Making your own payment processor
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This felt like the kind of crowd that might be interested in this!
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This felt like the kind of crowd that might be interested in this!
Brilliant level of detail in that! Yeah, I was looking into it a while ago, being sick of the reliance on PayPal and Stripe.
I did find a few other initiatives though.
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Brilliant level of detail in that! Yeah, I was looking into it a while ago, being sick of the reliance on PayPal and Stripe.
I did find a few other initiatives though.
And seen this?
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.
We Distribute (wedistribute.org)
direct: https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/
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Brilliant level of detail in that! Yeah, I was looking into it a while ago, being sick of the reliance on PayPal and Stripe.
I did find a few other initiatives though.
I have some small exposure to KYC from my past career "know your customer" and it is a nightmare. This is a very interesting read.
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And seen this?
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.
We Distribute (wedistribute.org)
direct: https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/
This uses Stripe, so it feels like it's not really a Replacement For Stripe (TM). It feels more like a replacement for Patreon.
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And seen this?
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.
We Distribute (wedistribute.org)
direct: https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/introducing-crowdbucks/
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This uses Stripe, so it feels like it's not really a Replacement For Stripe (TM). It feels more like a replacement for Patreon.
ah I see, good point
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I have some small exposure to KYC from my past career "know your customer" and it is a nightmare. This is a very interesting read.
I enjoyed the mention of cryptocurrency here as well...
A few days ago I was lamenting that the playing field is so not level wrt payments and there ought to be a way to decentralize and something like cryptocurr.....
uh hang on a moment!What is needed is something the fulfills on the promise of what cryptocurrency was originally imagined to be and nothing like what it actually is. Although, more likely, the original promise was a lie and it was always truly meant to be the abomination it is.
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This felt like the kind of crowd that might be interested in this!
TALER Integration Community Hub comes with free software development grants to integrate GNU Taler with your software. Coming up with a federated solution that can be used by all the projects here, or maybe combining options to serve the music community around a common proposal might be an interesting take. Certainly there is a number of music-specific use-cases that can be shared beyond the simple implementation of micro-payments for singles.
Note that GNU Taler has KYC builtin thanks to the use of IBANs and strong cryptography, which drops the cost of operation down to something that enables micropayments: transaction fees are a fraction of those used in classical payment systems such as Visa/Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal... And it preserves your privacy as a buyer: nobody knows you're a fan of S̵̖͑̋̆͛ŭ̵̱̃p̷̢̥͕͕̞͒̄́͛e̴̛̘̪̣͑̈́͜r̸̬̣̳̫̀̆̆́s̶͉̟͛t̷̘̞̘͌̾͊̏̄a̷̛̭͑̋r̸̫̥̮̘̾̚.
