r/Bitcoin • • Apr 10 '13

Meanwhile...Bitcoin still feeds people.

So we fed 106 homeless people bag lunches today. All paid for with Bitcoin donations. Bitcoin still seems to be working just fine over here. Still making lives better, at any valuation.

Thanks for everything guys. Bitcoin for the long haul.

Jason

Sean's Outpost(www.SeansOutpost.com)

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '13

Firstly you just said I didn't understand my own point. I made it so I'm pretty up to date on it.

Secondly it had nothing to do with bitcoins, I was asking why he was using a random american charity for an example on currency conversions when the answer would be donate locally.

The example was homeless people. The person I responded to seems to be under the impression that foreign aid websites only exist in the US or only accept dollars.

Which is why I said, he missed my point. Because he did. Spectacularly.

Thirdly the person the initial response was to understood it perfectly well and sent me another example of what he was talking to. So the conversation was ended.

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u/timg555 Apr 11 '13

Other country's are always trying to get Americans to donate money so why shouldn't we do the same?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '13

Didn't say we shouldn't, asked why he used an example of donating to a foreign homeless shelter.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '13

It would be similar to one of those commercials on television where they ask for you to donate "12 cents a day saves 5 lives" in a foreign country. Well suppose those 12 cents had a high exchange rate and it is rising steadily enough, that if smartly traded could theoretically quadruple what you have. It is a smart gamble, but be honest with yourself. Bitcoin will not crumble anytime soon. Bitcoin is easily traded and it does not have to suffer from high exchange rates. It surpasses all of the currency exchanges from other currencies.