Topic: Get Donator status by donating 10 BTC - page 7. (Read 138661 times)

Interesting. Which projects are being run by OGNasty Tesla PowerWall?

Not even sure donators funds are needed anymore: sent Theymos a PM months ago to donate and got ignored.
I then decided to support some members of this forum and their projects like OGNasty Tesla PowerWall and other projects. Great stuff.
Besides the "forum" itself there is the community behind it that worths other people support as well.

As far as I am aware of, no. The donation page was updated last time in April 2017. Not everyone is affording to pay +$70,000 and mining Bitcoin is not as profitable and easy as before.

Are people still donating?

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/newbies-can-now-pay-a-small-fee-to-enable-images-2385104

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote

Hi,

I tried doing a search but no results were found. Can someone clarify what is "Copper member" status and how it is achieved -alternatively a link to a thread on the subject would suffice.

Thanks.

Deflation was the norm when a gold standard was part of the US dollar system.    Over peoples lives the prices would actually drop considerably, its beyond living memory now as the Federal Reserve has been around since 1913 but at some point in history its previously been the case as now with Bitcoin that older prices always seemed higher.
  Technology would be one example still true, with rapid growth most prices from 2 years ago should appear far too high for that part.   Mostly what they do there is rebadge the brand to reflect the new level given for the price, maybe comparable I dont know.   Bitcoin itself now is far larger, the forum itself must have much greater reach then it did previously so its kinda upgraded over time also?


Actually I came to post a question on donations.  I have involvement with an ICO scheme that refuses to pay participants who did not present a passport or similar ID in 14 days.  I'm suggesting the company instead of ignoring the payments due to individuals, the successful ICO actually pay this forum collectively as they based part of their ICO and publicity off the back of the costs paid by this forum.

The donation would probably come in the form of crypto tokens (created in the ICO) of some worth on an exchange, would that be acceptable.   As per the original FAQ I'm going to suggest they contact Thermos as the amount should be well worth the effort but if anyone else can confirm a correct route that'd be good.

The main point on this donation would be KYC must be cleared hence the previous troubles but Im stating this forum would have no trouble clearing such a requirement as the company is complying with Austrian legislation.

it makes sense only if "donator" is no longer seen really as "donator" but "old user" or "bitcoin pioneer"
it differentiate users who were here soon enough so that 10 btc were worth 1 month of hosting


that makes sense. and even that would be much more (in fiat) now that it was before as I'm sure the forum is bigger now and needs a much bigger server

Not sure this is a good idea... A lot of account farmer here are ready to pay for ranking increase for earn by lucrative signature campaign or for build up some kind of scam. Better if things remain same as now.

Just for the record, the 10 BTC donation was not an arbitrary number, but meant to be more or less equivalent to 1 month of hosting.
If anything, something like today's equivalent to 1 month of hosting would be an appropriate amount of money to be considered a donator.
My 2 cents.

Yes that would be far better idea. The list is too long and outdated. Having 'Donor' next to the avatar is good.

Two 10,000 bitcoin Pizzas says it all. Donor status should be awarded to all donating 0.001 bitcoin

The donation amount was not 10 dollars but 10 bitcoins. The price was in bitcoins so that's what people paid. We can argue all day long about how fair/unfair it is or whether donators will be annoyed if it was changed but it's irrelevant as theymos has said he won't lower the price. It would be much simpler to just create additional Silver and Gold membership levels instead with additional perks and fix the value in fiat and then they would become the new vip/donator ranks and no one can complain then.

Users wish to have a donor status down to their profile, but what they need to spend makes them leave of its own. We can't say it is not worth it and nothing to gain, because among the entire list of users in the forum if you go through the list of donors it is very small in count. Being one among them will probably get you priority in forum related activities. We might be not aware about those.

Agreed. Great logical example

I think getting donor status is not on anyones mind any more. Just not worth it and nothing to gain.

That is completely illogical.  With that logic a pizza would still be 10,000 BTC because it would be 'unfair' to the guy who bought a pizza for that much, when that was the price of a pizza at the time.

Deflation is a thing, and I would enjoy hearing the opinion of a donor who genuinely believes that their donation of $50 in 2012 is equivalent to someone donating over $100k today.

Yes we can't do anything with it anymore, the decision is final and before the forum is being supported through donation's but now it has ad slot so whether no one will donate the forum will continue.

With the high price of bitcoin now, only someone who has a lot of stored bitcoins can donate.

Well years ago if somebody donated 10 bitcoins at $1 each and in return received donor status for a total of $10 it seems fine.

In todays day and age nobody will donate 10 bitcoins at $12,000 each and in return receive donor status for a total of $120,000.

If it's been decided then I guess there's nothing we can do, but I don't think it's unfair for people that bought it before because they were comfortable with the value of BTC at the time.

That sounds very logical

In that case no-one in their right mind would donate enough to have a donor status