An anonymous donor just sent 299 Ether (equivalent to 393k USD) to redox_OS

Interesting sidenote: The donor also left a message for two other operating systems, &quot;Qubes address? GrapheneOS address?&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;etherscan.io&#x2F;tx&#x2F;0xca5bb04204f446f73a510ea02b2bd7c01e16b58b1d16532a2a1be90d82820297" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;etherscan.io&#x2F;tx&#x2F;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.

And $0.26 in transaction fees, $0.04 of which went to the block proposing validator

A nice problem to have. What would HN readers spend such a windfall on? Contracting developers to work on the project seems like the obvious choice.

props on them. I can&#x27;t think of a worthier project. Would love to make redox my daily driver someday

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.

Problem is that the source has come via Tornado cash (Which has injuctions in place in the US)....

pedant, pseudonymous

“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.