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Speed running the porn companies making their own payment processor
I'd open a KinkPay account, when offered.
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Wait what? OF banning porn? Is it 2021 again?
This isn't new. It's been happening for a while now.
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cryptocurrency is absolutely not going to be a substitute. what happens when your client's money drops in value halfway through working on their commission?
Easy. Agree on the price in a more stable currency, and pay the equivalent in crypto when the work is done.
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oh wow, it's that easy? we should do it with other things like piracy, human trafficking, tax evasion, insider trading, bribery, cyberattacks and environmental violations as well. oh wait, we did? it didn't stop it? i'm shocked. /s
Tax evasion is legal several places.
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I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?
Bad press?
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Obfuscation is not security.
yeah, just grants you plausible deniability
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That's not an economy.
Also LOL at the change in value being $1. Bitcoin is finite, permanently, forever. 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, bitcoin will continue to deflate year after year. At least gold can be mined, although at some point we will have extracted it all. The 2% deflation in your example is an absurd underestimation. Percentages in the hundreds to thousands is more realistic.
Deflationary currency is a great way to kill an economy, there's no motivation to invest and accept any risk when all you have to do to increase your wealth dramatically is wait, risk free. Economic activity comes to a grinding halt.
bitcoin will continue to deflate year after year. At least gold can be mined.
You know bitcoiners will still be mining for over 100 more years.
there's no motivation to invest and accept any risk when all you have to do to increase your wealth dramatically is wait, risk free.
Another lazy myth regurgitated. You were obviously an exam crammer, not a thinker.
People choose more over less. They will still invest in risk free bonds paying an interest rate because they will end up with more money. They will still invest in risky assets for the same reason if there were no deflation. More money.
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bitcoin will continue to deflate year after year. At least gold can be mined.
You know bitcoiners will still be mining for over 100 more years.
there's no motivation to invest and accept any risk when all you have to do to increase your wealth dramatically is wait, risk free.
Another lazy myth regurgitated. You were obviously an exam crammer, not a thinker.
People choose more over less. They will still invest in risk free bonds paying an interest rate because they will end up with more money. They will still invest in risky assets for the same reason if there were no deflation. More money.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You know bitcoiners will still be mining for over 100 more years.
Technically "mining" does not end because there will always need to be more blocks if there are new transactions. Minting new coins that get awarded to miners is what ends in a bit over 100 years. And then what happens? My point stands.
Another lazy myth regurgitated. You were obviously an exam crammer, not a thinker.
It's fact. You can't even refute it besides desperate name calling and just stating the opposite.
Sorry that reality isn't fun for you.When your system entirely hinges on people not considering risk...
denying that risk is a factor in risk-reward calculus because "PeOpLe WaNt MoRe" is totally convincing, big winner of an argument. They want more, and they can get more... by doing absolutely nothing... so that's exactly what they'll do to get the more they want. They could get more by robbing a bank or selling their kidney!!!! Oh wait, that's right, risk... 
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You know bitcoiners will still be mining for over 100 more years.
Technically "mining" does not end because there will always need to be more blocks if there are new transactions. Minting new coins that get awarded to miners is what ends in a bit over 100 years. And then what happens? My point stands.
Another lazy myth regurgitated. You were obviously an exam crammer, not a thinker.
It's fact. You can't even refute it besides desperate name calling and just stating the opposite.
Sorry that reality isn't fun for you.When your system entirely hinges on people not considering risk...
denying that risk is a factor in risk-reward calculus because "PeOpLe WaNt MoRe" is totally convincing, big winner of an argument. They want more, and they can get more... by doing absolutely nothing... so that's exactly what they'll do to get the more they want. They could get more by robbing a bank or selling their kidney!!!! Oh wait, that's right, risk... desperate name calling
I'm not calling you names. I'm saying you have demonstrated no ability to think independently. I don't think you are a LLM but likely you are copy pasting from one.
You can't even refute it
I did. You seem unable to process the responses I write or even the links you post.
When your system entirely hinges on people not considering risk.
I wrote the opposite. That under deflation people will still make risky investments because it will make them money. Yet again you demonstrate an inability to comprehend.
They want more, and they can get more... by doing absolutely nothing...
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Money under the mattress earns deflation
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Money invested earns deflation + interest.
The second is more than the first.
I think we've reached your limits in this topic.
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Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.
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desperate name calling
I'm not calling you names. I'm saying you have demonstrated no ability to think independently. I don't think you are a LLM but likely you are copy pasting from one.
You can't even refute it
I did. You seem unable to process the responses I write or even the links you post.
When your system entirely hinges on people not considering risk.
I wrote the opposite. That under deflation people will still make risky investments because it will make them money. Yet again you demonstrate an inability to comprehend.
They want more, and they can get more... by doing absolutely nothing...
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Money under the mattress earns deflation
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Money invested earns deflation + interest.
The second is more than the first.
I think we've reached your limits in this topic.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ah yes, accusing one of using an LLM, a sure sign of winning the argument
- Money invested earns deflation + interest.
That's incorrect, money LOANED earns deflation + interest, not money invested. Money invested loses out on the deflation.
You have 1BTC. You exchange the 1BTC for 1 unit of an investment. As BTC deflates, it's buying power increases. When you go to sell your investment, you find that 1BTC still buys 1 unit of the investment, even though your investment grew in value during the same period of time. You could have done nothing to get the same result, without risking the volatile investment losing value instead of gaining. The higher the return needed to outpace deflation, the riskier the investment needs to be. Deflation worked against the investment, not with it.
Inflationary currency motivates investment and consumption. When your money is going to lose some value anyway, you might as well take a risk and invest it for a potential reward. You might as well make that large purchase today, because your money will buy a little less tomorrow. This is healthy for the economy.
You are correct that deflation adds on top of interest, which makes loans more expensive. This stifles an economy by decreasing demand/consumption and the flow of money through the economy. When loans are more expensive to pay back, people are discouraged from taking a business loan and starting a new business or taking out a loan and investing it or using it to make a large purchase.
I think we've reached your limits in this topic.
Lol I'm literally giving you a free education. You should be paying me for this. It's something that you're still responding after your argument has been torn to shreds with my every reply, without fail. The name calling and LLM accusations creep in as you start to realize you're wrong and desperately cling to denial. The cracks are already showing lol. Getting tired of trying to spin inconsistencies? Like I said, it's effortless to just be correct.
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These conservatives are old, so they are trying to "conserve" ideals that were out of touch in their own time
No. Conservatism has always only been about conserving aristocratic/oligarchic socio-economic power structures and establishing them where absent. Those are the only ideals they've ever had. All of the test was just a facade to pretend that their ideology has any place in a free, open, and equitable society.
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the economic moat of regulations and infrastructure that has to be overcome before you even can start acquiring customers. You would need a massive capital outlay just to start in last position to compete. Then you have to pay your sydadmins and sales and help desk and administration for how long before you have enough customers to break even? all on a gamble that the government won't hamstring you on behalf of their corporate sponsors. and who is to say the rest of the financial world won't cut you off; you can't process payments if you can't access users banks, it's all cooperative between entities that benefit from it being a small club.
all of this risk to capture the relatively small nsfw market looks like a bad gamble to me, even though i strongly support the nsfw market myself! I spent decades in e-commerce and nsfw ecommerce and it's trickier than it might look.
The most likely to succeed at the moment, IMHO, would be a standardization of the various local payment systems in Europe, and there is already some movement in that direction in a growing group of countries, but it probably needs a push from the EU itself, similarly to how GSM was pushed as a standard for mobile communications by European governments as a group and ended up dominating globally (which is also why, for a period and until smartphones became a thing, European mobile telephony companies were wildly successful).
I'm sorry for Americans who aren't assholes (most here in Lemmy as far as I can tell) but the rest of the World does need to decouple from speed-running-to-Gilead America at all levels before it's too late.
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I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?
Collective Shout happened, an australian organisation decided to wage global war on anything NSFW in games (so far), their key talking points are allegedly being feminist and anti-exploitation of women.
i wonder if they asked the women they're saying they're protecting if they want that "protection", or if they're imagining that women just don't make NSFW art
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Now that weed is being widely accepted legally, porn is the new prohibition.
two steps forward ten steps back, eh?
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Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
what even is the point of this cyberpunk dystopia if there won't even be good porn to wank to?
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A middle man between a vendor and your bank, essentially.
oh, actually, there is a third option - very popular and widespread in Poland - BLIK - let's hope that a) they won't bend to the same bullshit b) they take the chance to go global.
BLIK is really nifty, you go to your banking app, generate a code, give the code to the website/seller, confirm in the app, and payment made.
and all you'll have to say (obviously steortyping here) is that if BLIK does the same as Visa & Mastercard, the Witcher & Cyberpunk will have to be banned due to adult content, instant win and security of NSFW media forever
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cryptocurrency is absolutely not going to be a substitute. what happens when your client's money drops in value halfway through working on their commission?
Or what happens when governments ban crypo exchanges?
I think the real answer is for us (the electorate) to start electing officials who aren't puritanical twats. Way way harder to do tough.
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Ah yes, accusing one of using an LLM, a sure sign of winning the argument
- Money invested earns deflation + interest.
That's incorrect, money LOANED earns deflation + interest, not money invested. Money invested loses out on the deflation.
You have 1BTC. You exchange the 1BTC for 1 unit of an investment. As BTC deflates, it's buying power increases. When you go to sell your investment, you find that 1BTC still buys 1 unit of the investment, even though your investment grew in value during the same period of time. You could have done nothing to get the same result, without risking the volatile investment losing value instead of gaining. The higher the return needed to outpace deflation, the riskier the investment needs to be. Deflation worked against the investment, not with it.
Inflationary currency motivates investment and consumption. When your money is going to lose some value anyway, you might as well take a risk and invest it for a potential reward. You might as well make that large purchase today, because your money will buy a little less tomorrow. This is healthy for the economy.
You are correct that deflation adds on top of interest, which makes loans more expensive. This stifles an economy by decreasing demand/consumption and the flow of money through the economy. When loans are more expensive to pay back, people are discouraged from taking a business loan and starting a new business or taking out a loan and investing it or using it to make a large purchase.
I think we've reached your limits in this topic.
Lol I'm literally giving you a free education. You should be paying me for this. It's something that you're still responding after your argument has been torn to shreds with my every reply, without fail. The name calling and LLM accusations creep in as you start to realize you're wrong and desperately cling to denial. The cracks are already showing lol. Getting tired of trying to spin inconsistencies? Like I said, it's effortless to just be correct.
In order to loan out money and charge interest, someone needs to agree to the terms on the other side of the exchange.
Agreed.
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When there is inflation a higher amount of interest is accepted by the lender to compensate this loss.
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When there is deflation a lower amount of interest is accepted by the lender.
The economy doesn't grind to a halt. People don't horde cash. Consumption still occurs. Services are still performed.
Even if deflation means the value of money increases every year, people will still lend out their money because they would like to have more than money than if they did nothing.
find that 1BTC still buys 1 unit of the investment instrument, even though your investment grew in value during the same period of time.
So you made a bad investment in something that wasn't needed. Invest more wisely. This is basic economics.
It's impressive that you're still responding after your argument has been torn to shreds
It's good practice and helps hone my ideas.
Deflation is the answer to the infinite growth required by capitalism. It should be embraced, not avoided.
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In order to loan out money and charge interest, someone needs to agree to the terms on the other side of the exchange.
Agreed.
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When there is inflation a higher amount of interest is accepted by the lender to compensate this loss.
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When there is deflation a lower amount of interest is accepted by the lender.
The economy doesn't grind to a halt. People don't horde cash. Consumption still occurs. Services are still performed.
Even if deflation means the value of money increases every year, people will still lend out their money because they would like to have more than money than if they did nothing.
find that 1BTC still buys 1 unit of the investment instrument, even though your investment grew in value during the same period of time.
So you made a bad investment in something that wasn't needed. Invest more wisely. This is basic economics.
It's impressive that you're still responding after your argument has been torn to shreds
It's good practice and helps hone my ideas.
Deflation is the answer to the infinite growth required by capitalism. It should be embraced, not avoided.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The economy doesn't grind to a halt. People don't horde cash. Consumption still occurs. Services are still performed.
Again, facts and history disagree with you. See the great depression and other economic downturns.
people will still lend out their money because they would like to have more than money than if they did nothing
Again, risk exists and is half of the risk-reward calculation. When your system entirely hinges on risk not existing... big sign that you're wrong lol.
So you made a bad investment in something that wasn't needed. Invest more wisely. This is basic economics.
It's a demonstration of the relationship between deflation and investment. And yes, it is basic economics.
Invest more wisely
Invest with less risk? More risk? Or you're saying "just predict the future correctly"
I wonder if you'd learn something about this in an econ 101 class.Deflation is the answer to the infinite growth required by capitalism. It should be embraced, not avoided.
Gee, you're literally dead wrong, and the experts agree with me. It's inflation, not deflation, that is required for growth. There's a reason the government targets a rate of 2% inflation per year.
Inflationary currency motivates investment and consumption. When your money is going to lose some value anyway, you might as well take a risk and invest it for a potential reward. You might as well make that large purchase today, because your money will buy a little less tomorrow. This is healthy for the economy.
You are correct that deflation adds on top of interest, which makes loans more expensive. This stifles an economy by decreasing demand/consumption and the flow of money through the economy. When loans are more expensive to pay back, people are discouraged from taking a business loan and starting a new business or taking out a loan and investing it or using it to make a large purchase. This is bad for the economy.
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