What are the alternatives that work well internationally? Only Bitcoin comes to my mind, but it's a mess to buy, conversation rates fluctuate wildly and is far from easy to use.
Why does Tor need a director? If it is truly a decentralized network, why should the project require centralized project administrators? Because of funding and donation? Let's put the whole spread the initiative PR stuff away (of course that cost money), plus the hosting cost, what else do they use the donation for?
[edit] Have you folks looked at https://gratipay.com/search as another source of crowdfunding for developers? I am not sure which one is more effective for general funding.
Become a crowdfunder.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/our-first-real-donations-ca...