I've seen people asking for private donation bitcoin addresses. Why not send it to one that is public? Does this improve anonymity for the sender?

Lets say the receiver provides a private donation address. When the receiver forwards it to it's public donation address, this is not of any help?

NO. PLEASE! HELL! NO! Those guys who fu**ed up the regular markets and never come up with innovations and improvements for citizen should stay home.

I have an old wallet (created with official client, version 0.4 or so) where I like to keep the address, because it has been given away and may still receive sometimes.

When I import it into Electrum (as no deterministic wallet) will the BTC stay safe or do I have to get 0.8.1 of the official client for that?

Electrum isn't affected by this May 15 debacle at all?

I only use portable versions on own computers. They're easier to backup.

It's trivial to fake gpg short key ids:
http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/0044242/gnupg-short-id-collision-has-occurred

Still looking. Got no offers yet.

You sure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mj2pnQa1QE
Found account with PSC and pay 20 % fees. Convert to SLL. Convert to BTC. It was my emergency plan. Why it should no longer work?

Can anyone estimate how much does it cost per year to provide the service? They don't even ask for donations.

They could be wealthy and generous.

They could pay the hosting by selling some data they can collect. Who communicates with whom and some mails without encryption.

They could be run by evil people.

I want to buy BTC for paysafecards.

Because am new and will therefore pay first. I give you the paysafecard code and you can cash them or change the password. After I can no longer recover them you send me the BTC.

You will be trusted because of your trust record. Please send offers. Open for suggestions.

I found other threads outside the newbie forum where I could add something constructive.

It were be awesome if a better solution could be found. How do other big sites solve this?

Why not? Aka donators account and provide several methods for payment, paysafecard, ukash, BTC of course, what else you like and people need.

Yeah, forget about shared accounts. They do no longer work as soon as too much trolls and spammers are around.

That won't work well if they use [https://www.torproject.org/projects/tordnsel.html.en TorDNSEL] (official list with all tor exit nodes) what most tor blocking sites do. You were in luck maybe because of some bug the node wasn't listed.

I'll look. Thanks.

Oh. Sorry. I misinterpreted the "This forum and the freenode #bitcoin* channels are for the other side." as "and therefore anonymous side not".

To get BTC anonymously I can only buy paysafecard offline and convert into BTC. Everything else can be traced. And in this forum I've seen most threads about this kind of exchange.

There is no such statement that anonymous people are not welcome here.

While Bitcoin supports anonymity this forums fights it.

Other than the stuff I talked above, it gets even worse. There are additional IP blocks.

But I don't want only to complain. What could be the solution?

Obviously I am here here to learn more about BTC and to buy BTC. There are still 0 BTC in my wallet.

I am willing to pay anonymously by paysafecard for an forum account. Wouldn't a fair amount prove I am not going to spam?

Selling accounts without IP bans, allowed over Tor and allowed to post everywhere within the rules would be more interesting.

I want to give some feedback about bitcointalk.org forums and the Freenode bitcoin IRC channels from perspective of an anonymous Tor user.

Bitcointalk.org registration checks are bad. It checks everything, it wasn't happy with some of my information supplied. Name already taken, captcha wrong... All infos were finally accepted then it tells Tor users not allowed to register. That feels like a very bad joke. Why not tell upfront that registration over Tor is impossible? That should be the first check.

I couldn't register over Tor.

The shared bugmenot forum account has been banned as well.  

Joining the IRC bitcoin community is also hard for Tor users. Freenode provides a hidden service but also requires to authenticate over SASL. Ironically you can not create a Freenode account over Tor. I mailed them, they know the issue and plan a web service to register Freenode accounts. I need to find a proxy which I can chain which isn't banned on Freenode just to register, that's difficult to find. Must be a proxy on a non-standard port and not be in any proxy blacklist lists, very difficult to find.