BitCoin is a new peer-to-peer Internet virtual currency which is seeing a rapid growth both in adoption and value: http://www.bitcoin.org/
I've setup a BitCoin client for Sugar Labs and added a note in our Donate page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Donate#Donate_via_BitCoin The BitCoin application is still at an early stage of development and is hard to install for most users. Unless you were already using BitCoin for other purposes, it's probably better to give using one of the "traditional" online payment methods. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . == Technical notes for complete nerds == Our bitcoin server is currently running on lightwave.sugarlabs.org, our primary DNS. Besides accepting transactions, the server is using idle CPU power for "mining" Bitcoins at the modest speed of 3.2 mega-hashes per second. At this rate, on average we could make $40 USD of revenue per year of computation (assuming free hardware and free electricity). Of course, this is more for amusement than a practical way to make a profit... I'll probably end up stopping the miner when it's no longer fun to watch! :-) You can play with the online profit calculator here: http://bitcoinx.com/profit/index.php _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
