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Comment by yoodenvranx | Hacker News Reader

This is one of those articles/projects where I really miss an established universal web-wide donation system. I just want to click a button on that page and send the author a few bucks as a Thank You for doing amazing things.

(And no, a Paypal link is not an answer to this problem)

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Honestly, that sounds like a problem for cryptocurrency. Lots of people just put their wallet address on things and you can send them money.

And not necessarily Bitcoin, $10 is not the transaction fee everywhere (some places it's ~1¢)

Have you considered the browser, Brave? Built-in micropayments. Https://brave.com

Flattr tries to be that.

Anyone know why it isn't more successful?

People don't really care about (micro)payments and paypal actually does work just fine for one time events. Easier for people to list an email then signup for another service to get a few dollars.

Also Flattr is owned by the Adblock Plus company now which has questionable history.

Their main business case got taken by Patreon, which is more popular due to more reliable income on the creator side.

Why doesnt paypal work? All they need to list is an email address, it's the lowest amount of work.

It forces me to create an account with them (even though people say it doesn't), and has repugnant policies.

The way Paypal works is pretty awesome but unfortunately the company is pretty shitty (at least in my experience).

PayPal is known for locking accounts that ask for donations.

I really want to build a micropayments system for stuff like this.

You totally should!

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