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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."

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  1. Re:Perhaps... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is this modded +2?

    Coinbase.com makes it trivially easy. For people who are willing to put in some legwork, there's localbitcoins.com

    I haven't tried bitpay.com but I understand that it works just as well as coinbase. Stop spreading FUD and educate yourself.

  2. Re:Serious Questions about OpenBSD infrastructure by Pinhedd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's purely poor management. From what I understand, the build servers are absolutely archaic beasts that had they been replaced long ago would not have led to such astronomically high bills. It also doesn't help that they seem to be located in Theo de Raadt's basement.