[elnado]

Hmm digging through our old code looks like we never tried to use Stripe, for reasons unknown to me (maybe their support/requirements were different back then, maybe it didn't work for our product, idk). But yeah, especially after reading this article, handling bitcoin payments and dealing with the exchange rate sounds unfavorable lol :) glad we're not doing that.

[cperciva]

That's my point - with stripe, you don't have to deal with the exchange rate. You say "I want $X" and magic happens. Stripe takes care of the messy details of fluctuating exchange rates.

[elnado]

So that's not entirely true depending on how you use the product. We were attempting to use Stripe for a contract-like setup, e.g. person A pays person B, but person B doesn't get paid until some event occurs, and we hold on to the funds until that happens since that expiration of that event isn't guaranteed to be under 10 min.