Donation page 50 Bitcoins???

[Gyfts]

oldest price I could find on bitcoincharts [3] is from 2011-09-13 ~5 USD per BTC. The donations come from a time when BTC wasnt worth as much. It was discussed often if the amount to donate for VIP should be lowered, but theymos and others in charge think it would not be fair to those that donated 50 BTC in the past. I also think its a good idea that VIP essentials says: I have been here a long time and I believed in it. If the amount to donated would be lowered to e.g. 0.4 BTC (~ equivalent in USD to 50 BTC 2011) we'd see way to many VIPs.

With the price of a single bitcoin increasing every year, I think there should be a third category for people who donate a lesser amount, e.g. 1 BTC. Or perhaps different tiers such as bronze donator: 0.01 BTC, silver: 0.1 BTC, gold: 1 BTC, and platinum: 10 BTC. Existing donators would be given platinum status and VIPs would remain as VIPs.

It's not fair for the people who donated earlier for this to happen.

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[qwk]

that entire list of donors are morons. lost so much money to look cool on the internet in front of geeks? could of bought a fancy car with 50BTC and picked up a pack of girls at your local university. idiots. but... to be fair a lot of those donations came in when BTC was well below $100.

Ah, the heartwarming gratitude of later generations.

Laszlo, who bought a couple pizzas for 10.000 BTC, an idiot.
Donators and VIPs who funded this forum in times of financial need, morons.
Miners who made the network strong with their time and investments, lunatics.

Thank you so much for the kind words

[hilariousandco]

Yeah, it's easy for people to say now in retrospect that those people are foolish or whatever, but they donated to something they felt needed the money at the time and for a service they probably valued. I'm sure many now regret that decision, but some will not and still be glad to be a part of this forum in some way or another. Regardless of that, most of those donators still probably have more coins than all the naysayers put together so they might not be all that angry about the fiddy coins  .

[AlpariForex]

the rate was much lower back then.

so it's not relevant in my opinion