At Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:10:55 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > On Wed, August 27, 2014 04:54, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Russ Allbery <[email protected]> [2014-08-26 19:43 -0700]: > >> I believe Debian's major expenses are Debconf, team meetings > >> (mostly travel and possibly some lodging and food), and computing > >> hardware. I would be surprised if Bitcoin were useful for the > >> first two. The latter seems likely to have the most potential to > >> take Bitcoin. > > > > The benefit of using Bitcoin for DebConf and sprints is to be able > > to reimburse people without the costs of cash or international money > > transfer. This is, in fact, one of the main ways I could see Debian > > use Bitcoin. > > I doubt whether such transaction costs are really a significant part of > Debian's expenditures. From my locale I know that transfers within the > eurozone are already free.
They are cheap, but not free. While consumers in the Netherlands generally don't pay a fee per transaction, organisations generally pay a per transaction fee in the range of 0.05-0.15 euro. Kind regards, Jeroen Dekkers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87wq9ucizx.wl%[email protected]
