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Stephan
@stephancill
listening to peter levels talk about how stripe made accepting payments super easy which changed everything makes me sad for the state of ecommerce in africa i've been building stuff for a long time but never bothered charging because it's really hard to accept international payments in south africa (or any african country for that matter) because stripe is not available here local options make it very difficult to charge in common international currencies like USD/EUR and users churn because they don't recognize/trust the payment provider crypto fixes this, but only if your target demographic is crypto native for now african countries should be begging stripe to add support for their countries
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Stephan
@stephancill
there is also a lesson in there about stripe's dominance and why we need truly decentralized payment infrastructure
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Samuel
@samuellhuber.eth
stripe accepting USDC doesn't help you? can you get an account? or is the struggle here that you can't even get an account / offramp? because I think today one can offramp USDC
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Stephan
@stephancill
Can’t open a stripe account
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Samuel
@samuellhuber.eth
Could a friend open it and you get USDC from that?
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Stephan
@stephancill
I mean sure but I don’t want to depend on a friend for my own business needs and that doesn’t solve the problem at scale Tbh I don’t think I would want to be involved with someone else’s business finances. Too much risk
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agusti 🐘🔵
@bleu.eth
can't you incoporate an LLC with otoco.io or similar (stripe atlas, doola, clerky) if it's a business tho? It sucks, just trying to figure out work arounds tbh
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Stephan
@stephancill
sure but now i have to deal with all this admin in a different country did this for my previous company - nightmare experience lol
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