• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Nope. Imo the point is to avoid cryptobro bots and the like, not invite them.

    Plus crypto is volatile and you’d have to manage it a lot more to keep it pegged at “expensive enough”

    And even then, you won’t discourage a troll who just happens to have an absurd stash of coins without pricing out legitimate users. A bot farmer with 50k in bitcoin would drop a few hundredths of a coin just to make your day worse.

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      5 months ago

      “Cryptobros” =/= “people using crypto”, because this is a legitimate usecase. You can see it discussed on Lemmy too. This is how I can pay for my VPS while my card doesn’t work. This is how I would pay for a service even if my card did work, but I didn’t want to attach pretty much my real name to it. But yea, I agree that it might be complicated logistically. Have seen services where you can buy prepaid cards for crypto - at least that should work.

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        5 months ago

        Yes, but my point was more so that crypto bros swim in that water too, and my thinking was more so to discourage assholes rather than attain 100% immutable anonymity.

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      5 months ago

      Plus crypto is volatile and you’d have to manage it a lot more to keep it pegged at “expensive enough”

      this is a solved problem. Just change the crypto cost according to its exchange value. I pay for my vpn and my vps with crypto.

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        5 months ago

        True, but my thinking would be that I wouldn’t want to promote total anonymity when the whole thrust of what I was saying was to attach cost, burden, and some kind of identity if possible.

        Pay me ten bucks from PayPal.

        I don’t care about your PayPal info but I at least know you’re “real” enough to pass basic PayPal setup screening nowadays. That kind of thing.