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May 01, 2019, 02:38:16 AM
#46
While I'm really interested in what he's planning on doing with bitcoin, I don't get why people would donate to him. It's not like this dude is poor or something. lol.

P.S. As we speak, his wallet know holds 0.66679955 BTC

Source: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JDQ2Q1pP5jS8epKbCmifd5ZMoBqaGcMTH
I also can not understand what is special about this donation but people rapidly send him the money and despite the fact that very fast. On his account 0.71644283 BTC
At this moment the wallet is holding 2.21576706 BTC which is huge just from December to this moment that show's Jordan Peterson as a great influencer with his books and motivational speaking. But what the donation is for is what we are not clear about.
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May 01, 2019, 02:10:04 AM
#45
Most of you guys really have no idea who he is.   No idea how he has changed so many peoples life's (including mine) and influenced true good in this world.   Dr. Peterson being involved in bitcoin is good for bitcoin and crypto, lopsided win for us, not the other way around.  He deserves 100 BTC and i hope he gets them.  We should influence him to spend them as BTC though and not exchange for CAD or USD. 

I bet he is a great influencer that is why. Being a clinical psychologist and a professor with some media interviews about his views in life will definite change a person's visions in existence.
Considering also that he is a great author. Thus, people idolizes him for being a positive enthusiast. Bringing optimistic approach with honest objectives in living.
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February 01, 2019, 05:09:54 PM
#44
Most of you guys really have no idea who he is.   No idea how he has changed so many peoples life's (including mine) and influenced true good in this world.   Dr. Peterson being involved in bitcoin is good for bitcoin and crypto, lopsided win for us, not the other way around.  He deserves 100 BTC and i hope he gets them.  We should influence him to spend them as BTC though and not exchange for CAD or USD. 
jr. member
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February 01, 2019, 02:31:38 AM
#43
Why on earth would this guy be taking donations when he is already a millionaire and can fund any projects he wants with his own money.  I never liked this guy and think he is absolutely crazy.  Just another rich person trying to protect the status quo.
He accepts donations because people send donations, it really is that simple.
Now why people donate to an already wealthy man - maybe his knowledge helped them in their life and they want to return the favor. However if you're considering a donation, please remember that there's other causes your money can go to - lifechanging surgeries of kids in 3rd world countries, orphans, research of uncurable illnesses, etc...
Peterson would gladly become even richer for his work, but he doesn't really NEED your money.
hero member
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January 31, 2019, 08:53:26 AM
#42
Why on earth would this guy be taking donations when he is already a millionaire and can fund any projects he wants with his own money.  I never liked this guy and think he is absolutely crazy.  Just another rich person trying to protect the status quo.
newbie
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January 31, 2019, 08:52:10 AM
#41
The people think that he, through his research and help, as a psychologist deserved for these donations, or maybe they think that he will spend this money on new discoveries in psychology. Nobody forces anyone here, people just won't throw money off to someone. Everything has its own explanation.
legendary
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January 09, 2019, 01:12:45 PM
#40
Jordan Peterson is being deplatformed and censored, Bitcoin will help him keep going.

Not quite. He is voluntary leaving Patreon as a protest against Patreon deplatforming other people based on their political views.

Peterson is demonstrating poor judgement.

The "political views" of the person he's defending are all part of a curious trend to (in effect) demonstrate that the only people that need free speech in 21st century faux-liberalism are football gang members and corporate apologists.

"Liberal? How selfish. And racist!" is the effect that these people are achieving in practice. Peterson is foolish to associate with such people, which is strange when he otherwise seems so smart.
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January 09, 2019, 11:04:59 AM
#39
the donation is too small for only $ 800 and it is in the form of bitcoin, so it seems that it does not have significance and is not too special, at least donations that are suitable for bitcoin must have more than 1 bitcoin so that the world will be in an uproar.

Did you check the address at all  https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JDQ2Q1pP5jS8epKbCmifd5ZMoBqaGcMTH , the address has more than 1.4BTC currently close $6000, this is interesting because to me it seems people are just sending funds to the address just to sympathize with him or maybe to promote BTC and thanks goodness now the transaction fees have gone down
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January 09, 2019, 05:53:42 AM
#38
the donation is too small for only $ 800 and it is in the form of bitcoin, so it seems that it does not have significance and is not too special, at least donations that are suitable for bitcoin must have more than 1 bitcoin so that the world will be in an uproar.
sr. member
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January 09, 2019, 05:13:51 AM
#37
I would not send him any BTC but the guy seems to know what he is talking about and most of the time makes logical arguments. If you have never heard of the guy I suggest you watch his interviews with Joe Rogan. The guy who got Elon Musk to smoke weed on his podcast.

Just youtube Joe Rogan Experience and Jordan Peterson, you might not agree with his vision but maybe you will learn something from him.
legendary
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January 09, 2019, 03:12:48 AM
#36
But having the same effect if he starts accepting Bitcoin, and tell the users who were banned from Patreon, to follow his move as a protest against censorship, and a journey towards censorship-resistance.

True, and he is a fairly well known (albeit controversial) speaker. Perhaps this is where the next wave of adoption comes from - speakers and users abandoning platforms pushing their own agenda of censorship and moving towards decentralized platforms, and taking all their fans with them. Having said that, in that scenario I would fully expect the opponents of these controversial figures to start claiming that bitcoin is enabling hate-speech, or something equally stupid.


An easy response would be, "What Bitcoin enables is freedom to transact with anyone, to and from anywhere in the world, without banks, or middlemen, or the need to trust anyone".

It truly works, and the blockchain is the only type of ledger you can buy drugs with. Try it! Hahaha.
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January 07, 2019, 03:08:48 PM
#35
This is all bitcoin that's about to get immediately dumped.
Donors are contributing to price drops.
Unless Peterson starts actively working towards merchant adoption, that is...
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January 07, 2019, 02:48:17 PM
#34
Well he might have probably seeing the easy as to doing transactions with bitcoin

This would get more authors or others in various sectors to get involved even more
sr. member
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January 07, 2019, 08:25:16 AM
#33


I am sure that that members of this forum is not the man's market but one thing is sure that he can be doing well accepting Bitcoin for donations for the work he is doing and whether we agree with things he is into what can not be denied is that the donations are coming. Well, we have to understand that with billions of people all around the world one can easily find the niche he can work with and a captured audience can be find elsewhere even with view we don't agree or may not be mainstream. I am sure that there can be others that can inspired to also use Bitcoin as the medium to accept donations (and I think there are already many doing this but of course their success may not be worth mentioning).
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January 07, 2019, 07:02:02 AM
#32
Currently it's over 1 BTC now, https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JDQ2Q1pP5jS8epKbCmifd5ZMoBqaGcMTH.
But I won't trust this address that they are all coming from donations, there could be some trick to hype people in donating, just like crypto its anonymous, so it could be fabricated though.
legendary
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January 07, 2019, 06:50:56 AM
#31
But having the same effect if he starts accepting Bitcoin, and tell the users who were banned from Patreon, to follow his move as a protest against censorship, and a journey towards censorship-resistance.

True, and he is a fairly well known (albeit controversial) speaker. Perhaps this is where the next wave of adoption comes from - speakers and users abandoning platforms pushing their own agenda of censorship and moving towards decentralized platforms, and taking all their fans with them. Having said that, in that scenario I would fully expect the opponents of these controversial figures to start claiming that bitcoin is enabling hate-speech, or something equally stupid.
legendary
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January 07, 2019, 01:56:00 AM
#30
I guess some people are drawn to people who think out of the box and when they value their outlook on life and their views on controversial topics, then they feel obligated to donate money to them. 

He is now turning away from Patreon and trying to create a new platform where freedom of speech is encouraged, no matter how controversial it might be.  Tongue
legendary
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January 07, 2019, 12:41:32 AM
#29
Jordan Peterson is being deplatformed and censored, Bitcoin will help him keep going.

Not quite. He is voluntary leaving Patreon as a protest against Patreon deplatforming other people based on their political views. Also, the man worked full time as a professor of psychology at the universities of Toronto and Harvard, as well as having a full clinical practice of 20 patients a week. He gave up both to instead give guest lectures, interviews, Q&As, panels, author books, etc, which all pay well. Any time he wanted to, he could go back in to private clinical practice, which also pays very well. Sure, he was probably making a lot of money through Patreon, but he's not exactly counting on donations to "help him keep going".

But having the same effect if he starts accepting Bitcoin, and tell the users who were banned from Patreon, to follow his move as a protest against censorship, and a journey towards censorship-resistance.

The honey badger does not care. Cool
legendary
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January 06, 2019, 09:32:19 PM
#28
Jordan Peterson is being deplatformed and censored, Bitcoin will help him keep going.

Not quite. He is voluntary leaving Patreon as a protest against Patreon deplatforming other people based on their political views. Also, the man worked full time as a professor of psychology at the universities of Toronto and Harvard, as well as having a full clinical practice of 20 patients a week. He gave up both to instead give guest lectures, interviews, Q&As, panels, author books, etc, which all pay well. Any time he wanted to, he could go back in to private clinical practice, which also pays very well. Sure, he was probably making a lot of money through Patreon, but he's not exactly counting on donations to "help him keep going".
legendary
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January 06, 2019, 03:55:48 AM
#27
I can't be bothered to figure out what this bloke's schtick is, though he seems to annoy lots and lots of people.

Even if I did develop an understanding, why the fuck should I give him any money for the ejaculations of his mind? Is he planning to give me some for reading them?

I believe you didn't get the context, and how significant this is for Bitcoin and censorship-resistance. Jordan Peterson is being deplatformed and censored, Bitcoin will help him keep going. A demonstration of the power of a decentralized form of "money".
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