Payment processors are a blight

Actually yeah. Completely useless intermediaries just leeching other peoples money.

Other than Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, what’s the solution to this problem?

GNU Taler, which is an anonymous (for the sender, not receiver) digital cash.

If the FSFE were to use a bank utilizing that system, the bank would not be able to request the sender’s information from them, as any person sending the donation is completely anonymous by design.

You can learn more about it over at [email protected]

If the FSFE were to use gnu taller, the taler bank would’ve probably requested the same information through some other nonstandard channel sooner or later. The traditional electronic money has become like show breed dogs. They are no good without the papers. Especially in europe.

We need to eliminate the banks and the payment gateways from the paymemt process.

If a bank or preferably credit union adopts GNU Taler, they can’t realistically expect the receiver of the tokens to know who sent the tokens due go their anonymous nature. A receiver could put an info form before the GNU Taler part, but the sender could just put john doe info there.

It is truly like cash. I know in the US many banks would get weirded out if you try to deposit a large amount if cash and may report it to the IRS, but as long as its reflected in your taxes, then it should be okay.