New members joining now can pay in a variety of currencies.

We are also starting to roll out Paypal as an option,

even though it costs almost twice as much and entails a lot more administration for each new member.

Apparently some people believe it is safer than Stripe (it isn’t of course) . When paying by stripe, credit card details are only collected on a Stripe web-page.

If there is significant demand the membership may wish to vote whether or not to charge extra to cover the extra cost of Paypal subscriptions, but that is not a problem at present.