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Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up

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Re: Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up

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Post by tomasien »

The concept that Stripe may be moving away from strictly supporting Credit Card payments (which are awful, but necessary for now) and into alternatives is so exciting to me that I am literally shaking. We're building infrastructure to make bank-to-bank transfers palatable to consumers and drive their cost toward zero, but it's only if thought leaders like the Collisons embrace the move away from CC's that the move will happen. This is such a huge step!

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Post by arboroia »

This is quite an intriguing move by Stripe, and I assume they'll provide a similar service to Neo&Bee, where merchants will be completely shielded from the price volatility in Bitcoin. It would be interesting if Stripe adds this Bitcoin support to the Stripe Checkout by default, being one of the first mainstream deployment of Bitcoin payments. It might also allow them to reduce fees, which have been largely set by the large card processors so far.

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Post by jypepin »

I've always loved Stripe for their innovative side and the way they made accepting / making credit card payments so easier and nicer.

I'm so glad they integrated bitcoin, which I think will be a really good contribution to make btc spread amongst normal users.

That's great to see them becoming more of a payment processor versus the simple credit card processor they were.

I love stripe, I love btc, and seeing them together is just really cool and a big step for both.

Re: Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up

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Post by tomasien »

jypepin wrote: post #7

I've always loved Stripe for their innovative side and the way they made accepting / making credit card payments so easier and nicer. I'm so glad they integrated bitcoin, which I think will be a really good contribution to make btc spread amongst normal users. That's great to see them becoming more of a payment processor versus the simple credit card processor they were. I love stripe, I love btc, and seeing them tog…

Stripe is fantastic at building interfaces and APIs for payment processing - the fact that they could lead the move away from CC's (on which they built their business up until now) is thrilling to me. Step 1!
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