Kacet – a freelancer marketplace with crypto-native payments
#HackerNews #Kacet #Freelancer #Marketplace #Crypto #Payments #Blockchain #Innovation
"An effective currency needs to be widely accepted, easy to use, and stable in value. By now most of us have recognized that cryptocurrencies fail at all three things, despite lofty ideals revolving around decentralization, transparency, and trust. But that doesn’t mean that all digital currencies or payment systems are doomed to failure. [Roni] has been working on an off-grid digital payment node called Meshtbank ..."
#BryanCockfield, 2025
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/05/off-grid-small-scale-payment-system/
Daniel Appelquist
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The @w3c breakouts schedule is now available! They will take place from 10 to 13 November 2025. Check it out:
▶️ https://www.w3.org/calendar/tpac2025/breakout-sessions/
#w3cTPAC participants organize discussions among the full W3C #community about new or existing topics. This year, a total of 79 proposals were proposed, including topics like #AI Agents,, #security, #payments, #a11y, #HumanRights, and more: https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues
The @w3c breakouts schedule is now available! They will take place from 10 to 13 November 2025. Check it out:
▶️ https://www.w3.org/calendar/tpac2025/breakout-sessions/
#w3cTPAC participants organize discussions among the full W3C #community about new or existing topics. This year, a total of 79 proposals were proposed, including topics like #AI Agents,, #security, #payments, #a11y, #HumanRights, and more: https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues
All Europeans 🇪🇺
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Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe
I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/
edit/added couple more tags for visibility.
#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean
Is it possible to get an RSS feed of all posts that @mention you? On Mastodon or any other fediverse app.
If so, I was wondering if a Nostr or BlueSky app could follow that RSS feed, and ingest the posts to add them to your notifications there. But to do that it would have to be able to identify itself as an agent approved by the owner of that fediverse account.
Could this be a use case for the AP C2S API or a vNext?
"[Nostr] has the Zap Lightning payments and stuff ... we haven't built into our own app, because it's not a priority, and in some ways we're positioning ourselves as the non-Bitcoiner Nostr folks.
But ... easy micro-payments between users, and from users to services, gives us a economic model that's not advertising."
@rabble, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day ...
"... a new members' bill put forward by New Zealand First
would protect cash as a key option in transactions, requiring stores to take it for purchases up to $500. If drawn from the ballot and passed, NZ First leader Winston Peters said it would 'provide for the enduring use of cash as a private, accessible, and reliable method of payment'."
#NikDirga, 2025
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Great rant from #Asmongold here about Visa/ Mastercard control over payments in the Anglophone internet (WeChat Pay/ AliPay is the equivalent in China), and how they use their payment processing chokepoint to decide what citizens can and can't pay for online;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h2Cw-NcDwQ
Disclaimer: I just stumbled on this, so I don't know anything about Asmongold or his other videos. He says a few angry, and arguably rude things here ("fat", "stupid" etc), but he makes many good points.
Hey tech friends. I'm wondering about alternatives to stripe, specifically to stripe connect for split payouts. Anybody have any opinions about these European alternatives? https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/stripe
I see others like these but many of them have U.S. headquarters. https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives/
edit/added couple more tags for visibility.
#stripe #payments#eu#europe #europeanalternatives #tech#saas #startup #software#cloud #aws #gcp #digitalocean
@futzle
> 4.6% ? No, sorry, get a better platform
> 4.6% ? No, sorry, get a better platform
Agreed, but ... is there one? I've been watching the online payments space since the turn of the century, so I've seen a lot of experiments come and go (BuskPay, eGold). I've seen the DotCom bubble and the crypto bubble come and go.
In that time, the digitised credit/debit card infrastructure become - and stayed - the de facto standard for digital payments. A classic example of what Giblin and Doctorow call "chokepoint capitalism".
Almost all of the online payment providers you interact with is backed by one of a handful of giant payment processors (eg PayPal and Stripe, or in China, AliPay and WeChatPay). That are essentially an API between you and the credit card company your card belongs to. That are, in turn. basically APIs between you and the company that hosts your bank accounts.
In other words, companies are squeezing on chokepoints between you and your bank.
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Email from #Stripe;
"New AI-powered Smart Disputes will be enabled in July 2025"
"We’ll automatically enable this new product on your account ...
If you win a dispute using Smart Disputes, you’ll pay 30% of the recovered disputed amount. If you don’t win, then no fees for Smart Disputes apply. The fee for receiving a dispute still applies to all disputes, including ones countered with Smart Disputes."
We need a vendor-neutral payment protocol that doesn't depend on enshittifiers
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