[pmlnr]

> Those of us who are fed up with these problems have moved on to other coins, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash.

What do you use those for? In the article above the author mentions you were able to pay for dinner, for various bits and pieces in BTC - even for pizzas, as we all know.

You can't do that with ETH, BCH, or any altcoin, and you can't use BTC for it any more either.

So why move on to other coins?

[namelost]

Stripe maintains a big list of prohibited businesses. Some of these are honest consumer protection. Others are there to try to instil Christian values into our money, for instance you may not use Stripe to sell sex toys.

If you ask Stripe, they'll tell you that these restrictions are there because of the requirements of Stripe's partners. And that is exactly the problem.

If we are heading towards a cashless society (and we are), then we need an electronic payment system that does not consult the Bible before deciding whether to allow your payment or not.

[cat199]

> that does not consult the Bible before deciding whether to allow your payment or not.

or the HRC either, for that matter.

[jonny_eh]

This! Has any coin shown any value outside of speculation yet? Ethereum seemed to have a lot of promise with "smart contracts" but has it provided any value to anyone yet?

[stale2002]

Merchant adoption for bitcoin cash is increasing very quickly.

You can indeed pay for things with bitcoin cash, and as soon at bitpay adds it to their platform (Which they are working on and will do so very soon), the merchant adoption rate will actually be higher than the bitcoin adoption rate.

And all of this was done in only a couple months.

[pmlnr]

Examples, citation, please. I do not see 'merchants' accepting BCH when I try to buy food.

[stale2002]

I'd love to!

https://acceptbitcoin.cash

All within a couple months. And this isn't even including all the merchants to come when bitpays adds support in 2 months. It will be more than bitcoin once that happens.