Re: Donations to the PostgreSQL project using bitcoins

>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 6:10 AM, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>
> wrote:
>> Le 11/04/2014 15:19, Michael Paquier a écrit :
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> While looking at the donation page of Postgres, I noticed that there
>>> is nothing to be able to give donations in bitcoins. I imagine that it
>>> could be nice to add a bitcoin wallet address that people could use to
>>> send donations to the PostgreSQL project, and have of course the
>>> wallet being managed by the same entity/people as the other money
>>> donations. Bitcoin public addresses have the disadvantage to show how
>>> many bitcoins a given address has received, but receiving even a
>>> little is better than nothing. The wallet address published on
>>> postgresql.org could also be changed periodically if showing the total
>>> amount received since the existence of the address is a problem.
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>
>> I think this question should be asked to the various non-profit
>> organizations among the community (SPI, PGUS, PG Europe, etc.) and each
>> one may have a different answer depending on how they want to handle
>> donations and money in general.
> Sure. Makes sense.
>
>> Speaking for the PGFR association, donations are not a primary source of
>> income for us and we don't have plans to develop it (we prefer focusing
>> on getting more members). Furthermore we already have 3 different ways
>> to accept payments (including paypal) and it's a lot of work to keep up
>> with everything, so we're currently trying to simplify it and handling
>> bitcoins does not seem simple at all :)
> Depends on your viewpoint:
> 1) Create a wallet
> 2) Post an address to receive payments
> 3) Exchange it for real money on existing platforms. Surely the blocking
> part...

Remember that there is paise who can not use a particular currency, and
any other variant may be validates, in support the promotion of
PostgreSQL.

Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
La Habana, Cuba