In the past when we have accepted odd kinds of donations we have had a small number/amount of such donations, in exchange for cluttering the donate page and maybe costing us because of that. We could probably do it in such a way as to avoid clutter though - have the big buttons for paypal and google and then a link to other options maybe?
Technically, I regard bitcoin as rather fascinating, although: 1) It is not strongly anonymous. All transactions are public, and until somebody implements a mixing layer, coins can be traced in a similar manner to Freenet correlation attacks. On the other hand, arguably this is a *GOOD* thing as it means it's less likely to cause problems. 2) When I last looked the exchange services take a rather huge spread, so it's not a very efficient mechanism. However that was a couple of months back. 3) Personally I will not run a coin generating node, although I have no problem with running a non-minting node, because I object to systems that require spending a percentage (admittedly a declining percentage) of your total currency supply on electricity doing little useful work. Two users have asked about this, attached.
--- Begin Message ---Hi, You should consider taking donations in Bitcoin and other anonymous/pseudonanymous currencies in addition to USD. There are a lot of like-minded people in the anonymous digital currency community. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --------BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear friends, I have been looking in your site for any reference to Bitcoin for making a small donation. As you probably know, Bitcoin (bitcoin.org) is a new kind of a P2P crypto-currency in which the general public can make donations, macro or micropayments in a secure and anonymous way usually without any transaction fee involved. You can change Bitcoins for real Dollars (eg: https://mtgox.com) or purchase services or goods in an increasing number of sites. In order to receive donations you only have to publish one of your accounts as generated by the bitcoin client or any specialized bitcoin trader (eg: mybitcoin.com) Currently some projects as www.i2p2.de, www.torrentservers.net and organizations like the EFF are accepting donations. In my opinion this kind of decentralized solution without the need to trust any middlemen is much better than Paypal (Visa, Mastercard ...) for security-minded people as most of your donors are. If you are interested in pushing Bitcoin forward, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any doubt. Yours, Cyclonite -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNFp4aAAoJEL/jfnFwT5SQ2wEQAK7s6wGleGBcY7VkioSnqv4I 92JlZqG1QU3N9PRVDWl9ZNpEEdg7In16HvBhctsUSS+MfuaIgRQWjV3bN1a10oVW BQtc2zcNExeNAHKBVea2niqEPxutQkoxvMv3wgTb5NiOzQBjTydQ7TNjmOxSrg0q MKUyuhux94bM3r/+QrEWqcy6z+62IZhSceyIP6hnC+Lb4CA/RBVLMpsMnno/YvFB mhTldfhIwJExmZf77C979aCwbeKDyGd2EVsKO6sPNFD6Fke8H3PXwW7Stp48lnfg YIn0kMbJS7YXvP8C0qhJhOi/eMETGmmLEy9CmFlTUgfLbM4qjfzz+vX8NP3zrLJO G7nHKWNrLv3WneemrSpo9uVfrxKyLSO8H/X7XTKjrfnDB3L6S1Yp/Nk23nb30jmj lVx+9Elu5wOWG2CDel1MWiDIBrLUl7km+h4JmR0hSzOt2DJMw62IPT0aFwOAZVt/ 4EPKF0CzxwjIaK5q2CC1FzbM47wBAQqJ7Ua0HcCx71i0YJuGy4GkZapOwm3+zuSn kBcOVBZB2PnseZ1f3ntF+Y77Lvqz4JyZa5cPTHevvnqw0No/IJsJp4+2mduE7HOR JRqLDM1NuXSfinTE4x+H/144efiZuTV8YcAnuZD1+DPuyv4xjwrrD4H1rnjs7HW/ FsLmo9yPZDRvfUZKEVYe =52Cw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature_______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
--- End Message ---
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
