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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.
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.
Gabebucks
They sell them at gamestop and best buy.
Steam gift cards can be paid in cash
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
They could easily accept crypto. The problem is paying devs and staff. You have to pay them with dollars or their native currency.
If crypto was mass adopted, this is the ultimate answer and would put them out of business anyways.
They could easily accept crypto.
No, they could not, not easily.
The problem is paying devs and staff. You have to pay them with dollars or their native currency.
... Yes. These are... the main reasons why this is not easy.
You're basically either running your own FOREX exhange, which is costly, complicated, expensive and intensive...
Or you are holding a significant chunk of your operating budget in... one, many, all cryptos? Which is extremely financially risky...
Or, you're paying people directly in crypto, which ironically, probably a vast majority of people and entities that publish on Steam would quit the platform if that was mandated... kinda like how MC+Visa making a unilateral decision forced Steam to ban a bunch of games.
...
You're doing magical thinking.
Stop that.
Stablecoins already solve that. Not very trustworthy because they could in theory do the same but as a temporary solution should work.
Quick question, which stablecoins have actually been stable for 5 years?
10?
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.
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.
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
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.
Sure thing...jackass...
The fact I can hear their exact voices saying this says something.
Payment processors have been censoring people due to politics for years, sad that them censoring porn is the only way to get this side of the internet riled up about it
Stoke the fire, don't complain it wasn't burning yesterday.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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