[tor-relays] Discuss. Why not split donations to Tor relay owners?

[Syverson, Paul F CIV USN NRL (5543) Washington DC (USA)]

Topposting because I notice when I look through this thread at all
messages to date (last I saw was from dewaj at garlic.com received a few
minutes ago) no reference to any of the organizations devoted to
paying for relays that have been around for many years. Not sure if
that is because of lack of familiarity on the part of thread
participants or because I am missing some way in which they are not as
directly relevant as they seem to me. I thus hope it is helpful to
point at

https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/relay-associations/

Also, at the risk of topposting something that should be a response
within the thread, the non-monetary incentive approach (e.g.,
performance rewards) is very interesting and IMO languishing. And
among other advantages has the potential to avoid crowding-out
problems (cf. e.g. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Crowding_Out )

Si Valetis Valeo,
Paul


On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:41:58AM +0000, torrrelays at riseup.net wrote:
> I provided some high speed Tor nodes (non-exits and guards) but I quit
> in this year to make some space for my other projects. I would continue
> collaborating by keep Tor nodes online if I receive some donation. Is it
> just me, because I received $0 for running those Tor relays.
> 
> So my proposal is this:
> 
> 1. make a donate-torrelay-owner.tpo website
> 2. let Tor relay owners link their
> PayPal/Striple/BitCoin/OpenCollective/AmazonPay/GooglePay/Whatever
> account
> 3. the Tor project and other good folks put money into the large bottle
> (donate-torrelay-owner website)
> 4. the donation then split by the participants & send to each accounts
> monthly
> 
> By doing this, you are creating sustainable mechanism to keep Tor nodes
> running and other people who have access to their servers may join. More
> Tor nodes will be added to the network & owners get paid at least.
> Win-win.
> 
> Please do this!
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