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Unfortunately we have network effect monopolists who can get away with huge margins. See Google, Facebook

Fundamental flaw in how services like Cloudflare are architected is that they propagate route leaks from obscure places all over the world.

Fundamental flaw in how BGP was designed from the old days. Give me a transit or peering connection where filters aren't in place, and you can announce anyone's IP blocks with their AS (SS7 is very similar, as it was built for a closed telcom ecosystem where all participants were trusted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0I5tl0YLY).

There are efforts to move to a more secure version of BGP, but that'll be done around the same time the transition to IPv6 is complete.

The problem is these kinds of leaks were more local except for services which have a large internal network. Yes - Google has that problem, but it is naive to assume that more of these won't happen. Any service which has a super easy path to having all their routing tables polluted so quickly is more vulnerable than others.

Also Google: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-an... Hardly, a "CloudFlare" problem.

How soon do you estimate having international bank transfers?

Being able to receive international bank transfers on Stripe would be amazing. Our bank charges us $15 per received wire.

I doubt Stripe could do that for much cheaper unfortunately, without basically becoming a bank, and keeping money in multiple countries.

You don't have to keep money in multiple countries, just be able to receive SWIFT and/or IBAN transfers.

Many banks in European countries don't charge anything for receiving any wires, including SWIFT, only sending them.

(the $15 fee is just for receiving any wire transfer, and is independent of the standard SWIFT fees)

I am more interested in making international payouts and we are looking at switching to envoyservices.com from PayPal/Manual bank transfers in a couple of months and switching entirely to stripe looks attractive

He should have added a link to this alltime classic - a good macroeconomics, deflation 101 tutorial: http://www.slate.com/id/1937/

I was going to mention that article too. It's a great explanation.

Money and monetary systems are human creations, not laws of nature.

Yeah - it always amuses me to read these long detailed arguments on these threads from people who seem to not have understood basic macroeconomics.

Econ isn't a science. There are schools of economic thought that completely contradict "basic economics" taught in schools today, and you can't possibly prove that one or the other method is correct.

Hence, Economics: the dismal science.

I have to disagree here. Yes there are schools of thought, but questions like "how does a market work?", "what causes deflation?" are pretty well studied and agreed upon. This is one of those very basic settled questions with a very clear accessible explanation.

Our influencers choose from a huge variety of ads that they are interested in. They also write the message that they want to send out. Since we payout based on relevant clicks (and rank influencers based on their click through rate), we incent influencers to make sure that they post things that their audience is interested in.

Jason, how are you measuring conversions on your end? I didn't see any tracking codes in your campaign urls. We do have a advertisers who measure conversions as well as a lot of them who are just interested in building brand awareness.

This is Arvind - one of the co-founders of MyLikes. We do offer location targeting (all the way upto a metro level). In this case, his campaign was paying only for US clicks - (our system guides and publishers self-select since they are only paid for clicks from the location that the advertiser is interested in).

That's a great feature, Arvind. I'll keep MyLikes in mind.