• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    So if the problem is payment, what stops a company from selling “tokens” and those tokens can be redeemed for “anything”?

    That way the visa / mastercard assholes can suck a cock, no?

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      1 month ago

      Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you’ve just invented Bitcoin.

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        1 month ago

        The whole crypto scene seems like a scheme at the moment… But then you see the bullshit visa / mastercard are pulling and you see the need for a digital currency.

        Any corporation with near monopoly power will ALWAYS fuck up the consumer.

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      1 month ago

      It would likely be the same in the eyes of the payment processor. It technically is the same thing, except you must “top up” your account with money first before buying a game, instead of buying it directly.