I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?

It's not even conservative any more. It's regressive.

I mean this is a false dichotomy. You can have a payment system that isn't a shit show like crypto or a duopoly like Visa and Mastercard.

AFAIK there's pay processing business that will do nsfw transactions but they ask for extra money.

Now that weed is being widely accepted legally, porn is the new prohibition.

Worse, it was when Twitter banned Trump. This is just like when the Savage John asked to be exiled from the World State but the Controller forces him to engage in society to torture him.

There was a reddit sub where they take in unfunny comics (usually sexist) and then edit them to be funny. That's how this actually became a meme.

Bitcoin is really bad for using as currency, due to the fact that there is a permanent, public ledger of all transactions. Why would you want anyone you pay to be able to see and trace every transaction you've ever made? Pay rent in bitcoin, now your landlord can calculate your spending and who you do transactions with. And yes, there are services that aggregate and obfuscate transactions in order to make them less traceable, but now you've just reinvented the same centralized payment processor system that the whole thing is supposed to be replacing... so... what's the point?

Cash is good for using as currency.

Having worked in the payment industry, there is a lot of work to be done.

Even if you use the EMV standard, which almost all of the payment processor are based on, the challenge is to interface with the banks and making sure that every cards and terminals follow your standard.

And that's if you can convince banks to even accept you payment standard in the first place.

Mastercard? No sorry, we only take WokeCoin 🤷‍♂️

the economic moat of regulations and infrastructure that has to be overcome before you even can start acquiring customers. You would need a massive capital outlay just to start in last position to compete. Then you have to pay your sydadmins and sales and help desk and administration for how long before you have enough customers to break even? all on a gamble that the government won't hamstring you on behalf of their corporate sponsors. and who is to say the rest of the financial world won't cut you off; you can't process payments if you can't access users banks, it's all cooperative between entities that benefit from it being a small club.

all of this risk to capture the relatively small nsfw market looks like a bad gamble to me, even though i strongly support the nsfw market myself! I spent decades in e-commerce and nsfw ecommerce and it's trickier than it might look.

cryptocurrency is absolutely not going to be a substitute. what happens when your client's money drops in value halfway through working on their commission?

Bitcoin wouldn't be an awful solution to this, but there's certainly a few better ones, such as

• Visa and MC just being the opinionless payment providers they ought to be.
• Regulation enforcing all payment providers to be similarly opinionless.
• Ethereum, or another crypto more suited to many, fast payments
• A layer-2 network over Bitcoin that can enable many fast payments, such as the lightning network.

Ah, and here is where the commenter learns that “capitalist” competitors have legislated their opponents out of business, bought them out, or colluded with them.

Oh, and it’s not just payment processors.

Capitalism isn't the fix, banks are in cahoots with visa/mastercard and they will absolutely shut down any competition.

For now, they are targeting more niche “taboo” kinks like incest and bdsm. But as we’ve seen time and time again with bigoted, puritanical christofascists, they will not stop there. Next, they come for the queer content. My guess is furry stuff is next under the bad faith argument of “bestiality”, then more standard queer content, including tame non-erotic content. Finally, all erotic content.

Remember, everything sexual is sinful and evil unless its a straight white cis Christian married couple having joyless missionary sex for the purposes of procreation only.