Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?

A long way of saying they are developing their own CBDCs, which again we both know it would be extremely silly to run a Google Trends search and comparison on 'CBDCs' against Bitcoin for something that is also too early, recently launched or still in development to draw definitive conclusions due to the trialing, regulations and uncertainty in all of these projects. (Even already admitted by you.)

So once again, it is too early for both and as this whole thread has revealed, no-one has worldwide substantiative data on this (yet).

> Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as the main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain.

Dropping your home grown solution and partnering with a dedicated and better one means 'blockchain' in general has failed? So the partner, Consensys (Who is also part of a CBDC technology group in Asia and Europe) has closed down their blockchain offerings too and their customers can't run it on Azure either?

> But i understand, you don't have any resources to show that anyone actually cares outside of the FOMO.

Everyone in this thread has admitted and proven that no-one has definitive and extensive sources on payments with stablecoins or even CBDCs as both are too early, still developing / planning or they are still trialling it? I never brought up or mentioned anything about Bitcoin in this whole thread, yet you cannot and will not ignore it. Everyone is waiting for regulations in all of this.

> Note: if you consider El Salvador that tweets "bought the dip" every month as a serious comparison to the real world, that's pretty silly.

Did I argue that, mention or make a comparison towards El Salvador's Bitcoin buying problem anywhere?