Quote from: mycketbra on May 08, 2013, 06:01:34 AM

Quote from: crazy_rabbit on May 08, 2013, 05:57:02 AM

Quote from: mycketbra on May 08, 2013, 05:55:07 AM

Hi everybody, please forgive this hastily thrown together topic but I finally have free time. Will improve this

We should all get together and make a website that runs litecoinpool's javascript browser CPU miner to allow people to mine a small amount of coins.

We can then donate/exchange these coins into cash and give it to an organization that you, I, and local African non-profits can set up to promote the purchase of clean water, food, condoms etc in an African country of our choice.

I am a busy person but I have the money and years of NGO experience to throw at this.

Please feel free to use this topic as a brainstorm for how to best develop the project. If you have the minimal level of web dev and design experience necessary to get this going, please post here.

Costs
-Domain: 12.95 per year
-Hosting: 4.00 per month

Shouldn't be that hard.

Get excited and do something with your spare time to help others who need it....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita
Notice that the price of 1 Bitcoin is more than many Africans make in a month in Mozambique, Congo, Guinea, Malawi etc...

Thanks!

It's a nice idea, but if you're talking about mining Bitcoin there is no chance of a web browser cpu miner, even will as many people as you can imagine mining, making any difference.

Also, africa doesn't need charity. It needs a free market.

Litecoin/any other profitable crypto currency and exchange it into Bitcoin via BTC-E

We can easily kickstart a free market place in Africa if we provide people useful tools like crypto currency to purchase physical goods, of which Africans are in dire, dire need

Uh, 'Africans' is a pretty vague term and the socio-economic standing varies from the poorest in the world to some really well do to folks. You should probably aim for a country rather then a Continent.

That said, Africa isn't in need of purchasing physical goods with crypto-currency, they are in need of fair market prices for raw materials of which they have incredible amounts of. It's a lovely idea, but misguided. As much of 'Free Aid" has always been.