Quote from: JTB800 on March 12, 2014, 02:10:43 PM

Quote from: Bob81 on March 12, 2014, 01:39:25 PM

Quote from: konane on March 12, 2014, 01:22:59 PM

Pure charity? Come on, that's just pretentious. I'd gladly give a portion of my stake for charity, but let's not kid ourselves.

It would be pure charity when we spend a certain percentage of our stake in regard to all other coins Wink

But more important is the question if it would be possible under NEM to create a charity organization around the world.

In my opinion it could be reachable.

I lean more toward konane on this one. Let's all remember that no one else can get "in" on this coin anymore. Everything that is done to promote it is going to be looked at through the prism of "outsiders" as self-serving.

While it is nice and everything, a charity outreach does nothing to entice widespread use as the charity would presumably want to use the "money" on, you know, its charity. Any accompanying publicity has the danger of being perceived as a PR stunt. In fact, many on this very forum seem to blatantly admit that that is what it indeed is.

Don't get me wrong, I am not against it completely, and if some really unique and fabulous idea emerges that is great.

But, the key thing to sales, and that is what we are talking about here, is the benefits. Yes, the coders are (hopefully) hard at work building real benefits for NEM, but it is up to the community to showcase those benefits as well. (Once known, of course). There is only one direction NEM can go that will assure its success and that is to get new people to want it. New people may not (more likely -- will not) adopt NEM as a must-have coin because the original stakeholders donated some of their coins to a charity.

Helping charities is good, but if the coin is worth zero what has been accomplished? I am not trying to be a downer here. But, I think that any and every move should be looked at with an eye toward getting new people to want NEM.

I understand what you mean, and I didn't mean to say that the whole reason would be as a "PR stunt". I just think helping charitable organizations is a great thing to do, and with the way this coin is distributed it presents an extremely easy way to allocate a lot of funds to a worthy organization so that we can not only immediately begin using our new coins, but also provide a positive benefit to society in doing so AND also possibly gaining positive PR from that endeavor. There is no guarantee that any publicity of any sort will even come of it, but that's okay because that is not the reason why I proposed the idea. The first and foremost reason is to help a worthwhile cause, and second is to maybe give some exposure to NEM.

And anyway, it's just an idea.