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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

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788 points freedomben | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.601s | source
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ranger_danger ◴[18 Jul 25 16:25 UTC] No.44606578[source]▶
What can be done to loosen card companies' grip on this? It has been a constant problem now for decades.
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bobsmooth ◴[18 Jul 25 16:29 UTC] No.44606634[source]▶
Bitcoin was supposed to solve this.
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lawn ◴[18 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44606694[source]▶
And you could indeed use Bitcoin on Steam for a while!

But then the blocks got full, fees and wait times skyrocketed, and in response to the customer backlash Steam removed Bitcoin.

Meanwhile Bitcoiners were (and still are) only focused on number go up instead of other, more productive, use cases.

Such a waste.

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1. swinglock ◴[19 Jul 25 07:09 UTC] No.44613259[source]▶
They built the lightning network, it's meant for this use case.
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2. lawn ◴[19 Jul 25 09:21 UTC] No.44613888[source]▶
Unfortunately it's shit at it. The user experience of using another currency or hell even just Bitcoin is far superior.