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Yeah, I'm going to buy my games with bitcoin now.
Oh shit, the fee is higher than the price of the game, can I use Litecoin ?
Lightning network exists too
Cumrocket is the way!
Thanks for the tip, I'm putting all my life savings into it then.
This exists too
spoiler
https://coinstats.app/coins/8fZL148nnC168RAVCZh4PkjvMZmxMEfMLDhoziWVPnqf_solana/Bitcoin is pretty old, newer cryptocurrencies are more efficient.
Yeah I'm using this cool new Lightning cryptocurrency, check it out.
I'm glad we're spending the equivalent of a couple dozen million households of electricity on it
Meanwhile the US military's energy budget eclipses global crypto mining essentially to maintain petrodollar dominance and American residents pay for it.
Let's not ask how much power Visa and MasterCard use for their global monopoly.
Literally orders of magnitude less? Are you not familiar with how proof of work crypto operates? Being energy inefficient is the whole point.
You're so right, environmental impact has not been assessed by any cryptocurrency ever made. Literally zilch. None. Nada.
? And that makes bitcoins waste disapear?
No, and I never stated that. I just think it's stupid to group all of crypto as an environmentally unsustainable technology. Following your logic, switching to electric cars isn't worth it because the 100 years of petroleum pollution won't disappear.
Litecoin is cool.
the fee might be higher at some points but you're just blabbering. check mempool.space and actually look at what fees are at rn + consider that there are many chains and l2s that can be used for payment. B)
A dollar in fees is a dollar more than with fiat for the person paying. That and do you expect enough normal people to learn about L2s and chains to make it worthwhile for Valve or whoever to implement support for anything besides the main chains of 2-3 major cryptos and stablecoins on ethereum main?
I mean either you care enough about payment processor censorship to go around them or you don't. If the extra dollar isn't worth it to you then that is what it is.
Nobody is going to rush to implement a payment system where the fees can change 5x hour to hour because that's just customer dissatisfaction waiting to happen.
That's actually one of the matured parts of the crypto ecosystem that has existed for years already, as it was one of the most immediate needs. Last I checked Stripe and Bitpay were the most popular options for vendors.
yes I expect l2s to catch on in different ways and yes I hope that a lot of places like steam or whatever properly implement at least bitpay or something similar in house.