Old news that I just happened upon. Open Collective manages donations for many open source projects. Their reasons for discontinuing crypto supports are all problems that XMR fixes.

So frustrating when people throw the baby out with the bath water here. Imagine Henry Ford with his Model-T.

You have to inflate the tires? You have to keep filling it with gas all the time? Only 10MPH? Yeah no thanks, we're banning your "auto mobile" project, this would never work.

This isn't even a good metaphor considering XMR already exists as a solution.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

fwiw Open Collective still manages crypto funds/grants for projects, I just saw this recently: https://blog.orhun.dev/open-source-funding-with-ratatui/ the Ratatui project set up a Open Collective to handle donations from the "DRIPS network" crypto

edit: also just looked more at the blog's site and at the donation page Crypto only has Monero ;) https://donate.orhun.dev/ love it @[email protected] !

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wut? They stopped accepting crypto. So you have a link at OC that says otherwise?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As per docs they removed this option for individual users to contribute using crypto as a payment method: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/financial-contributors/crypto but they still manage crypto assets, as shown by the recent Ratatui invoice paid by the "drips network" https://opencollective.com/ratatui/contributions/751695

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

How do you get them if not through contributions tho?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Great read! Love the documentation style.

The donation address being a QR code only makes it annoying to do on a phone. (Share to QR reader then copy address, adds a lot of friction)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

@rafael_xmr @edisondotme Haha, thanks!

I think our case was a bit special due to the fact that we explored this option together with OC. They might update their documentation to officially support it soon.