On 18 September 2013 08:10, tor@t-3.net wrote:
The OP I saw said:
The Wau Holland Foundation can currently only reimburse via wire transfer.
This seems to be end-of-story in terms of who, in the end, is ultimately getting liability/risk, and points to practically no chance at anonymity within our currently hacked banking system. It's not related to taxation or what organization may or may not be trusted. It's about what information is being gathered from the system by 3rd parties for possible use tomorrow.
Sure, right now. But he said:
On 17 September 2013 14:27, Moritz Bartl moritz@torservers.net wrote:
The Wau Holland Foundation agreed to be one of the organizations willing to handle the money and pass it on to other entities, be it single operators or organizations. Both Torproject and Wau Holland Foundation checked with their lawyers to see if this turns into a problem about liability, and it looks like it does not. We're open for more organizations to join in to manage the reimbursement process, but this is what we've got for now.
So from my perspective, if, say, the Bitcoin Foundation came forward and said "Our lawyers are cool with reimbursing anonymous people via Bitcoin, and we're cool shouldering the accounting/taxation burden." - then it might happen. But ultimately there is accounting, taxation, and legal liability that must be shouldered by someone. So far only Wau Holland has stepped up. But it's not to say someone couldn't.
-tom