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A good crypto conference is a magical thing and John Paller did it again at ETHDenver 2019. Attendees were energised, focused, sharing, and generally busy as hell as we all gathered together to ‘do crypto’ for 36 hours.
In addition to the hacking, relationship building and information sharing, there was one teeny-tiny project that happened at just one booth and one bar which ended up delivering an outsized impact.
Austin Griffith’s xDai.io wallet played a key role at the event in the form of the ETHDenverWallet. His wallet is a fantastic, wide-scale usability test designed to figure out where we should draw the line between convenience and security. Judging from the number of buffiDai transactions we saw, the rapid adoption from the vendors, and the total sales, it’s a safe bet that the xDai wallet community might have found that balance.
We think so too, if community interest is any judge; we’ve spent a good chunk of the last week coordinating a growing list of teams and organizations from all over the world that are looking to create their own ‘ETHDenver Wallets.’ MakerDAO was thrilled help out and get a front row seat to this level of awesomeness.
https://twitter.com/richatmakerdao/status/1099019644243832833
Check out Austin’s great write-up if you want to see exactly how easy onboarding can be if we take a second look at UX and give users a wallet to buy snacks with instead of a bank vault…
The Plan: buffiDai for Charity
At the event, we spent most of our time busily explaining the nuances of MakerDAO, as well as how the xDai wallet can facilitate the creation of pop-up marketplaces anywhere, for free. It soon occurred to us that the table we were standing was a good place to test this pop-up theory in real-time.
We were giving away swag already, so we had inventory. We had a couple of tablets, so the point of sale system was covered. All attendees were given buffiDai, so we knew they had the funds. We also had foot-traffic… so why not start accepting donations for swag and then donate the proceeds to charity?
https://twitter.com/richatmakerdao/status/1097247841297129472
In less than 10 minutes we’d finished setting up our own pop-up crypto market. During the next day and a half we were able to “sell” our previously free socks and hats for 1 buffiDai each. Our transformation from happy-go-lucky crypto-evangelists to fund-raising always-be-closers was in full swing.
https://twitter.com/richatmakerdao/status/1097294932585242624
As the main event began to wind down, and dappy hour approached, it became apparent that we were onto something… Why not collect donations at the afterparty as well? Thanks to our good friend Nate McKervey at Splunk (and furiously coordinated by Brian Ethier), they whipped up a full dashboarding tool that not only tracked donations on all the bar’s TVs, they also added a heatmap to display on-chain messages along with the donations. #drinkingforgood was born.
https://twitter.com/DataPhysicist/status/1097565208287952897
Because this is crypto, the night wouldn’t be complete without at least one exploit, even if it only occurred in real life. We had a few volunteers running the POS tablets on the crypto-only side of the bar, and when one of them stepped away for a minute an enterprising patron decided to abscond with the funds from the unattended bar wallet.
The evil-doer(s) walked away with about 250 buffiDai for their troubles and then spent some time trading the loot from wallet to wallet to cover their tracks. Ultimately, the money was deposited into the donation address with an added bonus of a few extra tokens it picked up in its travels. We’ve decided to leave the crypto there (and not put it back in the bar tab) as a ‘thank you’ for the cool larceny, and because of our criminals’ heartfelt apology: “Erm”.
Don’t worry, all is forgiven.
Even after the event was over, the crypto community kept on giving:
https://twitter.com/Sim_Pop/status/1097638201563308032
We continued to receive donations from people on the long trek home who were sending us screenshots of buffiDai coming in from airports all over the world.
The Take
After the crypto-dust settled, and the numbers came in, we found that simply by picking a handy opportunity, setting up a tablet and selling some swag, we were able to raise 3066 buffiDai, 72.96 xDai, 2 Dai, through 1154 individual donations.
After converting the tokens into real money, i.e. Dai, we split the pool of $1570.52 evenly between UNICEF.fr (TX)and GRACEaid (TX).
As a side note: our donation to GRACEaid was done through the amazing Giveth.io dapp, take a look around their site to discover other worthy causes.
Thanks to everyone involved at ETHDenver and to all of the gracious attendees for reminding us just how generous the crypto community can be. Special shout out to some of our most generous patrons: @AnettRolikova, @TrustlessState, @davecraige, @theflyinghutch, and @A_D_I.
People + xDai + Burner Wallet = Portable Giving was originally published in MakerDAO on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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에밀리
2019-08-12
안녕하세요. 고객님 입금하시려는 토큰이 토큰뱅크에서 아직 입금을 지원하지 않는 토큰일 경우에는 입금이 어렵습니다. 어떤 토큰 입금하시려고 하신건가요?
Community | 입금은 어떻게 하나요?
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에밀리
2019-08-07
고객님 케이스타라이브는 거래소로 바로 입금하시면 안되시고 루니버스 메인넷 기반으로 스왑하신 후 이동하셔야 합니다. 해당 문의는 케이스타라이브 담당자에게 문의 부탁드립니다. https://open.kakao.com/o/sepSJr4
Community | 케이스타라이브
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에밀리
2019-08-02
고객님 현재 델리오는 토큰 관련하여 확인할 사항이 있어 출금이 중단된 상태입니다. 추후 출금에 대해 재지원할 예정입니다. 재지원시까지 기다려주시면 감사하겠습니다.
Community | 델리오 아이닥스에 상장된 코인
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에밀리
2019-07-31
안녕하세요. 토큰뱅크에서 지원하지 않는 토큰을 입금하신 경우, 1-2달 정도 처리기간이 소요됩니다. 또한 처리를 위한 수수료가 발생되는 점 양해 부탁드립니다. 오입금 토큰 입금 처리를 위해서 cs@tokenbank.co.kr로 오입금된 토큰명과 TxID, 고객님의 토큰뱅크 ID를 적어 보내주시기 바랍니다.
Community | 오입금된 코인 어떻게 처리해야하나요?
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에밀리
2019-07-31
안녕하세요. 토큰뱅크입니다. 고객님 락업이 설정된 토큰은 락업 해제 시점에 출금 지원될 에정입니다. 케이스타라이브 지갑으로 출금 후 스왑 지원받으시면 됩니다. 감사합니다.
Community | 케이스타라이브 락업수량 출금신청방법
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