Oh my. Oh my!
I just escaped Bandcamp, in part because payments could only be made via PayPal and PayPal is terrible (and requires a mobile phone number, which I don’t have).
My new home Mirlo is way better than Bandcamp on several levels, and it utilises Stripe for payments.
Now, today I’m reading this:
‘Stripe unveils the world’s first AI foundation model for payments’
‘Stripe launches new money management capabilities, making stablecoin-powered financial accounts accessible to businesses in 101 countries’
‘[…] including AI-powered dispute management […]’
https://stripe.com/en-ch/newsroom/news/sessions-2025
Ugh! ‘AI’ and Crypto, what a nightmarish coupling from hell.
Looks like I’ll just have to to give away my music for free. (No, @Liberapay is not an alternative option since, ‘We currently support processing payments through Stripe and PayPal.’
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