Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by TillE 871 days ago
Even those are solvable problems, the real issue is social. There's a reason Flattr failed and Patreon has been a huge success. People would rather personally support a handful of creators at $5/month than put the equivalent money in a tip jar at a bunch of faceless websites.
2 comments

> Even those are solvable problems,

Are they?

Historically, there have been a lot of people eager to erect barriers to make payments difficult for those who want to gamble, sell porn, buy porn, donate to controversial political causes, avoid taxes, sell drugs, buy drugs, etc etc

So a system that lets me send $40/month of untraceable cash to strangers on the internet might face a lot of opposition.

You are the one that added the "untraceable" requirement.
You can send $40 month of untraceable cash to strangers via the post office, how is that any different?
You can send $40 a month easily but receiving $40 a month from 20000 people is difficult and will raise questions.
Before coil failed, making this something that happened in the background seemed promising.