CrowdBucks
We DistributeCrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.
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Daniel V.@n_dimension @reiver @news I’m actually not seeing where it says crypto, can you tell me where you saw that at?
In the code base there’s references to Stripe and such, and the article talks about adding other providers later, but I didn’t notice crypto mentioned anywhere. But I could have just totally missed it
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
I didn't didn't say that word anywhere. Nor did the article.
Right now it just supports Stripe.
We will add more payment providers, too.
@n_dimension @reiver @news that’s what I thought, thank you much!
I’m excited to see where this goes and am looking forward to hearing more about this project. :)
From the article "It builds on previous efforts others have tried...others = Monero"
Web monetisation (W3C) => It's currency-agnostic and designed to work with both traditional and digital payment systems.
Open Payments is designed to be an abstraction layer that can issue payment instructions between transacting parties atop *any payment method*, (ATM Interledger (ILP) only)
Stripe's broader #crypto strategy:
They're going all-in on crypto infrastructure - they acquired stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion and crypto wallet startup Privy Fintech giant Stripe developing blockchain dubbed ‘Tempo’ with crypto VC Paradigm | Fortune Crypto.
TLDR; Includes crypto support.
Someone can purchase crypto with cash, visa, and mastercard.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but — wouldn't the argument posted suggest that ANYTHING that supports cash, visa, and mastercard automagically includes support for crypto?
Or did I misunderstand you?
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As, I don't see why it matters if Stripe is supporting stablecoins or not, as to whether they are used to accept credit card payments and payout people in USD, CAD, etc.
silverpillNot in the MVP.
But, in a later release. With the ActivityPub client-to-server API.
Sean Tilley@silverpill @reiver @news No, but it uses Fediverse platform APIs for authentication and SSO, and as Charles says, ActivityPub C2S in the near future.
Till Kleisli@news at first I was excited, but this is not a "payment layer" it's just another wrapper arount stripe... It's technically the same as @Liberapay 🤷🏽♂️ @reiver
There is of course nothing wrong with LibraPay. And, AFAIK, there are good people behind it
But, CrowdBucks is Fediverse-native. Your ID on CrowdBucks is your Fediverse ID. You login with your existing Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, PeerTube, etc account. It (in a coming release) will speak more ActivityPub, and acts as Fediverse client software. Etc
AFAIK, LibraPay doesn't do any of that
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Stripe is supported for the MVP. More payment processors will be added later
@reiver maybe I have too ambitionated visions, but I think the fediverse should also have a distributed payment system that doesn't depend on stripe/paypal resp. in the end again on google, apple, visa or mastarcard... I know, most fediverse people don't like crypto, but they provide working decentralised payment systems. @news @Liberapay
I agree with the goal of distributed payment system.
That is part of the long term vision.
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@reiver another big problem of the fediverse is also the sustainable maintenance of instances. I had that idea once: may be you could think about a (optional or mandatory) split of the payments: 90% for the creator, 9% for the instance and 1% for the development team of the software. Or even a % for the maintenance and support of the payment framework. @news @Liberapay
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