Show HN: Your cryptocurrency is destroying the environment. Offset it
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Re: Show HN: Your cryptocurrency is destroying the environment. Offset it
#2LOL
Re: Show HN: Your cryptocurrency is destroying the environment. Offset it
#3While I appreciate your apparent motivation and message here, Oliver, I'm sure that others beside myself would like there to be some attempt at insight into how you generate the number of kilograms of carbon generated according to your calculator, as well as the very important question of:
How do I know that I am sending my money to a legitimate mission to plant trees. You reference the World Land Trust, but I don't see any request for Bitcoin on their website. The address appears to be brand new, and I can only assume is yours. https://blockchain.info/address/1GqUcWivNngEzgoC1VRBz6Knhw9t...
There is no process. There needs to be one. Some people might even more gladly give if they can be assigned a fiat value for their contribution for tax purposes, but even besides that there is simply no confirmation that the money would ever get to be put to work planting trees.
And of course, the glaring logical problem, that the effort to gather Bitcoin for this purpose will only heap piles upon the cost its trying to offset...
Maybe a better mission would be to try and partner with an exchange and the charity in order to ask people to donate a portion of any profit they see in selling off any cryptocurrencies, and take the value in fiat on the way, then all of the above issues could be mitigated.
You have to understand, there are so many scams out there, that the seeming lack of process ("Just send money to this address") doesn't instil one with confidence.