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# How can I help the collective?

Donations to support Anonymous Planet are welcome, but are entirely optional. Those donations are mainly used to pay for VPS and mail hosting, domain name registration, and to maintain/run Tor exit nodes. **No profit is ever being made**. All donations and spendings are being logged here below for transparency and a more robust designated page will be put up in the future to maintain it. For now, it's all hand-typed & calculated. Some costs for load balancer servers have been omitted for privacy reasons, but are not paid for with existing Anonymous Planet finances. Additionally, some services cannot be described as they are meant to be anonymous, such as if we used personal funds to pay for a private card aliasing service to facilitate .onion hosting. Below is all information in regards to our fiscal host (which handles our legal and financial investments) and our organizational goals.

## What is a fiscal host?

A **fiscal host** is an organization that accepts donations on behalf of 501(c)(3) nonprofits or other charitable entities. They handle the legal and financial infrastructure needed to process tax-deductible contributions, issue receipts for donors, manage audits, and handle payroll or grants — essentially acting as a middle layer between you (the donor) and your favorite privacy-focused project.

Think of it like a bank for nonprofits: if you wanted to donate directly to an independent developer building free tools, that money wouldn't qualify as tax-deductible unless the developer was already incorporated as a nonprofit with their own fiscal operations. Fiscal hosts solve this by wrapping around smaller projects with professional infrastructure.

### Our Fiscal Host: Open Source Collective

We use [Open Source Collective](https://opensourcecollective.com/) as our fiscal host. This platform is designed for independent developers building open-source software — they handle the 501(c)(3) compliance, legal requirements, and tax receipts while keeping overhead minimal.

## How We Plan to Use Funds

All donations support hosting infrastructure and operational costs:

- **VPS servers** for our .onion services hosting
- **Domain registration** for long-term stability
- **Mail hosting** for anonymous email services (Simplelogin credits, aliases)
- **Tor exit node maintenance** to support the privacy network
- **Load balancers** for high-availability and redundancy

## Future Goals

- Discourse for the organization, our contributors, and maintainers
- Anyone interested in privacy and anonymity technologies
- Knowledge sharing about security, Tor, onion services, and encrypted communications

Funds raised will help us expand into additional community tools while keeping our mission focused on supporting free and open-source privacy projects.

## Financial Goals

We have met two of our main financial goals.

- <span style="color: var(--status-success)">Funding for a decent mail hosting ✓</span>
- <span style="color: var(--status-success)">Funding for domain (long-term) ✓</span>
- <span style="color: var(--status-warning)">Funding for a VPS for hosting our .onion & other services</span>

## Donate using Monero (XMR)

- Total Monero donations received: **7.101317184263 XMR**
- Total Monero remaining: **2.059336719397 XMR**

Here is the address for the main project:

`46crzj54eL493BA68pPT4A1MZyKQxrpZu9tVNsfsoa5nT85QqCt8cDTfy1fcTH1oyjdtUbhmpZ4QcVtfEXB337Ng6PS21ML`

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## Donate using Bitcoin (BTC)

- Total Bitcoin donations received: **1.89353 mBTC**
- Total Bitcoin remaining: **0 mBTC**

Here are the addresses for the main project:

- SegWit address: ```bc1qp9g2c6dquh5lnvft50esxsl97kupdpyqyd4kkv```

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- Legacy address: ```1BBgBSVe6w4DWq2BewUQhDEjsNovhfPswD```

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## Content Contributions

You can easily contribute code or information suggestions at our code repositories listed at the bottom of the website and on the [Mirrors](../mirrors/index.md) tab above. We have many options that are easily accessible. Please follow our [contributing guidelines](../code/index.md) and use good PR syntax. Be sure to go to the [developer guide](../code/index.md) first.

**Thank you for any contribution. All donations will be mentioned on this page.**

??? tip "Donations log"

    - 2021-02-06 16:48: 0.1 XMR
    - 2021-03-15 00:09: 1.24869 mBTC
    - 2021-03-15 08:41: 0.07896 mBTC
    - 2021-03-31 16:28: 1 XMR (Special thanks for this very generous donation)
    - 2021-04-03 22:31: 0.5 XMR (Special thanks for this very generous donation)
    - 2021-05-07 06:22: 0.010433355105 XMR
    - 2021-06-16 03:05: 0.03 XMR
    - 2021-06-27 18:39: 0.05 XMR
    - 2021-07-12 07:24: 0.02 XMR
    - 2021-07-16 14:31: 0.1 mBTC
    - 2021-07-20 21:01: 0.058981 XMR
    - 2021-07-24 15:16: 0.000000000001 XMR
    - 2021-07-25 02:37: 0.000000000001 XMR
    - 2021-08-03 00:17: 0.04119191113 XMR
    - 2021-08-07 15:05: 0.206328241262 XMR
    - 2021-08-10 11:42: 0.21 mBTC
    - 2021-08-13 00:25: 0.25 XMR
    - 2021-08-14 04:58: 0.25588 mBTC
    - 2021-08-30 17:32: 0.000000000001 XMR
    - 2021-09-17 14:34: 0.018 XMR
    - 2021-10-01 06:23: 0.000000002137 XMR
    - 2021-10-02 19:16: 1 XMR (Special thanks for this very generous donation)
    - 2021-10-17 15:40: 0.02 XMR
    - 2021-10-18 16:06: 0.1958 XMR
    - 2021-11-12 20:42: 0.02 XMR
    - 2021-11-14 18:28: 0.018 XMR
    - 2021-12-03 21:38: 0.10134722595 XMR
    - 2021-12-16 01:16: 1 XMR (Special thanks for this very generous donation)
    - 2021-12-16 18:06: 0.017 XMR
    - 2022-01-09 17:54: 0.045918219893 XMR
    - 2022-01-15 17:35: 0.014 XMR
    - 2022-01-24 21:08: 0.010786 XMR
    - 2022-01-26 12:07: 0.010391 XMR
    - 2022-02-03 19:59: 0.013013984 XMR
    - 2022-02-18 17:27: 0.019 XMR
    - 2022-03-14 10:25: 0.0139887 XMR
    - 2022-07-30 03:51: 0.0222 XMR
    - 2022-09-28 05:13: 2 XMR
    - 2022-08-19: SimpleLogin.io Lifetime Premium
    - 2022-09-19: 0.345024603905 XMR (Special thanks to a previous maintainer)

??? note "Spendings log"

    - 2021-03-12: 0.08181086 XMR (+fees) for domain anonymousplanet.net (1 year)
    - 2021-03-16: 1.20179 mBTC (+fees) for domain anonymousplanet.net renewal (extension 3 years totalling 4 years)
    - 2021-04-01: 0.8317 XMR (+fees) for basic VPS for Tor Mirror hosting
    - <del>2021-04-05: 0.99367 mBTC (+fees +exchange from XMR to BTC) for Mail Hosting (1 year): <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2021-04-13: 0.71895 mBTC (+fees +exchange from XMR to BTC) for Mail Hosting (extension to 2 years)</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - 2021-04-25: 0.02892 mBTC (Wallet to Wallet transfer fee)
    - 2021-07-13: 0.78463 mBTC (+fees +exchange from BTC to XMR) for consolidation
    - <del>2021-07-13: 0.067261698061 XMR (+fees) for a Tor Exit Node (01) Hosting (3 months)</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2021-07-15: 0.151959953047 XMR (+fees) for a Tor Exit Node (02) Hosting (6 months)</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2021-08-16: 0.253331471239 XMR (+fees) for a Tor Exit Node (03) Hosting (12 months)</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - 2021-08-18: AtomicSwap conversion from remaining mBTC (-0.56588) to XMR (+0.081904862179)
    - <del>2021-08-19: 0.0644 XMR (+fees) for Mail Hosting extension</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2021-09-18: 0.246971511836 XMR (+fees) for renewal 1 year of Tor Exit Node 01</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - 2021-10-04: 0.26954 XMR (+fees) for domain anonymousplanet.net extension until 2029
    - <del>2021-10-06: 0.236073464623 XMR (+fees) for a Tor Exit Node (04) Hosting (12 months)</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2021-10-18: 0.01952 XMR (+fees) for testing a new VPS hosting provider (Privex.io) for one month</del>: <span style="color: red">**Ended**</span>
    - <del>2021-10-30: 0.240787814495 XMR (+fees) for a Synapse Hosting VPS (12 months) with bots to help grow the community. This is a test program that will be converted into a Tor Exit Node in case of failure</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2022-01-01: 0.28055816111 XMR (+fees) for renewal 1 year of Tor Exit Node 02</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2022-02-02: 0.966793601024 XMR (+fees) to sponsor a special project (w/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights)</del>: <span style="color: red">**Lost**</span>
    - <del>2022-07-11: 0.503232784687 XMR (+fees) for 1984.is VPS (12 months)</del>: <span style="color: red">**Ended**</span>
    - <del>2022-09-19: 0.345024603905 XMR (+fees) for upgrading VPS RAM/Disk</del>: <span style="color: red">**Ended**</span>

[1]: ../media/monero.png
[2]: ../media/bitcoin-segwit.png
[3]: ../media/bitcoin-legacy.png