I was going to give this 7 days, but 6 is enough, and so calling this bullshit as of now.
Not even a courtesy email response, either privately or publicly, leads conclusion this was nothing but a fishing net bullshit carrot to gather the good ideas of others, by someone who is lacking creativity, and apparently also lacking good intention. U bin identified, muffaluggerahs! <snigger> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 09:04:32PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 04:47:15PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > > https://www.unknown.fund/ > > > > " > > Unknown Fund - Press Release 11/13/2019 > > > > We are going to invest and donate $75 million of bitcoin in startups > > that help anonymity ideas. Preferred niches are personal data > > protection, tools for online anonymity, cryptocurrencies, blockchain. > > > Dear Anonymous Fund, > > prior to putting our best ideas in detail to you, I hereby apply as > follows in order to establish proof of substance of the Anonymous > Fund: > > > I apply for $1 million, which is 1/75th of the published fund amount, > which shall be used for: > > > a) The purchase of 30 Librem 5 mobile phones for use by myself and a > few of my cohorts in freedom. > > I shall use at least one of these phones as a test bed for > software development. > > This will total around $21,000. > > > b) The purchase of 30 Purism laptops, for use by myself and a few of > my freedom loving cohorts. > > I shall personally use two of these laptops to upgrade my ageing > laptop, for the development of libre freedom protecting > software. > > This will total around $90,000. > > > c) The balance of the $1 million, I shall donate to the Puri.sm > enterprise to continue furthering their work creating the best > freedom respecting hardware that they are capable of creating. > > > See https://puri.sm/about/ for further details about Purism and their > awesome vision of creating hardware which respects our freedom and is > not a walled garden where we are locked in, but where we may easily > modify and add and remove our own chosen software. > > I shall obtain from Purism a letter of gratitude for the donation, > and ask that they publish this letter on their website, as proof that > the donation has been made by way of receipt of funds from the > Unknown Fund, via myself. > > Thank you, > Zenaan Harkness > Australia >