After just a few days the tor nodes containing a bitcoin address in their ContactInfo more than doubled, right now there are 205 nodes in the list which represend more than 8% of the consensus. Now about 180 US$ have been donated.
Imagine the amount donated to the noisetor bitcoin address [1] would be distributed in this fair and transparent way to many tor relay operators via OnionTip.com!
Is it already discussed by organisations like torservers.net or noisetor or even torproject directly to use this fair and easy mechanism to compensate relay operators? What about other founders wanting to finance Tor relays?
[1] https://blockchain.info/address/1PFH8NPWu2g6TdRQsirTPGpbnPBhkzQMvM
Am 2014-08-10 14:32, schrieb ban@unseen.is:
Hi,
apparently this hasn't been discussed here yet. About a month ago, Donncha O'Cearbhaill build https://oniontip.com/ during the Dublin Bitcoin Hackathon. It is a webapp which automatically extracts all Bitcoin addresses set in the ContactInfo variable of the torrc and distributes Bitcoin donations based on the consensus weight.
There are already 100+ relays listed which represent around 5% of the total consensus weight. In just a few weeks they distributed around 125 US$.
There are many other theoretical ways to provide compensation to tor relay operators (see https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-incentives-research-roundup-goldstar-pa...) but I really like this very simple and practical approach.
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