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Paul Norman

@batalanto None of the expenses I called out are from the bank. They're in time spent dealing with the transfers, or in time spent dealing with the fraud consequences of publishing an IBAN on the web.

I don't think anyone involved *likes* Paypal, it's just all the alternatives for dealing with small donations to a place you can't visit in person suck just as much or more.

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@pnorman Nonsense. You said “Pretty sure bank transfer expenses exceed PayPal fees”. If you meant to compare xfer *time* to Paypal *fees*, that wording doesn’t work. Also, it’s wrong to assume time is money. To quote RMS: “time ain’t money when all you have is time”.

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@pnorman IBAN numbers are not the same as US bank acct №s. An IBAN is not vulnerable. You can put it on your business cards, publish it on the web, put it on letterheads, flyers, etc. If someone gets your US bank acct № they can print their own checks & forge your sig. Not so with IBANs.

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