I'm trying to gauge the public level of reception if we had proof-of-orphan-mining available.
POOM is an idea where BiblePay starts an additional website called orphanstats.com. This sites sole purpose would be to gather statistics on private orphan sponsorships (IE normal home users who sponsor personal children at compassion.com). Then, we would program a custom BiblePay API to allow the sanctuaries to query (from orphanstats.com) - the orphan statistics (such as the Orphan ID list per User ID, the monthly commitment amount per User etc). Using this info, BiblePay Core could potentially reward users out of the PODC budget for monthly sponsorships, expanding biblepay and saving net electricity.
However, the primary downside to this is that the orphanstats.com method of harvesting the child information per user would be logging in to your private compassion.com account with a long key (a keypair created by orphanstats), then orphanstats would scan the list of orphan IDs once per night and save the info per User ID and log out (programatically). Although we would publically promise to not scan any other information than the numeric orphan ID of each child and then log out, obviously this system requires trust.
So please tell us your opinion: If you trust that we would not look at any other info, vote Yes, If you would like to see this system in prod.
If you would only allow this type of scan if you created a new compassion account using "BiblePay Branch Office", a PO BOX, and a blank phone number, vote the corresponding option.
Another option is if we had two database administrators - verifying the data collected includes no other fields; if you feel safe in that case, please vote that way.
Otherwise please tell us this is a bad idea by voting No.