Stripe is considered as a big payment platform and its foray into cryptocurrency can be meet with a lot of excitement and possibilities. Alas, I can see that this company is really wading so carefully and do not want to fast-track things maybe to avoid possible mistakes and to make sure it is not upsetting its own market. So one might be asking: how big is Stripe and can it make a recognizable impact in case it would go crypto in full blast? According to this published material: Based in 2022, there are 1.32 million active websites globally using Stripe, with an average of 1,000 companies joined Stripe each day. Stripe processed a global payment volume of $817 billion and as of January 2024, Stripe is valued at $50 billion. Let's hope that there will be more on this development and that all Stripe users will be able to one day use crypto as an option to pay, aside from the usual fiat money. It must be noted that in my country, Stripe has no legal business operation and I am really wondering why it is not attracted to this small but growing market in the Asia-Pacific region.