THIS IS NOT A CALL TO ARMS
This is however, a formal request for transparency.
The following post, is letter-for-letter what I posted in the comments of the "The State of Voat" thread that is currently at the top of all. My post starts below the line.
Your donations have helped tremendously to these offset expenses and we love each of you who donated, but we are on a whole new level now. Take for example that the total amount of all donations received didn’t entirely cover our first month in the cloud.
That's weird, because according to your old bitcoin donation address, you've only spent a about one fifth of the money we gave you guys.
I'm giving you guys the benefit of the doubt here, because I liked your site enough to donate, but I can personally promise you guys a PR shit storm if you don't have a satisfactory answer for why you need more money, with 46.8 BTC sitting untouched in your donation jar. Does $13K really not put a dent in it? Maybe you should release some expenses so we can verify your claims.
@atko and @PuttItOut, I truly hope I'm overreacting here.
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redikulous ago
I'd like to think it's been hard to pay web-hosting fees etc using bitcoin and maybe they are just using fiat currencies to pay for now since it's easier?
Sciency ago
Couldn't they just sell the coins and pay cash or wire transfer though?