donations - make a list of all

[Snuden]

Maybe ESOC should make a poll to see if users are interested in mining Monero (crypto) instead of donating cash.
Monero is mined with a users CPU and it can be adjusted so it uses as little resources as the user wants.

[Gendarme]

I suggested this to the rest of the staff actually. The problem is its efficiency (it is possibly negligible, especially with CoinHive's greedy 30% cut), but there is another problem too, as it may disincentivize people from donating money because they feel like they are already donating with their CPU cycles.

[Snuden]

True, but would cash donations even be needed?
It obviously depends on how many users actively will donate CPU power, but it might be worth a try.

I believe there is a few alternatives to Coin-Hive.

[Bucknasty]

weird the donation page goes down and then they have an insider get together in Chicago

[Gendarme]

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[musketeer925]

Rather than mining monero in your browser while on the site, bundling it as an option in the EP would probably be more effective (i.e., light mining work on some of your cores, since the game isn't too multithreaded anyway, throughout the entire game).

Again, though, not sure if this would generate much. Also would probably be more developer effort, and developer effort -> money schemes tend to look pretty unprofitable for ESOC just due to low user counts. A developer who wants to help ESOC financially is much better off working some overtime at their day job and then donating that money, instead of trying to develop some money-making scheme for ESOC.

Reading some more, also looks like integrating coinhive on your site can trigger antivirus filters and be bad for SEO & traffic. Doesn't seem like a good tradeoff to me.

[Djigit]

Why don't we create a hedge fund? It was the ESOC Council's original idea, back in 2016! => https://eso-community.net/viewtopic.php?t=9366&start=25#p202924

[musketeer925]

Ran some quick calcs based on our google analytics data. Running on the site, coinhive would net us about $4/month -- definitely in the "not worth" category if you ask me (considering degraded site performance, antivirus filters, etc).

The time I spent writing these posts would already have been worth a few months of monero.