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. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: ma...@anikin.us Subject: [freenet-support] Bitcoin Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 09:06:15 -0500 Size: 3341 URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110216/f6f10614/attachment.mht> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: cyclon...@safe-mail.net Subject: [freenet-support] Bitcoin donation Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:30:12 -0800 Size: 8161 URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110216/f6f10614/attachment-0001.mht> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110216/f6f10614/attachment.pgp>
