It's kinda scary how finance and payment processing companies can just destroy a company and a whole bunch of people's livelihoods by themselves just because they decide they don't like what they sell, and have no oversight whatsoever preventing them from doing this.

      • bananon [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I said it yesterday but do what video games did to get around EULA. Instead of buying porn directly, buy “in game” credits that can trade for porn. Don’t even need a blockchain or shitty crypto.

        • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
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          3 years ago

          Hmmm this seems like a good idea. You'd think if this would work they would do it. But then again the i dont think people who control these sites are actually that smart ..

        • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          this worked just fine for getting children addicted to gambling on mobile apps for fake prizes.

          • bananon [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I totally never spent $250 on Dragonvale on accident when I was younger… :crush:

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        If only an environmentally-friendly, non-volatile cryptocurrency was possible...

        • Owl [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          All the useful properties of a cryptocurrency could be done with a centralized server that generates tokens at a fixed rate and offers transaction management, with like a discarded netbook's worth of computing power.

          It wouldn't be decentralized or crypto though, so you wouldn't have weird libertarians propping up the value.

        • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          It’s possible, just not in a completely decentralized system optimizing for energy consumption. I think this is an area where the liberal assumption of individual humans being the atomic unit of operation really bites the whole system in the ass. There are absolutely no means of governance built in. I understand that’s the point, but it’s some real “invisible hand” logic.

        • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah that's the problem. They use credit card companies and it's those companies that are causing this change to onlyfans

          • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            What is materially different about Pornhub that allows them to continue operating?

    • D61 [any]
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      3 years ago

      They would have to start their own bank. Maybe they could find some way to seemlessly integrate crypto currency that wouldn't get their shell bank corporation black balled.