Donate

You can donate to support Namecoin via a number of methods.

Donations are not tax-deductible. If you would like to donate via another method, or if you would like to discuss making an earmarked donation, or if you have transparency or privacy constraints on your donation, please contact us – we will try to work something out.

Direct Cryptocurrency Donations

The Namecoin developers accept unrestricted donations via the following cryptocurrencies:

• Bitcoin
• Namecoin

Warnings: Bitcoin and Namecoin do not provide anonymity for donations, although they may (under some circumstances) provide pseudonymity or location-anonymity.

Issue/Task-Specific Cryptocurrency Donations

If you would like your donation to be earmarked for a specific issue/task, you can donate to one of these Bitcoin addresses. If the issue/task you want to fund is not listed here, contact us and we can set up an address for it.

• Decentralized search engine for Namecoin websites. Expected to be feasible with 100 mBTC of donations. 18caYmssEY7PB72jSvTRgFgYiZubSs6cCq
• Trezor wallet support for Namecoin. 19dnJGDq1ji2U9X2PeScJk6WqYgJ6RTpRJ

Warnings: Bitcoin does not provide anonymity for donations, although it may (under some circumstances) provide pseudonymity or location-anonymity.

ShapeShift Cryptocurrency Donations

ShapeShift can be used to donate to the Namecoin developers using many cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin and Namecoin. Set the “Receive” address to the Bitcoin address of the Namecoin developers (see above).

Warnings: Funds are handled by ShapeShift (a trusted third party). ShapeShift is a registered company under the jurisdiction of Switzerland. While some of the cryptocurrencies supported by ShapeShift are intended to provide some level of anonymity, the effectiveness of such anonymity features ranges from dubious to unproven. The cryptocurrencies supported by ShapeShift may (under some circumstances) provide pseudonymity or location-anonymity. Cloudflare (a company described by anonymity researcher Jacob Appelbaum as a global active adversary) wiretaps ShapeShift traffic, has the capability of injecting malicious changes to the ShapeShift website, and discriminates against Tor users who try to access ShapeShift. ShapeShift takes a cut of any donations made via this method, which they state “usually falls in the range of about 0.5-1% or so.”

Tip4Commit Bounties

Tip4Commit can be used to place bounties on commits to certain Namecoin Git repositories. The bounties are placed via Bitcoin. When a commit is merged, Tip4Commit releases the funds to the developer who authored the commit.

The following Namecoin GitHub repositories support placing Tip4Commit bounties:

• ncdns
• ncdns Windows installer

Warnings: Funds are handled by Tip4Commit (a trusted third party in unknown jurisdiction). Bitcoin does not provide anonymity for donations, although it may (under some circumstances) provide pseudonymity or location-anonymity. Tip4Commit takes a 1% cut of any donations made via this method. Cloudflare (a potential global active adversary) wiretaps Tip4Commit traffic, has the capability of injecting malicious changes to the Tip4Commit website, and discriminates against Tor users who try to access Tip4Commit.