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I looked into supporting Bitcoin through Stripe and it didn't look straightforward. I do plan to add it this week though if it's possible.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come off snippy and I must have read your comment wrong. It's been a long day.

It's a bit silly to compare Express to Rails, Express is the Sinatra of JS, and the Sinatra philosophy is to be minimalist and give you more power, whereas the Rails philosophy is to be everything you need assuming you have typical requirements. It's a trade-off, neither is inherently better or worse, they're each good for certain situations.

I wrote https://affluentconfidante.com/ (which may or may not have been commissioned by a wealthy client who wants to deliver an anonymous message to the world) in Clojure and deployed entirely on AWS infrastructure.

By design it is simple, because in my experience, the biggest obstacle to scaling properly is over-engineered code, especially premature optimizations that have the wrong guesses about what will need to scale.