What statements are compelling?
About the profit model
Also, what FatManTerra fails to understand is that people do not need to click the donate button. From his thread:
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Interestingly, ChipMixer released with a "pay what you want" model, which is uncommon for mixers. Users were not charged a mandatory fee for mixing and instead could donate to the website. As any tech entrepreneur will tell you, donations are usually not a viable business model.
If you have 0.0125 BTC, you just send the entire amount to CM (out of convenience + it's better for privacy) and they give you a 0.008 + 0.004 BTC chip. The change of 0.0005 BTC is automatically donated since there is no chip of this size. You just paid a 4% "fee"!
Then like I mentioned on my last post, he just assumes CM has zero revenue.
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The story starts getting suspicious when you look at ChipMixer's expenditure. With zero revenue, ChipMixer paid out several large alpha tester bounties, bought ad space on the forum, and ran a large signature campaign, with expenses in the tens or hundreds of bitcoins.
Even I have received a few hundreds in donations from people who DM'ed questions about the mixer, so I highly doubt this is true.
