[markdown]

Most of the world can't use Stripe.

[scrollaway]

Stripe supports virtually all credit cards as well as alipay and bitcoin. If that's not most of the world, what is?

[sanswork]

Most all end users can use stripe. A lot of businesses can't https://stripe.com/global.

[joshdotsmith]

Stripe did introduce Stripe Atlas. Although this doesn't solve the situation totally, it's at least one of a number of helpful steps in the right direction.

[sanswork]

If you want to register and run a us entity it helps but most people don't want that kind of hassle. I've done it from Canada and Australia and unless youre planning on getting us investors is probably not a good idea. Though I haven't accepted my atlas invite yet so not sure how much better it'd be.

[markdown]

That only works for a tiny proportion of Silicon Valley-like startups.

[Tarq0n]

Credit card use is highly uncommon in large parts of Europe.

[jamiethompson]

Really?

[wichert]

For payments using direct bank transfers tends to be the standard approach in the EU, certainly for national payments.

[jamiethompson]

Sure, but that's not what we're talking about here. For those kind of payments, in the US they still tend to use cheques. For buying stuff from shops or online, we use cards, just like anywhere else, no?

[wichert]

If you mean you use credit cards for buying stuff online, then no: that is not what we do here. I'm not sure about all of the EU, but at least in NL the majority of online transactions use payments directly with your normal checking account at your bank using a system called iDeal (see https://www.ideal.nl/en/ ).