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by wizzwizz4 15 hours ago
They start their list with "GitHub Sponsors (credit card)", then list five cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Ethereum, Cardano, Litecoin), two of which have "We aren't looking for donations of tokens, only Ethereum [resp. Cardano] itself." Then Wise Quick Pay, then Local Bank Transfer (providing the Wise bank details for Belgium, UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Hungary, and Turkey), then PayPal (in CAD, USD, EUR, GBP – pointing out the PayPal fee), and finally Interac e-Transfer. I wonder whether there's a reason for this order?

Also, PayPal's fee, as described, is fairly steep:

> PayPal charges a base fee of 30 cents and 2.9% of the donation amount within Canada. There's an additional 0.8% fee for donations from the US and 1% for other countries. Currency conversion adds an additional 4% fee as opposed to the usual PayPal conversion fee of 3%.

1 comments

Maybe they're listing in increasing order of payment processor fees?
Or it's just in no particular order
Can't be, because bank transfers are free in much of the world, and cryptocurrencies all(?) have a transaction fee.
Crypto is good for them because they pay most (all?) their devs with it.

Monero has ~1 cent transaction fee ime so negligible compared to a comparable speed transfer with banks.

They also support Monero and Zcash because they are privacy respecting unlike banks.