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

Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by munksbeer on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:47AM (#44623836)

Well that's the point isn't it? You don't buy an index fund in order to transact in it.

On-ramp has costs, then transaction has costs. And in my country at least, selling crypto (which is what you're doing when you buy something with it) is a taxable transaction. So now I have to keep all my transactions and report them to HMRC each year if I do that.

It's not going to happen. If people wanted to transact in crypto, they'd be doing it by now, it has had more than enough time.

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by Ferret7446 on Sunday July 20, 2025 @08:38PM (#44630747)

Well, people do transact in crypto, especially in sectors that face censorship from payment processors, like the currently mentioned Japanese porn games.

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by msgodel on Sunday July 20, 2025 @08:39PM (#44630754)

I pay my VOIP bill in crypto. It's just easier and I usually pay a year or two at a time.

I've had to pay my DNS registration in crypto from time to time too. I don't know why but sometimes the anti-fraud AI at the bank gets triggered by my DNS provider and that's literally the only method I have for paying them.

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