Not saying you necessarily have bad intention here, but you needing to place ads to keep the service afloat, while offering something that no other service offers for free (the payment gateway) make it look both unprofessional and suspicious at the same time.
Many free services make their profits through advertising. When it comes to cryptocurrencies, all transaction verification services are saturated with advertising. I don't see anything wrong with getting money if the opportunity exists. Is making money through advertising really worse than begging for donations?
If you're serious about offering the service for free, you should consider making it open source that way people could self-host it.
I definitely cannot imagine that the placed banners could somehow pay for hosting the nodes when the website barely has any traffic.
As you may have noticed, this topic has only recently been opened, so it's not surprising that our service is not yet as well-known as larger and older ones. You contradict yourself: you say it's very expensive to run nodes for cryptocurrencies, but you suggest that everyone acquire their own nodes. The point of a payment gateway, like a cryptocurrency wallet service, is that people don't need to deal with numerous technical details or spend money on maintaining nodes; they can simply use the service.
And if using public RPCs and blockexplorers APIs instead of running your own nodes, I would imagine that you would be hitting the rate-limits as soon as you get a few active merchants, making the service impossible to use in the long term.
No, we have everything of our own. In the future, we also plan to add a service for selling API requests for those who need it.
I hope you have already tested our service. I'm always happy to answer any questions.
