Heads should accept crypto donations. Agreed. But how?

[tlaurion]

This comes often from community members suggesting crypto donation ,latest today in qubes matrix room. But problem is burden on me, I would need to receive the donations, without the burden of converting to fiat and legal/accounting burden.

Present thoughts (require time, not replicated by any other small team based teams AFAIK)

• Switch OpenCollective's Fiscal Host from Open Source Collective to Open Collective Europe which
  • Could theoretically provide Tax deduction papers to donor (fiat donations)
  • Could theoretically deal with crypto->fiat conversion to collective once converted, though
    • they require collective to Have a minimum balance of €2,000.

QubesOS/Whonix and other projects accepts crypto donations by providing direct wallet addresses.

• Issue there is as said prior: burden is for me to have legal/accounting burden.

Others avenues not yet considered.

[tlaurion]

Let's be clear, OpenCollective's Open Source fiscal host themselves accepted crypto donations before, but retracted.

Heads supported crypto donations in the past, consecutively, as per https://opencollective.com/insurgo/updates/crypto-donations-now-possible update there. But this is not true anymore.

Will need to do an update there and contact open collective to discuss.

[tlaurion]

Suggestions on how to proceed from people accepting crypto donations would be greatly appreciated. Canadian here.

[tlaurion]

For review

• https://yourcryptodigest.substack.com/p/10-platforms-that-let-nonprofits
• https://www.anafp.org/Accepting-Cryptocurrency-Donations
• Switch OpenCollective's Fiscal Host from Open Source Collective to Open Collective Europe