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Support Tor's first donation campaign. Become a crowdfunder. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-campaign https://blog.torproject.org/bl
by zmanian 11y ago
Support Tor's first donation campaign.
Become a crowdfunder.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-campaign https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...
- tacojuan 11y agoI can't believe they're using PayPal of all things...
- zmanian 11y agoAgree, lutz. But EFF and Freedom of Press also use Paypal and they have a nice interface for monitoring recurring contributions.
- middleclick 11y agoI agree but I think the problem is the lack of an alternative in the space. PayPal works across countries. You can even send in cash...
- EthanHeilman 11y agoYou can play via bitcoins if that is your thing: https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate-options.html.en https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate-options.html.en
- tonyedgecombe 11y agoSome of us like PayPal.
- kbart 11y agoWhat are the alternatives that work well internationally? Only Bitcoin comes to my mind, but it's a mess to buy, conversation rates fluctuate wildly and is far from easy to use.
- yeukhon 11y agoWhy does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?
- zmanian 11y agoThey use the funding to pay the developer who develop the Tor software/daemon and the engineering effort there is extraordinary. Thousands of volunteers provide the network capacity that makes the daemon useful.
- yeukhon 11y agoThank you for the info. This is helpful to know. [edit] Have you folks looked at https://gratipay.com/search https://gratipay.com/search as another source of crowdfunding for developers? I am not sure which one is more effective for general funding.
- anonion 11y agoIt's not decentralized. The directory authorities, which hold the current state of the network, are hard-coded into the client software and trusted by all. They are a central point of failure - if a denial of service attack brought them all down for a suitably long period of time, the Tor network would cease to function.