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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there is also a lesson in there about stripe's dominance and why we need truly decentralized payment infrastructure

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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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

Could a friend open it and you get USDC from that?