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

[Mike Cardwell]

That depends entirely on how much people donate. At the bottom
of their front page it currently states that 335.26 mBTC have
been donated so far. Ie, a third of a bitcoin. It's impossible
to predict how much might be donated in future.

On the other hand. It costs you nothing to stick a bitcoin
address in a config file to find out.

Mike

* on the Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:23:27PM -0700, IceFish wrote:
> How much does it actually pay out? Like is it worth it? I run a fairly slow small node
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Aug 13, 2014, at 17:05, Mike Patton <m_patton at me.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> On 14 Aug 2014 08:34, Ed Carter <ecarter9 at riseup.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Tim Semeijn schreef op 10/08/14 17:33: 
> >>>>> On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, ban at unseen.is wrote: 
> >>>>> 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? _______________________________________________ 
> >>>>> tor-relays mailing list tor-relays at lists.torproject.org 
> >>>>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
> >>>> 
> >>>> I myself added a bitcoin address to the ContactInfo variable of my 
> >>>> nodes when I saw a tweet about this initiative. It is a nice way to 
> >>>> offer a way to donate to multiple node running volunteers instead of 
> >>>> donating to a specific person or organization. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> My nodes take up 20% of the current donations based on consensus so it 
> >>>> would be nice if more relay operators take part in this project to 
> >>>> make it resemble the current Tor network better.
> >>> 
> >>> I really like this and I've added an address to my exits (4.2% of total 
> >>> exit consensus). However, for this to really kick off I'd recommend 
> >>> adding visibility on how many donations were received and how it was 
> >>> distributed across relays. There should be safeguards to prevent 
> >>> oniontip.com from taking a part of the money, etc. 
> >>> 
> >>> Tom 
> >>> 
> >>> _______________________________________________ 
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> >> 
> >> Agreed, this is pretty awesome.  It allows independent relay operators to 
> >> receive donations no matter where they are in the world whether or not 
> >> they are affiliated with any group. 
> >> 
> >> The donations are transparent, since the money can be followed on the 
> >> Bitcoin blockchain to ensure that your donation made it to the individual 
> >> addresses of the relay operators. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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> > 
> > I like it! I've already made AUD $0.05!!! ;)
> > 
> > M.
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