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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by nkkollaw on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:23AM (#18784258)
Sure, but Patreon is for a small group of people. Meaning, the mass audience goes there because a small group of creators told them that's how they can support them.

If that small group of creators finds a better alternative, and tells their audience to support them at the alternative rather than Patreon, they will go there.

SubscribeStar was enjoying a good amount of success as a Patreon alternative once a few users who got banned move to it, (but then PayPal cut SubscribeStar off).

Only time can tell.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by zarkov99 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:31AM (#18784307)
If the payment processors are really who is behind the Patreon/SubscribeStar debacle, which certainly seems to be the case, then short of bitcoin, which is a horrible solution, how can a Patreon competitor do any better?
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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by nkkollaw on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:42AM (#18789942)
No idea! Maybe they'll be a middleman for Bitcoin.

We have to wait and see.

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