We did accept cryptocurrency donations for a while and we appreciated everyone who used that option. We've since stopped, and the main reason is practical: the volatility made it genuinely difficult to plan around.
DAREBEE runs on a real budget with real running costs - servers, bandwidth, tools - and those bills don't fluctuate with the market. When a donation's value can swing significantly between the moment it's received and the moment we need to use it, it introduces an unpredictability that's hard to manage for a small non-profit operating on tight margins. Stable, predictable funding is what keeps the lights on reliably.
There's also the administrative overhead of managing crypto wallets, tracking values for accounting purposes, and staying on top of an evolving regulatory landscape - none of which is a great use of the limited time we have. We'd rather spend that time making more free content.
If you'd like to support DAREBEE, card and PayPal donations are always open and go directly toward keeping the site running. Every contribution helps, whatever the size.
