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Discussion on: Payments - an unforeseen roadblock

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Akash Kava

Every year Stripe and other payment providers are adding lot of new restrictions. Eventually Stripe is restricted by all partner banks and stripe is just a mediator and has not ability to override any of bank's rules.

This is the reason bitcoin was born and slowly and eventually bitcoin will replace credit cards. It took couple of decades for credit card to become mainstream, it will take few years for bitcoin to become mainstream.

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Quinn

I agree - I think the decentralized payments will hopefully be integrated, but the problem is that you still need banks at the end to bring money in / out. I'm worried they will just commandeer the concept and improve minorly