This conversation is not appropriate for bugs@.. All of you who know better, stop feeding the fucking trolls.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Jorge Armendariz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/23/2013 08:06 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 19:02, Jorge Armendariz wrote: >> >>> It would also be nice if we can buy our CD/DVD's with bitcoins. Way too >>> much fee's in paypal, credit card and debit cards (just a thought). >>> Especially for those outside of the U.S. or even Western world might >>> facilitate for them the ordering process to do it that way. >> So this week the project will have $50, and next week $200, and the >> week after $25? We're building an operating system, not a hedge fund. >> >> The project needs money to pay bills denominated in "legacy" >> currencies. > Let me put it in a way that is understandable for all. There is still a > lot of untapped sources of incom > <http://endthelie.com/2013/04/05/the-new-renaissance-how-bitcoin-millionaires > -will-change-the-world/#axzz2PhSGA0IK>e > out there, and they are disproportionately of the hacker mentality > <https://www.quantcast.com/inside-quantcast/2013/04/who-uses-bitcoins/>. > They might not be OS hackers per say, but honestly it takes absolute 0 > effort to create a wallet where people can donate money. All you will > have is gain, and absolutely nothing to lose. You put 5 minutes of > effort to put a simply x amount of bits address, and voila that is it. > If it was too much of a headache for you, if you would get even 100 > dollars of donations as a result of that. That would be a steal, but I > can almost guarantee you will get a whole lot more than that (my guess > is tens of thousands or more). I will personally make sure, at no > expense of your own to go and evangelize this for you. So that you don't > have to even move a finger in order for that to happen. > > I am sure that many here would share some of my problems with Credit > cards/debit cards/paypal chargebacks along with identity theft. Just > right now I am contesting for months now in my Dads account, Netflix, > Hulu, Skype charges that are completely foreign among other things. I > don't know from where the hell that came from. However, my use with > credit/debit cards is going to be over for good soon. I have had to make > SOO many new accounts because of that, and most of the time I have never > received my money back. On top of all the waste of hours of precious > time trying to get your money back. So yes, I would be VERY pleased to > be able to still support such a project as OpenBSD but without all the > drama associated with that. All it takes is one merchant, I don't care > how getting a hold of your info and honestly I don't trust anyone with > that information and neither should anyone when there is a ten times > better option. > > Now with regards to the whole "legacy" currency a system such as bitpay > <https://bitpay.com/> takes care of that type of problem, if you want to > instantly transfer your BTC into fiat. Even more perfect, BTC wallets > secured with OpenBSD type of security almost looks like the two were > meant for a marriage, in fact that is what got me into OpenBSD so that I > can keep a clean install with a wallet with nothing else installed so > that it is hack proof. There are tons of articles > <http://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitpay-receives-510000-from-investors/> > proving the credibility of this company (bitpay) and the huge amount of > full time workers just created recently is proof that they are working > round the clock pretty busy attempting to meet the demand. > > It looks to me that you are not too aware of BTC > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo>, if you are then my > apologies. However, for everyone out there this is pretty mainstream now > and is here to stay. If you want to cash out that is your deal, but > there are plenty of options out there. > > Being the group of alpha hackers that you are, this would be something > that surprises me no one has accepted. */Therefore I would heavily > reconsider your options, and adapt/*. Thanks hope I was more clear this > time. Once again thanks for all the great work everyone. My hope is that > you can be able to fund many other projects with such quality code such > as PF, SSH and many other things of that nature that have helped the > open source movement be so secure. > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which > had a name of smime.p7s]
