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 21 points 6 months 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 14 points 6 months 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 7 points 6 months 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…

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Wow, seriously why are they using bitcoin? XMR is untraceable, why use a traceable currency?

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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 15 points 6 months 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.