Online payments company Stripe is ending support of Bitcoin payments
The company for online payments Stripe, released a statement providing several reasons for their decision. Transaction confirmation times had risen significantly, and they could no longer cope with the greater price of transaction costs. This rise in transaction costs made cryptocurrency ‘about as expensive as bank wires’. Stripe was one of the first major online payment companies that included cryptocurrency payments.
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