bitcoin address for gnucash donations: 1EEgyjqfBZ2ZgBHviLQuVAAsQfgVS1JUuy

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 25 January 2014 10:24:17 Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014, 09:06:39 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> > Apparently someone requested that we publish a Bitcoin address for
> > users to donate to gnucash via Bitcoin.  Unfortunately the message
> > got lost, so I don't know who sent it or exactly what it said.
> > ...
> > 
> > PS: I've CC'd Liz because she's the only one who saw the original
> > message
> In the rest of the discussion it was agreed I should generate a
> bitcoin address and take care of the corresponding wallet. Here's the
> data:
> 
> Bitcoin address: 1EEgyjqfBZ2ZgBHviLQuVAAsQfgVS1JUuy
> Attached is a QR code image with this address and the description text
> "gnucash.org Donation".
> 
> To include this information in our web page, we can take examples from
> here: * https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=14
> * http://donate.libreoffice.org/
> * Apparently some bitcoin client programs register the URL method
> "bitcoin", which, if available, would make the following hyperlink
> work: <a
> ref="bitcoin:1EEgyjqfBZ2ZgBHviLQuVAAsQfgVS1JUuy">Donate...</a> but as
> we can't rely on that (see e.g. libreoffice's payment provider), we
> also have to show the bitcoin address for copy&paste.
> 
> Any volunteer for adding this information to our website? I'm a bit
> short on time these days... Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
I have made a first attempt:
http://www.gnucash.org/donate.phtml

The formulation is lightly inspired by the Libreoffice page. If someone feels inspired to 
improve this page: please do !

Geert