Great that you finally decided to use that BTC donation of yours, all the best!
For the record, the 50ⓑ that I'm putting up is coming out of own wallet. If I wanted to use the donations that people have generously contributed to the Tahoe-LAFS project, I would have to get the rest of the Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation to come to consensus on whether we should spend it this way. Instead, I just spontaneously decided "screw it, if anybody can make the tests that much faster it will be worth my precious money". Bitcoin allows me to impulse-spend on a wide array of new goods and services. :-/
I really love the idea of tahoe-lafs, even though I never really got around to setting it up myself...
So why not? Serious question -- I'm sure there are good reasons why you haven't, and I'd like to know what the number one reason is.
Regards,
Zooko