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That example isn’t very convincing. I’ve only seen 1 or so service use stripe and their transaction costs are very high. You can’t call it’s existence positive without evoking some cultural values.

Plus, Europe is way ahead of the us in terms of banking convinence and efficiency.

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Stripe is a multi-billion dollar company. It could have been Irish based for free. The Irish government spend billions to attract companies like Stripe. Also Stripe is a global brand now used by tens of thousands of businesses.

Wasn't Theranos multibillion valued at some point? Not trying to imply anything about Stripe being fraudulent, just evoking an extreme example of clear overvaluation to put such numbers into perspective. Stripe might also very well not have made much sense for Irish banks and a lot for US ones. Time will tell whether that was a mistake.

Nonsense on all counts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

Ironically, your single statement was actually "nonsense on all accounts" as Theranos definitely was valued multiple billions at some point.

> Plus, Europe is way ahead of the us in terms of banking convinence and efficiency.

I heard that just posting a picture of your credit card number somehow means you can get all your money stolen/cause bad things to happen. Is this true? How can this be a thing?

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