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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by querulous on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:49PM (#15864844)
with pin + chip cards debit/credit cards are 100% push for physical transactions. for online transactions almost every single provider offers one time use card numbers

the push/pull problem has been solved for a decade, and not by bitcoin

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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by Klathmon on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:00PM (#15864957)
If there is an option for pull transactions, it will be abused.

Even if I push my money to you, you have my address that you can pull from later if you want.

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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by ascagnel_ on Thursday December 07, 2017 @09:01AM (#15869997)
Two problems with this line of argument:

A one-time use CC# by nature can't be abused. And any merchant that attempts to issue fraudulent charges starts to run into legal and regulatory frameworks that issue punishments to anyone who has repeat violations. Punishments that range from being kicked off of a payment processing system all the way up to jail time.

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