Well if a company wants to give a large sum of money to an open source project for a feature, say a hundred dollars, or a thousand then it is the same. Electronic cash, i.e. bitcoin work better than the traditional ways of payment when there is a necessity for crowdfunding a little bit of money less than a penny, a 1/10 of a penny or 1/100, or 1/1000, from thousands of users. The reason bitcoin works better in that case, is because bitcoin is absolutely automated while in traditional payment systems a human is required to oversee the payments in case there is a fraud somewhere. That means a human is required to be paid, and humans are expensive to employ. That increases the cost of every transaction, as well as increases the minimal amount of the transferable value.
The electronic money that are known now as bitcoin, took a different turn from the white paper of Satoshi. That's why i said the electronic cash Bitcoin, not the currency Bitcoin. Some people wanted to take that electronic cash idea, and turn it into currency. That's a bad idea.
