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That's a good point, BTC doesn't have that figured out yet but I bet Stripe will be able to help figure that out! We handle that for ACH if you're interested.


Bitcoin does have the capability of "2 of 3" authorizations which can mitigate some of the upfront risk. The idea being that a payment only completes after 2 parties approve it, the 3rd being an independent 3rd party in this case (who could be configured to auto-approve if a complaint isn't filed in x days).


And what stops the customer from filing a bogus complaint, same as they do now if they use a credit card?


Getting kicked out of the system.


Only if the incentives of the third party align this way, which is very unlikely as many merchants burned by PayPal/eBay can attest to.


We used to kick chronic chargebackers out of PayPal and I would assume that still the case to some extent.




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