> All this would work much better with simple old fashioned money.
That's the thing, on the internet, simple old fashioned money is not like simple old fashioned money. Keeping accounts and transferring old fashioned money between peers on the internet is not trivial.
Discounting the on-boarding problem, crypto is way closer to cash than payment processing networks like Visa, Mastercard, Paypal. Accepting crypto for any kind of work is trivial, you just generate a standard address/QR code that can be read by any other standard wallet, and receive a standard crypto that can be exchanged freely.
My read on this is "Patreon for OSS/corporate relations".
Start a Patreon-like business where corporations/users can sign up to give a monthly donation-subscription-contribution to a slew of OSS developers, anywhere from $1 / mo to $$$. Reduce the friction of financially supporting every tiny project you make use of. Throw in a nice suite of uniform communication channels for bug requests and version announcements.
That's the thing, on the internet, simple old fashioned money is not like simple old fashioned money. Keeping accounts and transferring old fashioned money between peers on the internet is not trivial.
Discounting the on-boarding problem, crypto is way closer to cash than payment processing networks like Visa, Mastercard, Paypal. Accepting crypto for any kind of work is trivial, you just generate a standard address/QR code that can be read by any other standard wallet, and receive a standard crypto that can be exchanged freely.