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Voidfox Blog
Personal blog · voidfox.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
Voidfox Blog is a personal blog at voidfox.com about programming and business. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a rant about the many layers involved in 'so you want to move money' (payment processing), raised by a commenter who worked in blockchain and says good tech is only part of the answer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-15
What Hacker News says?
I worked in blockchain 5 years trying to build good tech, and speculators ruin everything and don't care about good tech, but the real punch line is that good tech is like 2% of a real answer Here's a rant about a bunch of other layers of 'so you want to move money' https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_y... and different parts of the blockchain ecosystem are working on some parts of that, and a…
Comment linking /blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/
on “I wasted years of my life in crypto”Submitted Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider as a story · 268 points
HN discussionSubmitted Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own MSP as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sisyphean Effort of ActivityPub Migration as a story · 2 points
HN discussion