Subnostr

For sure, thats why I am so bullish on BTCpay server, you can do so much with it, from processing payments for commerce to accepting donations and it's pretty easy to run yourself

Lyudmyla Kozlovska 1y ago

Yes. We use BTCPay Server and happy to have this mechanism. But we still have a challenge how to get donations from fiat (credit card) and usdt and swap them to #bitcoin in a safe/cheap way in the authoritarian states.

Most of individual donors (and activists in #Kazakhstan or #Turkey whom we support have only them) they still need to understand how to use bitcoin and prefer donate in fiat.

You almost can’t do physically p2p bitcoin transactions - the regime of Kazakhstan is going after such people.

It takes 3-5 minutes to block a financial provider who is exchanges fiat to btc or specific account receiving donations (in #Stripe), associated with fundraising campaigns of activists or opposition.

If you have ideas - let me know. Happy to learn.

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TheBitcoinManual 1y ago

Hmm, this is a very difficult situation, BTCpay Server does allow for the processing of USDt on the Liquid Network, which isn't too hard to enable, but this is not interoperable with USDT from other chains, which makes it complicated and then involves one party having to use a swap service to get L-USDT

As for credit card, I have not seen a solution for this, the most robust workaround has been to purchase a gift card from a retail vendor and exchange that for Bitcoin, the gift card need not be from a Kazakhstan retailer it can be any code of a retailer that has demand P2P (many Romance scams use this technique) but it would be sold for a considerable discount to get any kind of funds, but its better than nothing

Lyudmyla Kozlovska 1y ago

Yes, indeed it is difficult. Imagine how donors would also react when half of your donations spent for transaction…