File this along with the advice about resignation letters to state nothing but
"I am writing to give notice of my resignation from <company> on <today's date>. According to the terms of my employment contract my final day will be <leaving date >. -- Sincerely, <name>"
6-7 figure amounts selling something of no worth to people who on average do not have any comprehension of it and which opens them up to fraud and scams. Great.
If an artist friend of mine sells an NFT I am going to struggle with continuing to see them as a friend, because it's morally bankrupt.
If a non-technical artist comes to you and asks for help selling an entirely phantom product to their presumably only-averagely-technically-aware fans, why would you get involved?
Anything that introduces non-technical users to crypto -- which is really the main function of NFT exchanges at this point -- is a moral hazard.
This is why I am so shocked to see Stripe involved with it.
I just want to say that the extraordinary unseriousness of this (and the NFT twitter icon, really!?) has convinced me that Stripe is through the looking glass, now.
More and more I am convinced that the weasel that crawled into the LHC and got itself killed only died _inside_ the collapsing time bubble it somehow created through an unspecified accident and in which we are now all living.
Outside the time bubble, it scampered away and Brexit, Trump's victory, the Ukraine war and the Tiger King series never happened.
> I think the “planet-killing scam” is very HN-sphere thinking
It's not, at all. I've heard that phrasing or similar (that it's a pyramid scheme, that cryptocurrencies are wasteful) from people who don't even know how to find HN.
In the photography world in particular, mentioning your NFT is likely to get you laughed out of any forum in which you bring it up.
IMO if you encounter any non-technical artist "excited" about NFTs, tell them to stay the hell away, or risk being seen a bad friend. I tell people I will not help them, that I am very happily uninterested, and urge them not to do it at all.
> While I largely share your feelings about NFTs, I think the general population outside of HN sphere does not.
I don't know. I know a fair number of artists/musicians/photographers and I can tell you that among those artists, the impression of NFTs is almost universally negative.
I would bet that more people think NFT is close to a "giant, planet-killing scam", which is hyperbole but on the side of caution.
> Stripe is not a cryto service provider defined by banking regulations.
But it's now a payment provider that allows businesses in the UK to engage in what surely must be considered high-risk crypto business by the bank (NFT marketplaces).
This is the sort of thing that gets businesses denied banking service.
Really? The OP link does not make this at all clear.
If the text says one thing, the opposite is suggested by the screenshots in the page.
I do not expect it to be clear to the people reviewing transactions at crypto-phobic banks.
I would prefer a payments provider that will have absolutely nothing to do with these businesses, but either way, the way this is being communicated looks like an attempt to split a hair too finely.
I feel like I am engaging with a bad faith critique for the purposes of good faith discussion, which is a mistake, but OK, here goes:
Some businesses in the UK have banks that say they will close their accounts if they accept cryptocurrency payments. Mine does! I would without hesitation lose my business bank account if I did, because I am a trifling small customer.
Stripe was safe and reputable, but now it is a place where you can accept cryptocurrencies.
Edit: see note below.
I'm not currently clearing payments via Stripe for my own business, but the way I understand it, it's now likely to mean increased scrutiny from my bank about those payments when I do.
I'm not sure if it has rolled out in the UK yet. But if it has, will my bank be clearly informed when a payout was *not* the result of a cryptocurrency transaction? I've not read that far yet.
Either way it's reputational damage hassle people do not need.
And before you ask: I am of course comfortable with that bank policy. Because cryptocurrency is consistently crime-adjacent and fraud-adjacent. And it's not like banks are that well-equipped at dealing with old-fashioned frauds that have been around a century, let alone new frauds that have been around mere days.
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Edit to add: apparently this document is not meant to communicate that cryptocurrency payments can be accepted. Which is not what the screenshots in the page do, IMO.
Though the fact that Stripe will allow NFT exchanges is more than enough to create reputational risk.
I still expect to have more difficulty when I add Stripe payments.
I suppose it is inevitable but it could even present problems for businesses in the UK where their banks are allergic to payment platforms that accept cryptocurrency.
It is bonkers to be downvoted for this, but I explained my reasoning in more detail in another comment if credulous people care to reflexively downvote me there too:
The amazing thing about MAME is that it almost doesn't matter if there aren't new machines to emulate, because it so perfectly preserves the past. It really is almost perfected.
(OpenEmu and Retro Virtual Machine are also worth the time; the latter particularly if you have fond memories of the very underrated Amstrad CPC)