How we made billing backendless(useautumn.com) Typically, billing is a backend job and requires webhooks, state syncing, then passing the data to the frontend. We wanted to offer a more "out-of-the-box" experience when handling things like payment links, paywalls and up/downgrade flows, so we've spent a bunch of time thinking about how we can perform sensitive payment operations without needing to perform the "round trip" to the backend -- we think this is a simpler and better developer experience.
Anyone Else Sick of Stripe?(ycombinator.com) Just got kicked off a few weeks ago. Something about having two transactions for the same account and same amount. WTF! They said it was fraud. How can they just do that? There has got to be better solutions for me.
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Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks (2024)(krebsonsecurity.com) A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds.