Japanese developers on Steam can’t receive revenue from adult games due to Japanese banks blocking transfers (automaton-media.com)
from moe90@feddit.nl to games@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 07:06
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MrNesser@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 08:39 next collapse

Fun fact if that money is invested overseas in a legitimate enterprise they can transfer it in just fine.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io on 30 Jan 08:44 collapse

Unfortunately, it's complicated. There are in-country tax considerations for the overseas entity and, as Americans are often shocked to find when moving here, something like an LLC is going to cause a huge tax headache with taxes

MrNesser@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 09:03 collapse

Also it’s technically money laundering

reksas@sopuli.xyz on 30 Jan 10:30 next collapse

rich are doing it too though

mp3@lemmy.ca on 30 Jan 12:25 collapse

It’s only illegal if it’s enforced
~ the rich

reksas@sopuli.xyz on 30 Jan 12:37 collapse

or rather, rules for thee but not for me

_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jan 14:15 collapse

Yes that’s what they said.

reksas@sopuli.xyz on 30 Jan 16:08 collapse

there is slight difference in meaning

x00z@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 12:36 collapse

Hey that’s what the Irish Facebook holding company was doing.

MrNesser@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 13:08 collapse

Oh to be sure to be sure

jet@hackertalks.com on 30 Jan 10:31 next collapse

If only there was a digital fungible currency that didn’t require a uninvolved third party to allow.

Tattorack@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 11:03 next collapse

If only that currency wasn’t rife with techbros, scammers, and techbro scammers.

jet@hackertalks.com on 30 Jan 11:09 next collapse

Your right, its better that these bankers can deny a business its income.

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 12:17 collapse

the “currency” is rife with scammers because the “currency” is a scam.

its a pump and dump ponzi. Its digital Bernie Madoff for the new millenium.

all of them are. Every single one.

Yes even the one you, dear reader, like. Especially the one you like.

Thats why they are so unstable.

And its also why anyone that tried to use them as currency abandoned it almost as soon as they started, because losing 20% of your transaction in the 5 seconds the transfer and processing takes isnt a deal anyone but the most desperate to stay in the shadows criminals are going to accept.

FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jan 12:42 next collapse

except there are things like tether and usdc which are fixed to the value of the US dollar permanently.

qyron@sopuli.xyz on 30 Jan 13:05 next collapse

One of those stable coins was once found to not having a single cent backing it, unlike what the team behind it claimed.

Risk for risk, I stick to the feeless coins.

FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jan 15:26 collapse

I only say this because the parent comment was in reference to payments and the reply was talking about investment inflation / deflation. for strictly sending payments, stablecoins can be okay. but as for crypto shit as a whole I’m not a fan of what it’s become.

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 00:19 collapse

its a pump and dump ponzi. Its digital Bernie Madoff for the new millenium.

all of them are. Every single one.

Yes even the one you, dear reader, like. Especially the one you like.

[deleted] on 31 Jan 03:00 collapse

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HeyJoe@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 21:18 collapse

Not sure why your down voted. I have used them before to transfer money and works fine. It’s exactly why it exists. I wouldn’t store money there, but for transfers and transfer out, they work perfectly fine.

Thcdenton@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 21:34 next collapse

Lemmy fuckin hates crypto lol

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 00:19 collapse

anyone with a functional brain and a flash of cognitive self awareness hates crypto.

cause its a fuckin scam designed to screw over rubes.

MITM0@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 08:01 collapse

Guess what buddy, Fiat currency is a scam too & Govts have recognized the legitimacy of CryptoCurrency via implementing CBDCs

ChairmanMeow@programming.dev on 30 Jan 21:42 next collapse

It’s because supposed stablecoins often also end up being scams.

HeyJoe@lemmy.world on 30 Jan 23:11 collapse

Yeah, i get that. But the 2 mentioned are fine and not going anywhere unless something catastrophic happens. I wouldn’t use some sketchy ones either.

urbeker@programming.dev on 31 Jan 02:44 collapse

Lol Tether a company that claims to have $100 billion in reserve to back its currency but has never had an audit. Nothing sketchy about that at all.

HeyJoe@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 03:49 collapse

It’s been around for 9 years now. I use it sometimes for transfers, and that’s it. It’s not an investment I’m looking to throw money into and hope it doesn’t go belly up. If you really look, I’m sure you’re right. Probably all of them do some level of unethical to illegal activity. I am just commenting on the fact that to use the stable coins for transfers it’s going to be pretty safe and I am not worried about it, unlike the pump and dump coins that pop up.

FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 31 Jan 03:03 collapse

a lot of people on here are geezers and don’t understand it. they are literally calling USD (the actual currency of the United States!!!) a pump and dump scam. thats all you need to know.

drmoose@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 03:32 collapse

Way to reinforce the meme that all crypto haters are idiots by straight up lying and making shit up. Come on man.

And here we are - greedy scam idiots on the left, angry ignorant haters on the right and we chug along through mud. The internet is so tiring…

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 04:15 next collapse

Pump elsewhere.

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 04:18 next collapse

the rubes do get so very hostile when they are told the truth.

Gotta protect the fragile ego instead of admit you fell for something.

drmoose@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 05:14 collapse

You know it’s possible to be critical of something without lying? You literally invalidate all of your points and I say this as a crypto hater myself. Just stop this stupid shit that is not helping anyone and just infect people with stupid.

yesman@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 23:51 collapse

Sounds like someone is used to spaces where FUD gets you banned.

drmoose@lemmy.world on 01 Feb 01:16 collapse

Yeah it seems kinda crazy these days to believe that society should organize itself democratically through trust and merit but Americans be like: “oh no the system failed me once - time to destroy everything!”

MITM0@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 08:06 collapse

I empathize, smart people tend to be politically neutral Also very few people talk about the tech behind Crypto

drmoose@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 09:20 collapse

Crypto is a failure because of design failures not because “it’s some control ponzi scheme”.

I take issue with OP attributing the problem through appeal to emotion rather than actually learning what went wrong. As you implied the tech behind crypto is very interesting and there’s a lot of value there that has been buried.

Now, idiots like OP convolute all of this process with idiotic reductionism that helps no one and will just lead us to repeat the same mistakes.

MITM0@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 14:43 collapse

Maybe we need a new community here in Lemmy, for discussing BlockChain tech applications ?

qyron@sopuli.xyz on 30 Jan 13:03 next collapse

The first coming to mind would be Nano. No fees.

Nalivai@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 05:36 next collapse

Yeah, if only there indeed was one.

MITM0@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 08:07 collapse

I mean there’s GNU-Taler which is supposed to be a Libre/FOSS alternative to Mastercard, Visa, Paypal & Stripe

yesman@lemmy.world on 31 Jan 23:53 next collapse

This from a country that has the same attitude toward pedophilia as Richard Dawkins.

MetalMachine@feddit.nl on 01 Feb 00:52 collapse

Alright, whats the reference to this?

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 01 Feb 01:17 collapse

Nintendo store having literal hentai shown to kids VS explicit adult game made for adults