Alternate donation methods

[fraktar]

I'd like to contribute via BTC, Skrill or Neteller if possible.

Keep up the great work <3

[jayroh]

Not familiar with skrill or neteller and is BTC bitcoin? We'll look into them @fraktar. In the meantime the best way to support us outside of $ is to TELL people! Tweet about the project! Blog about it! Anything!

@glebm we should talk about some way to divert potential funds like this to some sort of escrow. Right now this would be going to me and I don't think that's quite right.

[glebm]

Not familiar with skrill or neteller and is BTC bitcoin? We'll look into them @fraktar

Skrill is a rebranding of Moneybookers, a super-old online wallet system, kinda like PayPal. They had a few serious breaches in the past but not since the rebranding.

BTC is easy to set up with https://blockchain.info/ but not sure how to cash out legally, and can't pay for Heroku and such with BTC.

we should talk about some way to divert potential funds like this to some sort of escrow.

Do you know of one? If not, I guess we'd need to form a company and get a bank account with shared access. Forming one here in the UK is easy but accounting is a drag and accountants cost an arm and a leg (mine charges me ~£1,350 / year for an LLC, and £600 / year for personal).

/cc @timdiggins

[timdiggins]

Yes - it's surprising how expensive it is to do accounts properly (my UK accountant is a bit cheaper @glebm IIRC but similar sort of ball park). While escrow/incorporation sounds like a good plan, unless/until it's really significant money it might be better to just divert through one person who is already accounting for things. I have no problems with that being one of you two @glebm @jayroh.

As a side note, shame there's not some kind of meta-platform for OSS finance (like pledgie + accounting-software + some kind of escrow) . But I think that would end up looking like money-laundering to the authorities and the compliance overheads would be astonishing I would guess. Idle thoughts anyway.

[glebm]

@moondcr I've set up a Decred wallet! DsaDygBi8anrXbXznvritWcKowcMPCFiJeq

[glebm]

@moondcr Thank you!