I can't remember the number of times that I've wrote mails asking why don't the organization that I want to donate or pay doesn't accept bitcoin. One would think that FOSS groups would definitely be the first ones to get on board with us, but I remember already writing to Tails and Graphene asking why don't they accept bitcoin, and offering help to do it: the former didn't respond and the latter answered with a smear. They're still using single addresses for donations FFS, aren't they supposed to be the paragon of privacy? But these are just foundations and they can keep not receiving any money in donations for what they do, that's their problem. Something very different is when I pay for goods & services.

What I am now doing is going first to services that accept bitcoin and then look for alternatives e.g I have a couple of machines running on Contabo which offers a great service by the way, but they still don't accept BTC, so I wrote to them saying in the future I wouldn't keep with the service unless I could pay with BTC, that's it. I am about to get a new VPN and I chose Mullvad because I've heard mostly good comments on it, but also because I could pay in sats. This will be my policy from now on. Me and my homies have a few billions to spend but we will do it exclusively with our magic internet money.

Every retailer I tried to onboard has always told me "no one has ever asked me to pay with BTC here" so they don't see any use for it! We have to break that vicious circle, people don't use it because no one demands it, but no one asks for it where they go, so retailers think no one uses it!

This post was inspired by post about creating a new type of media and once again, they want help, but they don't accept BTC. The best help I can give them would be to help them find out what BTC is, much more than the few ksats I'm sending on donation.