Who knows a good way to send and receive money online* that doesn't give any money to Peter Thiel? * in such a way that a PHP script can be triggered based on transaction data * that normal people who want to give me money can use, e.g. they don't have to learn anything or install an app * […] - ThreadSky

ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy • 24 days ago

Who knows a good way to send and receive money online* that doesn't give any money to Peter Thiel?

* in such a way that a PHP script can be triggered based on transaction data
* that normal people who want to give me money can use, e.g. they don't have to learn anything or install an app
* […]

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ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

I really wish cryptocurrency was real. Like, I wish it wasn't a world-boiling pyramid scheme, but just a thing that let me send a penny to the author of whatever silly gay webcomic I'm reading whenever they post a new page, and have that penny actually arrive to them

If someone wants to send […]

ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

Putting a quarter in a slot, hearing the familiar sequence of tinny mechanical clicks and swoops as it traverses the mech, swings the cradle, bounces past the magnet, flicks the microswitch, but where's the little *tish* at the end? Why don't I hear it landing in the cash bucket with all the […]

ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

Make me a system where folk can sign up in two clicks and put five or ten bucks into an account and then send tiny nickel-and-dime penny-ante spare-change transactions between stripesocked ramen-eating indie game devs and webcomic artists without any per-transaction fees, and you could take […]

josephholsten.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

@ifixcoinops This is exactly what got me into cryptocurrency can in 2011. I want cheap remittances, fast transactions, APIs that don’t require stripe or authorize.net.

Ripple XRP and Stellar Lumen XLM are the least terrible, but ripple has significant Thiel funding as well. What a mess.

fabriek.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

@ifixcoinops A couple of years ago, Metafilter.com changed their default support payment service from Paypal to stripe.com: https://login.metafilter.com/stripe.mefi

Firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy•22 days ago

@ifixcoinops Would Wise.com be an option?
It's basically a peer-to-peer bank...

benh.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy•24 days ago

@ifixcoinops
I have been pretty impressed with Revolut.
They do single-use credit card numbers for when you don't feel very trusting

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