I know absolutely nothing about hosting a site like this, how much does it actually cost? It doesn’t seem like a particularly resource intensive application?
The cost might go up significantly if they’re actually hosting the .torrent files. They could save space and bandwidth by only hosting the magnet links like The Pirate Bay did.
Soliciting donations and using fucking bitcoin of all things is mind blowing to me. How are you gonna get your money out without everyone tracing you?
They can’t and you’re right to point it out.
It’s astounding to me how many people still think btc is actually anonymous and impossible to track. The feds love this myth.
Unless the site has been high jacked by the feds and they want to be able to track people 🧐
Would they go to all that effort to nab a few downloaders? They don’t even get prosecuted if caught, usually.
Just off the top of my head, they could be using the evidence of a person donating to a torrent group as probable cause to see what other illegal activity that person has been up to…
I was mostly joking in response to why a torrent tracker would be asking for donations in a cryptocurrency that can be traced…
Could you not do BTC to XMR then to w.e else after that? And if youre donating you should do XMR to BTC.
Another problem with BTC is the extremely high transfer costs. Donating XMR directly makes smaller donations viable, while BTC is only attractive for large donors.
Not exactly. Lightning makes it super cheap and instant.
Interesting. I thought Lightning was a fork like BTC Cash, not a feature compatible with BTC itself.
On another note I just noticed it’s gotten harder to buy Monero in the EU, at least Kraken no longer offers them (damned money laundering, sadly the laws are necessary). Luckily thanks to legalization I no longer use it.
Lightning is indeed NOT a fork of a Bitcoin, it’s essentially a Layer 2 for Bitcoin (if you think in terms of the Internet’s TCP/IP model). It solves pretty much every use case created by any Altcoin when competing with Bitcoin, as Bitcoin chose security and decentralization over scalibility in its base layer (on-chain).
As for buying Monero, I only deal with Bitcoin, but I’m pretty sure you can easily buy Monero still as long as you don’t use centralised exchanges (permissioned), and instead use Decentralised ones (permissionless). That’ll be the case for any altcoin that still has decent popularity for the foreseeable.
Not really. Transferring a couple grand cost likes 10 bucks or so.
I mean who doesn’t have a couple grands to donate? That’s like the chump change you get for groceries or smth
