QUESTION
Is there a way to host minecraft servers that doesn’t collect the IP of my fellow money wasters?
That's almost impossible. You use your IP to connect to anything on the Internet, such as websites or Minecraft servers
minecraft server software logs ips by default, so no, unless you modify the server source code
depends on what you are doing. having the IP is probably something necessary, or close to it. For example, I host a minecraft server from a laptop and the issue with that is that I need to give out my public IP
You're collecting IPs? Are they visible to anyone who can bring the server online?
no, it should only be available to me (idk how to access it though. And I’m not going to
Okay, that’s good. I don’t want any random member of the SMP to pull out my IP from somewhere.