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Board Armory
Re: BTC for Goatpig's work
by
gangtraet
on 15/08/2016, 06:44:50 UTC
I would like to support goatpig's efforts as well because Armory is mission critical software for my use case.

Although this would likely be unpopular, personally, I wouldn't mind a small non-optional fee built into the pre-compiled clients that can't be removed, so he can skim a small transaction fee and % of a point off of every transaction.

This will never happen, if for no other reasons then for reasons of privacy.

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If goatpig doesn't want the money, he can use it to hire another coder.
Not for the money he can raise with donations.  Once the first 25 people have donated 25$, the flow becomes a trickle.  And a decent programmer probably costs around $100 per day.

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The only reason I can think of that someone might want to reject funds is to avoid any tax related shenanigans. Maybe he doesn't have time to setup a non-profit etc.
Again, perhaps the income is not worth the hassle.  Sadly.  Armory is a great part of the Bitcoin infrastructure, but very very few open source projects are able to generate enough income to actually pay a developer.

On the other hand, what better way to show moral support than to put our money where our mouths are - I, too, have donated to Armory in the past, and want to do so again.