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Title: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: pera on March 22, 2013, 06:49:14 PM Is there any list of addresses of the current bitcoind (+qt) coders? I would like to make donations to the project without doing it through the Bitcoin Foundation (I don't like that Jon Matonis is in there)
Thanks! Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: gbl08ma on March 22, 2013, 06:52:27 PM http://bitcoin.org/en/support-bitcoin points to the Bitcoin Foundation and I doubt there's another supported way to donate money to the project, unless you're OK with tipping specific developers personally.
Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: Xenland on March 22, 2013, 07:35:06 PM I doubt they are hurting for money, (not to sound negative) but I believe Bitcoin can be helped by funding it by other means. However I could be wrong I don't know if they are asking for any returns for their work.
Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: pera on March 22, 2013, 07:36:54 PM [...] unless you're OK with tipping specific developers personally. yeah actually I was asking exactly that: a list of addresses :)Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: wumpus on March 23, 2013, 09:40:54 AM Sure, mine is: 1B2fZN58SD4JqaTitHmBLcSo89GfUtvWZ3
Btw xenland you would be surprised. We're not compensated in any way. Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: Xenland on March 23, 2013, 06:22:17 PM Sure, mine is: 1B2fZN58SD4JqaTitHmBLcSo89GfUtvWZ3 Btw xenland you would be surprised. We're not compensated in any way. If you intended to mean "direct" compensation I can agree, but I guess i was pointing out that usually people do things as an incentive and if the "core" dev team is still on board and do not get direct payments i'd have to say their "personal" investment increases over time (every 4 years?) and during bitcoin upgrades which in turn is their payment (or incentive). Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: Zeilap on March 23, 2013, 07:21:16 PM Sure, mine is: 1B2fZN58SD4JqaTitHmBLcSo89GfUtvWZ3 Btw xenland you would be surprised. We're not compensated in any way. If you intended to mean "direct" compensation I can agree, but I guess i was pointing out that usually people do things as an incentive and if the "core" dev team is still on board and do not get direct payments i'd have to say their "personal" investment increases over time (every 4 years?) and during bitcoin upgrades which in turn is their payment (or incentive). What? Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: wumpus on March 24, 2013, 12:23:02 PM If you intended to mean "direct" compensation I can agree, but I guess i was pointing out that usually people do things as an incentive and if the "core" dev team is still on board and do not get direct payments i'd have to say their "personal" investment increases over time (every 4 years?) and during bitcoin upgrades which in turn is their payment (or incentive). I don't understand you. Do you mean that "investing" in bitcoin, and thus profiting from price rises (and suffering from price drop) is a kind of compensation for dev work? How do you correlate that to upgrades of the software at all, does the price rise consistently with upgrades?If that's what you mean I have to disagree with you. After all, anyone can buy and sell bitcoins, and profit (or lose) without writing a line of code or running one test case. Personally I'm way to busy with both my day job and open source projects to do trading or such, so you could say it runs the other way. There is nothing extra in it for developers. This is not meant as complaint, as the open source development I do is because it is fun working on a large-scale, high-impact project such as this, and not to fish for donations. But if you think there is some magical pot of coins guarded by the core developers that we only get to share in, that's a painful misunderstanding. Having said that, if there was a chance to do open source development on bitcoin full-time and get paid I'd probably take it. Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: pera on March 24, 2013, 03:49:48 PM Hi John Smith, are you laanwj?
Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: wumpus on March 31, 2013, 07:29:46 AM Hi John Smith, are you laanwj? Yes I amTitle: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: gbl08ma on March 31, 2013, 02:53:53 PM Funny thing, I had already contacted you about your etna_viv Vivante drivers project... the internet is as small as the world it seems :) Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: iElectric on March 31, 2013, 07:23:34 PM For personal funding, I'd recommend https://gittip.com
And for sponsoring feature/bugs: https://fundhub.org Title: Re: How to make donations to bitcoind coders? Post by: wumpus on April 02, 2013, 01:04:01 PM Funny thing, I had already contacted you about your etna_viv Vivante drivers project... the internet is as small as the world it seems :) Haha what a concidence, wow :)For personal funding, I'd recommend https://gittip.com I have a gittip account, but they don't support BTC yet. I've heard they are working on it. Fundhub looks interesting tho.And for sponsoring feature/bugs: https://fundhub.org |