• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    1 day ago

    No doubt the threat of a Stripe ban on Kickstarter is predicated on the expected ban on Stripe by MasterCard and or Visa.

    In other words, online censorship is being controlled by two credit card companies.

    We really need more payment processors, preferably not based in the USA.

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      We need more of every company that is not American. There are no global companies just American ones that operate in other countries. And yes I know there are other countries that have global companies but if they operate in America that still poses a risk. As if they continue to want to they may have to do what American Government wants like MS has admitted to.

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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      I know this isn’t new, but I think we can officially consider our society a cyberpunk one, where corporations control global policy.

      Plus: AI assisted omnipresent survailance, Police states, needless tech everywhere, no one owns anything just subscriptions…

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        Yah no, it has to be more stable I don’t want to one minute be paid a fair price and the next have nothing or have paid 2x what the thing was worth.

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        Lol nobody gonna want to use an extremely volatile currency as payment processor. Rest of the world just needs to implement system similar to PIX from brazil.

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          one with… fuck, last i checked (a while) something like $40 transaction fees. vs 3% to $3.50 transaction fees. Can’t remember which, i’m trying to fall asleep and remembering will wake me up…

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        Crypto isnt a payment processor, and it has no backing as a currency except current social agreement (yes thats most money but issued currencies are backed by central authorities) and it basically exists for ponzi schemes. Its so insanely volatile that its not for every day people.

        That’s not even mentioning that its sole value is to convert back into regular backed currency.

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          That is the funny thing use crypto but its only value is to convert to real currency if you couldn’t do that no one would use it.