[Cryptography] funding Tor development

[Nicholas Vanderweit]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Michael Kirk
<michael.john.kirk at gmail.com>wrote:

> For some reason the [tor donation page] doesn't want your bitcoins.
>
> <snip>
> Instead of donating bitcoins to Tor, please consider a donation to
> Torservers.net <https://www.torservers.net/donate.html>, NoiseTor<http://noisetor.net/#bitcoin>,
> orTails <https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/donate/#bitcoin> which
> will turn your bitcoin donation into a faster, larger Tor Network for all.
> </snip>
>
> [tor donation page]
> https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate.html.en
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Kelly John Rose <iam at kjro.se> wrote:
>
>> I think a surprising number of people could be talked into $10/mo.
>>
>> If the donations could be done effectively anonymously, it could
>> probably get far more.
>>
>> On 17/10/2013 11:55 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> > On Oct 17, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Dave Howe <davehowe.pentesting at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> Guys, in order to minimize Tor Project's dependance on
>> >>> federal funding and/or increase what they can do it
>> >>> would be great to have some additional funding ~10 kUSD/month.
>> >> I would say what is needed is not one source at $10K/month but 10K
>> >> sources at $1/month.
>> >>
>> >> A single source of funding is *always* a single source of control.
>> > It's also easier to find sources of smaller amounts.
>> >
>> > I couldn't come close to funding $10K/month, but might be talked into
>> $10/month.
>> >
>> >                                                         -- Jerry
>> >
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I wonder what the rationale for that is. If it's generally preferable to
put your money toward strengthening the Tor network, then why allow
donations to the Tor project at all?


Nick
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