New Initiative for Donations

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 22:35:40 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:25:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:18:51 UTC, Mike Parker 
>> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:12:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any effort underway to take Bitcoin Cash, Ether, or Ripple 
>>>> as donations? The current payment options seem fairly 
>>>> antiquated: credit cards, wire transfers, and the like.
>>>
>>> Not that I'm aware of. I'd hardly call credit cards 
>>> antiquated, though :-)
>>
>> 60-year old tech seems pretty old to me:
>>
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card#BankAmericard_and_Master_Charge
>>
>
> And yet it's still by far the most common payment method. So 
> what if it isn't trendy. Deal with it.

In the US maybe, not in most of the world, where they're still 
using cash. ;) I almost never use my cards, and like that 
crypto-currencies have more in similar to cash.

On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 23:10:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:35:40PM +0000, Nick Sabalausky via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:25:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:18:51 UTC, Mike Parker 
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:12:50 UTC, Joakim 
>> > > wrote:
> [...]
>> > > > [...]
>> > > 
>> > > Not that I'm aware of. I'd hardly call credit cards 
>> > > antiquated, though :-)
>> > 
>> > 60-year old tech seems pretty old to me:
>> > 
>> > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card#BankAmericard_and_Master_Charge
>> > 
>> 
>> And yet it's still by far the most common payment method. So 
>> what if it isn't trendy. Deal with it.
>
> Common fallacy:	new == better.

As with D, sometimes the new _is_ better, so perhaps you 
shouldn't assume old is better either.