Note: I may be slow to update the post title with the current goal progress. You can check it here.

TankieTube is holding its first ever fundraiser! stonks-up

If you’ve found the site of value, then please consider becoming a sustaining member through Liberapay (if you have the means to do so)! catgirl-happy It’s our preferred method.

https://liberapay.com/TankieTube/donate

We’ve set an ambitious goal of $100 per week, which would cover much of the current server, bandwidth, and storage costs.

One-Time Donations

Liberapay currently doesn’t support one-time donations, but you can effectively make one by signing up and then cancelling your subscription after the first payment.

Other ways to make a one-time donation, for your convenience:

1) PayPal/Venmo/Credit/Debit [No anonymity]

Pros: Simple, fast, no account creation required

Cons: Your name and address is revealed (to me); it’s not private and anonymous like Liberapay

2) Monero (XMR) [Ultimate OpSec]

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Pros: Untraceable: Neither I nor Liberapay will know your identity. Can bypass US sanctions which affect PayPal and Liberapay.

Cons: Complicated

What is Monero (XMR)?

The majority of existing cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, have transparent blockchains. Transactions can be verified and/or traced by anyone in the world. This means that the sending and receiving addresses of these transactions could potentially be linked to real-world identities.

Monero is the only major cryptocurrency where every user is anonymous by default. The sender, receiver, and amount of every single transaction are hidden through the use of three important technologies: Stealth Addresses, Ring Signatures, and RingCT.

If you buy Monero on a public exchange such as Kraken, then transfer it to a private wallet you control before sending a payment.

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    4·
    14 days ago

    Oh, I see what you mean now.

    Yes, it would be cheaper to buy hard drives and a server in the long run. I have the skills to build one as well.

    My only concern is that colocating a server in a local datacenter would doxx my location, and colocating one in a far away datacenter would make it difficult for me to replace hard drives and maintain it. But that may be worth it in the long run.

    Edit: I made a post about this

    • Majestic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      And you have good reason to be careful on that given what happened to bayarea and the increasing crackdown as well as the money zionist groups can throw at trying to ruin anyone showing the truth about their genocidal behavior. Stay safe comrade.

      Though I have to wonder how much of that storage is used by old hexbear watch night media and how much couldn’t be cleaned out say 4-6 months after watching finishes to alleviate storage costs a bit.