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Re: Tarsnap and Bitcoin

To: James Turner <james@calminferno.net>, tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
Subject: Re: Tarsnap and Bitcoin
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:42:44 -0800
In-reply-to: <20140202175625.GL20116@soekris.calminferno.net>
References: <20140202175625.GL20116@soekris.calminferno.net>

On 02/02/14 09:56, James Turner wrote:
> I've searched the archives and I don't believe this has been brought up
> before.
> 
> With the recent large donation to the OpenBSD Foundation [0] via a
> bitcoin donation [1], I was wondering if bitcoin (or maybe another *coin
> based on scrypt perhaps?) has ever been considered as an alternative
> payment method for Tarsnap?

It has been considered. :-)

I don't want to use BTC as a medium of account due to the wildly fluctuating
value; I may take BTC as a medium of exchange -- that is, "pay $X worth of
BTC" -- at some point in the future, but I haven't found a payment-handling
service which I'm happy with yet.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

References:
- Tarsnap and Bitcoin
  - From: James Turner <james@calminferno.net>

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