update New Alliance info on finances spreadsheet

[chadwhitacre]

Are we going to do this forever? If so we should automate this. If not we should stop bothering with it. Since New Alliance is now just for escrow (#68), it should only ever contain:

• deposits from Balanced (and Stripe, retire stripe #173)
• payments to Balanced
• transfers to PayPal and Coinbase

My hangup is that the IAT PAYPAL transfers have the payee in the original, and the first time around I decided not to include that in the public version (don't want to leak email addresses? Or disclose when we're paying out to whom?). Are we continuing with that policy? Do we trust any automation we'd come up with?

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[clone1018]

I think all email addresses should be either redacted or heavily obscured. Our current privacy policy doesn't tell users their email will be publicly shared.

[seanlinsley]

One possibility would be to create a unique ID for each user that can only be tied to a person's identity if you have access to the Gittip DB.

[MikeFair]

OpenACH should be able take care of the IAT transfers and hide all the bank account and userid details.

There are two identifiers gittip can use to access a user profile; one is provided by OpenACH (called the profile_id) and the other GT creates (called the external_id).

A user can attach multiple bank accounts to their profile. Each of the accounts can be at different banks.

The API provides for pulling back all the accounts for a user with redacted account numbers (last 4 digits) and friendly names so end users can identify and select which bank account they want to use when submitting a payment scheduling request.

Payments can be scheduled / one-time or recurring and OpenACH will automatically take care of making the transfers on schedule and track the transfer statuses.

There's also a limited ability (10 characters) for gittip to customize the transactions users see on their statements.
So users could see something like OpenACH: Gittip as the transaction description on their statements.

[chadwhitacre]

Done. IRC