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Hi,
If you are like me and love GrapheneOS, don't forget that every project needs support and money to keep going. You can help in multiple ways, with answering questions or correcting false information or helping as a device maintainer.

There are presumably more than 80.000 users. Don't think that the other 79.999 users will donate, because many won't. We all did see how fast a project can go down, if there is not enough support and it can even hit very popular projects like FairEmail. Or think about the almost dropped device support of GOS for the older Pixel models, because there weren't enough device maintainers. I donated and will keep on doing so and you should, too. Every dollar helps.

The GrapheneOS team does an amazing job. Show them some love. Start supporting now!

    My name is Commander Shepherd and this is my favourite OS on the Citdael!

    Seriously I condone this message!

    I imagine many may see it that not everyone who talks the talk, walks the walk:

    Account billed [REDACTED]
    Sponsorships sponsors-thestinger - $10 a month
    Sponsorship Amount $10.00 USD
    Total $10.00 USD
    Charged to [REDACTED]
    Transaction ID **************114
    GitHub Inc
    88 Colin P Kelly Jr Street
    San Francisco CA 94107
    United States
    Tax paid directly by GitHub, where applicable

    So there it is.

    You don't have to make $10 donation per month, $2.50 per user would make a massive difference to the project and the speed of progress.

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    Galt007 If every single user of GrapheneOS (~80,000+ based off of our update server logs from a few months ago) donated one dollar a month, that would be enough for Daniel to pay for his own living needs, pay all our current developers a livable salary from all other countries in the world including other people useful to the project, pay for more servers, test devices, debugging cables, extremely fast build servers, and still have so much extra left over.

    One dollar a month from each user.

    Yep. Just go without a Starbucks latte, or a pint, or a big Mac, choose your item here, for one month. Pretty simple. $5 a month should be doable

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      User since the beginning of the year, now it's my turn to give some money, and I hope to continue giving regularly to this project, which I consider one of the most important for security.
      It's hard and thankless, but don't give up !!! There are few projects of this quality.

        Galt007 Oh boy, now you've done it in ... the magic words "Big Mac"!

        Did someone say big?! Woof ๐Ÿ•

        Little Justis hears the "Big Mac"

        Me: nope, no one said anything about Big Mac's, Justis. You're hearing things. ๐Ÿ˜

        ๐Ÿพ Dad, I smell it, I smell Big Mac's! Woof ๐Ÿถ

        Justis knows the smell of Big Mac's and is now staring at me with demanding eyes

        Me: okay, okay, you got me. Big Mac double dosed.
        Justis only ever gets a finger sized piece once every couple months

        Big Mac's are Justis favourite rare treat!

        Daniel, is there any USDT wallet to donate?
        Nowadays, majority of cryptocurrencies lose thier value rapidly.
        I cant use any of the other options (github sponsorship) because of sanctions.

          TheGodfather I'm a new Graphene OS user and I have to say that I am very impressed with it on my Pixel 6 so far. I am new to the more security oriented ROM world and I am learning a lot.

          What really impresses me is how feature rich and polished the OS is. Many thanks to Daniel and the team!

          I contributed to the project today and plan to become a long term user.

          Thank you!

          You are totally right. We need to encourage donations. I did my first donation today to GrapheneOS using cryptocurrency. Proud user of a Pixel 4a GrapheneOS and looking forward for upgrading that to a Pixel 6a.

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          What is the prefered way of recieving donations? Atm Iโ€™m using github because Paypal takes about 10% just for sending some money. This makes paypal almost as expensive as crypto in terms of fees. Not to mention that the devs needs to convert the crypto into standard currency with more fees to boot.

          So, is github the best way?

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            Frost There isn't a preferred way. Our donations methods are what we offer.
            To my knowledge we do not pay any fees because the money is sent to a personal account (Daniel Micay) instead of an organisation. GitHub doesn't take a fee unless you're an organisation and their fee is very expensive which is why donating on GitHub donates to Daniel's personal GitHub account.
            This also includes PayPal because you should be sending it as Family and Friends so there's no fee paid (or the sender is the one paying the fee) on our end.

            If you're donating via crypto, set the lowest fee possible because it doesn't matter how fast it needs to be.