Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

Re:Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitco... by johnebgd on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:22PM (#28843186)

This is of course because in 2021 an overwhelming number of consumers are finally pushing for crypto currency payments.... /s

Seriously though, if speculative assets are your thing then crypto is great. It's still not great for the average consumer to use for payments.

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Re:Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitco... by 0x000000001 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:31PM (#28847941)

Change happens quick. We all started relying on smartphones seemingly overnight.

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Re:Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitco... by johnebgd on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:45PM (#28964893)

Bitcoin is 13 years old.

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Re:Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitco... by practice9 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:56PM (#28843628)

There is hope that the move to Proof Of Stake and the arrival of various scaling solutions for Ethereum will finally make crypto payments simpler (2022 - 2023 implementation time frame).

Here is a short blog post that discusses this tech: https://polynya.medium.com/argent-zksync-a-peer-to-peer-elec...

I think the other big issue is that current wallet apps are very buggy and their UX sucks in general, so your point still stands

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Re:Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitco... by NicoJuicy on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:45PM (#28846045)

Experimenting with my money is not something I'd appreciate.

Then again, perhaps it's just me.

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