Re:Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitco...
by lmeyerov on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:34PM
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I've been seeing two sides of this:
- Our own payments: Some remote contractors ask to be paid in crypto: haven't figured out clean way how wrt rest of our back-office SaaS stack, so not yet. To a much more negligible extent, our online customers want to pay that way: we do get a lot of proton etc. email users, so I can imagine more of this in the future, esp. as we add more privacy features. I bet other startups are seeing the same!
- Our power users: Crypto product & investigation teams often want to embed/use our GPU graph viz tech, and our inquiries have grown up from early VC/ICO-dependent startups to ones with $B+ assets under management. At this rate, seems like only a matter of 1-2 years for banks and big consulting co's for the same thing. So a big yet modern payment processor like Stripe seems quite sensible right now! (And I think Square was trying on and off for awhile as well.)
- Our own payments: Some remote contractors ask to be paid in crypto: haven't figured out clean way how wrt rest of our back-office SaaS stack, so not yet. To a much more negligible extent, our online customers want to pay that way: we do get a lot of proton etc. email users, so I can imagine more of this in the future, esp. as we add more privacy features. I bet other startups are seeing the same!
- Our power users: Crypto product & investigation teams often want to embed/use our GPU graph viz tech, and our inquiries have grown up from early VC/ICO-dependent startups to ones with $B+ assets under management. At this rate, seems like only a matter of 1-2 years for banks and big consulting co's for the same thing. So a big yet modern payment processor like Stripe seems quite sensible right now! (And I think Square was trying on and off for awhile as well.)