I'm building a decentralized microservice that will pay people (hosts) small little bits of bitcoin ($5-$25 worth) at a time.
Would I be violating any laws by acting as a middleman to accept a payment via stripe (credit card) or paypal and then sending bitcoin to the hosts? I feel that this would create the best user experience to prevent the user from sending bitcoin or creating a coinbase (or other) account to buy bitcoin.
Thanks!
I think there is no problem in accepting payment via credit cards for bitcoin. Because I think in the near future all the people will use only bitcoin for their day to day life expenditures and purchases then they will use credit cards for their payments.
So I think that it is not illegal but you must keep yourself secure from any fraud and scam. The market is full of scammers and hackers. Otherwise there is no problem accepting credit cards for bitcoin.