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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (25 children)

Steam could pursue other payment processing possibilities

Imagine you can't use visa or mastercard. What other fucking payment card acceptance system are you going to use for payment processing in under 30 seconds?

Why shouldn’t the payment processors get a say in the payments they process

Because it's none of their business what I buy. If a store is a reputable business that isn't defrauding me, and are a legal entity, then whatever they sell to me or I buy from them should only matter to me and the seller.

Illegal or not, why should they be forced to process payments that facilitate things against their beliefs?

So half the market can get nuked once the CEO decides whatever faith du jour they have disallows whatever?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Imagine you can't use visa or mastercard. What other fucking payment card acceptance system are you going to use for payment processing in under 30 seconds?

This is one of the few places where I think cryptocurrency could be useful. It ain't much, but there it is.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Incorrect! Bitcoin transactions take 10 FUCKING MINUTES.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

The costs are much worse than the time imo.

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