edit: That discussion was right after the first bitcoin bubble and at the time it was trading for around $17 so the total donations that they were talking about was about $60k. Still a lot of money to be going to the faucet (and down the drain?).
Cannot edit or delete the old post, i was wrong by several orders of magnitude, please down vote and ignore. it was 20k USD worth of bitcoin at the time he donated.
Don't apologize too much. I was having fun demonstrating
how to track this stuff down. That said I would have
been really upset if I had donated a significant amount
of money to the EFF and then they decided to give all of
it away.
BTW it is probably possible to verify that the money
donated was REALLY send to the bitcoin faucet.
Oh and yeah I got my first bitcoins from the faucet like
many of these other people. It was an important service, however given how bitcoins can be split up it didn't need to be giving out large amounts at all.
Apologies.