Mine is that it's NSA owned and operated.
In the blockchain link, if you click "filter" and choose "sent," you'll see the last two outgoing payments made on 7/22/2017 totaled a hair short of 50 BTC. I incorrectly based my 500k estimate on the 58 BTC number from "Total Received".
My guess is that the 13k thing is a stated cost in one of the /v/announcements posts, but I can't find any context for it. I'd keep searching, but "voat is being bad"...
I had to dig a quite a bit to find this, I'm glad it remains unedited: That address was the initial donation address posted in the sidebar after paypal supposedly froze voat's account. It was also posted by atko at least once. https://voat.co/v/announcements/194043 https://archive.is/QEXP1
In the blockchain link, if you click "filter" and choose "sent," you'll see the last two outgoing payments made on 7/22/2017 totaled a hair short of 50 BTC. I incorrectly based my 500k estimate on the 58 BTC number from "Total Received".
My guess is that the 13k thing is a stated cost in one of the /v/announcements posts, but I can't find any context for it. I'd keep searching, but "voat is being bad"...
I had to dig a quite a bit to find this, I'm glad it remains unedited: That address was the initial donation address posted in the sidebar after paypal supposedly froze voat's account. It was also posted by atko at least once. https://voat.co/v/announcements/194043 https://archive.is/QEXP1
Oh, whoops. I had it sorted by earliest withdrawals.
So 50BTC around the time of withdrawal was about 140k USD. Hosting was supposedly 7k a month but apparently they scaled down a bit, so say 5k over nine months. This is all very rough estimates but they should still have 80-100k left if those numbers are accurate, or a year of hosting. That is assuming the money is not being used for anything else.
Oh, whoops. I had it sorted by earliest withdrawals.
So 50BTC around the time of withdrawal was about 140k USD. Hosting was supposedly 7k a month but apparently they scaled down a bit, so say 5k over nine months. This is all very rough estimates but they should still have 80-100k left if those numbers are accurate, or a year of hosting. That is assuming the money is not being used for anything else.
The post says 13k. Going by some of the estimates given, that is around two months of funding for Voat.
I'm a bit confused over the addresses, this is an old address? Is there another address they have been using? Because this one has not had any withdrawals for 3 years. I'm assuming they must have had some other method of handling donations since they were asking for them around a year ago, or more recently, I don't remember. Around the time the last withdrawals from that address happened, bitcoin was only worth around 250 USD.