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Comment by geofft | Hacker News Reader

My reading of this post is that Stripe has no particular love for Bitcoin, but wants to avoid the ire of the Bitcoin fans on the internet, and so it's coated in "Bitcoin is great, we were the first people to adopt it, we can't criticize it at all" etc. etc.

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Stripe cofounder here. I think you're reading too much into it. We do think Bitcoin is cool. We're just trying to be as plainspoken and clear as possible about why we're doing what we're doing.

I found the blogpost to be genuine, as far as corporate statements goes.

In my opinion, the intimations of a "bad breakup" and of festering resentment, are grounded more in the cryptocurrency-community's insecurities than anything specific to Stripe.

Stripe is a payment company. Bitcoin was a way to pay for goods. Now it’s not.

Bitcoin is no longer the kind of coins you trade for a sandwich. It’s a house that you sit on as an assset and take forever to sell.

Do you see yourself picking up another cryptocurrency in the future? One that isn't just an asset to be held but was accepted as a form of payment on a larger scale?

The original post mentions Lightning, OmiseGO, Ethereum, Stellar, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and "Bitcoin itself" as future possibilities that they might be interested in implementing support for.

Why stop there? Why not allow people to pay with stocks and stock options?

How easy it is to accept stocks as a payment compared to cryptocurrencies? How easy it is to send stocks to some other person?

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