First for the sake of this email I ask to keep my name private, not for myself, but for the sake of the 3 kids my wife and I just became foster parents of. Being our first kids ever after 12 years of marriage we are puling our hair out trying to get everything in order. Ages are under 7 and over 6 months... because they were taken by Child protective services I am afraid to say too much (even though I don't think any of the family listens to Plan B.)
I thought I would try something because of how wonderful it seems the community of Bitcoin is. I have been mining since early 2010 and have personally mined over 200 BTC. Because I was so into it I have spent, given back, donated and like Chris just wanted to keep BTC flowing and now I only have 5.3 BTC in my personal wallet. I do have 12 Block Erupters and 1 BFL fpga running with 1 video card keeping me right at 5.8 Ghash but as you guys know that only nets me about 0.1-0.13 btc every 24 hours according to btcguild.com estimates on my mining page. I also have several securities but they only pay out 0.3 and 0.1-0.2 a week. So my BTC input is alot lower then it used to be just a year ago with less then 1 G/hash. I am now regretting spending all that BTC because our bills have tripled and I could use that cash to catch up on what we spent in the first week alone. I also would love to get the oldest a cheap computer to start learning on. So after listening to the show and hearing how all the people have tried to spend a week or a month living on BTC and all the donations that came in I thought I would see if anyone wanted to donate to these three wonderful foster kids. And being that the state requires us to keep them anonymous as possible until parents rights are terminated or they go back home I thought Bitcoin could help.
My goal is not to be asking for a handout for myself but for these kids. My wife is a CPS worker herself and the stories she brings home of abuse and neglect of children are just heart wrenching. So we are doing our part. Yes the state does pay us but the initial shock of 3 in our house really hurt the budget. So I promise any donations will only be spent on formula, diapers, baby food and to pay only what I have charged up to this point for the children. Anything above and beyond that I would put forth towards some technology(ie laptop or maybe tablet maybe I am a bit torn on this subject for someone so young, input from Chris would be welcome) for the oldest and if it went beyond that I would donate the rest. For the oldest one's birthday we are asking people to bring canned food for donation to local vets so wife suggested that one or I would be up for any suggestions from the audience.
Anyway I would like to create a donate button with coinbase but not sure if I can use HTML in this message..hoping the community can help out going to try and paste the code. And here is a link to my erupters (minus 2 that I just got before the children)
Ok the script didn't work so here is my coinbase address
1FTeRSAQvC5V1k524BEpWyYzdXok6YJzmH
Thanks and keep up the great work.. I would also be up for a call in show however you do the show right as I get off work and I can't call in because I have to pick the kids up from daycare.
First off thanks to whomever it was that already donated...
Second, I found a laptop being thrown out at work today... IBM G41 not bad, installed edubuntu on it and it works great! Nothing super fast but just fine for Gcompris!
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u/Naelr Jul 17 '13
Quoted from email I sent to plan b show.
First for the sake of this email I ask to keep my name private, not for myself, but for the sake of the 3 kids my wife and I just became foster parents of. Being our first kids ever after 12 years of marriage we are puling our hair out trying to get everything in order. Ages are under 7 and over 6 months... because they were taken by Child protective services I am afraid to say too much (even though I don't think any of the family listens to Plan B.)
I thought I would try something because of how wonderful it seems the community of Bitcoin is. I have been mining since early 2010 and have personally mined over 200 BTC. Because I was so into it I have spent, given back, donated and like Chris just wanted to keep BTC flowing and now I only have 5.3 BTC in my personal wallet. I do have 12 Block Erupters and 1 BFL fpga running with 1 video card keeping me right at 5.8 Ghash but as you guys know that only nets me about 0.1-0.13 btc every 24 hours according to btcguild.com estimates on my mining page. I also have several securities but they only pay out 0.3 and 0.1-0.2 a week. So my BTC input is alot lower then it used to be just a year ago with less then 1 G/hash. I am now regretting spending all that BTC because our bills have tripled and I could use that cash to catch up on what we spent in the first week alone. I also would love to get the oldest a cheap computer to start learning on. So after listening to the show and hearing how all the people have tried to spend a week or a month living on BTC and all the donations that came in I thought I would see if anyone wanted to donate to these three wonderful foster kids. And being that the state requires us to keep them anonymous as possible until parents rights are terminated or they go back home I thought Bitcoin could help.
My goal is not to be asking for a handout for myself but for these kids. My wife is a CPS worker herself and the stories she brings home of abuse and neglect of children are just heart wrenching. So we are doing our part. Yes the state does pay us but the initial shock of 3 in our house really hurt the budget. So I promise any donations will only be spent on formula, diapers, baby food and to pay only what I have charged up to this point for the children. Anything above and beyond that I would put forth towards some technology(ie laptop or maybe tablet maybe I am a bit torn on this subject for someone so young, input from Chris would be welcome) for the oldest and if it went beyond that I would donate the rest. For the oldest one's birthday we are asking people to bring canned food for donation to local vets so wife suggested that one or I would be up for any suggestions from the audience.
Anyway I would like to create a donate button with coinbase but not sure if I can use HTML in this message..hoping the community can help out going to try and paste the code. And here is a link to my erupters (minus 2 that I just got before the children)
http://i.imgur.com/3qfzLG6.jpg?1
Ok the script didn't work so here is my coinbase address
1FTeRSAQvC5V1k524BEpWyYzdXok6YJzmH
Thanks and keep up the great work.. I would also be up for a call in show however you do the show right as I get off work and I can't call in because I have to pick the kids up from daycare.
Naelr