This whole Tor/Gitcoin drama is the most retarded thing I've ever heard. "Oh no! The Tor project is using a crowd funding platform that uses crypto." For the love of God, if there is anything that crypto is useful for it's donating to things like open-source projects or Fediverse instances without relying on payment processors.
Sure, a LOT of crypto/blockchain related things are scams, but it's still useful for things like this, and I personally think that Monero/XMR would be a better choice, but I don't know of any crowd funding platform that uses it (yet). This is what jumping on the "all crypto bad" bandwagon does to you.
And if you are one of those people who believe that FOSS developers don't deserve any compensation for their work, even through voluntary donations, seriously fuck off! The only reason why these developers can work full-time (or at least work less at their day job) is through donations. Seriously, I'm sick of people acting like assholes when projects ask for donations. Your fediverse instance probably wouldn't be around or would be pay-walled or ad-filled if it weren't for donations.
rambling about web3
@gabriel @silverpill @GrapheneOS
>That said, I think there are good reasons to avoid almost a vast majority of blockchain projects. >Even though the people who take an extreme anti-cryptocurrency stance are misguided, there's a lot more merit to the approach than it would seem.
Yeah, I've already written an article on my website about this very subject.