Allocate some of that to a Harambe memorial.
The rest to habitat nurturing and protection.
WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
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Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...
Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly' Can't help but wonder how much habitat is destroyed by the generation of a token.
Use a proof-of-stake NFT!
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...
A token that needed a regular transfer of funds to retain ownership would be really quite neat. A contract that showed I am the adoptee of Harry the gorilla, and provides a regular income for the charity. If I can’t keep up the payment I sell the token. Fail to pay or sell the token and it reverts to the charity issuer.
You can just delegate Cardano's ada and give those as Charity. Or check Wozx which is trying to bring efficient energy to industries so while helping animals you help save climate as well.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#74Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…
Institutions own more than 100% of GME and the people own more than 100% of gorillas... makes sense to me.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#75Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…
> the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063 Who will be producing the rest of the gorillas?
Time :)
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#76Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…
Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...
Oh I can foresee a lot of old legendary trees as NFT
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly' Can't help but wonder how much habitat is destroyed by the generation of a token.
I don't think that cryptocurrency energy consumption is as big a problem as it's been recently painted in the media. Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. are, potentially, self-contained, almost complete, final, financial systems. Using a VISA card (for instance to make the same contribution to wild-life preservation) would use a fraction of the energy that's used to sustain cryptocurrencies, sure, but that's not a fair comparison…
And mining Bitcoin requires chip makers (including rare earth materials), the tech industry and the whole internet. If you include side channels in visa, you'll need to do the same for Bitcoin.
Yes, Bitcoin has advantages, but low energy consumption is not one of them.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly' Can't help but wonder how much habitat is destroyed by the generation of a token.
I don't think that cryptocurrency energy consumption is as big a problem as it's been recently painted in the media. Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. are, potentially, self-contained, almost complete, final, financial systems. Using a VISA card (for instance to make the same contribution to wild-life preservation) would use a fraction of the energy that's used to sustain cryptocurrencies, sure, but that's not a fair comparison…
The estimated energy consumption of BTC is between the electricity consumption of Ukraine and Argentina.
It's as if everyone would be a banker in Ukraine and every building would be a bank.
Seems excessive.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
>also they don't adopt them, they fund their caretaking. this title is pretty poor. We don't have to be mega pedantic about words not being used for its literal meaning. The Dian Fossey Fund uses the word "adopt" in a symbolic way like many other charities do: https://fosseyfund.salsalabs.org/adopthomepage/index.html
It's not being pedantic, but accurate. It took me a confusing 30 seconds to understand that the gorrilas won't be coming home with the owners of Reddit.
You not knowing the common usage of the word adopt in charity work doesn't make you accurate.