Went and run a half marathon this morning for the ALS Golden West Running Bitcoin Challenge. Yes, I'm slow and out of shape, but this is not about that.
I was going to start a Stacker News team for the fundraiser, but when I saw the amount of KYC required to do so (see pic below), I just gave up.
Good thing @davidw already created a fund raiser page for us. Please go join the team and donate there if you want to support this fund raiser. Alternatively, I guess you can zap this post since I'm forwarding 100% of sats from this post to @davidw or wait to zap his upcoming post which he talked about writing in this comment.
As I said back on Dec 30, 2023 in this comment, I was committed to donate 1102009 sats. Since I wanted to stay anonymous, I just made a gift donation by clicking the "donate to btcpay" button on the main fundraiser page. Apparently, when you click that, you only need to provide a name, email address, and also type in the amount of sats/btc you want to donate.
You get to specify the amount you want to donate in the next page, but it's denominated in fiat only (sucks for someone who thinks in sats). That makes it quite hard for me to hit exactly 1102009 sats.
So I went to quickly checked the conversion rate and threw in a number that will highly likely cover the amount I wanted to donate. Turns out, I went over by 11,284 sats, but it's for a good cause anyways.
I guess if you really wanted to, you can check that receiving address did get paid, but I'm not going to bother posting that here. I made this post because I brought up the idea of creating a team, got people interested, but never followed up on it. I guess this this my follow up and resolution to my initial comment.
Yes, I did run 21 km and completed the challenge; yes I did donate the amount I pledged; no I did not create the SN team on the fundraiser page, but I'm glad @davidw did. Please donate and help fight ALS!
Tagging you because you showed interest regarding the fund raiser in my initial comment. @siggy47 @davidw @carlosfandango @BitcoinIsTheFuture