1. We call out deadline for the first donation wave until 12:00 GMT on Wednesday, March 16
If we are going to donate to Japanese Red Cross...below is a rough timetable.
"GMT March 16, Wed 12:00 noon" is Japan time "March 16 , 21;00" , because Japan is GMT +9.
It might take at least a day or two to agree on donation method and exchange rate and so forth. Then it will be weekend.
Japan is now under black out rotation to save electricity, so many shops including the post office may only open a few hours a day. And there could be long lines.
So, please allow a few days to deposit the money.
If there is more interest afterwards, we can run a second round of donations, but I prefer we make a big call to the entire bitcoin community to donate as much as possible for the 1st round until Wednesday, 16th and then we close it.
I prefer to make one call too. People run out of attention and interests very quickly. There could be other new big news a couple of weeks later, people might not be interested or so keen on donating anymore. If we have a second, we might only get a few BTC.
However, the Japanese Red Cross do accept donation from 100Yen , that is about US$1 . So, I guess as long as it is over 1.3 BTC, we can still donate to the Japanese Red Cross.