Waaay early on when cryptocurrencies were regarded as being possible alternative currencies it may have made sense, but now as they appear to have become more like extremely questionable investment products/securities, I’m left confused why anyone still has donation links for them alongside alternatives that provide, y’know, usable money (e.g. Ko-fi/Liberapay/etc.).
Are the donation links I’m seeing just a web artifact like the occasional Google+ share icon on some sites, or is there something more at play?
Yes, but from my understanding, at least depending on the cryptocurrency involved, this can be either similar to those or worse at times. With the more popular cryptocurrencies in particular it seems to lean towards worse.
Money has pretty low transactions fees (5cents rn)and is completely anonymous for example, which can be very important depending on what donation or transaction it is.
Others have other advantages over USD for example. NANO being instant and free.
As transaction vehicles these work just fine.