Accepting donations in cryptocurrency

[aahmozart]

Would be great if we can donate in cryptocurrency, mainly BTC, ETH, USDT, XMR

[dpoulton]

@aahmozart welcome to the forum.

This matter has been raised before and the below answer was given.

Please enable donations using Bitcoin

Despite the fact that we hear a lot about Bitcoins I've never seen it being supported by any major payment processor. None of the services I use such as PayPal, GitHub, Patreon or even the more independent ones such as Liberapay accept Bitcoins. If I wanted to accept Bitcoins I would need to register to one of these websites with insane security checks and provide a lot of information, and I might get 0.00000000000000015 bitcoins after 6 months (I've done it at some point). So it's not really w…

That response was made almost a year ago so I do not know if @laurent's position on the subject has changed at all since then...