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Except don't most crypto currencies have transaction fees as well? Ones which can be far, far more than credit card ones (See: Valve dropping BTC from Steam).

It's a credit card problem, even if the donation is in crypto, the patrons need to buy that, and unless they're using cash or direct bank transfer its probably going to be by card.

The only way to lower the fixed fees is to convince people to transact larger amounts at a time, eg to load a patreon "balance" with $50 that gets deducted from instead of individual transactions of $1

This is one area where I am interested in.

https://basicattentiontoken.org/

This is what you are looking for. Its built into the Brave browser as well so you can automatically send tokens every month to the sites and video creators that you visit.