[tor-bugs] #5993 [Company]: accept direct donations via credit/debit card

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#5993: accept direct donations via credit/debit card
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 Reporter:  phobos   |          Owner:  phobos                     
     Type:  project  |         Status:  new                        
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:  Sponsor Z: November 1, 2013
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Comment(by phobos):

 Replying to [comment:4 cypherpunks]:
 > As mentioned in #5921, please offer anonymous donations via UKash, cashU
 or Liberty Reserve. Those would enable people to donate anonymously to the
 Tor Project.
 >
 > On your donation site, you are telling people interested in donating in
 an anonymous way to contact you by email for further details. Wouldn't it
 be better revealing directly, how one can make anonymous donations (e.g.
 sending cash to you) instead of forcing people to send you an (non-
 anonymous) email?

 We're not telling them to contact us, we're telling them the only legal
 anonymous ways today, which are cash-related (actual cash, money order,
 bank checks). Specifically, we state "If you want to make an anonymous
 donation, please do so in an anonymous way." The contact info is there for
 general questions or more sophisticated transactions like stock grants,
 real estate gifts, etc.

 Signing up for psuedo-monetary units, like bitcoin, liberty reserve, and
 the like run into financial regulations like GAAP and the ISA standards.
 And how one values such things before converting them to accepted monetary
 units.

 I'm not saying no, but it needs more research before we accept these
 methods. We can only fight so many battles at once.

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