Topposting because I notice when I look through this thread at all messages to date (last I saw was from dewaj@garlic.com received a few minutes ago) no reference to any of the organizations devoted to paying for relays that have been around for many years. Not sure if that is because of lack of familiarity on the part of thread participants or because I am missing some way in which they are not as directly relevant as they seem to me. I thus hope it is helpful to point at
https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/relay-association...
Also, at the risk of topposting something that should be a response within the thread, the non-monetary incentive approach (e.g., performance rewards) is very interesting and IMO languishing. And among other advantages has the potential to avoid crowding-out problems (cf. e.g. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Crowding_Out )
Si Valetis Valeo, Paul
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:41:58AM +0000, torrrelays@riseup.net wrote:
I provided some high speed Tor nodes (non-exits and guards) but I quit in this year to make some space for my other projects. I would continue collaborating by keep Tor nodes online if I receive some donation. Is it just me, because I received $0 for running those Tor relays.
So my proposal is this:
- make a donate-torrelay-owner.tpo website
- let Tor relay owners link their
PayPal/Striple/BitCoin/OpenCollective/AmazonPay/GooglePay/Whatever account 3. the Tor project and other good folks put money into the large bottle (donate-torrelay-owner website) 4. the donation then split by the participants & send to each accounts monthly
By doing this, you are creating sustainable mechanism to keep Tor nodes running and other people who have access to their servers may join. More Tor nodes will be added to the network & owners get paid at least. Win-win.
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