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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:17:32 JST iced depresso

@yassie_j valve is not in a position to push back.

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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:28:36 JST iced depresso
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  @nicholas @yassie_j there is a story about that and it tl;drs to a 'conservative' was debanked and switched to plugging bitcoin for a while until he found a new merchant account that would take him.
  
  they said they didn't care if he talked about dajooz and jesus but first order of business was he was no longer to support bitcoin.
  
  cutting finance is running directly in to the heart of the machine and they are not in the slightest bit amused by the attempts
  
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  Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:28:37 JST Nicholas Conrad
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  Valve used to accept bitcoin.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:28:38 JST iced depresso
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  @yassie_j the mastercard/visa duopoly controls like 80% of all credit card traffic in the USA (i don't know about other countries.) considering fintech and bankers are an extremely deep rooted cancer going back hundreds of years in this country, gabe would not win that fight.
  
  hell entire populist revolts have been fought to shove out creditors. they failed.
  
  to say mastercard is a hard target is putting it lightly.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:30:07 JST iced depresso
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  @nicholas @yassie_j meta also tried this once with libracoin and the entire EU immediately conspired against them.
  
  :blobcatwoah: unfathomably large forces at play.
  
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  Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!) (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:34:30 JST Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!)
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  @icedquinn @nicholas @yassie_j @sun The US makes it deliberately difficult to conduct business with crypto. Any use cases beyond pump and dump casino trash get made illegal very quickly.
  
  I agree with @sun that USDT/USDC would be just fine for this, at least until Congress gets off its ass and starts mandating credit card companies stop. Supposedly there's a bill, but it's stalled in committee.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:34:30 JST iced depresso
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  @mrsaturday @nicholas @yassie_j @sun they won't until forced to at gunpoint. we already have historical examples of people trying to do it the right way and the finance guys just pay off the state (populist moment)
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:34:31 JST iced depresso
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  @mrsaturday @nicholas @yassie_j i don't know if transacting btc/xmr has gotten any better. there is like -one- cart software that does it and @sun said its shit.
  
  i think porkbun and some accept it, but they do it through crap like coinbase that auto-converts it to USD for them and thus defeats the whole point.
  
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  Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!) (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:34:32 JST Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!)
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  @nicholas @icedquinn @yassie_j Supposedly they went about it in one or the most clumsy ways possible
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:36:23 JST iced depresso
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  @mrsaturday @nicholas @sun @yassie_j populist moment goes in to detail about farmers in the 1800s or somesth tried to get out of the credit crap and crop lein systems by doing worker co-ops and free market capitalism only to end up having to also fight every level of government and each other.
  
  there were partial successes but people are really bad at cooperation and finance folk are very good at exploiting everything.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 08:38:37 JST iced depresso
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  @xianc78 @mrsaturday @nicholas @Ree @sun i've heard people on fedi opine xmr is compromised but i feel like if that was true they would have stopped trying to suppress it.
  
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  Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!) (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 08:38:39 JST Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!)
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  @Ree @icedquinn @nicholas @sun @yassie_j It's been around a little too long, I'd only trust it due to a lack of better options. I do worry that someone's found a way to crack it.
  
  Still, it's difficult to get in the US and unfortunately people aren't going to want to jump through a bunch of crypto hoops when their bank card is 19 numbers away. I think they should learn, but you know how it is.
  
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  xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 08:38:39 JST xianc78
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  @mrsaturday @nicholas @icedquinn @Ree @sun Supposedly, Zano is even more private that Monero (not even the amount of money sent is publically viewable), but I haven't tried it.
  
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  Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 08:38:40 JST Ree
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  @mrsaturday @icedquinn @nicholas @sun @yassie_j I like the idea of xmr but because the government couldn't control it but I heard 3 letter agencies are finding ways to hack it
  
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  georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 08:42:00 JST georgia
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  @Ree @nicholas @icedquinn @xianc78 @mrsaturday @sun how ya doin ree
  
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  Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 08:42:01 JST Ree
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  @icedquinn @nicholas @xianc78 @mrsaturday @sun mean they are ways to get people to give away transactions. But that's what I heard
  
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