybe one of the forum member can do it and that is willing to expose his/her identity and risk itself of the threat of covid. As of now, I don't know the identity of theymos and bitcointalk is decentralized. Of course, organizing it needs physical appearance to communicate with the government so they can distribute it to the community or some existing charities. Normal people should stay at home in this crisis and let the officials/frontliners do their work.

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I believe this is a good idea, if the forum admin will raise funds for the victims, that would help since people will never doubt of it.
This is the best time to show our help to the people who really needs some help, at the same time, we will be able to show some awareness to the people regarding crypto and this forum.

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Quote from: SUMBI99 on March 22, 2020, 01:21:01 PM

As you Can See from different World News people are dying By Covid19, And Despite the Success of china against it, but the world must come together to fight as the world problem.
I Belive the Community will help and Understand

All over the world, people die from many different diseases. And how many people donate funds to help those who are looking for a cure for these diseases? Sometimes you don’t even need to donate money - you just need to become a member of the distributed computing project. For example, the same folding@home, which was remembered only because of the coronavirus pandemic. People do not care until the trouble comes close to their house...

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Quote from: verita1 on March 23, 2020, 03:10:12 AM

I also think that the idea is good. We can achieve our goal but most importantly we can save lives. There is a serious problem that has allowed the spread of the virus that the most affected countries did not follow the protocol or did not follow China's measures to prevent the spread.

we need more people to donate so it will be hear every where in the world. Its actually another way of advertising crypto however many people prepare to donate directly from thier government or any local agency that they know that the help they given will arive to those who really needed it.
Also if for example many member's will donate crypto what govern agency should accept that as donations?

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Quote from: pooya87 on March 23, 2020, 01:30:12 AM

bitcointalk is not a charitable organization and unless you can find one that is transparent and has a good history you won't be able to get any donations because of the large number of scams that have been happening over the past couple of weeks using all kinds of methods!

Quote from: so98nn on March 23, 2020, 12:56:23 AM

Hold on. China hasn't surely stopped the coronavirus stuff.

the conclusion is based on the statistics they report. the new cases found per day has reduced from a couple of thousands per day to a couple of dozen per day. basically when the chart here called Total Coronavirus Cases plateaus it shows a significant reduction and signals the end of the spread being near.

I am not referring to charts at all. I'm looking after the severity and no medication availability against the coronavirus and raising my concerns regarding it.

The chart is data which is extracted from the WHO and medical / testing facilities but on the other hand china seems to be giving no data at the moment.

Just checkout the WHO site and it seems they have reported too less cases over week and its impossible. As there is no cure, medication so how one can hold back such big crisis.

Just making it science based conversation.

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Not sure on earn or something but you can donate already u know

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I also think it's a good idea but as with any attempt to help, I still think it's better to channel it through an existing fund or effort, and not through an independent effort that is likely to reduce the efficiency or relevance of the aid. I worked in aid for 12 years and it's difficult to see well-intentioned aid get wasted or duplicated.

If you really want to do something, read up: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/donors-and-partners/funding
Sign as a Bitcoin donor or something. If you still feel the need to do something grassroots, I'm sure the local Red Cross in all affected countries will have information on how to donate (Red Cross has a high dollar efficiency).

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