[tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

[ban at unseen.is]

After just a few days the tor nodes containing a bitcoin address in 
their ContactInfo more than doubled, right now there are 205 nodes in 
the list which represend more than 8% of the consensus. Now about 180 
US$ have been donated.

Imagine the amount donated to the noisetor bitcoin address [1] would be 
distributed in this fair and transparent way to many tor relay operators 
via OnionTip.com!

Is it already discussed by organisations like torservers.net or noisetor 
or even torproject directly to use this fair and easy mechanism to 
compensate relay operators? What about other founders wanting to finance 
Tor relays?


[1] https://blockchain.info/address/1PFH8NPWu2g6TdRQsirTPGpbnPBhkzQMvM



Am 2014-08-10 14:32, schrieb ban at unseen.is:
> Hi,
> 
> apparently this hasn't been discussed here yet.
> About a month ago, Donncha O'Cearbhaill build https://oniontip.com/
> during the Dublin Bitcoin Hackathon.
> It is a webapp which automatically extracts all Bitcoin addresses set
> in the ContactInfo variable of the torrc and distributes Bitcoin
> donations based on the consensus weight.
> 
> There are already 100+ relays listed which represent around 5% of the
> total consensus weight. In just a few weeks they distributed around
> 125 US$.
> 
> There are many other theoretical ways to provide compensation to tor
> relay operators (see
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-incentives-research-roundup-goldstar-par-braids-lira-tears-and-torcoin)
> but I really like this very simple and practical approach.
> 
> Thoughts?
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