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I made a donation with bitcoin and then tried to check how much btc does this wallet have.

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1qlea754...

Do I read properly there are ~$1000 now and ~$73000 ever deposited?

Not exactly. 3.4 BTC received. Depending on when the donations were made it could be more or less than $73000.

Though it does look like he held ~1 BTC until Nov 2020 and then transferred it out. So it's possible he's actually received roughly the equivalent of $73000 USD from those donations

Are u suggesting it’s too little or too much?

I was trying to check if my transaction went through, but then I started to wonder if I should fact check him on his claim that he didn’t have 80k usd to evade prison sentence.

But to answer your question - years of work for such a widely used project should be compensated more in my opinion. An engineer at google with similar skill will make 2-5x, maybe 10x as much.

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