Quote from: theymos on August 19, 2011, 08:29:22 AM

If you donate 10 BTC (which pays for about a month of hosting), you get donator status:

If you donate 50 BTC, you get VIP status, which allows you to set a custom title:

This is not (yet) automatic: you need to PM me before donating. See the new donation page for more details.

This is part of an effort to make the forum self-sustaining. If donations alone are not enough, a few auctioned-off text ads will probably be added.

Quote from: theymos on August 20, 2011, 08:05:08 PM

Thanks to the first 10-BTC donator: Narydu.

Quote from: FreeMoney on August 20, 2011, 06:11:24 PM

So 10 gets green now?

Yes, donators are green in the "users online" area, and VIP members are violet. (These are my favorite two colors.

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Quote from: theymos on August 29, 2011, 04:55:23 AM

Now donators/VIPs get a bit of color next to their posts, as well:

I just made some research and got to find out that Sir "Theymos" did actually asked for donation 12yrs ago, but that was via the forum, and for us to see another donation request via Gmail is kind of suspicious, and I will likely recommend anybody who might have gotten the Gmail to please be security conscious against hack or scam. Because secondly, I just tried to search on the forum if only I could find the usernames/profile of the donators as listed above and when last they visited the forum, but it's sad I couldn't find the profile of any of the top 5, so I stopped.
While thirdly, looking at the amount Sir "Theymos" mentioned above as donation for V.I.P member of the forum on August 19th 2011, I understand that 10 to 50 btc was a reasonable amount most people could afford, since 1btc=$10 back then 12yrs ago (i.e $100 to $500), unlike today 2023 @ 1Btc=$27k for anybody to come ask such same exact amount of btc for just mere a V.I.P membership (i.e $270k to $1.3million), of which I think that will be outrageous and preposterous for the growth of the forum.