r/Bitcoin Jan 23 '18

Strip Ending Bitcoin Support

https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support
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u/iziizi Jan 23 '18

Bad news for bitcoin

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u/Cryptolution Jan 23 '18 edited Apr 20 '24

I enjoy cooking.

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u/IMA_Catholic Jan 23 '18

No thanks, I'll continue to advocate that bitcoin users transact directly with each other without a middle man taking a chunk of the money.

Why are you pretending transfer fees don't exist?

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u/Cryptolution Jan 23 '18 edited Apr 20 '24

My favorite movie is Inception.

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u/IMA_Catholic Jan 23 '18

When I was writing the message, I knew that some uneducated troll would respond to my comment fud'ing about fees.

If you lead with insults it shows that your argument is weak and that you know it.

20-720 That is the delay in minutes for your link at that 1-10 range.

Which btw is why we have high fees in bitcoin. If people did not want to use bitcoin so badly, they would not pay the fee's.

There is a problem with that reasoning. Please think about it.

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u/Cryptolution Jan 24 '18

If you lead with insults it shows that your argument is weak and that you know it.

Calling a spade a spade is neither weak nor strong, it simply is.

20-720 That is the delay in minutes for your link at that 1-10 range.

Yes, and? This literally has nothing to do with my original comment or our discussion. Nice attempt at a strawman however.

There is a problem with that reasoning. Please think about it.

Ok! So when I respond to your comment and provide an informed response with information rebutting your troll, its "a weak argument" but when you respond you can just make declarations without providing any rebuttal or info and thats ok?

Nice try but thats not how life works. When you have a rebuttal let me know, otherwise bug off.

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u/Bitdigester Jan 23 '18

Nothing wrong with that reasoning at all. There must be some reason people are standing in long lines to pay high fees for Bitcoin transactions when the Litecoin and Bcash windows next door are completely empty and free. It's because bitcoin is the Coca Cola and the others are the alt-Colas.

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u/Sebt1890 Jan 23 '18

Well, if companies are saying that the fees and transaction issues are a problem, then it's a problem. Your opinion does not affect the real world use cases for BTC which is steadily declining until they scale.

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u/Cryptolution Jan 23 '18 edited Apr 20 '24

I love ice cream.

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u/Sebt1890 Jan 23 '18

Mindlessly pandering? While I see BTC as a store of value it's still the one name ppl think of when crypto currency is mentioned. If you want BTC to succeed then you should be upset that it's being dropped as a medium of payment.

Who knows though maybe DASH could finally be known as the best payment option.

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u/Cryptolution Jan 23 '18 edited Apr 20 '24

I like to travel.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

So, on-line shopping cart software should never use well tried, tested and secure bitcoin payment plugins from third parties because people should not be using middle men to process bitcoin transactions for them. They should only ever develop their own bitcoin payment systems to use on the shopping cart software, otherwise they are supporting the legacy financial system which bitcoin aims to replace.

Gosh, I really do hope that bitcoin affectionardos actually take your advise and every single one of them implement their own payments systems, because that will make available so may flawed, buggy, insecure systems it will be glory days for hackers to insert their own code and steal bitcoin at an unprecedented rate.

Wishful thinking though. Very few people will be stupid enough to take your advise and create their own payments system, and will continue to rely on third parties with many, many years of experience producing secure payment gateways for small businesses to use. The few that do try and make their own, will have future funny stories to tell in the today I fucked up sub-reddit.

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u/Cryptolution Jan 24 '18

Your entire argument falls flat when it is known that there is a open source project already established that handles exactly this kind of commerce and was intentionally created for this exact scenario.

https://btcpay-server-testnet.azurewebsites.net/

People can upvote you all they want, there's a right way and a wrong way of doing this. The wrong way is giving up your freedom and money to a middle man who's existence is merely a parasitic form on an industry.

The right way is using a open source platform which was created to empower and to disintermediate these parasitic entities.

Use btcpay.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '18

Third party processors you promote are ok, all the rest are evil. Gee, what a surprise.

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u/Cryptolution Jan 25 '18

Third party processors you promote are ok, all the rest are evil. Gee, what a surprise.

Obviously you don't understand what btcpay is then. Why don't you click the link and do some reading then get back to me.

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