• Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 hours ago

    It’s time for Steam to launch their own payment processing company, and apply pressure directly on the card networks and the future competition.

    It won’t be nearly as profitable as their current business model, but sometimes industries need a shakeup.

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      15 hours ago

      They don’t need to start a payment processing company. All they gotta do is start accepting crypto again.

      I mean come on, the solution is so obvious. This is what cryptocurency was designed for. But Lemmy refuses to see it. You’ll just downvote me and call it a scam like you always do.

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        15 hours ago

        The problem is not with crypto itself, it’s with the part of the community (certainly the loudest) who have been telling the public to treat it as an investment asset.

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          14 hours ago

          For me, the fact that you have to burn down an amazon forest for every transaction kinda matters, too.

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          14 hours ago

          And then people associate crypto with scam even if that’s incorrect because they don’t know better

          So it’s a people problem?

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          8 hours ago

          Trendy and morally correct. If we can hate on Mastercard for the banning of adult content on Steam, we can blame crypto and the people around it for the scams and the continuing environmental harm.