• ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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    19 days 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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      19 days 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 lest that should work.

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        18 days 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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      18 days 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.