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Re:Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship contro... by elenchev on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:49PM (#44914647)
Steam used to accept BTC payments in 2016 but they didn't want to deal with the probabilistic finality of bitcoin so they quickly removed the btc option. previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30478262
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Re:Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship contro... by ipaddr on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:56PM (#44914705)
In 2016 this wasn't a solved problem but today it is
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Re:Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship contro... by noman-land on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:16PM (#44919799)
How is it fixed today? I'm not in the bitcoin game but doesn't the transaction have to be mined and that takes at least 10 minutes?
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Re:Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship contro... by ipaddr on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:25AM (#44920167)
The landscape of third party companies who offer transaction insurance has increased. With bitcoin you have the lightning network.
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Re:Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship contro... by bigyabai on Saturday August 16, 2025 @10:08AM (#44923577)
The lightning network is a "solution" to Bitcoin in the same way that buying a new car fixes the old one.
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