Discourse with a full implementation of AI + crypto (BTCPay as a bridge to everything else) sounds great to me.
That cuts the men in the middle and offers a direct payment method for our customers.
Then if someone wants to pay 10% to PayPal, they could develop their own plugin like with Stripe, Patreon, or whatever.
Open-source needs to be close to open-source from a philosophical (and practical) perspective.
In 8 years working full-time with Discourse I have had maybe 2 customers that wanted to pay with cryptocurrency. I guess you have a very different customer base. I suspect for the bulk of Discourse Enterprise customers, it’s less than that. For the most part, Enterprise customers drive development of new features.
And if you want to support BTCPay or whatever, you can develop or fund your own plugin. BTCPay doesn’t support a Ruby library, and the Bitpay ruby client they link to seems to have been abandoned (it’s been marked read-only). That’s going to make developing and maintaining a BTCPay plugin for Discourse complicated.
Already tried to do it a long time ago. I will try to fund it on a different community that could be more interested to come.
My point is that one simple integration could fit for everyone who wants to receive direct money from their customers.
That’s better to offer plenty of solutions to fit with many centralized providers. Stripe and PayPal leave half of the world outside.
For a universal integration, then you need to integrate Latam, Asia, Oceania. It’s a nightmare so it’s not near close to universal at this point.
Perhaps you are still thinking about your two clients, sorry but the world is a bigger picture to analyze.
BTCPay is open-source, which makes the integrations more sustainable and easy to maintain.
Integrations
Everyone has their opinion; only one actual type of money is open to everyone and it’s almost free by design.
“Only two clients” is a very good example of a Faulty generalization - Wikipedia.
Think outside oneself is always good, for everyone.
On the same time NameCheap supasses $73M in revenue using Bitcoin:
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