We are currently the 2nd largest instance in terms of monthly active users. This brings a financial burden and we would appreciate your help about it.
If you want to donate, here’s donation platforms we use:
- Throne.com: No need to register. I tried and received payment. So it works.
- Ethereum: 0x4e4af5dc2f86235ac496542c2a1c00f3c4de40c6
- Monero: 48VYVWPKk65KiDiBaLhvSggKSbDQ4vtdq6HHbDa2HxWLiBWVcZ65gTgMBu7UeSUcm4dasAMMaKHnJNJSgRKi7Q5R5HN9adg
- Trocador.app (multiple cryptocurrencies)
Financial status
Finally, our instance became self-sustainable with donations! We received a lot of donations especially in February. Therefore, I would like to report the financial status here.
| date | description | fiat | ETH | XMR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-24 | - load balance server | $430 | 0.002 ETH | 1.3460 XMR (-0.0731 XMR) |
| 2024-06-14 | - main server | $430 (-$75) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-13 | + donation | $505 (+$20) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-12 | - media storage | $485 (-$25) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-06 | + donation | $510 (+$20) | 0.002 ETH | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-06-04 | / coin to fiat | $490 (+$473) | 0.002 ETH (-0.125 ETH) | 1.4192 XMR |
| 2024-05-22 | - load balance server | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 1.4192 XMR (-0.0861 XMR) |
| 2024-05-22 | + donation | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 1.5050 XMR (+0.1442 XMR) |
| 2024-05-21 | + donation | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 1.3611 XMR (+1 XMR) |
| 2024-05-17 | + donation | $17 | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3611 XMR (+042069 XMR 🚬) |
| 2024-05-17 | + donation | $17 (+$20) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-05-15 | - main server | -$3 (-$75) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-05-13 | - media storage | $72 (-$24) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-04-28 | + donation | $96 (+$50) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-04-26 | + donation | $46 (+$20) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR |
| 2024-04-24 | - load balance server | $26 | 0.1276 ETH | 0.3190 XMR (-0.0993 XMR) |
| 2024-04-21 | + donation | $26 (+$50) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-15 | - main server | -$24 (-$65) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-10 | - media storage | $41 (-$19) | 0.1276 ETH | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-09 | + donation | $60 | 0.1276 ETH (+0.06969 ETH 🙃) | 0.4184 XMR |
| 2024-04-01 | + donations | $60 (+$25) | 0.0579 ETH | 0.4184 XMR (+0.1827 XMR) |
| 2024-03-30 | - load balance server | $35 | 0.0579 ETH | 0.2357 XMR (-0.0890 XMR) |
| 2024-03-04 | + donation | $35 | 0.0579 ETH | 0.3247 XMR (+0.0420 XMR) |
| 2024-03-02 | - main server | $35 (-$65) | 0.0579 ETH | 0.2827 XMR |
| 2024-02-28 | + donation | $100 | 0.0579 ETH (+0.0073 ETH) | 0.2827 XMR |
| 2024-02-27 | - load balance server | $100 | 0.0506 ETH | 0.2827 XMR (-0.1516 XMR) |
| 2024-02-01 | - new server and email provider | $100 (-$75) | 0.0506 ETH | 0.3738 XMR |
| 2024-02-01 | / approximate initial value | $175 | 0.0506 ETH | 0.3738 XMR |
A little note about about this financial status report
- Throne
- it is fiat type and I will only add money here when I withdraw it.
- Cryptocurrencies
- I will truncate numbers to 4 decimal places.
- It may not always be up to date. You can check up to date ETH balance by clicking to it.
- No matter which coin you send from Trocador, the money will merge into Monero.
Agreed, there’s nothing wrong with making a living. 👍
I’d love to see if we could get enough donations going to distribute to content creators? Maybe this is a more mainstream instance/general purpose NSFW, but it would be very cool to see an instance giving ownership to its content creators.
Depending on the jurisdictions involved (where the server is hosted and where the admins live), I can imagine there may be very different laws and regulations governing a forum of user-submitted content and a business acting as a publisher and producer of porn content. A great idea, but not as simple as just having the money to do it.