• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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              8 hours ago

              No, it’s not a viable use case.

              Developers of such games what the broadest market possible and consumers want easy accessibility and stable updates/support.

              The groups outlined above are interested in the product and not promotion of some cryptocurrency.

              Both these goals are best served using real currencies, not monero. Such payment systems (using real currency, aimed at content with erotica/porn) are widely available and haven in use for 30+ years.

              If you don’t want to deal with such payment systems directly (e.g. setup an LLC and other such matters), there are multiple easy to implement distribution approaches that one can launch in ~15 minutes.

              This is why I don’t trust crypto promoters.

              • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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                7 hours ago

                You would use real currencies for everything except the transfer. The consumer only sees USD. The provider swaps back to Fiat as soon as necessary.

                The use case is enabling payment over the Internet while avoiding traditional, censoring providers.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Couldn’t those transactions be cut off at those swapping points to fiat? I assume if a bank doesn’t support a business directly transferring funds for a particular purpose then they’d take issue with indirectly transferring funds for the same purpose and would work to close those accounts.

                  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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                    1 hour ago

                    It can happen. That would involved cutting off access to all crypto for that individual. It’s not common.

                    Even on the token side there are often blacklist addresses (e.g. USDC) that perform a similar function. Usually for hacks rather than terrorism.

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                  6 hours ago

                  This does not make sense.

                  What you’re saying is that it’s impossible to buy porn/erotica online without monero. This is clearly wrong.

                  You most definitely could do that before blockchains were a thing.

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                    6 hours ago

                    What you’re saying is that it’s impossible to buy porn/erotica online without monero

                    I haven’t said anything like that.

                    I’m saying crypto is an additional, uncensored payment channel.

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        1 day ago

        I’ve always maintained that the dude who spent like 10,000 Bitcoin to buy a pizza was the first and last legitimate use of crypto.

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        sad thing is that it could be great as an alternative to mastercard/visa but crypto fash have just ruined any attempt to make it appealing to anyone other than crypto fascists.

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          You don’t need crypto as an alternative to MasterCard/Visa. There are multiple national payment systems that de facto work on a public benefit basis or offer no fees or very low fees.

          One major example is India’s UPI:

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

          Even in a medium sized developing country like Ukraine, I can send anyone money (P2P, business payment, business transaction) with minimal or no fees on a near instantaneous basis off my phone.

          I am not on top of recent payment infrastructure developments, but from memory this is relatively common.

          No need for scam services like PayPal, Venmo.

          And this has been avaible for half a decade minimum (was living in another country before then).

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            12 hours ago

            Sure sure, is it a sound, decentralized bottom up monetary network built by the people for the people on cryptography rails on an uncensorable network?

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          24 hours ago

          As I understand it, cryptocurrency funnily enough works awfully as a means of transaction, because the amount of processing power required to make transactions is ridiculously high.

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              5 hours ago

              If a cryptocurrency concentrates into the hands of a few, as assets tend to do in capitalism, then wouldn’t proof of stake mean those few control the cryptocurrency anyway?

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                1 hour ago

                If the protocol is badly designed, yes.

                In theory, the stakers should only be rewarded for correctly confirming transaction and that capital (staked tokens) should carry no votes in any protocol changes.