overwhelming furry
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Bring on the downvotes, but this is where crypto shines. No bullshit rug pulls by ancient payment processors.
I'd use cryptocurrency but literally no one accepts it. Mostly because it takes 14 billion years to and a small rainforest worth of burnt trees process a transaction.
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Knowing the furries, we probably have agents in every one of those corporate data centers already. XD
If they really wanted to cause damage they could just instruct their agents not to turn up since they absolutely are senior IT staff.
The whole thing would probably fall apart within about 2 hours.
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How does one safely use cash over the internet?
You have to buy a fax machine. Then feed the notes in one at a time.
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Calling Visa today for mine! I don't play those games, but I hate the precedent. It is not a payment processor's job to dictate what can and can't be done. (Now, I have worked FinTech for many years, there is a legit risk they are taking that the feds would blame them however -) it should be on the company selling the product itself, and any decent legal team at a payment processor would be able to handle it like a normal Tuesday.
wrote last edited by [email protected]They don't really have this excuse though because the products that they are banning are legal in the jurisdictions in which they're banning them.
They've been really coy about this, they're really trying to push the idea that adult content is illegal and therefore it's totally nothing to do with them. It's the standard right-wing tactic of just blatantly lying in the vague hope that somehow it'll become true.
Is what these scumbags always do when they didn't really think it through and are now being called out on it.
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They need to have the rules to apply to furry and transexual porn as well; I'm sure nothing will happen to their security infrastructure.
Jesus Christ dude what's wrong with you
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I'd use cryptocurrency but literally no one accepts it. Mostly because it takes 14 billion years to and a small rainforest worth of burnt trees process a transaction.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hey. Just FYI. That's all outdated now. Ethereum forked to use 99.9% less energy. (To a sustainable point). Several other coins have followed including Cardano. And transaction times on both are within minutes, sometimes seconds. (Whereas my bank takes days).
Though admittedly sometimes it takes an hour or two for a transaction to complete if there's a lot of traffic.I buy a lot of stuff (not drugs! Wow!) through crypto - and payment processors aren't even needed. You can literally get a chrome extension to access your crypto wallet to pay for things directly. Which is why crypto is such a threat to payment processors and fiat currency. Because crypto is the same as basically opening your wallet for cash, throwing that cash at the screen, and that works to buy whatever's on it. Visa and Mastercard can get fucked.
Bitcoins original white paper was very specific: the point of crypto is to take the power away from the assholes like Visa and Mastercard. But also from Banks and the Fed. No one person or entity should control these things. So Bitcoin decentralized them.
And now, 15 years later, it works pretty fucking well. That's why the price has increased 1000%+ in that time.
(EDIT: To be clear, saying someone doesn't accept Bitcoin is like saying someone doesn't accept gold. You're using the wrong digital currency. There's plenty of others that don't need payment processors for transactions.)
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Bring on the downvotes, but this is where crypto shines. No bullshit rug pulls by ancient payment processors.
You are 100% correct. The sooner people adopt crypto, the sooner Visa and Mastercard are pointless. To be clear: MODERN CRYPTO DOES NOT REQUIRE PAYMENT PROCESSORS - YOU CAN MAKE PAYMENTS DIRECTLY FROM YOUR WALLET. (And not just for drugs).
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You are 100% correct. The sooner people adopt crypto, the sooner Visa and Mastercard are pointless. To be clear: MODERN CRYPTO DOES NOT REQUIRE PAYMENT PROCESSORS - YOU CAN MAKE PAYMENTS DIRECTLY FROM YOUR WALLET. (And not just for drugs).
Yep, making banks completely useless. People are just tied to banks because they dont want to research or actually think about a new system of payments.
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I'd use cryptocurrency but literally no one accepts it. Mostly because it takes 14 billion years to and a small rainforest worth of burnt trees process a transaction.
Transaction speeds are faster than credit cards and debt cards now. Not every coin is like that (bitcoin for example still takes forever, while Digibyte is less than 1 min).
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Cryptocurrency will only be useful when we surpass capitalism
That's like saying violent revolution will only be useful once we surpass Fascism.
The wide adaptation of crypto would likely deal a killing blow to capitalism as all the bullshit fees and exploitation expected from transactions completely disappear - along with their revenue streams to capitalist overlords at Visa / Mastercard / Amazon / Google / Taxes for the Fed, etc.
Like, you can already start defunding the bullshit happening right now by just paying for stuff with Crypto.
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Visa just reported a quarter above expectations. Not sure if the protests are affecting anything other than the wage slaves forced to deal with their calls and emails.
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Visa just reported a quarter above expectations. Not sure if the protests are affecting anything other than the wage slaves forced to deal with their calls and emails.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Even if it is just the wage slaves for now, it won't be for long.
The employees get a lot more work, that's for sure.
However, by some stroke of good luck they haven't been reolaced by AI... For now at least. Which means they do something Visa/Mastercard want/need.
That something just so happens to be replying to real questions. These protest calls take up their time (which is the point).
The damage also encompasses those unfortunate to actually need the call center now, of all times.
And if Visa/Mastercard can't react to real incidents properly, some might go to a competitor or they might be on the hook for contract breaches.
Overwhelming the call center doesn't just affect the call center personell. It affects one cog in the machine (the call center), throwing the entire machine off-balance.
Specifically, lower call throughput limits their ability to react to incidents, which is a critical day-to-day operation with potentially disastrous consequences. Middle management of the call center and a few execs are surely panicking as we speak.
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Yep, making banks completely useless. People are just tied to banks because they dont want to research or actually think about a new system of payments.
Couldn't agree more!
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Transaction speeds are faster than credit cards and debt cards now. Not every coin is like that (bitcoin for example still takes forever, while Digibyte is less than 1 min).
Oh a hold 60 seconds, well I guess my comment is completely redundant then because who could possibly process a transaction in less than a minute.
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Thanks, i was one of the lucky ten thousand and am now a David Thorne fan.
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tranny
That is considered a slur, btw
My bad, I cant always keep up.
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I'm sorry... 18 year old puritan... furries? Can you elaborate?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I mean, that's the whole story. Consider yourself lucky that you don't know really. It's kids parroting conservative talking points while thinking they're progressive. They've quieted down recently after all the stupid shit that's happening especially with visa/MasterCard.
They're mostly on Twitter and Tiktok.
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Thanks, i was one of the lucky ten thousand and am now a David Thorne fan.
Website is for starters - he's also written about ten books which are very entertaining. I'm very pleased to have helped create a new David Thorne fan!
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That's like saying violent revolution will only be useful once we surpass Fascism.
The wide adaptation of crypto would likely deal a killing blow to capitalism as all the bullshit fees and exploitation expected from transactions completely disappear - along with their revenue streams to capitalist overlords at Visa / Mastercard / Amazon / Google / Taxes for the Fed, etc.
Like, you can already start defunding the bullshit happening right now by just paying for stuff with Crypto.
That is not how material reality works, you can't expect wide adoption of crypto while the state is controlled by the owners of the means of production, since that's not profitable, despite crypto being very good to laundry money.
The people that own the means of production own the state, they force everybody else to use their currency, thought the use of monopoly of violence
Imperialism is the current stage of capitalism where a country through the use of violence forces every other country to trade using their currency
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That is not how material reality works, you can't expect wide adoption of crypto while the state is controlled by the owners of the means of production, since that's not profitable, despite crypto being very good to laundry money.
The people that own the means of production own the state, they force everybody else to use their currency, thought the use of monopoly of violence
Imperialism is the current stage of capitalism where a country through the use of violence forces every other country to trade using their currency
In material reality, the state is in no way stopping me from using crypto right this second. I can use it freely. And break no laws.
Why use their means of oppression if another tool exists, and can be used readily?
In fact, also in reality, Trump is accidentally bulldozing legislature meant to protect capitalism because he's too stupid to know better. Specifically:
Trump has ordered his administration to supercharge the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, rolling back some regulatory enforcement and championing legislation that would broaden its accessibility and appeal.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-house-unveils-crypto-policy-roadmap-meant-usher/story?id=124215664
That's reality.
