Stripe is owned by MasterCard. MasterCard is using DIE initiatives to purge it's competition, link up with the EU, and effectively displace the local currencies of Africa. MasterCard needs DIE as a weapon. Stripe controls digital transactions. It was Stripe, via MasterCard, that ordered the Patreon Purge from several years ago. They were directly responsible for ordering the removal of Carl Benjamin from the site.

They didn't sell out. They are an enemy faction.