>> Say you’re running an online store, selling something digital or physical.
>> Is it practical to completely avoid the fees of payment processing companies like Stripe?
> You're examples are similar to crypto investments, which is almost the only thing people would spend their crypto on.
..buying a blockchain domain name on OpenSea, Rarible for low fees is 'not practical' then? So I can't make my own marketplace using Shopify's NFT store then? Nor does any of that qualify as 'selling something digital' either in regards to the OP.
So Shopify is not 'e-commerce' because they allow you do sell NFTs?
So buying limited edition NFT shoes from an online store doesn't count either and they are not 'products'? [0]
Given that, is that why you knowingly edited and deleted your comment about the extremely narrow existence of an popular e-commerce business that solely accepts cryptocurrencies for physical products except for the dark web to make a fallacious point that cryptocurrencies are not ever 'practical' for avoiding 'expensive transaction fees' because 'ecoms added support and removed that functionality again' and that means 'There's no interest for buying things' using cryptocurrencies?
At the end of this day, week, month and year, these companies have still have not given up on it, Stripe included. Maybe you should desperately ask how OpenSea, Rarible, Shopify, Circle.com etc are still able to do this, since you are having a very difficult time in ignoring it whenever another user asks a crypto-related question on Ask HN.