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I don't think it is Stripe that is the issue, it is up the chain. Mastercard, Visa, Amex, etc... also remember that we wanted to be able to take cards from all over the world, so that was another limiting factor in who we dealt with.

We had to do all of our own bare metal hosting cause at the time cloud companies wouldn't touch us.

What we ended up developing was our own micro currency 'kinks', which enabled a lot of other possibilities for us, like pay-per-minute video. Charge one larger purchase for something tangible and it helped prevent chargebacks.

We were also one of the first companies to do near realtime, live streaming 1080p HD video. I remember having to search around for an HD mixer cause nothing existed yet.