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A comment on Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider.

Re:Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Ser... by udev4096 on Saturday August 16, 2025 @11:43AM (#44924424)
> Crypto: lmao

What is that supposed to even mean? There is no central authority. You are your own bank. Grow up, POW is necessary to keep the network secure

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Re:Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Ser... by wmf on Saturday August 16, 2025 @08:46PM (#44928036)
Stripechain is going to fix the UX but you're right that it won't fix "reputational risk".
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Re:Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Ser... by scyclow on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:38PM (#44924928)
> POW is necessary to keep the network secure

It's certainly a way to keep the network secure. At best it's marginally better than POS. At worst, it's a ticking time bomb security budget cliff.

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