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All the setup is no worse than setting up a bank account And technically it can be avoided through back channels if you know someone who already has it - can j
by SJC_Hacker 8mo ago
All the setup is no worse than setting up a bank account
And technically it can be avoided through back channels if you know someone who already has it - can just pay them cash or whatever and they can send crypto to you
Crypto is very easy to transfer once you have a wallet
Its the exchange to/from real world currency where the friction is.
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- Dylan16807 8mo ago> All the setup is no worse than setting up a bank account Which is a huge pain in the butt. If someone invented a new lower-spam email ecosystem that required everyone to make a new bank account, very few people would join. I would say something about a combined account but many countries have already figured out free bank transfers without needing crypto so maybe do that?
- nobody9999 8mo agoSorry for the late reply. You're correct, as far as it goes. However, we weren't talking about using cryptocurrency in general, but in a very specific way: Making micropayments to devs as a mechanism to limit AI slop PRs to open source projects. Doing that effectively would require broad implementation of some sort of payment scheme. Given the current (as I documented) hoops one needs to jump through to obtain cryptocurrency if one doesn't have any, especially just for a random user to get crypto to send $1 to a github repo with their PR makes exactly zero sense. Yes. Buying drugs and other stuff outside of the mainstream economy is definitely worth the effort. To send $1/PR for escrow to limit spam? Not so much.