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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14033921? ago
If this operator/staff/community needs coins and this is a legit mention of the fact, many of us will donate, sure. I don't know how to use crypto-currency so let me satisfy myself the need is real, the mechanism is real and then learn how to contribute...
Q or some supporter with abilities might oughta set up something we can all easily throw monies into, a tip jar or account. In fact, one of the wealthy persons of interest in all this might establish something to make sure it rolls along smoothly, Don Jr. or someone who can write the check painlessly.
We are the citizens, the honest taxpayers who DO pay all the bills, we pay the freight for every program and giveaway our double-damned government runs, every dime that gets paid gets paid because WE honest taxpayers do pay our bills. We even pay so that monies can be freely given away to our enemies, such is our willingness to pay our fair share. Thanks for mentioning it, check will be in the mail.
I don't really wanna use crypto, would that not be contributing to black market, semi-illegal conspiracies...? I DO hope someone with skilz figures out a way for us to donate safely.
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14034389? ago
Bitcoin is legit. They call it conspiracy to scare everyone. Another MSM tactic. You can go to https://localbitcoins.com/ You can find people with 100% ratings. You can use your local currency, to send money to them and localbitcoins will act as the intermediary to make sure both parties are happy with the transaction.
14035051? ago
I don't see how it can possibly be legit, heck aren't the NorKs 'mining' it as fast as they can...? Anyhow, I don't really care, but does some company like the one you mention, localbitcoins, charge a fee for that? Do they have a physical address? I asked my IT guy, some time ago when discussing his bitcoins...if he paid taxes on profits or claimed losses, he laughed and said no.
I'll find a way to send money tho, but it needs to be made simple, donation tip jar or simple account we can mail a check.
14035284? ago
It's decentralised, meaning anybody can mine it. Anybody can use it. You don't need permission to set up an account. You can pay tax on it if you want. Bitcoin is legit. There's no regulation saying you cant use bitcoin. Localbitcoin change the Seller a fee. Buyers dont get charged. If you're from America, coinbase.com is easy to use as well, that's legit. They make money on the exchange rate.
I use bitcoin for my company. I just treated it like cash. I had to pay people overseas. Instead of paying the banks, I used that localbitcoin site, and the dollars I sent to them, they gave me bitcoin. I then sent bitcoin overseas and they sold it on localbitcoin for their rupees. All I did on my side was use the dollars and ignore the bitcoin part. It's like how you send dollars to the bank, and they convert it to rupees, it's same concept.
Voat just needs to run their ads properly. I clicked on an ad, and the website never loaded. I wanted to see what that superhero website was, but it never loaded. They should do ads like google. Put text based ads here and there. I know I don't mind.
14035495? ago
Don't think VOAT has any real ads, those are old ones which exist as a joke, I think. VOAT was disenfranchised, think that's the story, could not accept payment...censorship at work.
Ok, so the sites, say coinbase, allow one to just use a card or such, and then they handle the exchanges charging 'whatever' fees to the vendor or recipient? That's how credit charges our company, we pay fees for the privilege of them handling it....getting expensive too. So all you have to do is give the address and pay the amount and it is done? How are guarantees of completion made, how do you know the monies went where you thought, it would be anonymous and no product exchanges hands after all.
14048603? ago
Yes then it's done. You can track their wallet, and you should see your transfer into theirs: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k It's all public for anyone to view