Donations · pledges · giveaway payouts
Proof the money left the hive.
"We donated €5k." Cool. DonationBee lets anyone check it. Payments go straight to the recipient and land in a public ledger, and the recipient signs for what they got.
How the buzz works
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Pay straight to the recipient
Checkout runs on Stripe, and the money goes into the recipient's own account. We never touch it.
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Everyone sees the same ledger
Each payment is chained and signed. Independent witnesses cosign every update, and it's timestamped into Bitcoin. You get a receipt to keep.
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The recipient signs for it
They tap a passkey tied to their own website. A payment with that mark is confirmed, not just recorded.
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Don't trust the bee
The verifier is a separate program that shares no code with this site. It recomputes every hash and signature, and it checks witnesses, anchors and recipient signatures against sources we don't control.
pip install vpp-verify vpp-verify --url https://bee.theorycorner.com --pin-genesis <hash> \ --witness <witness vkey> --min-witnesses 1 \ --anchors-repo <anchors git url> --check-ots --check-domains
What even a good bee can't prove
- A payment the recipient hasn't confirmed is our word that Stripe reported it.
- A payer and recipient who know each other look like strangers.
- The operator and a recipient working together could invent one.
- Money sent back outside Stripe is invisible to any ledger.