Setting up regular bitcoin donation / buying support case?

[Vincent Adultman]

Hi all

Over on https://www.qubes-os.org/donate/ I see I can setup a donation one of two ways, Bitcoin and via Open Collective, however 14% for the latter seems a hell of a donation overhead. As such, I'd like to use Bitcoin but have no idea how. While I realise there are probably many idiots guides, I wonder if this is a common feeling of people that visit the donate page.

I'm happy to muddle through setting up a recurring bitcoin donation and then contribute a guide (I currently have nothing else for which I would use bitcoin) if this would be helpful, but also wonder if someone has some notes stuffed away in a gist or similar somewhere?

On a related point, I've not been keeping up on all the ways you guys are seeking funding, but I believe selling individual support licenses for those who wished to purchase them was decided to be not worth the revenue it would generate vs effort, is this still the case? I use Qubes as my daily driver and cannot get any of the 4.x series kernels to work on my laptop, so am behind on this element of security updates. I take it I can't purchase a support case from ITL at the current point in time?

Vin

[Pawel Debski]

Yep, setting-up a bitcoin wallet & exchage plus high commisions on other channels kept me from donating. Plus the donation is terrible tax pain for enterpreneurs in PL. The easiest would be to receive a monthly EU VAT invoice for "Software development" and SEPA bank transfer.

How does it look from your side dear Qubes team?

[Tai...@gmx.com]

I agree - setting up a team of non-developers that are linux support
specialists for the business users of qubes would be a great way to drum
up cash.

This should be made to happen, maybe cc ADW?


FYI There are an incredibly large amount of detailed bitcoin howto
guides on the internet, there isn't any need for the devs to waste time
making another.