Quote from: Enkel on January 19, 2014, 12:37:02 AM

Quote from: Starman22 on January 18, 2014, 11:26:06 PM

Very interesting why people get so worked up about things. I never said this was for anything specific, simply a social experiment and have often commented I make no promises about what happens to the donations. Maybe I just disappear and keep my $4.32 or whatever it comes to, who knows.

This requirement of a donation is a key part of the experiment and is already yielding good results more so in the form of people so jaded and blinded by skepticism that they cannot bear to watch anyone even part with a few cents. I might just need to run another experiment on that aspect of human nature alone.

Anyway, thanks for your input.

So sad... is threatening to be a scammer part of your experiment?

You do realize that there are plenty of people who do try to scam people for BTC, so it is not unreasonable for the members of this forum to have strong reservations about someone who has recently joined and then asks for donations for a "social experiment". The only thing that you've revealed about this experiment so far is that it involves getting people to donate BTC to a wallet that you control. Maybe if you gave your real world information or you explained more about what your experiment involves, people would be less skeptical about the experiment. Either way, you need to grow a thicker hide if you want people to continue giving you BTC just because you asked for it.

TO BE CLEAR: I still support keeping this thread open because the donors deserve to see an outcome from this experiment one way or another.

If anyone has BTC burning a hole in their hard drive, I think I have an address in my signature bar. Life is tough for me right now and I promise to use any donations to pay for my continued online access that is about to be cut off... And, if I'm not back... then I'm out scrambling in the carbon based world for the money to pay my ISP bill :-)

I think you misunderstood my intent in the response you quoted above. I was just explaining that yes, that is a possibility that I could simply disappear with the money. This is actually an requirement of the experiment. The donors need to be aware, and hopefully all are, that this could simply be a one time deal and their donation is gone.

Again, this is why I wanted the total amount to be kept low to help avoid drama, but I understand with minimum transaction sizes, fees, etc. sending very small amounts may be hard and it seems the donors so far have sent more.

There is another motivation in my original intent to keep the amount low, which I will explain later. Much of this will make more sense as it goes on but the more I explain the harder the subsequent phases are going to be.