Interesting sidenote: The donor also left a message for two other operating systems, "Qubes address? GrapheneOS address?". <a href="https://etherscan.io/tx/0xca5bb04204f446f73a510ea02b2bd7c01e16b58b1d16532a2a1be90d82820297" rel="nofollow">https://etherscan.io/tx/0xca5bb04204f446f73a510ea02b2bd7c01e...</a>
Probably not a hugely popular viewpoint, but I can’t help but immediately think there’s a good chance it’s dirty money. There’s just so much of it that can’t be laundered so it’s worthless except for altruistic purposes like this.
Sidenote here: A lot of charities have serious problems with out-of-scale donations like this. They often encourage the organisation to grow in a way which is unsustainable and can have a damaging downside once the capital is exhausted.
It’s not equivalent to 393k though, is it?<p>It’s worth absolutely nothing unless it can be converted into actual money, which is appears will be quite difficult to do.<p>Now you just have “I have a lot of worthless ether” bragging rights and pretty much nothing else you didn’t have before except maybe legal woes.<p>Sums up my feelings about crypto pretty much completely.
“If money had to be clean before it was spent, we’d all be living in caves.”<p>Any attempt by feds to steal this money or sanction Redox for using it should be considered a direct attack on the project for its own sake, meaning the feds feel that Redox is a threat and they want to shut it down. The origin of the money is not a valid concern.