FOForbo·Mar 25, 2020
Open Whisper Systems had one called BitHub, but it looks like it's dead. Last commit was five years ago. :-\
https://github.com/signalapp/bithub
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BitHub
BTC + BitHub = An experiment in funding privacy OSS.
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1KGitHub stars
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BTC + BitHub = An experiment in funding privacy OSS.
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HN mentions by year8 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2013-12-16 23:20:11 UTC to 2020-03-25 17:26:05 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesSo gitcoin could be really revolutionary or it could be a total flop.
I had a lot of hope for BitHub, a simple tool for paying bitcoin per git commit. What seems different about gitcoin which might increasing its chances of success is that it seems to be focusing on building a community/marketplace.
Would be great if GitHub could add donate buttons to pages and issues and payout. No reason this has to be done with cryptocurrency.
[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/BitHub
In Show HN: One year devoted to open source and I've almost made $2 – horrraaaaay"a cross between Patreon and Bugzilla"
Have a look at BitHub:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/BitHub
In A plan for open source software maintainersAn experiment in funding privacy OSS
1 points · Open discussionHere's something I think should get more love and is pretty relevant: a service that will automatically pay a percentage of Bitcoin donations for every submission to a GitHub repository: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/BitHub
So if you donate to Open Whisper Systems, you can see that your donations are going directly to those that are contributing to the project, and you get paid more if you're contributing more. I've sent in a few PR's to their iOS repo, and it'd be awesome to see it implemented in other privacy OSS projects. It's obviously not a perfect system, but I think it's a pretty cool way of funding OSS.
In Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going BrokeThis should be all you need: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/BitHub
I haven't tried it and have no affiliation with it, just saw that the repo is there.
In Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhoneBitHub: Get paid bitcoin for repo commits
2 points · Open discussionBithub allows to recieve bitcoins with pull requests
2 points · Open discussion