Light Blue over Yellow Knife Handle

[Bolster]

Dear Spyderco: I would love to buy a Spyderco knife with a light blue/yellow handle, even at a premium price, particularly if part of the proceeds were donated to an urgent cause.

[ChrisinHove]

Yep. Me too. Good call.


If they’re seen to get away with this, then maybe we’ll need one in the Taiwan flag colours as well.

[shunsui]

Just dye one scale blue and the other yellow.

View from the side.

[JRinFL]

Great idea, but then Spyderco would become a target for a certain country's cyber attack squads. It is a real and dangerous threat. Similar response to the good Taiwan suggestion.

[Manixguy@1994]

Dear Spyderco: I would love to buy a Spyderco knife with a light blue/yellow handle, even at a premium price, particularly if part of the proceeds were donated to an urgent cause.

Pretty neat idea .Why not ask Taz to move to General Topic ? Really seems to be a Spyderco related topic ? Donation to a cause is a terrific motivator. MG2

[Manixguy@1994]

Great idea, but then Spyderco would become a target for a certain country's cyber attack squads. It is a real and dangerous threat. Similar response to the good Taiwan suggestion.

So colors are related in some way to something political ? If so agree that could be a situation that could be detrimental. Need to understand to colors used . MG2

[JRinFL]

If Spyderco is seen as taking a side in the conflict then Russia would assume they are a legitimate target.

[Manixguy@1994]

If Spyderco is seen as taking a side in the conflict then Russia would assume they are a legitimate target.

Thank you , yes this would not be a good idea . A private donation for example to the Red Cross may be a better alternative.

[TkoK83Spy]

I believe I was on CNN the other day and they had 5 verified donations that can be made for the Ukrainian people.

[Bolster]

I just discovered that Ukr. War bonds are now an option.

Thanks for the suggestions, folks.

[Buddafucco]

Cox_Workshop on Instagram had a very similar idea. They have one of their models, in blue and yellow, up for auction. The post says that the high bidder shows proof they donated the amount to a reputable humanitarian charity and the knife gets shipped to them.

[Fireman]

Might need some custom scales in the Ukraine flag colors on one side and Red white and blue on the other.

[Bolster]

Cox_Workshop on Instagram had a very similar idea. They have one of their models, in blue and yellow, up for auction. The post says that the high bidder shows proof they donated the amount to a reputable humanitarian charity and the knife gets shipped to them.

Neat.

[Bolster]

I have yet to figure out how to buy Ukrainian War Bonds. I can't figure it out. They seem to be unobtanium? I think Citigroup is brokering a deal but haven't been able to get a Citigroup human on the line yet.

Any of you been able to crack this nut? I really want to purchase some UWBs. I know it's highly risky as an investment, that's not the point. It's just that, AFAIK, the UWBs are the most likely to actually GET to the people who need the $$ to defend themselves. (I realize there are lots of organizations buying bandages, and that's great, but I want to invest in copper clad lead, rather than rolls of gauze. You don't win wars with gauze.)

[TomAiello]

You can just donate money directly to the Ukrainian government via the bitcoin network, if don't need them to pay you back (i.e. you don't need to buy a bond).

Addresses in this Tweet from the official Ukrainian government account:
https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1497 ... ukraine%2F

Full article from Time:
https://time.com/nextadvisor/investing/ ... o-ukraine/


Current (and updated) fundraising numbers (about $46million as of the time of this post) are here:
https://www.elliptic.co/blog/live-updat ... n-military

[TomAiello]

I did some research on the Ukrainian war bonds. Basically they are doing a standard securities auction. There is no consumer level purchase method (at least not yet). You'd have to find a broker who could get into the auction (or was purchasing the bonds from another broker) to buy them for you.

It would be interesting if the Ministry of Finance could set up online purchases. I'm sure that would violate just about every securities regulation in the USA, UK and Europe, though.

I know that there was an attempt to do a crowdfunding campaign for ammunition, but it was suspended by the crowdfunding service as a violation of their terms of service.

[Bolster]

Thanks, Tom. I don't crypto anything, I'll have to find another way.

At the top of my list are these:

https://supportukraine.cz/en.html

Looks to be ^ the Ukrainian Embassy in the Czech Republic. I haven't done enough research to assure myself it's legit yet. I would like to find some vetted links to it. I can just imagine my money being re-routed via some sophisticated hack.

This one gets lots of mentions in the media:

https://armysos.com.ua/en/help-the-army

And this next one sure looks legit:

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsion ... ebi-armiyi

The above has links from Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine ... 022-2?op=1) and Jane's (https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... -donations) and ukraine.ua (https://ukraine.ua/news/donate-to-the-nbu-fund/). And it's a solid looking URL with working links at all the many other bank-type linkages it contains. How could a hacker get ahold of bank.gov.ua?

If anybody knows if these are illegitimate, please post up before I squander cash (well, credit card) at the wrong place.

[cabfrank]

I admire you so much for the thought. This nightmare has been consuming me since it began. I don't have much extra, but I am going to see if I can throw something into the pot.

[JRinFL]

My $.02, I would only donate to well known, well established international aid organizations.

[Bolster]

My $.02, I would only donate to well known, well established international aid organizations.

Agree that's safest, and hope many contribute that way. However the aid orgs known to us in the USA (as far as I can tell) don't pay for what an army needs to win, they rather provide ancillary support. If I'm wrong about that, LMK, thanks.