Oh god, Here we go again. We're about to get Mtmlr'd
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If you want to be constructive, how about suggesting some good mechanism of escrow or other approach so that there's only money transferred when people are satisfied that the miner is actually functional?
-Dave
There are several well known escrow services in the forums, I'm sure one of those can be of use. However the trick is to agree on "the amount of donation" and "on which condition the funds will be released".
Release of funds can be tied to something like ... x% of the participants report a successful gpu miner