The Pirate Bay with millions of visitors receives $ 9 donations per day in bitcoins
Bitcoin is not the only way to donate money to The Pirate Bay, but the amount is still depressingly small
Resources like Rutracker or The Pirate Bay are visited by hundreds of thousands or even millions of users every day. Naturally, funds are needed to support the work of the site. Servers, support team and other costs are quite large in the case of large resources.
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Therefore, teams of such projects and try to earn. Various methods are used for this, including advertising (contextual, direct advertising, etc.). In some cases, donations from users work as well - for example, Wikipedia, and exists due to donations from its readers. The Pirate Bay also asks its users for financial support, and those from time to time help. But this support is not to say that it was significant. Recently it became known that per day all these millions of users donate about ... $ 9 in bitcoins.
This method of accepting funds was added by the resource team three years ago, when the Bitcoins themselves became popular. The Pirate Bay was one of the first resources to work with cryptocurrency. Yet, this is not a PayPal donation or credit card payment, which can be easily blocked. If the payment is already received on the bitcoin wallet, it is almost impossible to withdraw it, with rare exceptions.
All payments on a specific wallet can be viewed as transactions are transparent. To view payments on The Pirta Bay, you can click on this link . As you can see, on average, the resource has 1 donation per day, for a year - 376 transactions. The total amount in bitcoins is 8.21. That's about $ 3,500 per year, or $ 9.34 per day.
In this case, over time, donations are becoming less. During the period from 2013 to 2015 there were significantly more transactions. The total amount received by the tracker team over three years was $ 35,000 in dollar equivalent of bitcoin.
By the way, at the most visited torrent tracker in the world, KickassTorrents, the amount of donations in Bitcoin and even less - for three years, the resource received only $ 250, which is about 24 cents a day. True, CAT is not very active and asks for donations, and the address of the wallet is only in the FAQ resource.
At the same time, the RIAA and other rightholders claim that torrent trackers earn millions. As you can see, this is not a fair statement.
Resources like Rutracker or The Pirate Bay are visited by hundreds of thousands or even millions of users every day. Naturally, funds are needed to support the work of the site. Servers, support team and other costs are quite large in the case of large resources.
')
Therefore, teams of such projects and try to earn. Various methods are used for this, including advertising (contextual, direct advertising, etc.). In some cases, donations from users work as well - for example, Wikipedia, and exists due to donations from its readers. The Pirate Bay also asks its users for financial support, and those from time to time help. But this support is not to say that it was significant. Recently it became known that per day all these millions of users donate about ... $ 9 in bitcoins.
This method of accepting funds was added by the resource team three years ago, when the Bitcoins themselves became popular. The Pirate Bay was one of the first resources to work with cryptocurrency. Yet, this is not a PayPal donation or credit card payment, which can be easily blocked. If the payment is already received on the bitcoin wallet, it is almost impossible to withdraw it, with rare exceptions.
All payments on a specific wallet can be viewed as transactions are transparent. To view payments on The Pirta Bay, you can click on this link . As you can see, on average, the resource has 1 donation per day, for a year - 376 transactions. The total amount in bitcoins is 8.21. That's about $ 3,500 per year, or $ 9.34 per day.
In this case, over time, donations are becoming less. During the period from 2013 to 2015 there were significantly more transactions. The total amount received by the tracker team over three years was $ 35,000 in dollar equivalent of bitcoin.
By the way, at the most visited torrent tracker in the world, KickassTorrents, the amount of donations in Bitcoin and even less - for three years, the resource received only $ 250, which is about 24 cents a day. True, CAT is not very active and asks for donations, and the address of the wallet is only in the FAQ resource.
At the same time, the RIAA and other rightholders claim that torrent trackers earn millions. As you can see, this is not a fair statement.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/393723/
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