Re: [tor-relays] oniontip.com

2014-09-01 Thread Mike Perry
Donncha O'Cearbhaill: > Thanks everyone for all the feedback I've received about OnionTip. It > was originally created in a rush during a hackathon so there is > definitely room for improvement. > > Mike Perry, as Mike Cardwell has said, it is currently possible to > select a subset of relays to r

Re: [tor-relays] oniontip.com

2014-08-29 Thread Donncha O'Cearbhaill
Thanks everyone for all the feedback I've received about OnionTip. It was originally created in a rush during a hackathon so there is definitely room for improvement. Mike Perry, as Mike Cardwell has said, it is currently possible to select a subset of relays to receive donations by using the filt

Re: [tor-relays] oniontip.com

2014-08-29 Thread Mike Cardwell
* on the Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 08:31:36PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > 1. It should allow me to select if I want to donate only to nodes that > have the Exit flag. Running an exit is way more involved (and often more > expensive) than running a normal node, and I think it would be good to > give folk

Re: [tor-relays] oniontip.com

2014-08-28 Thread Mike Perry
Sebastian Urbach: > Hi, > > I like to suggest adding oniontip.com to the "Donate" section on the > tor website. It's a nice possibility to help the Relay-Oerators. While I think OnionTip is awesome, I'm a little concerned about its apparently built-in lack of external auditability. Why is it gene

[tor-relays] oniontip.com

2014-08-27 Thread Sebastian Urbach
Hi, I like to suggest adding oniontip.com to the "Donate" section on the tor website. It's a nice possibility to help the Relay-Oerators. Have a nice day. -- Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen / Sincerely yours Sebastian Urbach -- Those who would give up ess

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-21 Thread Ed Carter
> On 14 Aug 2014, at 22:00, Alexander wrote: > >>> On 2014-08-14 10:25, Mike Cardwell wrote: >>> >>> On the other hand. It costs you nothing to stick a bitcoin >>> address in a config file to find out. >> >> Not being a lawyer, does accepting money for running a Tor relay make it >> a commercial op

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-15 Thread Alexander Dietrich
On 2014-08-15 09:29, Alexander Dietrich wrote: Using the Tor Project's Bitcoin address is a cool idea, but I can't find one on the official project page. They're actually asking people to send Bitcoin to Torservers.net, NoiseTor, or Tails first (it was before coffee): https://www.torproject.

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-15 Thread Alexander Dietrich
On 2014-08-14 23:46, Tim wrote: Also not being a lawyer, if BTC isn't legal tender in your country (if such a concept exists), are you really accepting "money"? I guess a more precise description would involve the words "monetary value". But again, I'm not a lawyer, that's why I asked. Usin

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-14 Thread Tim
On 14 Aug 2014, at 22:00, Alexander wrote: >> On 2014-08-14 10:25, Mike Cardwell wrote: >> >> On the other hand. It costs you nothing to stick a bitcoin >> address in a config file to find out. > > Not being a lawyer, does accepting money for running a Tor relay make it > a commercial operation

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-14 Thread IceFish ThreeTwo
Looks like it. Does this only apply for exit nodes? On Thursday, August 14, 2014, blahu77 . wrote: > I was thinking about it and I will stick torproject's wallet - > 1K7P2FovDXyyEuZc87YUgPtmR34P62MYmn > from: https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate.html.en >> > https://bitpay.com/invoice?id=X

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-14 Thread blahu77 .
I was thinking about it and I will stick torproject's wallet - 1K7P2FovDXyyEuZc87YUgPtmR34P62MYmn from: https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate.html.en >> https://bitpay.com/invoice?id=XzYL2D1neP496n79LyTSV4 Is that correct one? Thanks, -mateusz On 14 August 2014 20:24, threehundredthirtytwof

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-14 Thread threehundredthirtytwofishes
Good point... Sent from my iPhone On Thursday, August 14, 2014, Alexander Dietrich wrote: > On 2014-08-14 10:25, Mike Cardwell wrote: > > On the other hand. It costs you nothing to stick a bitcoin >> address in a config file to find out. >> > > Not being a lawyer, does accepting money for runn

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-14 Thread Alexander Dietrich
On 2014-08-14 10:25, Mike Cardwell wrote: On the other hand. It costs you nothing to stick a bitcoin address in a config file to find out. Not being a lawyer, does accepting money for running a Tor relay make it a commercial operation (in some countries) and put you in a different legal posi

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-14 Thread Mike Cardwell
That depends entirely on how much people donate. At the bottom of their front page it currently states that 335.26 mBTC have been donated so far. Ie, a third of a bitcoin. It's impossible to predict how much might be donated in future. On the other hand. It costs you nothing to stick a bitcoin add

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-13 Thread IceFish
How much does it actually pay out? Like is it worth it? I run a fairly slow small node Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 13, 2014, at 17:05, Mike Patton wrote: > > >> On 14 Aug 2014 08:34, Ed Carter wrote: >> >>> Tim Semeijn schreef op 10/08/14 17:33: > On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, b...@unseen.is w

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-13 Thread Mike Patton
On 14 Aug 2014 08:34, Ed Carter wrote: > > > Tim Semeijn schreef op 10/08/14 17:33: > >> On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, b...@unseen.is wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> apparently this hasn't been discussed here yet. About a month ago, > >>> Donncha O'Cearbhaill build https://oniontip.com/ during the Dubli

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-13 Thread Ed Carter
> Tim Semeijn schreef op 10/08/14 17:33: >> On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, b...@unseen.is wrote: >>> 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

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-13 Thread ban
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]

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-10 Thread jason
An answer might be to use bitcoin multisig transactions () so that OnionTip AND the relay is necessary to finalize the transaction. -J On 08/10/2014 04:48 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Tim Semeijn schreef op 10/08/14 17:33: >> On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, b...@unseen.is wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> apparently

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 10 Aug 2014, at 19:00, Tim Semeijn wrote: > > I really like this and I've added an address to my exits (4.2% of > > total exit consensus). However, for this to really kick off I'd > > recommend adding visibility on how many donations were received > > and how it was distributed across relays.

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-10 Thread Tim Semeijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 8/10/14, 6:48 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Tim Semeijn schreef op 10/08/14 17:33: >> On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, b...@unseen.is wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> apparently this hasn't been discussed here yet. About a month >>> ago, Donncha O'Cearbhaill build

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-10 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Tim Semeijn schreef op 10/08/14 17:33: On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, b...@unseen.is wrote: 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

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-10 Thread Tim Semeijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 8/10/14, 4:32 PM, b...@unseen.is wrote: > 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 extr

[tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-10 Thread ban
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 don