You have one job.
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Could they accept crypto? I can pay for my shady IPTV service with it, so why not games too? There's gotta be a way around this.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wouldn't solve the problem.
If Steam republished all its now censored games, and magically developed and implemented a world class crypto payment system overnight...
Then Steam is still in breach of MC/Visas terms, and MC and Visa drop them, and now everyone has no choice other than to use GabeBucks or w/e to purchase Steam games with.
Also, Valve now pays employees and game publishers in GabeBucks.
Which would cause a fuck ton of games to leave Steam.
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Could they accept crypto? I can pay for my shady IPTV service with it, so why not games too? There's gotta be a way around this.
Crypto is volatile, any volatile currency is not a good currency to be used, as most people will either hoard it or trade it. Alternatively people can use steam wallet.
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Quick question, which stablecoins have actually been stable for 5 years?
10?
Yeah dude convert that shit as soon as you get it, don’t hold it. I’m not a fan but for receiving salary or processing payments in USD it does the job
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Yeah dude convert that shit as soon as you get it, don’t hold it. I’m not a fan but for receiving salary or processing payments in USD it does the job
See my point here is:
Stablecoins are not actually meaningfully stable, they are not a realistic solution.
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See my point here is:
Stablecoins are not actually meaningfully stable, they are not a realistic solution.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah they all have depegged at some point I guess and Tether offloads the risk of the shitty Chinese bonds or whatever they’re investing in on you as a token holder.
Circle is SEC regulated which makes USDC a bit more trustworthy but if we have learnt anything from the banking crisis then that this is no guarantee. Plus they depegged to like 0.87 once I think.
My biggest issue with stables is actually that they all have asset freezing mechanisms built into their smart contracts which goes completely against the idea of decentralization. Not to mention that they’re a privacy nightmare as well.
I totally agree with you that they’re not a long term solution but they can be useful if you just use them to send / receive money vs actually keeping them in your wallet. In a perfect world we’d be all using Monero at Solana speed & cost.
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Crypto is volatile, any volatile currency is not a good currency to be used, as most people will either hoard it or trade it. Alternatively people can use steam wallet.
DAI is pegged to the US dollar
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Quick question, which stablecoins have actually been stable for 5 years?
10?
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Wouldn't solve the problem.
If Steam republished all its now censored games, and magically developed and implemented a world class crypto payment system overnight...
Then Steam is still in breach of MC/Visas terms, and MC and Visa drop them, and now everyone has no choice other than to use GabeBucks or w/e to purchase Steam games with.
Also, Valve now pays employees and game publishers in GabeBucks.
Which would cause a fuck ton of games to leave Steam.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Gabebucks
They sell them at gamestop and best buy.
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Ok, so we've got a single stable coin that's been fairly stable for 5 years, good start.
Now, how do I know which ones that were around 5 years ago....would be this stable, 5 years back in time?
How do I know this one will be stable for another 5 years?
Is there... some kind of objective analysis I can do here, of all stablecoins, to at least have an idea of this, or am I throwing darts while blindfolded?
Businesses tend to like certainty and predictability when it comes to the fundamentals of their operations.
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Yeah they all have depegged at some point I guess and Tether offloads the risk of the shitty Chinese bonds or whatever they’re investing in on you as a token holder.
Circle is SEC regulated which makes USDC a bit more trustworthy but if we have learnt anything from the banking crisis then that this is no guarantee. Plus they depegged to like 0.87 once I think.
My biggest issue with stables is actually that they all have asset freezing mechanisms built into their smart contracts which goes completely against the idea of decentralization. Not to mention that they’re a privacy nightmare as well.
I totally agree with you that they’re not a long term solution but they can be useful if you just use them to send / receive money vs actually keeping them in your wallet. In a perfect world we’d be all using Monero at Solana speed & cost.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I am not as well versed on Solana, but yeah, as best I can tell, and I've been following crypto since Satoshi's paper dropped, since before Mt Gox became a trading house...
Monero is the only crypto that is really even close to kind of being the bare minimum starting point that Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be.
And... we still don't have any kind of broad, tangible uses case for any crypto... other than scams, gray/black market stuff, money laundering, extremely privacy focused services, and extremely speculative investing.
Crypto is basically a problematic solution, still searching for an actual problem it can actually solve better than what has come before.
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Ok, so we've got a single stable coin that's been fairly stable for 5 years, good start.
Now, how do I know which ones that were around 5 years ago....would be this stable, 5 years back in time?
How do I know this one will be stable for another 5 years?
Is there... some kind of objective analysis I can do here, of all stablecoins, to at least have an idea of this, or am I throwing darts while blindfolded?
Businesses tend to like certainty and predictability when it comes to the fundamentals of their operations.
Yes, by which ones are peer to peer and which ones are centralized. That's also why there doesn't need to be a bunch of them.
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Yes, by which ones are peer to peer and which ones are centralized. That's also why there doesn't need to be a bunch of them.
Cool, how do I determine that?
Is there some kind of... universal metric, a p2p to centralized scale, that is accurate, transparent, and stays basically the same... for a deacde?
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Cool, how do I determine that?
Is there some kind of... universal metric, a p2p to centralized scale, that is accurate, transparent, and stays basically the same... for a deacde?
Unfortunately not, it's like picking the right Unix-like OS in 2003.
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The fact I can hear their exact voices saying this says something.
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Could they accept crypto? I can pay for my shady IPTV service with it, so why not games too? There's gotta be a way around this.
10 or so years ago, Steam accepted payments in Bitcoin, for some reason they stopped, so they certinaly can do that but chose not to.
Also, 99% of people would not use it so wouldn't change much.
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Unfortunately not, it's like picking the right Unix-like OS in 2003.
... and that is my point.
This is an extremely unreasonable paradigm to expect a business, or really any kind of enterprise or endeavor beyond a fairly low stakes hobby to be built off of and operate from.
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DAI is pegged to the US dollar
But what is USD pegged to?
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... and that is my point.
This is an extremely unreasonable paradigm to expect a business, or really any kind of enterprise or endeavor beyond a fairly low stakes hobby to be built off of and operate from.
A good manager can address this problem by hiring engineers who understand what they're talking about. There's no score for decentralization because there's a lot of moving parts; it's not just a single percentage score.
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A good manager can address this problem by hiring engineers who understand what they're talking about. There's no score for decentralization because there's a lot of moving parts; it's not just a single percentage score.
Every single large scale retailer I am aware of, that has attempted to offer an ability to buy at least some segment of its goods via a crypto coin, directly... has abandoned this attempt after a few years.
You just assert this problem is solved by hiring 'competent engineers', yet no one has actually figured out how to do this, beyond basically black/gray markets, and hyper niche privacy oriented digital services.
Again, the managers, the CEOs of this business... would still need some way of objectively assessing what is and is not 'competent engineering'.
I... assume you are not familiar with modern software related hiring processes, where it has been a running joke for over a decade that HR has literally no comprehension of what they ask for in job postings, and thus has no real way to evaluate candidates by competency, they often cannot even come close to even describing the actual nature of the job.
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I am not as well versed on Solana, but yeah, as best I can tell, and I've been following crypto since Satoshi's paper dropped, since before Mt Gox became a trading house...
Monero is the only crypto that is really even close to kind of being the bare minimum starting point that Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be.
And... we still don't have any kind of broad, tangible uses case for any crypto... other than scams, gray/black market stuff, money laundering, extremely privacy focused services, and extremely speculative investing.
Crypto is basically a problematic solution, still searching for an actual problem it can actually solve better than what has come before.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Solana is awesome in terms of tech, it does everything that ethereum can do but faster and cheaper. The problem is that the foundation has unlimited voting power and it’s unclear if that’s ever gonna change. So the protocol is decentralized but the economics are only decentralized if the foundation keeps listening to the community.
IMO the use cases are there, I can send Solana instantly and at ridiculously low fees around the globe. Let’s say I wanna wire 10k USD to Europe from anywhere else, if I go through my bank it’s insanely expensive and will take days if not weeks.
Another use case is that as long as I hold native token, they’re mine. If Trump declared me a political enemy and freezes my assets, well, he can’t freeze my XMR or SOL, so that’s another use case, protecting yourself against malicious governments.
Finally, as for XMR the use case is private internet money. With cash transactions becoming rarer this is super important.
So I think decentralization is the use case. But I’m worried that it’s never gonna happen because corpos are gonna lobby promising projects like Solana and XMR is gonna get abandoned
