Re: Questions to candidates (financing aids & alternative priorities)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 02:40 +0200, Andrés G. Aragoneses wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the delay, I know the elections already started... but
> apparently they questions can still be sent, so here I have two:
>
> - In regards to finances, I've read that much of the problem is
> actually about the overhead and paperwork of administrative tasks
> about the accounts with regards to tracking income and
> controlling/approving expenses. So I'm wondering: do you think trying
> to start moving some of these processes (in which inevitably one has
> to deal with banks and receipts) to the use of a cryptocurrency would
> make things easier and more transparent? I know that maybe this space
> is a bit immature right now, but there's already many merchants
> accepting it, and using it to send pay-outs to developers (for their
> expenses) would allow avoiding PayPal fees, and could help maybe
> streamline some processes?

This was already answered in previous e-mails. tl;dr is "we can't,
unless we really fancy being audited by the IRS".

Cheers