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Stripe Ends Bitcoin Support

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2018-01-24 15:57:23
Techonomics

The payment service, Stripe, has ended its support for Bitcoin [stripe.com] due to rising transaction fees and long confirmation times. Particularly the latter contribute to failed transfers. So Bitcoin [bitcoin.org] is over as an experiment, and more are realizing that. However, the expectation is that some other cryptocurrency will become widely used, eventually.


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