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I'd like to have a dead easy way to implement bitcoin payments, stripe like. This would help it spread to mainstream population.

Right now, using bitcoin is a bit of a pain, you have to do a bank transfer, etc. Fix that, and make it as fast as paypal. Money ensues.

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That's exactly what governments can (and will) prevent. Offering money transfer services or accepting money deposits from the public are regulated activities. And part of such regulation are anti-money laundering rules that essentially mandate that you're not allowed to execute a) anonymous transfers; and b) 'on behalf' transfers if you don't know the 'ultimate payer' and the 'ultimate beneficiary'.

IIRC, skirting such rules just last week led to a fine of some two hundred million for banks that anonymised payer data for some transfers that turned out to be for iranian oil.

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