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Comment by ygouzerh | original | Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
[−]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).