Donation is already part of open-source culture, as is sponsorship, as you say. Some is also already built-in, as in Github added it a few years ago already.
Open Source does not exists in vacuum, and money is not going to be abandoned by civilizations any time soon.
Zapping people here - whether they publish a nice NIP or a new release of a software - is by far the smoothest form of distributed support I've ever experienced and it make me wish I could do the same every time I use a nice library and want to buy a drink to the maintainer.
I do not believe everything will just work out of free contributions, as it never really did. All open source ecosystem are "polluted" by sponsorships by some corporations, are they not?
Real distributed support might make everything more resilient and prosperous.
It might not going to be part of the packaging tool per se, or maybe only in a few ones. It might also enable a new economy where license, usage and some sort of subscription is connected.
I will certainly prefer seeing millions of developers and even users zapping to Linux maintainers than seeing Linus Torvalds exiled for a few weeks from his position due to a "recommendation" from a board that suffer pressure from some ignorant mobs.
PS: you seem to be confusing "cryptocurrencies" as something that's real and is even in the same "space" as Bitcoin. Not sure why, but it is not. I say Bitcoin, I mean Bitcoin, not "crypto" or "cryptocurrencies" or any other made up concept.
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