briangpowell <briangpowel...@gmail.com> writes: > I respect your position & predicament > ... > Suggest you stay away from PayPal & ALL the other methods you > suggested--PayPal for example has been shutting down the accounts of > "freedom fighters" & can & will continue to do so whenever they wish, for > whatever reason they choose
Clarification: I personally do not have legal issues with using cryprocurrencies as long as Ukrainian (which I am a citizen of) jurisdiction is considered. However, cryptocurrencies can be problematic depending on the country where you want to use the cryptocurrencies. Some countries straight ban the cryptocurrencies, some limit their usage as a payment media, some have tricky issues with taxing (for example, it is common that cryptocurrencies are considered similarly to stocks and are a subject of special/increased/multiple taxation). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cryptocurrency_by_country_or_territory I would be unfair if we leave no option for contributors from the countries with tricky crypto status or contributors who do not want to use crypto for other reasons (e.g. Bastien voiced against crypto). In this thread, I am not particularly concerned about the payment processor. The discussion about free software options for payment has happened a bit earlier and we concluded that we have no options involving banks (unfortunately). FSF also does not provide a legal solution as organization. At this point, I'd rather discuss the fair distribution of donations across Org contributors. AFAIK, liberapay provides a pretty decent policy on this and allows people to donate to Org developers without a need to choose whom to donate to (yet there is still an option in liberapay to donate to individual developers directly). See https://liberapay.com/about/teams Best, Ihor
