[jambojumbo]

the beginning of the end of stripe. Instead of attracting more customers and building the ground for a healthy startup ecosystem, stripe chose the shortsighted 'let's just charge more'. this immediately makes other alternatives like adyen more attractive...bad move and I don't get how patrick collison who roams around here let this happen. the 2.9%+0.25 was already allowing for healthy margins, and was higher than competitors.

[moneywoes]

Is Aden the only competitor here?

[makestuff]

Square is as well. I think there are several players which is good because if you design your payment systems to support multiple integrations you can switch between them without a ton of friction (source: last company switched a few times based on the terms they negotiated).