alt Hacker News> I maintain Express.js and Lodash
Thank you!
> In 2025 I made $10 from open source
Slightly off-topic, but I wish more OSS projects and maintainers would advertise cryptocurrency donation addresses. It's probably the easiest way for end users to donate.
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simonbw • yesterday at 11:43 PM
Surely the easiest way is something like a PayPal/venmo link, no? I know a lot more people who use those than crypto.
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DauntingPear7 • yesterday at 9:27 PM
What’s wrong with ko-fi?
jonchurch_ • yesterday at 11:40 PM
ETH address 0x60F9CC1b97C78D8E8337Ef991a34bd8D9e600420 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have done that for years, and so far have received the equivalent of $25 (through three mBTC transactions) on my Bitcoin address, and maybe $90 through whatever the token is Brave uses (BAT?).
I still get random donations through an old PayPal email address that's listed on the same page as my bitcoin address, and that totals more like $100 (a year, not over the lifetime).