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Jor | 8 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +6 
 One of the reasons fiat will lose:

Our golf company (KNG 👑) got into 8 local pro shops for the first time this year.

So orders were larger than usual.

One course had to pay with credit card, so we set up a custom order on our Shopify site.

Shopify charged us over $100 just to facilitate the fucking transaction.

Absolutely insane.

They took half of our (already slim) margin just to take the payment.

The world needs bitcoin.

BADLY.
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nobody | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Shopify, Etsy, Stripe, PayPal. All economic rent seeking whores.
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juice | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Shopify runs my business, but I'm totally in to foss. I wouldn't even know where to start!
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Erik | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Congrats 🍾🎉
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Jor | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Thanks Erik! 👊🏼
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localist | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ouch. Wake up call for me was trying to extricate a significant amount of GBP from a UK investment and move it to Canada. Bitcoin fixes this, and most everything else. 

Congrats on the growth of your business!
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Jor | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Thank you! 

More and more bitcoin payments are coming in.

Great to see. Very hopeful