The $4,000 Rug Pull: Why Fiat Payments Break Small Businesses

Bitcoin for Financial Services Podcast · Mar 4, 2026 · 55m · transcript

This episode, we sit down with a payments veteran with 15+ years of payment innovation experience to dissect the inherent flaws of modern credit card rails and fiat payment systems. As financial professionals, we often see top-line revenue stripped of hidden interchange fees without fully grasping the burden it places on everyday business owners.

Our guest pulls back the curtain on the arbitrary nature of chargebacks, exorbitant processing costs, and the ultimate lack of settlement finality in the traditional system. We explore the massive opportunity surrounding the transition from Bitcoin…