Psicomvb said:

I just tried to donate €100 but it didnt process for some reason. It may take me a few days but I have been meaning to donate to an organization such as this for a while now.  Been very inspired by Asante and others and now this post too

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Ima Trooper said:

I will commit to donating $100. Is it selfish to superstitiously hope that some of that karma will help change my own situation? Probably, but I'm gonna hope that anyway. The important part is the money going to a good place.

Metalfaith, PM me or we'll figure something out. Maybe I can just donate directly to the 168million website and get like a receipt or something?

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Very good point. I am 100% cool with anyone doing their own personal donation. Seeing as this might actually get off the ground, I will try to do some more research on specifics. I would imagine there is some platform that wont charge money...

Only potential with donating directly is it's apparently hard to donate to them directly if you're a Usa citizen, Asante said you need a wire transfer, which is like $25(if i remember correctly). If we all donate at once I will cover that cost myself, but if we all need to pay for separate wire fees than that messes up everything. I am not trying to be in control, if anyone comes up with a better way to do this practically, Im all ears.

And as promised, I will match your $100 as well. Looking like we might get a little chunk of change going here! Exciting!

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MALARIA KIT €29 (= $35)
contains 60 treatments for malaria with 25 test kits. this is a very cheap way to fast save a whole bunch of children under the age of 5. Its not a vaccine but a combination treatment based on artemisinins. Toss €29 in and save over a dozen toddler lives, thats very straightforward and emotionally satisfying. When they get malaria again, chances are that this time they will survive it.

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4x JACKFRUIT TREE €25 (= $30)
these trees will each be planted by orphanages and community centers. jackfruit trees will start yielding fruit in 3 years and can live for 100 years. The fruits are ginormous (10-80lbs) but whats especially important is that each tree yields approximately 200kg (= 8x 50lbs bags) of seeds per year. The seeds can be roasted and snacked on, or ground to a flour, but they contain 38.3% carbohydrate, 17.7% crude protein, and 15.9% fat which basically means that the seed is as nutritious as fatty meat and thus, that one tree yields in seed alone the nutritional value of slaughteting about 6 goats per year, without having to keep, feed & heal goats, a tree is just a tree - a 100 ft high tree with roots right down to the aquifer. African Jackfruit trees are being praised as one of the best things against world hunger and also, are planted not just for food but because they are great trees against desertification, soil erosion etc. What you will see is that people will grow seeds and cutting of these trees so each tree will multiply itself and saturate the community with a rich source of fat, protein and carbs.
EXTREMELY cost effective and very Shroomery as we're a growing & propagating community.

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foragedfungus said:

This is a wonderful endeavor. 
I tried to make a donation on my own, but it didn't go through. Got a 503 error message. 
When you figure out how to organize the group funds I've got $500 to add.

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Holy cock-a-doodle-doo thats is almost a complete water well of your own if you choose to spend it as such


That would be SUPER EPIC


With that pledge, if none of us backs out we are beyond Well #1 and close to Well #2, if Metalfaith is up for matching, if his cap's not reached, we got 2 and are up for Well #3

CHeifM4sterDiezL said:

What's going on with this are we buying these people a fountain? Can we get like some plaque on it that is the lyrics to ripple by the grateful dead and then at the bottom it just says "drug ppl from the internet bought this yeah dewd were the shit!" Also wtf is this organization I've had so much trouble recently with charities based in Netherlands and Sweden.

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The US is making it easy for money to enter their territory but not to make it leave


We'll have to see what we agree on.

Asante said:

CHeifM4sterDiezL said:

What's going on with this are we buying these people a fountain? Can we get like some plaque on it that is the lyrics to ripple by the grateful dead and then at the bottom it just says "drug ppl from the internet bought this yeah dewd were the shit!" Also wtf is this organization I've had so much trouble recently with charities based in Netherlands and Sweden.

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The US is making it easy for money to enter their territory but not to make it leave


We'll have to see what we agree on.

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Ima Trooper said:

But for real though, we need to figure out how to get this money to someone. Asante, you've already donated several times before, what if we all Etherium you or something?

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That is a viable method, and unlike the bank I'm as good as gold   but it would require a learning curve for everyone who wants to give to learn how to do an Ethereum transaction.

While I think its a big leg up for everybody to learn to use crypto, I'm afraid that some people would rather not donate than learn how to use crypto.

Easier would be if Metalfaith handled the USD donations and, once in, converted them to Ethereum and sent them over.

I could then, taking screenshots of the transaction, exchange it painlessly to euros and bank it to the charity.

I can transact the Eth to Eur immediately on arrival to prevent Eth fluctuations from altering the donated sum too much.

Ethereum transactions are almost free and domestic banking is free for me so this would be very cost effective.

This way the ones that want to transact in Ethereum can do so and those who want to bank domestically can do so also.

I recommend anyone to learn how to do a crypto transaction but, those who don't want to, shouldnt be made to.



Any ideas on the sign?  Serious ideas not related to them hand cranking a peeing cherub?

metalfaith said:

Matthew 10:30-31 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this: ]‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

Proverbs 19:17 whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.

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foragedfungus said:

This is a wonderful endeavor. 
I tried to make a donation on my own, but it didn't go through. Got a 503 error message. 
When you figure out how to organize the group funds I've got $500 to add.

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Psicomvb said:

I've only used crypto once or twice years back so I'm still a total noob when it comes to figuring out how to send money but once I figure out how to send $100 to your wallet, Asante, I'll let you know here

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Asante said:

As just a playful example of what we could do with the sign that is not too hard on the artist painting the sign, Smack31's logo comes to mind:

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metalfaith said:

I fucking love the cherub idea Chief. What a beautiful image. Putting your mouth up to it so you can drink straight from the source? LOL

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Problem is that its a hand cranked pump so, well designs being as they are, the crank would stick out of the cherub's ass.

With a baphomet statue this could be his tail, it would work with the theme.

In either case I feel people would be unsure about this design

Fiery said:

I feel like the people should decide their own design=

that would give the community more connectivity-

and also seperate the "tit for tat" idealisms- letting the local population decide.


like :just because we are graceful benefactors: that doesn't mean we can come camp there and build whatever we want.





The land is sacred. And you can't just dig wells anywhere- However I say let's go for it.

And since no one has responded to me I am still an unofficial benefactor.

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metalfaith said:

I think I figured it out guys. If I start the collection by just sending $1000 to Asante, that should be a show of good faith that can make everyone feel comfortable sending me their money, as i already donated more than I will receive. Then after I make another transfer to Asante with the money I collect from everyone.

Please everyone, if you plan to donate, please respond to this idea and let me know if this would make you feel secure enough to send me your money.

Thanks all, Stay Shroomy!

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metalfaith said:

I think I figured it out guys. If I start the collection by just sending $1000 to Asante, that should be a show of good faith that can make everyone feel comfortable sending me their money, as i already donated more than I will receive. Then after I make another transfer to Asante with the money I collect from everyone.

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We are an online community so mistrust exists. I trust you but others may feel reluctant.

I think it would be a good idea if you were so good as to send the $1000, which I can then hold as collateral to cover for the money transfers in case you prioritize an 8-ball

When all payments have come through, the need for a collateral sum is removed and your very hefty and most generous sum can then be considered part of the donations pool.

It would require the users to report publically or in PM to you what they will send to you, you can then confirm receiving it and send it as crypto right away to me, I convert to Euros which is the fairly stable currency the chairty uses for their services, then I either publically or in private confirm in the thread, or to Metalfaith and the Benefactor what sum was received.

Should there be deceit in any way, I have admin access to your PM boxes, both of which will contain a matching copy of your transaction agreements, so if either Benefactor or Metalfaith complain about something underhanded, I can even in private transactions verify what both parties in the faulty transaction agreed on, kind of the same course of action like in Trade scams.

So, even in the case of a private agreement there is mutual evidence that can be privately audited by the admins, myself, admins who could go as far as involve local law enforcement if either side of the transaction commits a scam, if evidence is found and the accusing party so wishes.

So, that offers accountability and possibility of audit, whether the transaction was private, in unencrypted PM's (which you must keep) or whether it was fully publically announced.

Should Metalfaith be fraudulent which I really don't think, his collateral of $1000 will likely be in excess of the donation given so, it insures the transaction.

I'm open to any correspondence, before or during transactions of course.

I think this is pretty much airtight.

Ima Trooper said:

Asante, you should have received the equivalent of just over $100 USD of Lumens, it's also looking like from my side it might have been just under 96 XLM somehow which is significantly less, can you confirm?

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XLM 248.83388000 into €85.588652

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So given the exchange rate between the Euro and Dollar XLM went up a bit and factually more than the equivalent od $100 is now converted in Euros.

Your $100 in XLM went up 99 cents between you buying them, sending them and me cashing them out to euros, alkl transaction costs subtracted.

Thank you SO VERY MUCH for your generous donation!

total sum of euros is now €420.26 which is 82% of a €500 well.

QM33 said:

Welp pm me or something I suppose, if that 50 helps. I know it's not as much as some but I honestly don't have the time to try and figure it all out.

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Don't mistake it: your $50 part of a $600 well.. lets say that well serves a village of 600. That means that your $50 donation will give 50 people access to nearby safe drinking water for at least a 5 year period.

So, thats 5x 50 is 250 people-years.

We know from statistics that mortality due to lack of safe drinking water per year is 0.9%, and that this is typically a child under 5 years of age.

Crunch the numbers and you will find that your $50 hasnt just in fact greatly helped 50 people and saved lots of disease and hard water hauling work, it statistically over the 5 year period will save (little over) 2 lives. (2.25, so maybe 2, maybe 3)

So if you donate $50, congratulations, you just saved TWO little kid's lives

Thats how significant this is.

"He who saves one life saves the world entirely."

Join the club.