Anyway, fuck stripe, and even more so fuck congress. We need some fucking way to pay people that isn't contingent on the support of the world's laziest cowards. ::sigh::
Can we just starting sending cash in the mail like Mullvad
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in reply to @kukkurovaca's post:
yeah, i feel like i remember people talking about this stripe change months ago -- though, i guess it's possible that it takes months for staff to make the decision to axe eggbux in light of this. shit sucks cause i like cohost but... yknow, not looking great
The wording was updated in January (and again in May, hence their edit, but the bit they quoted is from January). But Stripe has had an FAQ page saying this kind of tipping isnt' allowed for at least two years, and if I had to guess they've never allowed it because it gets into a LOT of legal spaghetti if you do.
Paying each other isn't really the problem, it's having Cohost as the middleman. If you want to facilitate peer to peer money transfers, you're practically becoming a bank. There's a lot of regulation on that kind of thing and Stripe can't help you with that.
The problem is there's not an easy way to send someone money digitally without involving a third party, and the only third parties that can afford to do that for you have such overhead that it's only ever going to be your Stripes and Paypals and Venmos.
In a way, I can see why some people got excited at the idea of crypto lol. It's just...well...everything else about how it works and still needing a bank to turn it into usable money.