Cryptocurrency support for Saidit.net (self.SaidIt)

submitted by magnora7

Saidit.net is paid for through the power of the community and crowdsourcing. We don't run advertisements, and the crowd is what drives the content, not the advertisers.

We've done our homework to make smart and economically sustainable choices for hosting and licensing, and currently as a result it only costs a lean $31/mo to run the site. We hope to continue this trend, in comparison to voat who transitioned to a .NET architecture and now pays thousands of dollars every month just in Azure licencing fees, and that's not including any server costs. A smart growth design will hopefully keep saidit up and running for years to come at minimal cost for the community.

If you'd like to help us with server costs for running SaidIt.net, we are proud to accept Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. Please be careful to use the correct address for the correct coin, as a mistake may cause a loss of the coins.

Bitcoin Donation Address:

1HZTZnsA96N82RZdPSDLoCVmymPpTNHPD

Litecoin donation address:

LeiDb4AEjsJzXw8BvXFmaW555Zea9SSFAY

Dogecoin donation address:

DCbn74gHkSwzpm9tECrXoKEjGx15SHmSKS

Ethereum donation address:

0xfc23CcDc9E2e2CdB8b6E5A71855163cF179e49b4

We also have a Patreon here:

https://www.patreon.com/SaidIt

Thank you for your support as we continue to improve the website.

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[–]kovri 4 insightful - 1 funny4 insightful - 0 funny5 insightful - 1 funny -  (1 child)

Needs Monero!

And if you are interested in an environment-friendly crypto, I advise you to take a look at Nano (prev. RaiBlocks), which features feeless and instant transactions. Take this with a grain of salt as it is heavily shilled on Reddit.

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 funny4 insightful - 0 funny5 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Good idea, I will work on adding a Monero address. I've heard a lot of buzz about Nano too, seems like an exciting currency since it has zero fees. Thanks for the ideas!

[–]necaremus 3 insightful - 1 funny3 insightful - 0 funny4 insightful - 1 funny -  (1 child)

you could also think about adding an opt-in mining algo. (only as opt-in option, never ever by default!) this way all users could use some spare computing power to financially support the website. (or alter the algo to mine for themselves... which they could have done from the very beginning anyway... xD)

the point about "environment-friendly" is a heavy one, thou. some cryptos are trying to get rid of the Proof Of Work concept, which is really resource heavy in most(all?) cases (you burn a lot of energy), towards a Proof Of Stake concept. I have no idea if an opt-in mining option/algo is possible with an underlying PoS structure.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 funny3 insightful - 0 funny4 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Haha as a matter of fact this is almost exactly what I just spent the last several hours drawing a roadmap for, actually. Great minds think alike. We are developing a plan toward this end. We are talking about doing opt-in in-browser mining and developing our own crypto. I'm not sure if there is a way to make the CPU cycles burned more useful and serve some purpose, but perhaps not. I would love for it to do something useful too while it mines. We are researching this, if you have any additional info in this area let me know.

[–]leo 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (1 child)

Steem might be good too I know a lot of people have worthless amounts they would donate over hassling to cash it, including me.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Ah thanks for the idea.

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (1 child)

Can you look into accepting QRL, and other quantum resistant cryptoassets, like Snowblossom and Mochimo? Currently, all the current options would be able to have private keys cracked from public keys via Shor's algorithm if a sufficiently powerful quantum computer were to be developed. It could take some years for this to happen, though, so hopefully a migration to more secure keys will be possible in the future!

Also, if you would like some extra server space, I have a dual Xeon X5560 24g of RAM rig with over 1.5 TB of space left. Please contact if interested!

Since I am making suggestions: Can you look into making this site available on then[Hyperboria[(https://hyperboria.net/) and Yggdrasil? They are important mesh networks in the event that something happens with the clearnet.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Sure, I will look in to those things. Thanks for bringing them up! Of all those, which do you think is the most important for saidit to have?

[–]d3rr 3 insightful - 1 funny3 insightful - 0 funny4 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Sweet, no ads!

[–]bynarie2018 1 insightful - 1 funny1 insightful - 0 funny2 insightful - 1 funny -  (1 child)

first of all you need to get rid of all the fucking reddit icons, all the 404 pages... and for fuck sakes, BLOCK REDDIT god damn....

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 funny1 insightful - 0 funny2 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

all the fucking reddit icons,

Where? I haven't seen any in months.

I see no 404 pages.

I'm not blocking reddit.

[–]bynarie2018 1 insightful - 1 funny1 insightful - 0 funny2 insightful - 1 funny -  (9 children)

You guys are on the right track, but u need to LOOK AT THE CODE. Do you not realize everything on here goes to reddit? And, out of allllllll of the places to have a server u pick linode... why..? I really admire the work, but this website REALLY needs work and your code needs cleaned up..... But whatver

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (8 children)

Do you not realize everything on here goes to reddit?

It doesn't though. There might be some service that accesses reddit, but we've been working on the code 6 months to eliminate these things. What are you talking about specifically, so we can fix it?

What's wrong with linode?

If you want the site to improve then show me where the problems are specifically and explain why, so we can fix it

[–]bynarie2018 3 insightful - 1 funny3 insightful - 0 funny4 insightful - 1 funny -  (3 children)

u should put a line in hosts file that reads reddit.com 127.1 that way reddit.com is blocked. I do like the idea of putting a mining script on the site.. I did some testing on the server directly(went around cloudflare) and it has some issues, specifically with the SSL cert. You have Lets Encrpyt and Comodo. theres an entry point. And with linode your probably renting a vps, linode will shut you down. I do honestly think u guys did a great job cloning reddit, but run kali and pen test it... youll see what im talking about.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, we'll have a look at this stuff now that you've pointed it out. /u/d3rr check this out

[–]d3rr 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (1 child)

Thanks for the feedback. I like your blocking reddit.com idea, we'll do that.

How did you find the server ip? So Comodo certs are considered to be particularly insecure/compromised? One other user has brought that up too.

Can you recommend a Linode alternative? We are ready to migrate hosts at any time if we need to.

[–]bynarie2018 1 insightful - 1 funny1 insightful - 0 funny2 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Comodo is fine... But you have Lets encrypt installed directly on the actual server its showing me. 2 SSLs != good... I have messaged magnora, told him the IP, and everything. Dallas TX linode. Hostname... All that... Im not here to harm, here to help.

[–]bynarie2018 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (3 children)

Sorry, I wasnt trying to be rude... Oh, one more thing; make sure the php files cannot be downloaded unparsed.. Execute only mode.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 funny1 insightful - 0 funny2 insightful - 1 funny -  (2 children)

/u/d3rr also this

[–]d3rr 1 insightful - 1 funny1 insightful - 0 funny2 insightful - 1 funny -  (1 child)

this one I don't know about. we don't have any php that I'm aware of. I doubt we're serving any source code but I'll do some tests.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 funny2 insightful - 0 funny3 insightful - 1 funny -  (0 children)

Yeah I didn't think we had any php either. The first one seems legit though