We do not offer the ability to pay with or accept payment with bitcoin on Patreon.While cryptocurrency shows itself to be an exciting possible future for how money works- we wouldn't have the banking support required, and would have a hard time being compliant with required IRS reporting.While we don’t raise funds to sponsor development of GIMP as an organization at this time, we encourage our contributors to run personal fundraisers.Currently there are two such projects.Øyvind Kolås uses Patreon to raise funds for his work on , GIMP’s new sophisticated image processing core.This work is crucial to implement features such as non-destructive editing in GIMP, including features known as adjustment layers and layer effects in similar software.Øyvind is the primary developer of GEGL who has been working on it since mid-2000s.Jehan Pagès runs another Patreon-hosted campaign to raise funds for a GIMP-powered animated movie, ZeMarmot.Part of the funds is spent on development of advanced animation features in .

Jehan is one of the most active contributors to GIMP in recent years who has fixed countless bugs.Donating money to the GIMP project is easy!The Foundation has graciously agreed to act as fiscal agents for us.Contributions to the GIMP project can be made by donating to the GNOME Foundation and specifying the GIMP project as the recipient.The GNOME Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax-deductible in the USA.You can choose from several options to support GIMP financially: Support Core Team Developers Directly Donate to The Project Paypal Flattr Bitcoin Cheque Financial help is needed for many different reasons.The annual Libre Graphics Meeting is one of the things that the money will go to.It helps us to get as many Developers to the conference as possible, so that we can do face-to-face team meetings, plan further development, fix bugs, and write new features.If applicable, please specify whether you want to remain anonymous.

While we usually don’t publish the names of donors, this may be considered for exceptional donations.Many thanks to all our sponsors!, this will notify us, and the GNOME board, that funds have been donated to the GIMP project.bitcoin value bloombergCredit card donations are also accepted via this route.ethereal brewing jobsDonate to with Flattr.bitcoin calculator audFlattr is a microdonation system.bitcoin daily beastUsers are able to pay a small amount every month (minimum 2 euros) and then click Flattr buttons on sites to share the money they paid among those sites, comparable to an Internet tip jar (for more details see Wikipedia’s Flattr article).bitcoin in tampa

Bitcoin (BTC) is an online digital currency that is based on an open-source, peer-to-peer encryption protocol first described in 2009 by a pseudonymous developer (or developers) Satoshi Nakamoto.sell bitcoin webmoneyBitcoin is not managed by any government or central authority.Instead, it relies on an Internet-based network (for more details see Wikipedia’s Bitcoin article).Cheque, made payable to the Foundation, and sent to: GNOME Foundation #117 21 Orinda Way Ste.C Orinda, CA 94563 USA with a cover-letter (or a note in the “memo” field) saying it is for the GIMP project.Voluntary tipping on the internet has been both praised and berated as a way to monetize websites and online content.When a comedian, artist, or any content producer puts their content online for free with an optional 'tip jar' application on the page beside it, they can expect a very small income from that, typically an order of magnitude less than any traditional revenue stream.

The latest solution to this problem is the brainchild of developers Leo Campbell and Chris Ellis.Named ProTip, the open source Chrome browser plugin attacks the problem with tip jars from a different direction.Instead of the webmaster holding out the hat, ProTip is a special bitcoin wallet that lets web surfers produce their own hat on their own time, and tip all their favorite webmasters in a batch run, quickly and efficiently, without any messing around with individual payments.This approach has many benefits that other tipping platforms haven't tried before, and it mostly bypasses the serious issue of merchant adoption.As long as a merchant accepts bitcoin in some way, and has a bitcoin address somewhere on their website (even in a Meta tag) then ProTip can detect it and use it to tip that webmaster, once or ongoing, even if they weren't asking for tips at all.- Ivan Kirigin, Former Tipjoy CEO Although there have been similar attempts to process tips in this fashion, ProTip offers a  surprising level of functionality to those who wish to support the content providers they visit.

ProTip is the first tipping platform to be able to tip artists on just about any platform.YouTube, Soundcloud, WordPress, Tumblr, Twitter, Deviant Art, Flickr, and many more provide a place for a bitcoin address to be displayed, such as an 'about the artist' field.The app has a built-in bitcoin wallet that lets you choose if you want to pay out to all of your favorite sites automatically, on a schedule, or whenever you hit the green button.It also gives you control over how much you send to each site, or lets you base your tip amount on the time you’ve spent with them, even giving you the decision of which tipping structure is fair, per site, when tipping in bulk.Once you have the ProTip plugin installed the app automatically adds the Bitcoin address from pages to a list.You literally don't have to even think about this part, but it does take a little effort later to tidy up the list.Thankfully, they included an ignore filter that stops the app from collecting certain bitcoin addresses, or any address from specific websites.

Overall, the effect is pretty magical; a single place in your browser that automatically keeps up with all of your favorite websites' tipping addresses, for use as a subscription service, or for a single tip blast.Conveniently, each link on the apps list of sites also acts as a bookmark, keeping all of your favorite sites just one click away.Further inside the app, you can even see how much time you’ve spent on each site that week, so you can assess each site for spending your tipping budget.From there the wallet lets you set reminders, plan your budget further, toggle it from automatic to manual mode, and even use the fully-functional bitcoin wallet, although the security for it shouldn't be trusted for large amounts.Perhaps the largest criticism of the plugin is its' learning curve.If this app is meant to help bring more users to Bitcoin, it still needs a bit of polishing.Although it's easy enough to install from the Chrome Apps store, the first thing it shows new users is their private key.

There isn’t much information about how important that key is, or instructions on how to keep it safe.A careful walk-through could ease new users into bitcoin better.Another concern is the reasonable expectation that the list of websites may become too long, and the costs too large for anyone to keep on top of their tipping schedule indefinitely.If you wanted to tip your favorite websites a dollar each, and you visit a few dozen over a period of time, that adds up pretty quick, the thought of which could scare off users before they even download the app.Thankfully, Bitcoin micropayments allow for far smaller tips.If ProTip's seemingly-backwards model of tipping many websites all at once on a schedule catches on, far more people will be tipping far more sites, but with tiny amounts.This would still make it worthwhile for webmasters in the long run.Instead of a popular website charging subscription fees through paywalls, or using payment processors that charge fees, tippers could support their favourite sites with fractions of a dollar.

After crowdfunding the app themselves, running an Indiegogo fundraising campaign earlier this year, the programming duo managed to raise enough money, mostly in bitcoin, to produce the working version that launched on Monday.Now the challenge will be convincing the world that content has value, and allowing the tippers to decide how much, not the content producers.Of course, there is some competition, of sorts.The internet already has more than a few online tipping services, including ChangeTip, Patreon, and Flattr.Why not just use Flattr or ChangeTip for bitcoin tipping you might ask?First of all, neither does subscriptions.These services are just one-time-only appreciation engines, usually meant for tipping other commenters on 3rd-party websites where no bitcoin address is given for that commenter.Their systems also rely on tippees being members of the same tipping system in order to receive their tips, creating closed communities.A more fundamental difference between the two services and ProTip is that the latter has no company behind it at all, much like bitcoin, and operates only as an open source software in your browser.

Patreon is perhaps the closest service to ProTip, and although centralized, it has a similar subscription model, which allows web surfers to pledge an amount no smaller than $1 per week to a site or content producer.Patreon only deals in dollars, with no option for bitcoin, but the amount of traffic Patreon has achieved impressive.According to Gigaom Research, by the start of 2014 Patreon tippers were already tipping over US$150,000 per week.The company hasn't released any more recent stats, but the growth trend was looking exceptional.Perhaps the primary reason that voluntary website tipping hasn't caught on is because we internet users feel entitled.We have been getting content like this online for free already, so why pay anything?If we had been paying for that type of content all along, like we do with newly-released Hollywood movies, then our expectations would be quite different.Kirigin, the former CEO of a ycombinator tip-jar startup named Tipjoy, saw this problem first hand.It was the reason he decided to shut down Tipjoy, and he has since moved on to work for Dropbox.