Why are we, as a community, allowing a company like BitPay to insert themselves in to all our transactions, to collect our data, to spy on us, to report us to the government, and take a cut for the privilege?
Such companies will exist as long as people are going to use and support them.
I am not using BitPay and will never be.
Everyone is free to decide how he handles a payment. If someone chooses to use BitPay to give aways his data, i couldn't care less. That's not my business.
You can't force other people to be privacy-orientated or non-retarded or whatever. If they decide to giveaway their data (hello facebook, tiktok, etc..), they are free to do so.
I 100% agree with this but it still comes back to:
... We need more places to take BTC directly. If there is going to have to be a conversion to fiat to pay rent / gas / electric / insurance / vendors / etc. then places like BitPay / Coinbase Commerce / etc. are always going to exist and they may or may not have shitty (to us) rules.
What are we, as a group and individually doing about it? I admit in the business / commercial side I am doing nothing. Don't have the time or motivation or ability to even begin to try to have vendors change their ways. Heck I think our old landlord thought checks were way to modern and why don't we pay with cash.
On the private side I have had some success with some small biz and individuals to take
BTC but the few that do very quickly convert it to fiat though Coinbase / Gemini.
Which beings us back to we need more places to take
BTC so they don't have to. Actually had one who I setup a BTCPay server for look into BitPay by themselves and ask me about it so he would not have to waste time converting to fiat. That is why we have to get more places to take
BTC. Otherwise, IMO not only is BitPay going to stay, we are going to get more places like it.
edit: I think if we want to continue this discussion on how to get more people to take
BTCwe should start a new thread.
-Dave