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Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall
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."
Interesting....
I hope it works out for OpenBSD, but the proof is in the pudding.... or the check clearing.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Cheap hot air is actually great if you have a gas turbine and a generator and can sell the resulting electricity.
Ezekiel 23:20
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.
Assume everything you say is true, it seems to me there are two outcomes possible:
(1) Donation accepted:
criminal has less money
OpenBSD safe for another year (or whatever)
(2) Donation refused:
criminal has more money to perpetuate further crimes
OpenBSD remains in danger of shutting down
In what universe is (2) a better outcome?
Now if Popescu is attempting to buy considerations that might change things, but being a criminal doesn't automatically mean you can't be an honest philanthropist, just look at Bill Gates. (Okay, so maybe not the worlds best possible example of honest philanthropy, but still)
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Perhaps Obama could chip in some of the bitcoin seized from Silk Road to keep OpenBSD afloat. :)
That sort of an electrical bill is a crap explanation in my opinion to support the development and deployment of OpenBSD developers and users.
Poor management is more likely the explanation.
I mean, for example to not watch the cash flow, and all of a sudden require a huge cash intake is something I don't understand.
This sort of problem should have been apparent YEARS AGO, anyone managing the infrastructure could have seen coming and there should have been PLENTY of time to correct the issue.
Am I missing something here people if so please do explain.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
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.
This assumes that 20,000$ worth of bitcoins can be converted to real money.
This assumption is correct.
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.