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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

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329 points beeburrt | 1 comments | 16 May 25 06:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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rwarfield ◴[16 May 25 07:07 UTC] No.44002548[source]▶
We have normalized the treatment of the financial and payments systems as things that exist primarily to perform law enforcement surveillance functions. It's the same dynamic that leads to debanking of small accounts - payments firms exist on thin margins and the potential fines for inadvertently servicing a bad actor are stratospheric, so it's entirely logical to play it safe by refusing to service anyone whose profile looks even the slightest bit risky.
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ngruhn ◴[16 May 25 07:19 UTC] No.44002616[source]▶
The alternate is crypto. That will service anyone for ANY reason.
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1. immibis ◴[16 May 25 08:33 UTC] No.44003052[source]▶
The future of legitimate activity is that it will be performed on the same platforms designed to protect criminal activity, because it will be treated as criminal, despite not being so.

If BuyMeACoffee was run like a dark web drug marketplace, it could support every country.