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Domains are lke any other piece of rare property. With the same argument, people speculate on food and let other people die. Just because something is a rare property, it does not mean it is morally acceptable to block it and not even require it or use it. On the contrary. Scorn, envy and resentment are usually indicators that your domains worth something.
I could not care less about this specific list of domains. And OP's point that grabbing up Bitcoins for speculation is spot on. Bitcoins, like domain names, are scarce property. If you think they're more valuable than current market rates, you have every right to acquire them, nothing wrong with it at all.
If you've ever filled up your gas tank on a certain day because you thought oil prices were due to rise, you've done exactly the same thing as the domain grabber. All humans speculate, and good thing we do.
Your comparisons are completely off. Bitcoins and oil are interchangeable. Domain name squatting is comparable to getting up early to block the best lounge chairs on the beach, then go home and sleep and decide not to use them at all. |
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"insurance salesmen" per se do nothing wrong. squatting domains is [more or less] ILLEGAL, and at least there's no doubt that it is morally unacceptable.
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f*ck you domain grabbers. burn in hell.
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As you might have read in the news, Iran is blocking all encrypted (SSL/HTTPS) traffic. We've been able to set up obfuscated proxies for Tor bridges on two of our Gbit servers. Tor usually sees hundreds of thousands of Iran users (2nd largest user group!), but I am proud that today over 150 Iranians found their way through our servers. Thank you! Without your donations, this would not be possible!
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Sorry, I don't want to spam you, but I want to reach out to all BTC donators, especially the one who left a message in our PrivacyBox, promising a lot of Bitcoins weekly. So far, this seems to be true, and we have turned over 700 coins into money and then into Tor exit servers thanks to you! I want to make sure you all know we appreciate your confidence into us!
We're going strong, pumping around 1500 MBit/s of Tor exit traffic for all those in need of anonymity on the net.
In case you missed it, we're an official charitable German non-profit now!
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We still accept Bitcoin donations (and we're sitting on a large number of them). In case you lost hope, we will gladly accept the coins.
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We are now the fastest operator of Tor exit nodes worldwide, thanks to your donations!  |
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Thank you for your donation! KalyHost looks fine for a small exit, but I am a bit suspicious when it comes to cheap VPS with "unlimited" traffic on a "fair use" basis. I have contacted them to find out more. What we are trying to do is buy bandwidth in bulk for very cheap prices. Please follow the discussion the mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/archive/torservers/02-2011 . I really want to spend all donations for the best deal I can get, because in the end that is what I promise to do. If you want to chat about this and hear about the obstacles when it comes to finding good partners for high bandwidth exits, join us on IRC oftc.net #torservers |
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Sure But how do you want to ensure a 'constant stream' of Bitcoin donations? |
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That's why I'd have no problem paying for TOR to fight the stupid law to counteract my forced funding of the stupid law. There are other pay versions of Tor available. There is NO "pay version of Tor". You can use JAP and pay for higher bandwidth, yes, but it has a different design and thus different anonymity properties. I especially like that Tor is free for everyone. If you want a faster net, donate towards us or share your own bandwidth. You can also donate to Torproject for development. The roadmap includes discussion of "incentives": https://blog.torproject.org/blog/two-incentive-designs-tor |
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You can see the number of our servers at http://www.torservers.net/services.html#servers@bitanarchy: See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/two-incentive-designs-tor for some discussion on that. You really don't want to turn the Tor network into a capitalist system, especially when those affected by censorship are usually the people without money. We at torservers think that it is a great way for everyone who has money to support those that don't. We do not use Tor ourselves, because we live in western societies that already protects most of the properties we want to provide for everyone (protection of free speech etc). |
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Hi! We are still alive and kicking! If you're interested in our progress, check out my twitter account at http://www.twitter.com/torservers or the mailing list archive at http://www.freelists.org/archive/torservers/ . The financial authorities should accept us as a charitable non-profit organization soon, we have been donated one 100 mbit/s and two 40mbit/s servers by ISPs, we have found someone who donates the incredible amount of 100€ monthly, and we're heavily working on finding a really good partner for Tor exit node hosting - which isn't as easy as it seems, we want to get good bandwidth (500 Mbit/s to a Gbit), and that cheap, and most ISPs reject Tor on their network  We are still happy to accept Bitcoin donations of course! At the moment I have ~1000 BTC, and in September as you know I sold 2000 BTC for 100 Euro. If only I had kept it! A Bitcoin address to donate is listed at http://www.torservers.net/donate.html#anonymous . If you want to know anything else, I'm happy to chat about it. My Jabber details are on the site. |
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Good idea. Will do it with the next update.
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@noagendamarket Thanks! @caveden: At the moment I don't want to provide filesharing trackers, sorry. |
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I traded 4000 BTC for 206 Euro at bitcoinexchange as soon as I got them in early September.
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Yes, I am very proud of the Bitcoin community to support this project with that amount! Just a quick update: Sorry, I haven't yet found the time to work on listing the donations properly. Bear with me! I am working on this alone at the moment, and have been busy talking to people about getting the association registered, and my number one priority was to get the Tor nodes working (which turned out to be harder than I thought). There's a lot going on behind the scenes in regard to monitoring etc, I want to put it all on the site once it's done. If you want to help out with anything, let me know (my jabber nick, email etc is on the contact page). I am also proud to be able to announce that we have tweaked our major server to finally reach an average of 320 MBit/s of Tor traffic as you can see from its stat at http://us1.torservers.net/ . That's exactly what the current plan is covering, and with the most famous and stable exit node "blutmagie" ceasing operation in 2011, it looks like we 'hit the market' just at the right moment. If you want to meet and missed the event in Dresden, I will be at the Netzpolitische Kongress in Berlin from 12-13th November. |
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