on 14 january 2014, bob beck issued a request for funding to cover electrical costs. if sustainable funding was not found, beck suggested the openbsd project would shut down. the project soon received a us$20,000 donation from mircea popescu, the romanian creator of the mpex bitcoin stock exchange, paid in bitcoins. the project raised us$150,000 in response to the appeal, enabling it to pay its bills and securing its short-term future. since 2014, several large contributions to the openbsd foundation have come from corporations such as microsoft, facebook, and google as well as the core infrastructure initiative.