> I feel like I'm going crazy over here. These accounts have hundreds of thousands of dollars in them being held hostage by an utterly incompetent team / algorithm that seems to lack any and all empathy for the havoc they wreak on businesses when they pull the rug out from under them with no warning, nor for the impact they have on customers when they all of a sudden lose all ability to make money. And all that for an account that has been using Stripe for nearly 7 years without issue!

When people on HN swear up and down that Bitcoin has zero use cases, I think some may be voluntarily forgetting stuff like this.

Is Bitcoin a perfect fit here? Probably not. Does it eliminate the problem of arbitrary algorithms blocking payments for no discernible reason? Yes.