Quote from: rowyourboat on November 18, 2012, 05:20:41 PM

A suggestion to improve acceptance from EFF/wikipedia/whoever..

The bitcoin foundation should establish individual donation addresses, each associated with a large organisation people are interested in donating bitcoins to, eg:

Wikipedia 17qq5A3XKfrxpJRSC5LH6APjvTDb9hTms
EFF 3e4frt588gdwo844t93hg8943h9348hg984g8
etc..

Donations are made by bitcoin holders to these addresses with a date of return if the organisation persists in not accepting bitcoin. If they do decide to accept bitcoin, the bitcoin foundation hands over the wallet.dat file, and the organisation gets to keep the bitcoins.

If they do not accept bitcoins by a certain date, all donations are returned to the original addresses from which they were donated.

Having $100k in donations sitting in a wallet file staring at you is much more likely to encourage acceptance than nagging and email bombs I think.. kind of like positive blackmail

I thought of this, but it's problematic and not likely to sit well with an organization. From their perspective, they would see it as a 3rd party organization using their good name to solicit donations and then blackmailing them with money that is already rightfully theirs. It's arguably some sort of fraud. Suppose I started accepting donations for a religious organization that doesn't believe in contraception, converted it all to condoms, and then told the religious organization that a million condoms are waiting for them to liquidate on the open market and get back USD. Yes, I realize there are holes in the analogy, but that's still the way they'd see it, and the way they'd make it sound when they started complaining to the press, law enforcement, etc.

This is a better way to go about it: I create a vanity address (1Wikipedia....etc) and then send MY donation there and noisily inform Wikipedia that this money is sitting there with their name on it reserved for the taking. If that address happens to accumulate more anonymous donations I didn't ask for, well... that's not my problem now.