On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
Well, the obvious collateral is always money; and with bitcoin going mainstream, untraceable money transfers are now accessible even to nontechnical users (although I don't know Not sure if the mere act of buying bitcoins could endanger someone in certain oppressive regimes). Something like $10 is probably not a serious hurdle to anyone intent on avoiding censorship but enough to deter spammers. The money could be donated to the Tor project, or retained and returned after a certain number of edits.
In some jurisdictions Bitcoin is outright prohibited, with penalties for end users for mere ownership of any amounts. Would be very funny to require people to expose their asses to more problems in order to edit Wikipedia.