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It's not even conservative any more. It's regressive.
These conservatives are old, so they are trying to "conserve" ideals that were out of touch in their own time
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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.
Crypto it is, then.
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The banks/governments can't freeze your bitcoins, nor can they simply print more or regulate the value otherwise.
You're just listing reasons why bitcoin sucks lol. Oh no!!! Flight risk criminals and terrorists had their accounts frozen!!! Oh no, ReGuLaTiOn BaD!!! Grow up.
Finite currencies (like gold/silver/bitcoin) are deflationary currencies and are genuinely absolutely terrible for an economy. That's why we don't use gold anymore.
"Flight risk criminals and terrorists had their accounts frozen!!!"
Yes, those criminals, for example, LGBT people who conservatives believe are pornographic simply for existing. God forbid LGBT artists want to have a way of earning a living. Crypto is relied on by a lot of marginalized groups. It's used by artists who make perfectly legal art, but whose content conservatives object to. Crypto is used by many queer content creators as they face being cut off from payment processing systems, as again, conservatives consider queer people pornographic simply for existing. Crypto is used by sex workers, often people with few other employment options. Oh, and crypto is used by trans people to get access to healthcare that is quickly being criminalized.
How insane do you have to be, in 2025 Trump's America, to fall back on the idea that anything criminal is bad. Republicans are trying to criminalize the existence of entire swathes of the population. And those people face being cut off from the banking system entirely, if folks like you, who blindly consider legality=morality, have their way.
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"Flight risk criminals and terrorists had their accounts frozen!!!"
Yes, those criminals, for example, LGBT people who conservatives believe are pornographic simply for existing. God forbid LGBT artists want to have a way of earning a living. Crypto is relied on by a lot of marginalized groups. It's used by artists who make perfectly legal art, but whose content conservatives object to. Crypto is used by many queer content creators as they face being cut off from payment processing systems, as again, conservatives consider queer people pornographic simply for existing. Crypto is used by sex workers, often people with few other employment options. Oh, and crypto is used by trans people to get access to healthcare that is quickly being criminalized.
How insane do you have to be, in 2025 Trump's America, to fall back on the idea that anything criminal is bad. Republicans are trying to criminalize the existence of entire swathes of the population. And those people face being cut off from the banking system entirely, if folks like you, who blindly consider legality=morality, have their way.
Ah yes, that's why the Trump administration is one of the biggest proponents of crypto, right??
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I was worried that this could make bitcoin seem useful but other people in here are explaining why bitcoin would still be an awful solution for this.
So... are we going back to cash and checks? Will people need to mail envelopes of cash to furry vore artists?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Bitcoin wouldn't be an awful solution to this, but there's certainly a few better ones, such as
- Visa and MC just being the opinionless payment providers they ought to be.
- Regulation enforcing all payment providers to be similarly opinionless.
- Ethereum, or another crypto more suited to many, fast payments
- A layer-2 network over Bitcoin that can enable many fast payments, such as the lightning network.
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Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
Speed running the porn companies making their own payment processor
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Ah yes, that's why the Trump administration is one of the biggest proponents of crypto, right??
did you even try?How are those related? It is possible for some conservatives to want to purge LGBT voices from the internet at the same time other conservatives want to advance crypto. These are not mutually exclusive goals.
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Bitcoin is really bad for using as currency, due to the fact that there is a permanent, public ledger of all transactions. Why would you want anyone you pay to be able to see and trace every transaction you've ever made? Pay rent in bitcoin, now your landlord can calculate your spending and who you do transactions with. And yes, there are services that aggregate and obfuscate transactions in order to make them less traceable, but now you've just reinvented the same centralized payment processor system that the whole thing is supposed to be replacing... so... what's the point?
Cash is good for using as currency.
You can use a p2p service, like Lightning with onion routing.
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Ah, and here is where the commenter learns that “capitalist” competitors have legislated their opponents out of business, bought them out, or colluded with them.
Oh, and it’s not just payment processors.
It's not "capitalist", it's capitalist. This is what capitalism does.
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The banks/governments can't freeze your bitcoins, nor can they simply print more or regulate the value otherwise.
You're just listing reasons why bitcoin sucks lol. Oh no!!! Flight risk criminals and terrorists had their accounts frozen!!! Oh no, ReGuLaTiOn BaD!!! Grow up.
Finite currencies (like gold/silver/bitcoin) are deflationary currencies and are genuinely absolutely terrible for an economy. That's why we don't use gold anymore.
It wasn't my intention to come off as supporting it. I was simply giving the objective reasons for its creation. I see it as a tool that can be useful in some situations, but can be problematic in others.
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Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?
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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.
Yoid be starting in 1st position for all these transactions that just lost a market.
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so... what's the point?
The point isn't anonymity, but independence and autonomy. It's hard to shut down and hard to tax. The banks/governments can't freeze your bitcoins, nor can they simply print more or regulate the value otherwise.
Just ban it worldwide and have the police arrest anyone running a node
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Yoid be starting in 1st position for all these transactions that just lost a market.
wrote last edited by [email protected]that's not just the smallest market it's the most troublesome market which is one of the reasons it's a hot potato. If you limited yourself to just nsfw you would still need the infrastructure to process any types of payments and still be at the bottom of the current players. You would be hamstringing yourself and it would be even tougher.
NSFW and borderline legal stuff (like phone spyware apps) have a chargeback rate that is way higher than traditional retail. Users buy porn then charge it back to their credit card when the post nut clarity sets in. When i worked in the industry that was the constant battle from the retailer side; processors like CCBill were the most lenient but even they would cut you off if your chargeback rate was too high and it was always right on the border. Even on sex toys the chargeback rate is more than double just selling t shirts and stuffies.
I don't know the financial side and have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors. I can imagine being a small outfit it would be very difficult though if the margins were super thin.
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This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Worse, it was when Twitter banned Trump. This is just like when the Savage John asked to be exiled from the World State but the Controller forces him to engage in society to torture him.
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Bitcoin wouldn't be an awful solution to this, but there's certainly a few better ones, such as
- Visa and MC just being the opinionless payment providers they ought to be.
- Regulation enforcing all payment providers to be similarly opinionless.
- Ethereum, or another crypto more suited to many, fast payments
- A layer-2 network over Bitcoin that can enable many fast payments, such as the lightning network.
- Monero for private, almost untraceable transaction, keep furry vore artist under cover and still paid in oppressive country.
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that's not just the smallest market it's the most troublesome market which is one of the reasons it's a hot potato. If you limited yourself to just nsfw you would still need the infrastructure to process any types of payments and still be at the bottom of the current players. You would be hamstringing yourself and it would be even tougher.
NSFW and borderline legal stuff (like phone spyware apps) have a chargeback rate that is way higher than traditional retail. Users buy porn then charge it back to their credit card when the post nut clarity sets in. When i worked in the industry that was the constant battle from the retailer side; processors like CCBill were the most lenient but even they would cut you off if your chargeback rate was too high and it was always right on the border. Even on sex toys the chargeback rate is more than double just selling t shirts and stuffies.
I don't know the financial side and have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors. I can imagine being a small outfit it would be very difficult though if the margins were super thin.
have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors.
They don't have a lot of things to measure when attempting to address fraud, but that's one of them.
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Let's make a community run payment processor then. We'll valiantly process porn payments.
So crypto?
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have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors.
They don't have a lot of things to measure when attempting to address fraud, but that's one of them.
oh that makes perfect sense thanks!
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Bitcoin is really bad for using as currency, due to the fact that there is a permanent, public ledger of all transactions. Why would you want anyone you pay to be able to see and trace every transaction you've ever made? Pay rent in bitcoin, now your landlord can calculate your spending and who you do transactions with. And yes, there are services that aggregate and obfuscate transactions in order to make them less traceable, but now you've just reinvented the same centralized payment processor system that the whole thing is supposed to be replacing... so... what's the point?
Cash is good for using as currency.
So monero?
