What do you use to accept one-time donations without revealing your identity?

Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org to AskBeehaw@beehaw.org – 27 points –

I don't really want to reveal my identity online and I've been trying to find how I can do that. It seems like Patreon is the only one that acts as a middleman between you and the donator but it only does monthly subscriptions which I don't really want to have..

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You have far too much faith in governments and laws created by humans. Laws change as society changes, and society is usually far ahead of laws in terms of evolution. They aren't real unless people agree on them. Like with weed being illegal federally in the US, but individual states not giving a fuck about federal laws. All governments are corrupt, and will never help solve the wealth gaps. The US government is bought and paid for by corporations. Places like china just control the population through fear. We need separation of money and state to have real freedom.

There is no need to trust people when using Bitcoin. it's a trustless system that uses a consensus algorithm. I would rather accumulate large amounts of wealth and help people than stay poor.

Did you watch the talk by Andreas?

You have far too much faith in governments and laws created by humans. Laws change as society changes, and society is usually far ahead of laws in terms of evolution.

This just means that we need to change our political system to be more wary of that.

All governments are corrupt, and will never help solve the wealth gaps. The US government is bought and paid for by corporations. Places like china just control the population through fear.

Blockchain technology does not help to fix these problems, not sure why it's being brought up.

We need separation of money and state to have real freedom.

This is not true, we simply need better states. Money does not equal freedom.

There is no need to trust people when using Bitcoin. it’s a trustless system that uses a consensus algorithm.

There is, you need to trust that there are no flaws in the system. Programs have flaws - I don't know of any program that is perfect. Not only that but moving to proof of stake means trusting people who have the most money to not collude and create fake money in the blockchain.

I would rather accumulate large amounts of wealth and help people than stay poor.

If you don't see the accumulation of wealth through the usage of your currency as deeply problematic, I'm not sure what to tell you.

Did you watch the talk by Andreas?

Yes, I have. I think the anger and frustration is misplaced.

Have fun staying poor.

There are better ways to drop out of a conversation than to offer a flippant, and, quite frankly, condescending dismissal of the other person's concerns. Just agree to disagree and move on.