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Stripe seems to be the default payment processor for tech startups. Especially now they are going to support Bitcoin.

Absolutely. Stripe understands how to build clean and easily usable APIs.

After setting up Paypal and Google Wallet payment forms and being left wanting to shoot myself, Stripe was a fantastic breath of fresh air.

Alas, only for tech startups in one of the twelve select countries. We went with Paymill instead.

I believe they were planning to expand the number of countries they operate in. The US also has terrible credit card systems compared to any other developed nation.

They are, but it's to those twelve countries :) - eight of them are still in Beta.

The US also has terrible credit card systems compared to any other developed nation.

What do you mean? Aren't the CC systems pretty much the same everywhere? We do have some alternatives to the CC system as a whole, and they work fine, except when we want to sell internationally :|

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