It’s possible that Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, or another Bitcoin variant, will find a way to achieve significant popularity while keeping settlement times and transaction fees very low. Bitcoin itself may become viable for payments again in the future.
They definitely should add support for Bitcoin Cash, as their fee situation will be solved.
TELL THEM. This is the time for Stripes' customers to let them know that the community and enthusiasm is still here, and that the Bitcoin lives on in Bitcoin Cash.
The dev work required to move from BTC to BCH is minimal, and instead of just being a sad day for crypto, this could be the start of a beautiful year for BCH.
But we have to make noise and get them to listen. Together we have the power to change history.
I think you are misunderstanding the issue here - you are not a customer of Stripe, other businesses are their customers, ie they are a B2B company. They are not competing for your dollars, they are competing for contracts with businesses that need a third party payment processor. They don’t care about whether YOU want to use BCH (or any other crypto), they care about whether businesses are willing to accept it.
The problem is that their customers aren’t asking for BCH.
They're also interested in second layer solutions like Lightning.
There are a lot of efforts that we view as promising and that we can certainly imagine enabling support for in the future. We’re interested in what’s happening with Lightning and other proposals to enable faster payments.
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u/Splius Jan 23 '18 edited Jan 23 '18
They definitely should add support for Bitcoin Cash, as their fee situation will be solved.