Introduction

As I’ve been working on building out my own approach to privacy and self-sovereign infrastructure, I’ve been struck by just how many projects and organizations accept Monero donations to help fund their operations and development.

Donating in Monero not only is a great use-case for private, fungible money like Monero, it increases these projects investment in Monero and shows people the power of Monero and the ethos of its community.

Monero

• The Monero Community Crowdfunding System (CCS) where all native funding for Monero projects and contributors occur:
  • https://ccs.getmonero.org/funding-required/
• Feather, a Tor-native Monero desktop wallet:
  • https://docs.featherwallet.org/guides/donate
• Cake Wallet, a mobile Monero wallet for both iOS and Android:
  • https://cakewallet.com/
• Monerujo, a mobile Monero wallet for Android:
  • https://www.monerujo.io/index.html#support
• Haveno, a Monero-first decentralized exchange:
  • https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno#support

Privacy-preserving services

• Tails, a privacy-preserving and portable Linux OS:
  • https://tails.boum.org/donate/index.en.html)
• QubesOS, a privacy-preserving Linux-based OS:
  • https://www.qubes-os.org/donate/
• Whonix, an anonymity-focused virtual machine:
  • https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Donate
• Tor, a privacy-preserving network protocol and multi-platform browser:
  • https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency/
• i2p, a privacy-preserving network protocol:
  • https://geti2p.net/en/get-involved/donate
• Nitter, a privacy-preserving Twitter front-end:
  • https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
• Teddit, a privacy-preserving Reddit front-end:
  • https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
• Yotter, a privacy-preserving YouTube and Twitter front-end:
  • https://github.com/pluja/pluja/blob/main/SUPPORT.md
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity¹:
  • https://anonymousplanet-ng.org/donations.html

Mobile OSs and Applications

• GrapheneOS, a privacy-preserving and hardened Android OS¹:
  • https://grapheneos.org/donate#monero
• FairEmail, a privacy-preserving Android email app¹:
  • https://email.faircode.eu/donate/
• PCAPdroid, an open-source network monitoring and capture tool¹:
  • https://emanuele-f.github.io/PCAPdroid/donate

Pro-privacy Organizations

• Techlore, a privacy advocacy and guidance organization that works to simplify and clarify the privacy journey:
  • https://techlore.tech/support.html
• Open Privacy Research Society¹:
  • https://openprivacy.ca/donate/#donatecrypto
• Riseup, a privacy-centric non-profit building and running secure means of communication¹:
  • https://riseup.net/donate
• Calyx, a privacy-centric non-profit that builds CalyxOS, my current mobile OS (coming soon):
  • https://calyxinstitute.org/
• PrivacyTools.io, a privacy-oriented community and service provider:
  • https://privacytools.io/donate/

Others

• FOSSHub, a FOSS-centric software download hub¹:
  • https://www.fosshub.com/crypto.html
• VideoLAN, makers of VLC Player¹:
  • https://www.videolan.org/contribute.html
• Music Caster, a FOSS music player that can cast files and URLs¹:
  • https://github.com/elibroftw/music-caster/#donate-or-translate
• Linux Mint, an easy to use linux distribution.
  • https://linuxmint.com/donors.php

Something Missing?

If you have a favorite FOSS project or pro-privacy organization that accepts Monero donations, please feel free to reach out via Signal, SimpleX, X, or Nostr or open a pull request via the “Suggest Changes to this Post” button at the top of the post, or at https://github.com/sethforprivacy/sethforprivacy.com/blob/master/content/posts/foss-donations.md.