akinomyoga
Another way to donate
I'd love to donate but the github donation makes you save the payment information, have you got another method? Just want to show my appreciation because I feel you don't get as much credit as you deserve!
Thank you for your words!
the github donation makes you save the payment information
Would you mind explaining this part? Is it a problem that I need to save the payment information?
Actually, what is the payment information that you talk about? All the information I need for submitting the tax documents to the government is automatically saved in GitHub, and I can access it anytime. I don't have to save additional information by myself. I'm satisfied with the current system, but I'm probably missing your point.
Maybe I misunderstood something, but I'd appreciate it if you could take the time to clarify something that I missed.
@akinomyoga I think he is referring that github wants to save his credit card data and he does not want that.
tl;dr: Cryptocurrency might be an option, but there's BuyMeACoffee.com and patreon.com too.
Cryptocurrency would allow sending value equivalent from anywhere. Venmo/PayPal and/or CoinBase.
P2P cash-sending: None of the other US (Apple Cash, Cash App, Venmo (although there is PayPal), WePay, Zelle) apps work in Japan. One exception is Google Pay (GPay) appears to allow sending money only from the US to Japan, but from nowhere else, because of a partnership with Wise.
I found this hobby project (coindrop.to) someone made that integrates multiple donation platforms and cryptocurrency donations. Basically, it's a hosted landing page for all accepted payment methods. I'd check it carefully to make sure it's not doing clickjacking.
Thanks for the information. There seem to be many options, and each person seems to have their preferences. However, it seems impractical to set up all possible payment methods. First of all, I'm not familiar with any of them, so to set up a single account, I need to carefully check how to register, receive money, transfer the money, etc.
As far as I searched quickly, to receive money in Japan, the money seems to need to undergo multiple layers, and the total fee would become about 8% for BuyMeACoffee, and 18% for Patreon, which are significantly higher than 0% of GitHub Sponsors from personal accounts (I guess GitHub and Stripe agreed on some comprehensive contract). I have a Wise account, so I might be able to mitigate some of the fees by transferring the money through Wise, but I'm not sure. Cryptocurrency might offer a better rate, but I'm even more unfamiliar with it. In the first place, I don't think Japanese banks support transactions with cryptocurrency, so I need another way. Coindrop, apart from its trustworthiness, seems to claim zero-fee, but it just seems to add another layer on top of existing payment methods. I guess I still need to set up each method by myself, and the fees of respective methods wouldn't be exempted.
Easier+simpler donation -> ¥¥¥ More methods -> paradox of choice -> ¥
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Thanks for the information. There seem to be many options, and each person seems to have their preferences. However, it seems impractical to set up all possible payment methods. First of all, I'm not familiar with any of them, so to set up a single account, I need to carefully check how to register, receive money, transfer the money, etc.
As far as I searched quickly, to receive money in Japan, the money seems to need to undergo multiple layers, and the total fee would become about 8% for BuyMeACoffee, and 18% for Patreon, which are significantly higher than 0% of GitHub Sponsors from personal accounts (I guess GitHub and Stripe agreed on some comprehensive contract). I have a Wise account, so I might be able to mitigate some of the fees by transferring the money through Wise, but I'm not sure. Cryptocurrency might offer a better rate, but I'm even more unfamiliar with it. In the first place, I don't think Japanese banks support transactions with cryptocurrency, so I need another way. Coindrop, apart from its trustworthiness, seems to claim zero-fee, but it just seems to add another layer on top of existing payment methods. I guess I still need to set up each method by myself, and the fees of respective methods wouldn't be exempted.
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Yeah, I might add one or two more payment methods, but I wouldn't be comfortable with maintaining dozens of payment methods. I'm not sure which payment method out of the many options I should start with. If I would register a new payment method, I think it is good to do it when one of the donors who doesn't like GitHub Sponsors specifies an alternative one they like.