With 199 more volunteers like John we can match a $120.000 anual budget.

Da Budget is 'bout half a mil.

dat be like 500,000 dollars.

Percent of Volunteers who donate is: 0.00.

Donations to SETI@home in July 2015:
Number of Donations: 9
Total Donations: $ 660.00
Smallest Donation: $ 10.00
Largest Donation: $ 100.00
Average Donation: $ 73.33
Median Donation: $ 100.00
Donation Rate (per day): $ 85.62
% of Volunteers that have Donated: 0.00%

Donations to SETI@home in July 2014
Number of Donations:18
Total Donations: $ 1510.82
Smallest Donation: $ 10.00
Largest Donation: $ 500.00
Average Donation: $ 83.93
Median Donation: $ 22.50
Donation Rate (per day): $ 48.74
% of Volunteers that have Donated: 0.00%

Donations to SETI@home in December 2014:
Number of Donations: 690
Total Donations: $ 41286.53
Smallest Donation: $ 10.00
Largest Donation: $ 4500.00
Average Donation: $ 59.84
Median Donation: $ 25.00
Donation Rate (per day): $ 1331.82
% of Volunteers that have Donated: 0.04%

Doubt if a few want to Donate da Whole Hog.

yep.

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Da Budget is 'bout half a mil.

dat be like 500,000 dollars.

There is an official budget page. but it's not up to date:

Sah Budget

A lot have been already paid for.

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Some of you could do what i'm doing , buy yourself a bitcoin miner and run it 24/7 and donate all the money it makes to seti .

A 200 gig/hash Antminer S1 uses aprox 400 watts of power so about the same as a high end machine .

It should generate about $100-200 per year or more depending of the currency rate at the time of donation so instead of having a crunching farm turn one of them off and run a Bitcoin miner for seti.

You can get a S2 miner that will be 400 gig/hash and it will use the same amount of power as the early S1 model and generate twice as much money witch should be around $200-400 per year.

And this way you wont need to find extra cash to donate as you will be Crunching for Seti and crunching with Seti for no extra outlay .

Oh i bought my miner via E-bay for $80 including postage Australian . And i did have to buy a good PSU for $120 .

I have already given $41 US and in 2 more months i'll make the next $40 odd buck donation so i should be able to give them about $120 buy feb next year and i haven't had to be a scruge and cut back on anything i just don't run the lappy or the second machine and keep the electric bill at what it is .

Oh one last thing if you live in a country where you own currency is less than the American dollar then this is a very good way to donate as the $41 i have already given them works out to be about $60 ozzie so donating from Australia costs more than what it does if your American or English or a European as both of them currency's are higher than the ozzie at the moment and this would be the same for others in other country's outside of Europe or England .

And if you don't tell people your doing it nobody will know if your worried about the laws in your country and Bitcoin being illegal or taxation worry's

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Some of you could do what i'm doing , buy yourself a bitcoin miner and run it 24/7 and donate all the money it makes to seti .

A 200 gig/hash Antminer S1 uses aprox 400 watts of power so about the same as a high end machine .

It should generate about $100-200 per year or more depending of the currency rate at the time of donation so instead of having a crunching farm turn one of them off and run a Bitcoin miner for seti.

You can get a S2 miner that will be 400 gig/hash and it will use the same amount of power as the early S1 model and generate twice as much money witch should be around $200-400 per year.
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Thanks for the numbers.

At my electric rates, a 400 watt system running for a year would add over 420 dollars to my electric bills, so even the S2 miner would be a slight loss. I suppose that might change over time, cryptocurrencies are valued by whatever the crowd thinks they're worth. My judgement is that value is more likely to go down rather than up over time, so I prefer to donate directly instead.

I have a monthly donation set up which happens on the 15th, so I got a confirmation email today:

Thank you for your continued support. Your gift was charged:

Date: 7/15/2015
Amount: 600.00
Credit Card...

That amount is of course designed to make up for a lot of users who cannot afford to make cash donations. If every active user could donate an average of 5 dollars a year the project would be getting about what they need. Matt Lebobsky could probably work nearly full time and perhaps the plans to get new sources of data could be accelerated.

                                                                  Joe

Some of you could do what i'm doing , buy yourself a bitcoin miner and run it 24/7 and donate all the money it makes to seti .

A 200 gig/hash Antminer S1 uses aprox 400 watts of power so about the same as a high end machine .

It should generate about $100-200 per year or more depending of the currency rate at the time of donation so instead of having a crunching farm turn one of them off and run a Bitcoin miner for seti.

You can get a S2 miner that will be 400 gig/hash and it will use the same amount of power as the early S1 model and generate twice as much money witch should be around $200-400 per year.
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Thanks for the numbers.

At my electric rates, a 400 watt system running for a year would add over 420 dollars to my electric bills, so even the S2 miner would be a slight loss. I suppose that might change over time, cryptocurrencies are valued by whatever the crowd thinks they're worth. My judgement is that value is more likely to go down rather than up over time, so I prefer to donate directly instead.

I have a monthly donation set up which happens on the 15th, so I got a confirmation email today:

Thank you for your continued support. Your gift was charged:

Date: 7/15/2015
Amount: 600.00
Credit Card...

That amount is of course designed to make up for a lot of users who cannot afford to make cash donations. If every active user could donate an average of 5 dollars a year the project would be getting about what they need. Matt Lebobsky could probably work nearly full time and perhaps the plans to get new sources of data could be accelerated.

                                                                  Joe

I looked at the miner boxes some time ago. With the R-Box 100 being much more efficient claiming 110Gh/s @ 110w-120w. Costing $80-120 depending on the day of the week. I worked out it world take me about 2.5 years to break even on hardware and electricity based on the published coin generation rates at the time. Given the generation rates slow over time it would likely take longer. So for me it doesn't look like a valid option.

With, at present, 176614 active users. If we managed to average $5 per active user a year that would possibly allow much more to happen. If we could average $1/mo, or $12/yr, per active user they might not know what to do with all the funds.

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I spose i should have also told you all that with a Bitcoin miner you can mine more than just one currency at a time .

I get

0.01195687 IX coin per 24 hour
0.00854062 HU coin per 24 hour
0.01195687 NM coin per 24 hour
0.00170812 BT coin per 24 hour

on average , and it mines them all at the same time via a merged mining pool .

You can then exchange the IX , NM, HU into Bitcoin

Those numbers can also be higher or lower depending on weather your solo mining or part of a pool and it also depends on the pool you join .

It all depends on how much experience you have trading comodaties as to weather you will make money or not , it's not so simple to just say it will cost me Blah , Blah amount for electricity .

But for those that have not traded stocks or currency no you won't make much money , but i look at it this way if i'm crunching for seti i'm wasting that electricity anyway so to run the miner even at a loss if that's how you look at things then at least i'm not wasting all the electricity as i am getting some money back which i donate .

It is a good way if like me you don't have credit cards and are on a limited income .

It is also possible to get 300 m/hash rates with GPU's and CPU's which i have been able to get with my 2 GTX 650 cards and all the CPU core going and mine script currency's like Light coin
If you own better GPU's then you may be able to get rates of up to 1 gig/hash with just 1 980 GTX card

As for people donating just $5 well $5 is not just five bucks if you live outside of America 5 bucks can be a months work there is also transfer fees taxes and so on so $5 can cost a lot more than $5 after the fees and exchange rates and is a bit arrogant to assume people can pay that amount .

I offer a alternative free of fees witch Bitcoin currency's offer seeing as people will probably be using there electricity already so buy turning 1 of there machines off they can get some of the money spent on electricity back and donate it

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As for people donating just $5 well $5 is not just five bucks if you live outside of America 5 bucks can be a months work there is also transfer fees taxes and so on so $5 can cost a lot more than $5 after the fees and exchange rates and is a bit arrogant to assume people can pay that amount .

I offer a alternative free of fees witch Bitcoin currency's offer seeing as people will probably be using there electricity already so buy turning 1 of there machines off they can get some of the money spent on electricity back and donate it

If you reread Joe's statement. I think you will find he mentions if donations averaged $5 per user. Not having ever user donate just $5. For example it would take roughly 1500 people donating $600 a year to have an average donation of $5 per user.

An idea I had that I think might motivate people to donate more often.
Take the budget & make those items donation drives in the GPUUG fundraiser site. With the donations being sent in a decided interval, but the amounts would be tracked for the budget year.
I would imagine that all donations collected would just go into their general fund pool. As donations are not part of the budget. However being able to track things like "we donated enough to pay for Systems administration and support in 3 months" would be interesting.

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OK.....
The kitties just kicked in another $20.00 to bump the thread and hopefully get things rolling again....

You gave $20.00
to SETI@home
on July 24, 2015
via Visa
Your confirmation number is 159563.

Please join the kitties!
Meow meow meow.

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Not much but i'm on a very tight budget as soon as more funds roll in i give again

Your gift details…

You gave to: SETI@home

We received your gift of $10.00

via Mastercard on 07/25/2015.

Your confirmation number is 159573

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

And the kitties thank Zombu2....
Meow!

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Just made my first donation

Total amount $10.00
Last donation received 28 Jul 2015, 7:00:00 UTC

:-)

Thank you, Samuel. I see your shiny green star has already arrived.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

The kitties are still poised to offer their special congrats to any others who would toss a few kibbles into the Seti bowl.

Meow?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Time to renew my financial Support:

You gave $100.00

to SETI@home

on September 3, 2015

via Visa
Your confirmation number is 160429

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

Time to renew my financial Support:

You gave $100.00

to SETI@home

on September 3, 2015

via Visa
Your confirmation number is 160429

Helli

Well, after a dry spell, another fine addition to the drive.
Nice contribution, Helli!
The kitties thank you very much.

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If the OP for some reason gets banished, the whole thread should be locked.

Why ? This is a long running donation thread. The OP's
posting or consent is really of no issue.

I do not assume to speak for Mark (or anyone else) but
this type of thread should remain open for others to
continue to donate.

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I could well continue running my tasks, but I also do have another account here with credit as well.

Perhaps a couple of others as well.

For orders sake, I chose to donate once, although it may not necessarily show.

This rather becomes the pleasure of being able to sit down and know that things are supposed to be running and the questions you may have is not thrown back in your face.

In the same way as you think that you are able to explain something, my best guess is that the purpose of a project is to be able to explain the same or the similar.

Is such a thing possible?

Yeah, assumedly this rather is about Politics.

And..............the kitties are back.

But, no...there is no reason at all that the thread cannot remain open for any and all contributors to peruse and post their latest donations to the project.
Even if I don't happen to be here riding shotgun, LOL.
Feel free.
I am not quite as prone to long absences lately. Somewhat due to my own behavior modification, and due to the kindness of the powers that be.

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Mark, possibly getting a couple of pennies back in your pocket does not necessarily make you a rich man.

There should be no secret that there currently is no place for the rich man to prosper and develop and if such a thing ever is supposed to happen, am I supposed to be the poor man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AN04imFDK8&index=23&list=RDD7rjLQuW2nQ