I was lurking in an open source project's Discord and one day someone asked if anyone was willing to customize a feature for them. Turned out I also wanted the

I was lurking in an open source project's Discord and one day someone asked if anyone was willing to customize a feature for them. Turned out I also wanted the feature myself. So I replied to them and business was conducted via GitHub Sponsors. They also offered to pay via cryptocurrency. I wrote the code, sent the patch to them via Discord and eventually got a version of it upstreamed.