319.67 received. Thank you.

Got it!

Thank you so much.

Oh.

I forgot about that. That's important too.

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Thanks.

The donation was made a few hours ago.

Unfortunately the exchange rate for both bitcoin and JPY have been very volatile.

If I use Mt.Gox rate at this very moment:

319.67 x (0.795+0.8325)/2 x 79 = 20 550 Yen

Anyway, the donation made was 21000 Yen.

This is the info about how to make a donation in Japanese Red Cross website: http://www.jrc.or.jp/contribution/l3/Vcms3_00002069.html


This is the receipt (in Japanese).
https://doc-08-74-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secure/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/vrgf3vggnem9g8o4cqvom2phmmhnffc0/1300449600000/15949510141229870193/*/0B5QHyyV_GD85ZGEzY2ZmMTEtZjE0ZS00YTZkLWFlMGItMWI1ZjRlMjkzMDEw?authkey=CPfC5_UB&e=download

The left side is a photo copy (that's why it is in black and white), which the post office keeps. The right side is the stub receipt.

You can see the bank account number is 00140-8-507, the amount in Yen is 21000, and the organization is 日本赤十字社 東北関東大震災義援金 (The Japanese Red Cross Society Earthquake Donation).

Actually they have a small stack form with the everything filled out ready for people to come and donate.

You can see the date is 23-3-18 (Year-Month-Day). The year "23" is Japanese year. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisei_period )

So, what can you buy for 21000 Yen?

For a regular meal in a family restaurant, you can get a meal for about 1000 yen.

21000 = 1000 x 21 meals

In Japan, there are convenient stores that sell cheap stuff for 100Yen.

You can buy a rice ball for 100 Yen (http://www.su-gomori.com/archives/images/14_onigiri_100en.jpg).
You can buy one 1L bottle of cold Japanese tea for 100 Yen

21000 = 100 x 210 Rice balls
or
21000 = 100 x 210 bottles of 1L cold Japanese tea

By the way, even in Tokyo city center, the racks in all supermarkets and convenient stores for rice balls and bread or other instant foods are empty. Someone just told me that even junk foods such as potato chips are gone.

There are still many people in the disaster areas that need help. It is snowing in the disaster areas, and they have little food, and no electricity therefore no heat. Even blankets are in short supply for many of them.

International news are all focusing on the nuclear power plant trouble at the moment. But for many of the victims, they are still stuck in near the disaster zones which are much closer to the nuclear plants than anyone in Tokyo. Their main concern is not the nuclear radiation, but finding lost ones and their own survival. Especially for the elderly and sick, medical care and medicine are in critical short supply.

There was a clip on TV showing an old man and his old wife searching for their young son who worked in a post office. They had to search and ask other people if they could see the post office, because everywhere was just piles and piles of debris. At last they found the post office. The old man had to carefully climb on top of a pile of debris to see the top of the post office. He climbed up and shout the name of his son, hoping there will be a response... a week after the tsunami.

I don't think there will be a second run for this donation as interest has already fallen. See how this thread has already fell to the bottom of the page.

Contribution from the bitcoin community is very meaningful. A week after the earthquake, some of the victims are getting their first bowl of hot soup. Let us hope this contribution can help as many people as possible.

The nuclear plant trouble seems to be getting worse.

If anything worse happens, commerce in Tokyo may be affected even worse.

So, i will try to make the donation as soon as possible.

OK, i guess it is the closing time for the first round.

May I suggest the exchange rate as follow:

Bitcoin -> USD (MtGOX bid+Ask /2 ) -> JPY

1 BTC = MtGox (0.85+0.86) /2 = 0.855 USD = 0.855 x 79 JPY = 67.54500 JPY

250 BTC = 250 x 67.54500 = 16 886

By the way, how much exactly do we have right now?

The Yen has been climbing since the earthquake. I hope it doesn't get any stronger !!   

The donation can be made in the post office or the Post Bank (basically the same thing).

They ask for Name, Address & telephone to put into the donation form.

I will try to put the following information. However, sometimes, the Japanese are not very flexible. They might insist on real street address.

Name : bitcoin or bitcoin.org or bitcoin community (Which one would you prefer )
Address: bitcoin.org
Tel: not sure, do bitcoin have a phone number ??


If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Depends on the responses here. Maybe we could make the donation before the weekend.

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.


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.

The Japanese Red Cross site is really busy.

Anyway, this is the page about donation.
http://www.jrc.or.jp/contribution/l3/Vcms3_00002069.html


Basically there are two ways, deposit into their account in Japan Post Bank (without transfer fees), or online such as credit card.

I can arrange to deposit cash (in Yen) directly into their account. Direct deposit would eliminate possible exchange fee on credit card which could be quite a few percentages and other possible fee. And the amount can be precisely worked out before hand.

I trust the bitcoin community, I can deposit the money first, provide the bank transfer slip before accepting the bitcoin.

And we can work out an exchange rate were the community is comfortable with.


Apart from Japanese Red Cross, there are some other funds such as Yahoo Japan 緊急災害募金 Emergency Disaster funds.
http://bokin.yahoo.co.jp/donation/detail/1630001/index.html

But their are also donating to the Japanese Red Cross. So a direct deposit to the Japanese Red Cross seems to be the most reliable and convenient and "to the point".

Donation to the Japanese Red Cross can be as quickly as a consensus is reached here.

Sorry to bump an old topic. I am researching this subject...


Why create a new address when a payment is received?

In a few years, won't there be hundreds or even thousands of addresses if bitcoin is used regularly? That would be very "messy" since bitcoin stores all the addresses.

Won't it be "cleaner" if user just reuse existing addresses until the user decide to create a new address?....May be anonymity is not an issue for an user and the user wish to use the same address again and again.

Bitcoin Faucet is at low 40s, it was under 40 before.

Is Bitcoin Faucet funded by donation alone?

Now that bitcoin is so valuable, people are not donating, i guess.

Drugstore.com + Beauty.com + VisionDirect.com Electronic Gift Certificates or physical gift card using bitcoin.

Payment in bitcoin (Mt Gox last price + 1% service charge of the total).

• Electronic Gift Certificates (from $10)
  
  • Sent as an e-mail to the recipient. (Sample email)
  • Electronic Gift Certificates in a variety of amounts USD: $10, $20, $25, $40, $50, $75, $100, $150, $200, $250, $300, $350, $400, $450, $500
• Physical Gift Cards (from $25)
  
  • Zero shipping cost
  • Arrive within 4 to 7 business days.
  • Are ideal for people who prefer a decorative card sent by postal mail.
  • Perfect gift for friends and families ~~
  • gift card in a variety of amounts USD:
    
    • $25
    • $50
    • $100
    • $250
  • Local and state sales taxes may be applied

Redeeming Gift Certificates and Gift Cards:

• You can use a gift certificate to pay for almost any item sold on the www.drugstore.com, www.Beauty.com and www.VisionDirect.com web stores.
• These cards never expire! There are no deadlines, time limits, or expiration dates. If your purchase amount does not total the full amount of your gift funds, the unused balance will be stored on Your Account. We'll apply it to your next qualifying purchase.
• Treat this card like cash.
• The card is labeled as Beauty.com gift care, but the card may be used at Beauty.com or drugstore.com for all items except prescriptions, magazines, gift cards/certificates and certain trusted partner products.
• This card is non-refundable, is not redeemable for cash, and cannot be replaced if lost, stolen, or destroyed.

Unlike my previous offer (Drugstore.com & Beauty.com with 5% discount for bitcoin (Limited time offer)), there is no instant 5% discount with gift card. If you like the instant discount. Please consider the previous offer.

That sounds like a classic ponzi scheme.

Great idea!

Don't worry, these things happen all the time to all of us.



But I am just curious why don't the student open an individual account to do the wiki? Won't that be more convenient to everyone and a bit more secure (to you)?

This seems to be what Baron has been describing here.

Maybe Baron could clarify the full story again!?

Sorry, I would like to help testing 0.3.20, but I have a couple of silly questions.

Do i have to uninstall the 0.3.19 first?

If things go wrong with 0.3.20, would my wallet still be save?

Thanks.

A few hours ago, the Wiki's English Main page was accidentally turned into Chinese for a duration of 26 minutes.

https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=4120

Bartering is generally taxable.

Whether doing business with bitcoin is 'doing business with money' or 'just bartering' is irrelevant, it is still considered as generating income.

The value is the the 'fair market value' of goods and services.

So, even if you sell a house for 10 dollar, the government can still value it at market value and tax according.

It is similar going through customs. You have to declare the things that you are bringing into the country.

If you bought an US$20,000 expensive Rolex, you can say it is for personal use, you can say you bought it for US$20, but the customs officer makes the final judgment. Even if you really bought it for US$20, the customs officer can still tax you based on the market value of US$20,000.

As for doing business in bitcoin, whether you have to pay taxes depends how much you earned. If the total income is under minimum taxable income, that's another issue.

I guess most people are using bitcoin as a hobby at the moment, and the bitcoin economy is really small, so the government won't bother to look into it. Or the government haven't even heard of the term bitcoin.

The ฿ symbol already has an official Unicode name "THAI CURRENCY SYMBOL BAHT".

Unless bitcoin change its name to "Bahtcoin", we should not mess with other countries currency symbol.

Especially the ฿ symbol is only used exclusively for the Thai Baht now, I am sure they will have a strong attachment and ownership feeling towards this symbol.

If I were Thai, i would not be happy about that.

People using the $ may not have such feelings, because so many other currencies are using the $ symbol.

It takes a long time for Unicode to adopt a new character. Something that is already in Unicode is much more convenient. Once adopted, people all over the world can use it, type it (or at least copy and paste) it immediately.

Bitcoin don't have to have a currency symbol, but a currency is really a logo, an identity. Bitcoin is for the electronic medium. It is international. For example, if shown on a shopping website, people knows straight away that the price shown is in Bitcoin (but not Thai baht!).

Maybe I am making the whole thing sounds too complicated.

All I want it to make sure I am ordering exactly the items & the number of items that you want at the prices listed plus the exact cost of shipping and taxes that you get from the sites.

Last thing I want is any misunderstanding and dispute.

Re:fake account
Even if you buy direct from the site, it would ask you to create an account (if you don't already have an account), before they show you the final price quote. Because they need your shipping address (zip code) to calculate the shipping cost and taxes. And the process of creating a new account is to fill in many details.

I am trying to simplify your process by giving you a user name and password so you can log in immediately. All you need to do is change the state and zip code. So you don't have to fill out all those create an account things just to get the cost of shipping and tax.

Of course, you can just tell me what you want and I give you the quote, if you are happy, we deal.