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Comment by colesantiago | original | Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
[−]colesantiago · 2026-07-01 Wed 16:18 UTC · link
Can the agents use debit cards?

Stablecoins doesn't make sense here and prefer not to use crypto at all.

[−]smoovb · 2026-07-01 Wed 17:11 UTC · link
Debit cards have to pay too many people. The acquiring bank, the receiving bank, the network, all take their fees. Stripe and their minimum $.30 per transactions leave no room for $0.01 API calls.
[−]someonebaggy · 2026-07-02 Thu 08:07 UTC · link
Crypto transfer fee is worse. Can be up to $30.00 on Ethereum for that $0.01 API call.
[−]ygouzerh · 2026-07-01 Wed 17:30 UTC · link
Actually, x402 was created because using a credit card programmatically is very difficult.

The whole business of Stripe is based on that: it's so hard for developers to do, and so many regulations, that they would rather pay an another company to do so.

Crypto can be sent just using a contract.transfer() call

[−]xur17 · 2026-07-01 Wed 18:29 UTC · link
And debit / credit cards are horrible for privacy (name and address info is sent along with payments).