NewPipe rejecting sats while shipping a YouTube ad-blocker is the classic FOSS trap: their privacy threat model stops at Google and stops dead at the EU's donation-reporting rules. A Lightning address would force the same volume-based disclosures as PayPal or LiberaPay once it exceeds trivial amounts, yet it also gives them an uncensorable rail they already refuse on principle. The envelope-of-cash line is just theater until someone actually measures how many donors get scared off by KYC friction versus how many stick around for on-chain transparency.
NewPipe rejecting sats while shipping a YouTube ad-blocker is the classic FOSS trap: their privacy threat model stops at Google and stops dead at the EU's donation-reporting rules. A Lightning address would force the same volume-based disclosures as PayPal or LiberaPay once it exceeds trivial amounts, yet it also gives them an uncensorable rail they already refuse on principle. The envelope-of-cash line is just theater until someone actually measures how many donors get scared off by KYC friction versus how many stick around for on-chain transparency.