Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by duskwuff on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:26PM (#34747447)

What exactly do you think the alternative is?

If you want to accept payments online, you need to do so through a credit card processor. There is no "self-hosted" alternative.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by diazc on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:33PM (#34747523)

> What exactly do you think the alternative is?

crypto?

I was able to send USDC to a business accepting crypto with Coinbase Commerce just fine and transaction was very quick.

I can see that even Stripe is getting involved in crypto as well.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by reaperducer on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:41PM (#34747614)

So your solution for not using a third-party is to use a different third party?

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by diazc on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:43PM (#34747640)

What is wrong with accepting USDC?

Anyone can accept it, individuals, and even third parties.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by charlieyu1 on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:49PM (#34747706)

People blame crypto for many things but at least crypto is not monopolized and you don't need the approval of a third party to use crypto to pay.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by jeremyjh on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:45PM (#34747666)

But what if they want customers to buy things?

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by diazc on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:57PM (#34747787)

They can buy things? Shopify, Woocommerce has integrations for this, this isn't really an issue.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by dashbarkhuss on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:10AM (#34770362)

They are blocked by MATCH. They will be banned from all of those as well.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by diazc on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:01AM (#34771203)

What has MATCH got to do with crypto?

Do you have any evidence for this claim?

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by pfsalter on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:47PM (#34747690)

Good luck trying to turn that USDC back into dollars without significant tax implications, and definitely good luck trying to get your customers to use USDC instead of a credit card

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by diazc on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:06PM (#34747880)

> ...good luck trying to get your customers to use USDC instead of a credit card

It's already happening and Stripe, Coinbase, Stellar, Shopify, Woocommerce, and Moneygram are already using USDC in the real world.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by livinglist on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:46PM (#34747671)

No my point is not to rely on a single third party completely

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by dan1234 on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:50PM (#34747725)

If they’ve been add to MATCH (card provider blocklist) they won’t be getting service from any other third parties now.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by ketralnis on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:31PM (#34747503)

These smarmy toldyouso comments always appear on these kinds of issues but the "third party software" here is... the global financial system. Stripe booted them because the credit card networks booted them because the US legal system booted them for dealing in illegal transactions. There isn't really an alternative to the root cause here. (Unless you're a bitcoin zealot in which case spare me.)

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by packetslave on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:32PM (#34747508)

Developer of Hacki - a Hacker News client: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki

This you?

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by olliepop on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:35PM (#34747556)

Unfortunately they are relying on the iOS app store to distribute their app, so safe to say they won't be around much longer due to third-party services etc etc.

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by livinglist on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:48PM (#34747701)

If user don’t want to access the iOS App Store they can build the app themselves, I don’t really see what’s your counter argument here. The point I’m making is do not rely on any third party service completely

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by livinglist on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:46PM (#34747673)

Yes

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Re:Flurly has been shut down by Stripe by brookst on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:48PM (#34747700)

Says the guy who didn’t write his own operating system.

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