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I didn't downvote you, but I did find it interesting that Bovada, which was originally a bitcoin sportsbook and casino, achieved Visa/Mastercard integration for

• noduerme 4y ago
  If YC or other investors hadn't thought it was an outright joke when I asked for $500k to get a license in Malta in 2011, for what at the time was the only full Bitcoin casino that I'd handcoded with 25 socket based multiplayer games since 2008 before Bitcoin even existed, then I too would now be accepting Visa and Mastercard. And between me and now, dozens of players have come from both traditional to cryptocurrency and vice versa. It's really all who you know, or who you bribe. My policy these days is just to write good software that makes money for me personally, and no longer share it with any of these assholes. I do appreciate the non-downvote, btw. I'm drunk and prickly tonight... these topics about society eating itself get my hackles up.