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Re:What I learned by switching to Bitcoin donations instead ... by Xcelerate on Sunday March 16, 2014 @09:56PM (#7412442)
I'm developing a new service (Bitcoin related). At first I was considering BTC donations being the only form of income, but I've noticed every time I look up a BTC donation address there's little to no money transferred to it, even for popular websites. I think I'm going to use a percentage of each transaction as payment instead...
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Re:What I learned by switching to Bitcoin donations instead ... by ninguem2 on Sunday March 16, 2014 @11:04PM (#7412659)
The game 2048 which was on the front page a few days ago got a lot of donations.
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Re:What I learned by switching to Bitcoin donations instead ... by bdcravens on Sunday March 16, 2014 @11:22PM (#7412748)
Was on the front page for a while, and yet, only 0.47 BTC donated: (unless they used more than one address since then)

https://blockchain.info/address/1Ec6onfsQmoP9kkL3zkpB6c5sA4P...

That's no more than a day of income for a so-so developer (in the US, at least), so I'd hardly call that "a lot of donations". You could earn more on a low-grade task on Freelancer.com or eLance, and I consider 2048 a quality piece of work. The popularity has probably peaked, so I doubt it'll ever even get to 1.0 BTC.

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Re:What I learned by switching to Bitcoin donations instead ... by Xcelerate on Sunday March 16, 2014 @11:36PM (#7412826)
Yeah... that's one of the things I was referencing. I wouldn't consider 0.5 BTC a whole lot for something that got that much attention. I made more off of a little domain search tool I posted on here that only got 67 points.
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