Hello new goats & old - I am writing this as I know that the site owner is too proud to ebeg, well I am not.
Voat's BTC account 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k is empty totally empty not a cent in there.
You probably think that this website is kept alive with advertising, but I am afraid we have been cut off from all payment processors. As a result the store has been shut as it cannot accept cards & the advertisements on the side bar have remain unchanged for several years and are largely there for comedic value at this point.
As you can imagine hosting a website with tens of thousands of active users is costly, we managed to reduce the overheads earlier this year when some dedicated goats with more skill than I rewrote the code and moved the site to better hosting, but the costs are still there and we cannot allow the site owner to take the brunt of this.
The cabal have been after Voat for a very long time, many times we have barely hung on by a thread & now we need your help. Please help keep your new home alive as it wont survive without all of our assistance.
Godspeed - @lostandfound
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14034233? ago
What is the monthly cost @lostandfound ?
14034443? ago
I am taking a flying guess here, I know that before we modified the code and the hosting it was circa 7-8k usd per month. I would estimate that we have brought that down into the sub 1k range now but again I am guessing here. So we're not looking for a mountain of cash just a reasonable few bucks to keep us alive.
14036502? ago
Wow, I had no idea it could cost even 1k a month! I will be sending funds. You guys should really look into accepting the anonymous coins like Dash, Pivx, Monero, etc. Bitcoin is very traceable.