Look, I'm not making this up. Lots of people and projects do exactly this. Tails, the super-secure privacy-focused version of Linux asks for donations in exactl

Look, I'm not making this up. Lots of people and projects do exactly this. Tails, the super-secure privacy-focused version of Linux asks for donations in exactly this way [1] (and if you go to blockchain.info you can see a full wonderful list of all the bitcoin addresses who have donated to them [2]). It's a totally reasonable way to set up bitcoin donations (hell, it's even recommended by the bitcoin wiki! [3]) and it's a significant weakness of bitcoin that these transactions are not private. It is absurd defense of bitcoin to say "well, it COULD just be as private as these other things, if you only jump through ten more technical hoops and not use bitcoin as intended". Clearly, these other cryptocurrencies offer something that bitcoin doesn't. [1]: https://tails.boum.org/donate/?r=contribute https://tails.boum.org/donate/?r=contribute [2]: https://blockchain.info/address/1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7xJaNVN2 https://blockchain.info/address/1BvBMSEYstWetqTFn5Au4m4GFg7x... [3]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Receiving_donations_with_bitcoin https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Receiving_donations_with_bitcoin