If only we had access to an uncensorable, permissionless payment network

The Traditional finance Cabal is trying to get your freedom in control your access to Bitcoin

The read the terms of service or take your business elsewhere arguments ignore:

1. its really hard to start and run a small business and 99.99% of the time everyone will go with the easiest option so you can focus on running your business and not dying. Not taking a side or saying this is right, its just true. Stripe is often one of the more expensive payment options, but everyone uses it because its the easiest. Ease > cost for almost all businesses when it comes to payments.
2. if the pressure is coming from Visa/Mastercard, central banks, or big powerful government entities this could easily eventually spread to most or all other major payment providers and leave few if any good options. While I love and applaud things like BTCPayServer, fully self sovereign payments are way too hard for all but the most hardcore technical Bitcoiners, which are probably 0.000001% of all business founders. Until the bitcoin payment tools get 10x better and easier most mainstream business just won't bother.

We unfortunately need fiat for now to run successful businesses. Just the hard truth.

LOL
Is this a surprise?
A fiat platform defending Fiat ? no shit...
GTFO stripe

Stripe is behaving weird lately.

They killed opencollective virtual cards citing breach of ToS firstly by falsely claiming they were in the restricted business list, and then that their use of virtual cards were not allowed in the ToS, despite being fine with it before. This is public info posted by OC, by the way.
I know also about other instances, but i won't go into details.

So at least it seems you are not alone.

We can only speculate what is going on, maybe change of management? Maybe overseeing? They are trying to appease to someone?

I wish there was an easy way to allow nocoiners to pay ln invoices without opening accounts or installing apps, like stripe but that functions only as gateway to btc o even usdt, so we could steer clear of all this bullshit.

For the next project that will need to accept fiat payments, i will 100% try to avoid stripe at all cost.

Nice you tell em, fuck these legacy cucks

If Stripe doesn't care about your business maybe it means that you need to take it elsewhere. Or they want to remind you that you should be on a bitcoin standard instead, people buying miners are not newbies happily would pay in BTC/LN to bypass the SOBs

We knew they would fight us. We just need to get serious about getting on the Bitcoin Standard.

thanks for sharing. It's good to know what obstacles they're throwing at us

Are they forgetting that social media platforms like X use even more watts than a single miner?

PS: Show them https://bitcoincleanup.com - it debunks many of the energy myths people spout about it.

Let them go, they need us, we don't need them

Can we create a list, maybe a DNS black list? so that we can just run it and know that we are not using services which are not friendly. Then bring others into our networks! Muhaha

Fiat rails closing left and right. Good thing we have Bitcoin.

Accept BTC only with BTCPayServer and give your customers a guide on how to acquire some sats if they don't have any (I'd expect anyone that wants to buy a miner to know how to acquire sats though)

There should be some alternatives to stripe right?

Things Stripe Deplatforms:

Puppies.
Churches.
Free Speech.
Jesus.
Trump opinions.
Book Sellers
Abraham Lincoln

Basically anything that whispers freedom or goodness.

"Bitcoin doesn't need you, you need bitcoin."

Nice.

Stripe: "I can fight you"

Bitcoiners: https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ww9L.Lm0i1mbDUNw6gTJag--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTQyMDtoPTM0Mw--/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/elle_570/73bf2eeb3a67be5b989f6f5ac486ca0f

Probably because BTC/LTN is a better payment network than Stripe.

loved your heather solution..

Do you need a tester in EU ? :)

I like this sentence 'You deplatform bitcoin, we deplatform you.' yeah agreed, like there is kyc and kye, know your exchange or here your provider. you don't like btc, well we can use your services, we won't accept you, sorry

I suspect this is coming from anti-fraud. As otters have said, this niche enough that selling for sats (maybe escrowed) should become standard.

That being said I bought a blockerupter a few years ago as a souvenir and the seller preferred fucking PayPal. We're still early. Thank you for doing your thing and fighting the good fight!

Is Stripe deplatforming me for selling specialised hardware even legal?

Under natural law it is, unless the contract says they won't do that.

A positive development. Yet another reason to use bitcoin what it was made for.

Stripe: bank slave....wof wof

Why don't you accept Bitcoin payments? Stripe deplatforming you shouldn't be a problem, just a proof that change is underway.

"Eat your own dog food"

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What a shame!

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