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exo762 on Oct 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: 1 Year development plan for Straight, a Bitcoin pa...

While I understand well how Bitcoin works, I do not understand what are practical ramifications of going with Straight instead of Bitpay.

Selling BTC manually on some exchange? Some AML/KML stuff?

wmf on Oct 3, 2014 [–]

Selling BTC manually on some exchange?

Yeah, Straight exposes the merchant to a lot of currency risk. It's probably only appropriate for merchants who also want to invest in BTC.

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