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Not giving out payment information seems like a problem that putting a bitcoin address on your project website could maybe solve.

• tashbarg 10y ago
  I assume someone uncomfortable with giving out payment information would be at least as suspicious with bitcoins persistent and public ledger. Bitcoin is far from anonymous. In fact, all is out in the open but you can "invent" new names for yourself all the time. It's therefore pseudonymous by nature but the openly accessible and analyzable flow of bitcoins makes even only reasonable anonymity very hard to achieve.
  • divbit 10y ago
    There are reasonably easy ways around this though - for example, keep your coins in monero, and send to the bitcoin payment address via a service such as xmr.to . (I'm sure that there are other ways, but that's just the one I'm most familiar with - in fact one may even be able to find some software which does this conversion automatically for you via the xmr.to api).
    • tashbarg 10y ago
      Simplified, you pay someone (in another, probably more anonymous currency) to pay the recipient in the less anonymous currency. A less technical way would be paying someone in cash to do it.
      • koolba 10y ago
        > Simplified, you pay someone (in another, probably more anonymous currency) to pay the recipient in the less anonymous currency. I'm pretty sure this is the definition of money laundering.
        • tashbarg 10y ago
          I think so, too. That's why I wrote it down simplified.
          • divbit 10y ago
            Monero in fact has 'view' keys so you can report, and prove, the transaction / donation to relevant authorities, without revealing your private key, and without making your transaction history visible to the general public.
        • divbit 10y ago
          Monero in fact has 'view' keys so you can report, and prove, the transaction / donation to relevant authorities, without revealing your private key, and without making your transaction history visible to the general public.