About the donation to bitcointalk

[malevolent]

Maybe a bug with Hal, because I can not find him with VIP position indicator when I use members search on the forum. The search results only include these last two cases.

Or maybe there is no bug, just because the forum has: user badge and display badge. For honorable VIPs, what they got are display badges, not user badges like VIP donators. If it is, I guess theymos mistakenly gave last two the VIP user badge, rather than VIP display badges. It is my theory, only.

Not a bug.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09975.html

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Irreversible_Transactions#Finney_attack

Hal,

Just to echo the other devs:  your contributions continue to be felt today.  Pieter (sipa) is working on integrating your ECDSA speed-ups into the main client.

Thanks so much.

In any case, I thought I recalled Theymos saying the forum's finances were such that no more donations were needed--and even if I'm wrong in my recollection,

You're correct, the forum has millions of dollars worth of bitcoins. The forum also receives steady income from ads.

Almost 3 halvings have passed since those who donated.

No halvings have passed since the last donation(s).

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[bob123]

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I was just trying to share my point of view.
IMO BTC is a currency and should therefore be used as such.

Just because people were ready to donate 50 BTC a few years ago and received a Donator tag, doesn't mean the value should be lowered because the USD value increased.

My analogy with an old smartphone might not have been the best, i agree with that.

You don't care how much Venezuela Bolivar you get for your USD. You care about your own currency and the buying power.
While the buying power of bitcoin is a lot higher today than X years ago, the amount still stays fixed. And that's fine IMO.


Also, i don't understand the reason for the whole topic.
If someone wants to donate, just donate. I don't see the reason in donating just to get a tag which shows that you donated. This just doesn't make sense to me.

[LTU_btc]

This topic was discussed so many times and it's not likely that theymos are going to change these things. But I think this offer have sense. For example, look at Copper membership price. Theymos don't keep price of membership fixed in BTC. When there is huge changes in Bitcoin price, theymos just update price of membership. Same with ad slots auctions on Bitcointalk. Price of ad slot on Bitcointalk now doesn't cost same like back in 2015 for example. But if Bitcointalk don't need money from donations, probably there is no big need to make any changes.

[Pmalek]

I was just trying to share my point of view.

That is OK, so did I.

IMO BTC is a currency and should therefore be used as such.

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Just because people were ready to donate 50 BTC a few years ago and received a Donator tag, doesn't mean the value should be lowered because the USD value increased.

That is also true and no arguments there. It doesn't have to, especially since the forum no longer needs any donations. But however you look at it, in USD equivalent or something else, those 50 BTC could in the past barely buy you a pair of sneakers, but today you could buy yourself a nice apartment.

You don't care how much Venezuela Bolivar you get for your USD. You care about your own currency and the buying power.

I would If I was Venezuelan, but I get your point.

If someone wants to donate, just donate.

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