I know absolutely nothing about hosting a site like this, how much does it actually cost? It doesn't seem like a particularly resource intensive application?

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 2 points 42 minutes ago

The cost might go up significantly if they're actually hosting the .torrent files. They could save space and bandwidth by only hosting the magnet links like The Pirate Bay did.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Soliciting donations and using fucking bitcoin of all things is mind blowing to me. How are you gonna get your money out without everyone tracing you?

[–] tryptamine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Unless the site has been high jacked by the feds and they want to be able to track people 🧐

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Would they go to all that effort to nab a few downloaders? They don't even get prosecuted if caught, usually.

[–] tryptamine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago

Just off the top of my head, they could be using the evidence of a person donating to a torrent group as probable cause to see what other illegal activity that person has been up to…

I was mostly joking in response to why a torrent tracker would be asking for donations in a cryptocurrency that can be traced…

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Could you not do BTC to XMR then to w.e else after that? And if youre donating you should do XMR to BTC.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Another problem with BTC is the extremely high transfer costs. Donating XMR directly makes smaller donations viable, while BTC is only attractive for large donors.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not really. Transferring a couple grand cost likes 10 bucks or so.

[–] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

I mean who doesn't have a couple grands to donate? That's like the chump change you get for groceries or smth