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Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall

Posted by timothy on from the money-is-what-keeps-the-lights-on dept.

New submitter MrBingoBoingo writes "Recently it was announced here on Slashdot that OpenBSD was facing an impending shortfall that jeopardized its continued existence. A sponsorship to save OpenBSD has been announced, and it wasn't one of the usual culprits that saved OpenBSD, but a Romanian Bitcoin billionaire."

7 of 209 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Perhaps... by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's still better than someone who gave nothing but cheap hot air.

    --
    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
  2. Re:Serious Questions about OpenBSD infrastructure by MrBingoBoingo · · Score: 4, Informative

    This electricity bill was explained last Slashdot post. OpenBSD builds for VAX. OpenBSD builds for 68K. I for one am happy someone builds modern software to let the Vaxen run.

  3. Re:Perhaps... by r.freeman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Daily 12.000.000 usd worth of bitcoin is converted on biggest exchange ( http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/btceUSD.html ) Converting 20.000 usd is triviall.

  4. Re: lol @ Romanian "btc billionaire" by Moridineas · · Score: 5, Informative

    Romanian != Roma.

    Romania is a country whose inhabitants are called, in English, Romanians. The name of the country (and therefore the people) comes from Rome. The Roman Empire. THAT Rome. Romanian--like French, Spanish, and Italian--is a romance language descended directly from Latin. Some even argue that it's the Romance language that today most closely resembles Latin!

    Roma, on the other hand, is a name for a minority population of people that most probably emigrated from South Asia over a thousand years ago. AKA gypsies. The word Roma comes from some Roma dialect and has no connection to Romania or Roman other than as homonyms. Good example of a false congate--they sound alike, but there is no connection.

    Admittedly, the conflation is a common mistake to make, especially since there is a very large (comparatively speaking) Roma population in Romania.

  5. Re:Perhaps... by pantaril · · Score: 4, Informative

    This assumes that 20,000$ worth of bitcoins can be converted to real money.

    This assumption is correct.

  6. Re:Perhaps... by pantaril · · Score: 4, Informative

    The point is, there are no BUYERS. It will not happen. No one is going to pay $20k of REAL money for bitcoins.

    I don't know WTF are you talking about but converting bitcoins to 20k USD is non-issue on most existing exchanges like coinbase, bitstamp, mtgox or btc-e. Just go and see their daily trade volume.

  7. Re:Perhaps... by gox · · Score: 3, Informative

    OpenBSD already accepts Bitcoin donations:

    http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

    Just sent 50 CAD worth, easy peasy. They get converted on the fly to the local currency by BitPay.

    Are you from 2010?