On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Well, the obvious collateral is always money; and with
bitcoin going
mainstream, untraceable money transfers are now accessible even to
nontechnical users (although I don't know Not sure if the mere act of
buying bitcoins could endanger someone in certain oppressive regimes).
Something like $10 is probably not a serious hurdle to anyone intent on
avoiding censorship but enough to deter spammers. The money could be
donated to the Tor project, or retained and returned after a certain number
of edits.
In some jurisdictions Bitcoin is outright prohibited, with penalties for
end users for mere ownership of any amounts. Would be very funny to require
people to expose their asses to more problems in order to edit Wikipedia.
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])