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I think the issue would be that you need to offer payment methods that your customers trust and will use. Does Web3 satisfy that need?
USDT, USDC, Ethereum, Bitcoin are trusted round the world. It’s not like the latest memecoin garbage
Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor
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I think the issue would be that you need to offer payment methods that your customers trust and will use. Does Web3 satisfy that need?
USDT, USDC, Ethereum, Bitcoin are trusted round the world. It’s not like the latest memecoin garbage
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#13What is the alternative to these large corporations? I will try to say it again… Web3. Easy to integrate as an option, start accepting payments worldwid, and you can never get deplatformed and your funds won’t be frozen. Why not? Over and over I see HN complain about enshittification of the latest large platform, but also somehow many people knee-jerk downvote anything about the decentralized alternatives because the…
- Transaction fees
- Transaction times
- KYC
- refunds
Just off the top of my head
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#14ie that things that make ur product good won’t scale
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#17What's the best alternative? Currently working on an MVP and the horror stories have really put me off Stripe.
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USDT, USDC, Ethereum, Bitcoin are trusted round the world. It’s not like the latest memecoin garbage
None of these are actually trusted by the general population. The average person has never even heard of USDT and USDC and barely knows what the other 2 are.
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#20> when you make a decent amount of sales they will shut down your account
I mean they do give you some explanation, right? It might not be super clear (it sometimes can't due to laws) but it's not "you are now processing much volume, goodbye". That's just not in Stripe's interest at all and assuming that high volume alone is the reason is not helpful.
What happens is likely that only after a certain amount of volume review processes get kicked off. So it's perceived as some form of injustice when often the issue is fundamentally with the business or failure to comply with requirements, and other PSPs might not even let you use them in the first place.
Personally I think there should maybe be earlier vetting to avoid this (as it's bad UX for those users) but it does come at the cost of having bad initial get-started UX for the vast majority of users that can be supported.
Those won't go and complain anywhere. So really, just stating "Stripe shut down our account, bad Stripe" isn't helping anyone and it isn't helping you either because nobody will be able to give you advice.
Their support getting worse I understand. I do think there are cases that could be turned around without having to resort to social media.