I think you’re steering this conversation in a direction that isn’t really meaningful. We have security mechanism in place that prevents misuse and fraud.
Yep, everyone comes out happy here. It's a win-win-win. Unlike other proxy businesses, we always get our providers' consent before adding them to our pool.
There are plenty of alternatives to Stripe. Just search for card processors. If you’re a high-risk merchant, or your product falls into a high-risk category, Stripe will probably reject you. That’s why there’s a big market for other processors to step in.
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Generally, these systems are designed by people whose only goal is to make money. Security is just treated as a liability until shit actually hits the fan.
I think banking is still the biggest issue if you’re not an Estonian resident.
Honestly, I’d avoid the EU in general. There are only about four or five good places to set up a company and stay connected to the financial system: the US, especially Wyoming or Delaware, Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
I personally never met her but Bet365 is one of the most protected sites on the internet when it comes to antibot protections. When I started my company in 2025, I had two customers from UK, they were very much interested in odds for horse races from bet365, mostly realtime. Bet365 knew I was coming for them.
Ive used YOLO26 in one of my projects, It was very easy to train on our custom dataset and also very easy to deploy even on rust with AVX2 support. This model is indeed fast and can be used for almost real time inference.