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That makes sense, I don't see why not. Patreon probably batches this for me. I end up paying $15-20 a month (and growing) to Patreon, then they distribute that to the individual content creators.

(Except that I closed my Patreon account since they decided to get all arbitrary and political over the Sargon of Akkad thing, but I suppose a good alternative will prop up eventually, which is why I'm looking into donating directly to the source)

Huh. Patreon takes 5%; Paypal takes 1%. How does that eat up $5? I ask in order to find out.

Flat base fees

Small volume CC processing is 2.9% + 30¢. For $1 that's 33¢. Another 10-15¢ in overhead with accounting, sending tax-deductible receipts, etc. Little things add up.

In the above example:

12 donations of $1/month: organization sees about $6.50.

1 donation of $12/year: organization sees about $11.20.

Do you guys accept crypto donations? Seems like they would solve the problem perfectly.