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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14035645? ago
There hasn't been any updates on how the site is financed. At this point i'm guessing CIA?
14035844? ago
We got the hosting costs down to a fraction of what it was before and the remaining funds were eeeked out as far as possible, it could well be CIA but I don't think Q would have sent you here knowing that. MI .... perhaps but to be fair given we very nearly shut down a few times in the last 12 months if there has been an angel its been in the last few days only and I am not aware of that. So I will operate that if that account stays empty for too long this all stops, thats all I know.
14035801? ago
This site is financed by the users, and the guy who runs the board. I've been here since the alpha, and I've donated several times, as have many others. Payment processing was cut by banks because they don't like what the site stands for (freedom of speech). Owner posted address earlier, on the day everyone was migrating over, and the server was being crushed under the load: https://voat.co/v/whatever/2715711 So, we know the BTC address is legit. I just sent a few bucks myself.