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I wish that when people put up crypto donation addresses, they at least included _one_ from a coin that doesn't have astronomical transaction fees. I like donat
by pkulak 5y ago
I wish that when people put up crypto donation addresses, they at least included _one_ from a coin that doesn't have astronomical transaction fees. I like donating a couple bucks here and there to cool projects, but that will cost me three dollars if I use Bitcoin.
- rileyphone 5y agoSci-hub has a Nano address set up, but then the issue is they still need to redeem them into a more usable currency at some point and the work to do that is barely worth the bit that they have received. This is the one area that I am still holding out hope for crypto to improve, but the vision is lacking.
- tata71 5y agoThe vision isn't lacking, it's currently busy taking profits from retail and institutional investors with one hand tied behind the back.
- asasidh 5y agocheckout lightning tips on twitter
- wyldfire 5y agoAgreed: I would donate 500 USD worth of <a specific fee free coin> to this project if an address were allocated. EDIT: censored to not look like I'm shilling/pumping.
- doomroot 5y agoNo you wouldn’t. Your clearly just want to pump your bags.
- wyldfire 5y agoI'll censor reference to the coin but then it won't communicate the message to the intended audience: the dev team themselves who are clearly open to other coins. If the dev team allocates the address (or if every.org adds support for that coin), I'll post a link to the transaction here. BTW I donated BTC to Zig earlier this month [1], only reason I mentioned a different coin here is that the Nim team mentions both BTC and Eth in their post and I don't prefer going to an exchange. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28790988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28790988
- dom96 5y agoI'm the one that wrote this article and pushed to set up an Eth address as well. I will make this happen, stay tuned :)
- wyldfire 5y agoGreat, let me know and I'll do the same thing that I did for Zig: a ~two-day matching drive for HN-ers donating to Nim. And I'll throw in some in doomroot's name because they are too cynical ;)
- dom96 5y agoDone. Nano added to https://nim-lang.org/donate.html https://nim-lang.org/donate.html. Thanks in advance!
- wyldfire 5y ago$500 from me, $500 in doomroot's name. evidence, for doomroot's sake (trust but verify): https://nanocrawler.cc/explorer/block/818E31FBA9C4983AE54CE7162BC4D2952ACCA09068778DB1ACACBDBA51EFBDEB https://nanocrawler.cc/explorer/block/818E31FBA9C4983AE54CE7... And let's say another 500 USD up for grabs as a match. Any donations from HNers to the Nim project (in any kind of currency) I'll match for the next 48 hrs up to $500.
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- flotzam 5y agoAgreed, but for a donation why not just go ahead and use super low fees anyway. The recipient can wait a few days for the transaction to confirm, or speed it up with Child Pays For Parent.
- solotronics 5y agoThe fees are $0.36 right now for next block confirmation. If you can wait a few blocks it's $0.09
- pkulak 5y agoWhere are you getting that from? I see $2.58 right now.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoNaive question: where are you getting this info? Link?
- pkulak 5y agoJust Google searching and looking at some random sites. haha. But they all agreed with each other, which is why I was wondering. It sounds like OP was listing bundled fees, not the actual block fee.
- doomroot 5y agomempool.space
- wyager 5y agoPresumably people will gradually increase acceptance of lightning payments over the next few years. The downside it it requires a server somewhere to be online to accept donations, whereas just slapping up a Bitcoin address requires no infrastructure.
- iskander 5y agoMost crypto chains suck for small-to-medium payments. The fees on some layer 2 solutions for Ethereum look promisingly low (between $0.06 and $0.30 depending on the specific L2), but these are just starting to get adopted and integrated into existing tools. Hopefully the tangle of ponzis will eventually emit a usable payment solution.