<2022-09-04T23:00:41.000Z> sugaring: Payment service processors are anxious about anything that looks like straight up money transmission if you don’t have money transmitter licenses in the territories of people who pay you. If you change your model slightly so people get something trivial in return, Stripe may relent. e.g., You could say you’re selling access passes for a private soapbox instance where people can ask questions and get support from the open source project developers. 
<2022-09-04T23:03:14.000Z> sugaring: fwiw, this isn’t idle speculation. I work for a money services business, and Stripe is one of our PSPs. 
<2022-09-05T05:44:46.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: That's a good point. You're right.