I would want them to at least go to the Rust Foundation Grants Program [0] or perhaps the Mozilla Foundation grants program [1].

This isn't minor, Wikimedia [2] is also asking the same thing of their project and they shouldn't use or endorse these crypto tokens, same thing as Tor.

[0] https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/2021-12-09-news-rust-f...

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_ac...

Wikimedia is one of the most well-funded non-profits on the planet; they have largely unconstrained spending. They can easily be choosy about funding sources while other projects cannot afford to be.

I have already mentioned elsewhere in the thread alternative sources of grant funding they can use which are not an endorsement of the crypto space.

> This isn't minor, Wikimedia [2] is also asking the same thing of their project and they shouldn't use or endorse these crypto tokens, same thing as Tor.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_ac... is a proposal with what looks like extremely divided voting; I'm not seeing where it was ratified? So Wikimedia is not asking that, someone suggested that Wikimedia should ask that.

So it isn't a minor open and shut case then as you said? Surely something minor should have been sorted quickly no?

And most people actually support the motion to stop accepting them, despite the division it is the correct decision.

I only hope that Tor does the same.

Is it underfunded? (Genuine question.) According to the 2020 fiscal report they received ~$4.5mm in donations and grants which isn’t too shabby.

https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-20...

While funding is decent, you'd also want to compare to expenses, as well as reserves. The 2020 report did show an overall gain, but this has to be contrasted against the depletion of reserves in the previous year, not to mention the overall trend.