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> Completely relying on any third party What other options are there that exist where a regular person could still make a payment?
you are kind of asking for it... :) Bitcoin
at this point, might as well trade in casino chips.
(see gnu taller for a less cassino-like alternative to payments)
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Well, THN is actually about hacking. So if the name is confusing on anyones part, I would more likely be HN.
Hacker News is about hacking too, in the original sense of the word. It's a gathering place for people to indulge in curiosity with fellow curious people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation#In_w...
https://smallbusiness.co.uk/hack-cabs-organic-car-service-25...
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Same thing happened to me years ago: https://jakeseliger.com/2011/12/09/december-2011-links-paypa... . Why anyone uses Paypal today is beyond me. Why anyone doesn't expect this is really beyond me.
Paypal is practically the only commonly accepted online payment method that doesn't require me to have a credit card. The reason people use Paypal today is that they offer a service without much competition to people who want to pay , so if you want to get paid you're leaving money on the table if you don't accept Paypal. This does of course depend on where your customer base is. Credit cards are universal in the US,…
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For some reason, perhaps that they traffic in information, which is cheaply duplicated, perhaps because of network effects, tech businesses seem more prone to generate giant, seemingly invincible monopolies. Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Paypal, Youtube. Most people wouldn't be able to name a competitor to any of these, let alone use it. I do not know if competition, as is possible today, can work.
Sure, but Patreon is for a small group of people. Meaning, the mass audience goes there because a small group of creators told them that's how they can support them. If that small group of creators finds a better alternative, and tells their audience to support them at the alternative rather than Patreon, they will go there. SubscribeStar was enjoying a good amount of success as a Patreon alternative once a few users…
Wow, the "bitcoin" responses to that thread. Talk about trading one problem for another....
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MasterCard and Visa, 2 seperate companies in the same space are "monopolies"? You literally just proved yourself wrong.
Do you also consider Google and Bing on the same footing?[0] No, right?. But in anycase, fair enough, the technical correct one is duopoly—the problem just is, it doesn't make it any better. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267161/market-share-of-s...
And yes, it makes it so much better. True monopolies can slack so hard and yet still rake in boatloads of cash because their customers have no other option. Google cannot sit around on their search engine or other companies will steal all their customers. Just look at how duck duck go is growing in popularity.
Why do visa and mastercard want to ban people from receiving money? If anyone here have the answer please share.
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This site, with the name "Hacker News", was already popular and predates the other site by several years. If I launched a new site called "TheFacebook.com" tomorrow, what proof would you need that I was, at a minimum, knowingly causing confusion?
I think that's not a great comparison. Hacker News is still essentially a niche site known to people who care about a specific set of fields relevant to startups. If you asked a random person on the street they probably wouldn't know about Y Combinator, much less Hacker News. I'm not sure how to measure the actual level of recognition of a brand name, but I feel that Hacker News falls into the second or third tier of…
On Castro Street in Mountain View they would.
Besides, we aren’t talking about random people, we are talking about the audience for The Hacker News.