You created an account just to post that? Really.
I can understand that american citizens might be annoyed, but for people like me, who lives in Europe, it's nice to keep track of their progress.
I can understand that american citizens might be annoyed, but for people like me, who lives in Europe, it's nice to keep track of their progress.
There's nothing remotely interesting in Stripe for a hacker, just another scummy payment processor.
If you don't like Stripe articles then don't upvote them.
For what it's worth: I work at Stripe, and we didn't submit this story. If you've any suggestions as to what we should do to make the submissions less annoying, I'm all ears.
I think it's just the case that a lot of people in the various countries tend to care. For example, to take another benchmark, Stripe was a Twitter trending topic in both Ireland and Dublin when we launched this morning: https://twitter.com/TrendsDublin/status/374809599691325440, https://twitter.com/TrendsIreland/status/374806974908477440.
Your rates are the same as every other damn payment processor, that's why I fail to see the excitement. I'd also be interested to know if you pay tax in any of the countries your service operates.
And, yes; we charge VAT on our services in Europe; this goes straight to the government.
If "stripe in Ireland", and an office in London then you should right?
If they do a Google they will claim that UK transactions are really Irish transactions and pay tax in Ireland.
If they do an Apple they will claim that their Irish company owes vast technology licensing fees to a company in Bermuda.
Net result is that revenue is shuffled around until it ends up in a tax haven, ready for future distribution when the political tax climate or personal circumstance of key shareholders allows.