Donations

Donations to the Tahoe-LAFS project are welcome, and can be made to the following Bitcoin address:

1PxiFvW1jyLM5T6Q1YhpkCLxUh3Fw8saF3

The funds currently available to the project are visible through the blockchain explorer:

https://blockchain.info/address/1PxiFvW1jyLM5T6Q1YhpkCLxUh3Fw8saF3

Governance

The Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation manages these funds. Our intention is to use them for operational expenses (website hosting, test infrastructure, EC2 instance rental, and SSL certificates). Future uses might include developer summit expenses, bug bounties, contract services (e.g. graphic design for the web site, professional security review of codebases, development of features outside the core competencies of the main developers), and student sponsorships.

The Foundation currently consists of secorp (Peter Secor), warner (Brian Warner), and zooko (Zooko Wilcox).

Transparent Accounting

Our current plan is to leave all funds in the main 1Pxi key until they are spent. For each declared budget item, we will allocate a new public key, and transfer funds to that specific key before distributing them to the ultimate recipient. All expenditures can thus be tracked on the blockchain.

Some day, we might choose to move the funds into a more sophisticated type of key (e.g. a 2-of-3 multisig address). If/when that happens, we will publish the new donation address, and transfer all funds to it. We will continue the plan of keeping all funds in the (new) primary donation address until they are spent.

Expenditure Addresses

Initial testing / proof-of-spendability (warner) 1387fFG7Jg1iwCzfmQ34FwUva7RnC6ZHYG 17-Mar-2016: deposit+withdrawal of 0.01 BTC
website/dev-server hosting (on Linode, paid by secorp) address TBD ~$20/mo, 2007-present
tahoe-lafs.org DNS registration and SSL certificates (paid by warner) address TBD 21-Aug-2012: DNS (1 year, GANDI) $12.50 29-Oct-2012: SSL (RapidSSL) $49 20-Aug-2013: DNS (4 years, GANDI) $64.20 02-Nov-2013: SSL (GlobalSign, free for open source projects) $0 14-Nov-2014: SSL (GANDI) $16 28-Oct-2015: SSL (GANDI) $16

Historical Donation Addresses

The Tahoe project has had a couple of different donation addresses over the years, managed by different people. All of these funds have been (or will be) transferred to the current primary donation address (1Pxi).

13GrdS9aLXoEbcptBLQi7ffTsVsPR7ubWE (21-Aug-2010 - 23-Aug-2010) Managed by secorp, total receipts: 17 BTC
19jzBxijUeLvcMVpUYXcRr5kGG3ThWgx4P (23-Aug-2010 - 29-Jan-2013) Managed by secorp, total receipts: 358.520276 BTC
14WTbezUqWSD3gLhmXjHD66jVg7CwqkgMc (24-May-2013 - 21-Mar-2016) Managed by luckyredhot, total receipts: 3.97784278 BTC stored in 19jXek4HRL54JrEwNPyEzitPnkew8XPkd8
1PxiFvW1jyLM5T6Q1YhpkCLxUh3Fw8saF3 (21-Mar-2016 - present) Managed by warner, backups with others

Validation

This document is signed by the Tahoe-LAFS Release-Signing Key (GPG keyid 2048R/68666A7A, fingerprint E34E 62D0 6D0E 69CF CA41 79FF BDE0 D31D 6866 6A7A). It is also committed to the Tahoe source tree (https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git) as docs/donations.rst. Both actions require access to secrets held closely by Tahoe developers.

signed: Brian Warner, 21-Mar-2016

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