Occupy Wall Street General Assembly Money Bomb! - page 2.

old_engineer

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Quote from: FlipPro on October 13, 2011, 09:50:03 PM

Quote from: evoorhees on October 13, 2011, 09:10:37 PM

Sent a coin. Maybe it'll teach those socialists that voluntary charity can work instead of coercion Grin

Side note: google'd the payment address - over 600 results. You can see lots of interesting places around the web where this is being discussed.

There is no ideology pegged to Bitcoin. The sooner "Libertarians" and "Socialist" realize this fallacy the better.

Agreed - bitcoins are just another financial tool, fundamentally agnostic about how they are used, but they have several anti-authoritarian properties that many ideologies should appreciate (or fear).

And speaking of ideologies:

Quote from: tvbcof on October 13, 2011, 11:39:16 PM

In order to show my gratitude, evoorhees, I'll drop a coin on Cato as soon as they accept them. And another one on 'stop-the-beaners-at-the-borders' with a nod toward WiseOldOwl Wink

WTF, Cato doesn't even accept bitcoins? And sure enough, they don't. This seems like such a no-brainer... perhaps EFF's lead set a precedent for Cato? Cato even published a half-assed article about bitcoin back in July. Any group like Cato with one of the Koch brothers on the board has deep enough pockets to fund a defense of bitcoin, unlike the EFF.

S3052

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sent 15 BTC

Indemnified

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Just sent 5.0 btc. Hope this helps. Stay peaceful in the morning! Violence is not an option for a succesful transition to the new paradigm.

evoorhees

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Democracy is the original 51% attack

Quote from: tvbcof on October 13, 2011, 11:39:16 PM

In order to show my gratitude, evoorhees, I'll drop a coin on Cato as soon as they accept them. And another one on 'stop-the-beaners-at-the-borders' with a nod toward WiseOldOwl Wink

LOL

old_engineer

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Quote from: evoorhees on October 13, 2011, 09:10:37 PM

Side note: google'd the payment address - over 600 results. You can see lots of interesting places around the web where this is being discussed.

Good point - it's good to see that the OWS-bitcoin link is picked up on in various forums. Too bad blockexplorer doesn't have a hit counter per bitcoin address.

Another place to look for media is on google news, where

"occupy wall street" kickstarter

turns up 73 articles, whereas
"occupy wall street" bitcoin

turns exactly ONE result, an NPR blog entry on October 5th:
https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/05/141089001/occupy-wall-street-gets-union-backing-approval-rating-tops-congress

If we can get to 1000 bitcoins, this highlight will likely be mentioned in almost every in-depth article about Bitcoin.

tvbcof

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Quote from: evoorhees on October 13, 2011, 09:10:37 PM

Sent a coin. Maybe it'll teach those socialists that voluntary charity can work instead of coercion Grin

Side note: google'd the payment address - over 600 results. You can see lots of interesting places around the web where this is being discussed.

Addy looked legit as best I can tell. Sent them a few coins.

In order to show my gratitude, evoorhees, I'll drop a coin on Cato as soon as they accept them. And another one on 'stop-the-beaners-at-the-borders' with a nod toward WiseOldOwl Wink

jjiimm_64

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I sent 2 coins to #feedtheprotest and 5 coins to The DONOR thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/donor-thread-for-occupywallstreet-bitcoin-promotion-45943

Tue 11 Oct 2011 03:41:54 PM GMT    Withdraw    Bitcoin withdraw to 1EUqkFmL9HNpBRvbWRAqCiUjepaR7Vbryp    2.00000000 BTC
Tue 11 Oct 2011 03:43:28 AM GMT    Withdraw    Bitcoin withdraw to 18E7852e1q3UFHjyNwddzydJ4uv7ZY2t7b    5.00000000 BTC

now I send 1 to this thread... yes, having a ton of bitcoins in a fund may get the press rolling

Fri 14 Oct 2011 03:23:12 AM GMT    Withdraw    Bitcoin withdraw to 1Q7DQVTubbUqr5by2YoZJRKCEzj9D3LQ9w    1.00000000 BTC

FlipPro

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Quote from: evoorhees on October 13, 2011, 09:10:37 PM

Sent a coin. Maybe it'll teach those socialists that voluntary charity can work instead of coercion Grin

Side note: google'd the payment address - over 600 results. You can see lots of interesting places around the web where this is being discussed.

There is no ideology pegged to Bitcoin. The sooner "Libertarians" and "Socialist" realize this fallacy the better.

FlipPro

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Sent some coins

phillipsjk

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Let the chips fall where they may.

Google claims lots of results, but by the time you get to page 14 it says:

Quote from: Google

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 140 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

Many of the suppressed hits are from blockexplorer.com.

evoorhees

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Democracy is the original 51% attack

Sent a coin. Maybe it'll teach those socialists that voluntary charity can work instead of coercion Grin

Side note: google'd the payment address - over 600 results. You can see lots of interesting places around the web where this is being discussed.

old_engineer

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I just donated 50 bitcoins to the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly fund. Anyone want to help me with a money bomb that might generate press?

Fundraising numbers are announced every day at the General Assembly meetings, and a big haul from bitcoin donations WILL get noticed. There are many journalists right now looking for a different angle on the protests, and this is probably the easiest way to generate press right now.

The General Assembly fund has pulled in about $75,000 so far over the 27 days of the protest (the other $75k was for the Occupy Wall Street Journal kickstarter campaign).
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/13/news/economy/occupy_wall_street_money/

That's less than $3000 per day, and credit card donation processing company cut them off at one point. If we can break 1000 bitcoins, I'll bet a bitcoin that we get a press mention, and perhaps even whole articles.

Donation address is in my sig. 276 bitcoins has been donated as of the time of this writing (my coins haven't cleared yet).

Let's do this!

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