I don't see why not though? One of the benefits of a decentralized currency is that it is not subject to censorship by any central authority who disagrees with the content you are purchasing. That is exactly the problem these guys are having. Granted, they'll have to pay a lot of transaction fees/gas, and the volatility still makes it hard to fix prices, but for one-off transactions, you can ignore day-to-day volatility as long as the minute-to-minite volatility is bearable.

I didn't say it was "the" solution, but it absolutely is a solution to what they asked.

It’s “a” solution but not a “helpful” or “realistic” solution.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, because your comment succinctly highlights the issues and is correct.

It doesn't highlight any issues. It effectively just says "you are wrong". It doesn't really add anything to the discussion.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It highlights the issue that the suggested solution is a theoretic or academic solution which we theorize might work out some day, but is not currently a realistic solution for the need to provide food for artists to eat so that they could remain alive.

The fact that you disagree with the explanation due to ideological purity reasons is not grounds for downvoting it.

> the suggested solution is a theoretic or academic solution which we theorize might work out some day, but is not currently a realistic solution for the need to provide food for artists to eat so that they could remain alive.

These are all your words, not theirs. They didn't suggest this at all.

> The fact that you disagree with the explanation due to ideological purity reasons is not grounds for downvoting it.

This is true, but:

1) I didn't downvote it (I literally can't)

2) There are other good reasons to downvote it, such as what I linked.

Unless you have something more to say about cyrpto I think we should leave this here.

> These are all your words, not theirs. They didn't suggest this at all.

I'm failing to understand how you could have read what I wrote and come to the conclusion I didn't suggest that, given that I literally said it was not realistic.

Well, that's your opinion. I believe I highlighted the main issues with your suggestion, and added exactly the same helpfulness to the discussion as an assertion that artists should rely on patrons to send them cryptocurrency to support themselves.

It still isn't a solution any way you cut it and in any case, hence the keyword 'absolutely'

It's a payment system that allows adult content.

If you're an artist who needs to eat food in order to live, this "payment system" does not facilitate your ability to achieve that.

Why? To me, it seems like a clear solution, and is actually one of the core goals of the creation of cryptocurrency.

Many artists I know are ferociously against crypto and they and their fans don't know how to use crypto at all.

Use bank transfer or better yet instead, purchase gifts for the creator on their Amazon, Etsy, etc wishlist in exchange for content or use gift cards.

The above solutions are way better than crypto as it's mostly used for crime and illicit transactions and speculation.

All it takes is one defi guy who can really draw rouge the bat with a juicy posterior and artists&dans will get into crypto.

There’s a lot of bad blood in the artistic community (on all fronts, production, distribution and consumption) to anything crypto due to the whole NFT thing… I don’t think you’re going to see anyone trying to do something that’s art + crypto for quite some time.

By what metric are these better solutions?

Modern blockchain payment systems (see Base) have transaction fees that are an order of magnitude cheaper than any trad processors; they don’t discriminate based on moral grounds; transactions settle in seconds rather than days; they are not bound to only certain countries; funds are not custodially held by a single centralized tech company; the list goes on.

Much of the rationale for anti-crypto among communities that would most benefit from it (eg: NSFW art) is ill conceived and held together by an almost religious zeal.