[Ancalagon]

cool, more market consolidation

[whynotmaybe]

You have it backwards, great opportunity to start a niche competitor for whatever feature they'll remove once the acquisition is done!

[driverdan]

Creating a payment processor is extremely complex and expensive. It's not easy to start a niche competitor.

[nanobuilds]

Yea it's not easy to build a Stripe competitor although we need some.