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Imagine a world where not everyone used the dollar. Then imagine having to support different currencies and ensuring that your price per article stayed in line
by orf 5y ago
Imagine a world where not everyone used the dollar. Then imagine having to support different currencies and ensuring that your price per article stayed in line with currency fluctuations.
- Ekaros 5y agoTranslate the payments to some abstract credits with consistent rate across currencies. Then just forex the money received to euros or dollars or what ever your local currency is. Actually, there is already a massive platform that does this sort of thing with what really are microtransactions too and even in local currencies, namely Steam.
- orf 5y agoYep, and I bet that’s non trivial and takes a lot of resources to maintain. Selling games is also their core business. Seems like a cryptocurrency fits nicely into “abstract credits with a consistent rate across currencies”.
- mdoms 5y agoWhy would you have to support different currencies?
- imtringued 5y agoYoutube has an international audience.