[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

At this point, I'm not sure you understand what reactionary means?

The tech being fundamentally flawed has nothing to do with payments being stopped. Show me one reason where they said it was because they weren't receiving the payments as shown by the blockchain.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What enormous transaction fees?

Stablecoin transfers on an Ethereum L2 like Arbitrum is a few cents and about to get even cheaper in the future. It's 1/10000 of a cent on Solana.

Monero payments are 1-3 cents.

Bitcoin has the highest one I paid, something like 12-15 cents. This can go higher like $10 if the chain is busy but you have plenty of options in the crypto space to choose the appropriate chain for payments.

I mean, it's very clear you just listen to mainstream news and actually believe their agenda.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It's reactionary politics? I'm not sure what else led to the rejection. It doesn't actively hurt them to accept crypto. They just capitulated to reactionaries in their rejection, what else would I call it?

I'm not even claiming that crypto in its current form can handle global transactional needs, but Wikipedia and Mozilla realised that it could just be an additional avenue for payments. It wasn't hurting anyone and allowed people like me to contribute. How would you like it if you couldn't pay for things because it upset other people's views of what the world should be like? Because that's what happened to me.

Wikipedia caved to white Western imperialists' demands which have no basis in reality and excluded large portions of the world, most of which are marginalised communities who don't have access to the same financial systems that Westerners do.

I'm just glad that SciHub isn't headed by a reactionary but an actual person who cares about our rights to free and fair access to all things. And SciHub proves the need for an alternate financial system that isn't dominated, or at least, directly controllable by vested interests of the Western financial system.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Your rant is not contrarian for Western imperialists who don't want another financial system competing with their current hegemony.

That's why crypto is hated by Westerners while most others have neutral to positive opinions of it generally.

And the transaction fees argument and time needed for confirmation doesn't even make sense? Wikipedia doesn't need to pay any fees to accept crypto and it's not like they're a business which needs the money a second after the transaction. Even if they did need it that quickly, there are plenty of choices in crypto that settle much faster than Bitcoin, which they used.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I definitely agree with your stance that we should exclude people from things because it's inconvenient. This is why I don't support accessibility measures in any domain.

I don't even understand what your point is? Wikipedia doesn't have to pay fees to accept crypto? They could keep other payment options too, no one said credit cards should not be allowed. They could just provide the address for the centralised exchange and sell it for cash with minimal problems.

What I'm finding out is that people have a bad case of Dunning-Kruger when it comes to crypto and it's usually privileged Westerners who don't care if other people are included or not. Just straight up racists.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's not what was said. You said even if the coins are transferred to another wallet, it could be tracked to a new reddit account. It can't.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think @Laticauda@lemmy.ca has already made a good point regarding your example.

I'm not judging you or anything, just that the appreciation could have been shown without comparing it to Sync. It can come off as a bit combative, when you didn't mean it like that.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Didn't this game have a massive controversy over homophobia or something?

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think my parents might have watched it as kids!

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

What are you using for sync? I use Nextcloud and haven't had any sync issues.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I never understood books that romanticised summer. Like wow you love 40C weather at 90% humidity with a chance of getting a heat stroke in less than an hour?

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I think he's confusing a validator with a node. You can easily run a node on a Pi.

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