What are the odds of Steam accepting crypto payments in the near future?

>>60642459 (OP)
They will use Chainlink

Chainlink is the future. Fuck XRP

>>60642459 (OP)
>Valve co-founder Gabe Newell noted that about half of all Bitcoin payments on Steam were fraudulent “mind‑boggling” transactions—so many that Steam decided it didn't want those customers
Some people fucked it up for all of us

Most places will be accepting crypto very soon.

0? just buy skins with crypto and sell them for steam cash

>>60642459 (OP)
Thee Coomers are panicking.

>>60642459 (OP)
gaben is gaytkeeping, i dont think.

>>60642459 (OP)
You can buy steam gift cards with crypto

>>60642470
skill issue on gaybe's part

>>60642473
Steam is delisting games on the payment processors no-no list

>>60642506
nigga what does this shit have to do just go on csfloat buy with crypto and sell the skins in the steam market

>>60642520
that's not the issue OP is getting at. there are popular japanese coomgames that visa/mastercard are saying they don't want people to buy, so gaybe is obediently delisting them for his payment processor masters. OP sadly and delusionally believes that gaybe would for some reason allow crypto payments to get around this problem instead of just continuing to spread his fat hairy asshole

>>60642470
Some dude definitely bought all the simulator games at once. System detected the antichrist and shutdown. Thank God for Gaben.

Theyre a pretty well reputable platform thats already the richest there is. I dont see a reason for them to adopt crypto yet. But it doesnt mean its impossible

>>60642459 (OP)
Gaben personally intervenes to temp ban your Steam forum account every time you mention XRP or XLM as an alternative form of payment for Steam transactions in the suggestions section.

So no.

>>60642459 (OP)
Crypto will be the substrate, visa, mastercard and other will continue to dominate.
Gaben should implement Stripe and other methods instead of bending backwards to these two retarded plastic card companies.

They already accepted them once, zoomer (you were probably still in your father's balls). Didn't end up well for them.

i'll end up blowing 6figs easily if magic the gathering is ever on chain officially. not even exaggerating. it would be a problem for me.

>>60642459 (OP)
Crypto is fiscal nightmare for large marketplace selling worldwide and its volatility makes the company more vulnerable.

>>60642622
just take stablecoins, it's not that hard

>>60642470
did they have btc payments at some point?

>>60642459 (OP)
>near future
75%
>long-term
110%
will be cucked out either way. long term defi will not be de.

>>60642607
Stripe relies on MC and V. what r u smoking?

All the retards who made web3 slop failed to realize the actual demand for an nsfw games portal with crypto payments

>>60642974
good luck with that business model, there is extremely high overlap between the subset of gamers who use cryptocurrency and the subset of gamers that pirate and distribute games

>>60642470
>fraudulent
this reeks of bullshit
you can't commit fraud with bitcoin/ crypto
you can 100% do a chargeback on credit cards

>>60642459 (OP)
there are already 3rd party services that allow you to top up steam balance with crypto

>>60642880
?

>>60642746
yes it was removed due to fraud and illegal bs.

>>60642558
explain your lore
>>60642470
how was it fraudulent, can't do chargebacks.

>>60642459 (OP)
None because they're already rich off cash
They're a global video game exchange not desperate grifters

>>60642506
why would a payment processor have a no-no list for fucking video games

>>60643593
look up yandere simulator

>>60642459 (OP)
Hopefully HIGH. Hopefully steam dies though and is forced to allow custodial ownership and account transfer upon death etc. They are insufferable you will own nothing and be happy faggots.

>>60642459 (OP)
Sui already has a deal with steam and if any crypto is going to be utilized to make payments to steam it's Sui.

>>60643110
Yeah, this is horse shit, they're basically saying it's fraudulent because they can't put an exact name, ss #, address, wifi password, race, sex, and blood type to a crypto address.

>>60643137
>>60642470
Why do you keep spreading fake information? >>60643110 >>60643521

>>60644432
people steal credit card then buy btc aka fraud

>>60644440
People steal credit cards to buy BTC to buy stolen credit cards

>>60644440
do you not understand what "fraud" means?
or are you just ESL?

>>60642618

>>60642495
where

>>60642470
That interview was kinda weird, the original statement about dropping Bitcoin mentioned nothing about fraud.

People were making their own theories about what he meant when he said fraudulent, like double-spend or RBF (which was completely wrong, multiple users who actually bought games with Bitcoin confirm that you don't get the games without tx confirmations, so RBF and double-spend is irrelevant). Or that the Bitcoin was stolen or bought with a stolen card, like >>60644440, which makes no sense since even if the card was chargedback, the BTC can't be clawed back, so he keeps 100% of the crypto payments.

The true reason they originally posted (pic related) made the most sense. The fees during Dec 2017 were just unsustainable. I regularly make BTC payments (for my VPS) so I remember how bad it was, 300-330 sat/B fee was the average, so yes, $25 was a pretty common fee. I actually switched to other chains for payment back then. Although the worst fees was during the peak of ordinals, 500-1000 sat/B was the frequent going rate.

In comparison, the current going fee is around 3 sat/B.

I think he just forgot the original reason, and what was fresh in his mind was the NFT games that they banned on their platform (which were actually the scammy ones) and mixed up his reasons for the NFT game ban and the reason for dropping BTC payments

Steam is more powerful than all payment processors combined. Finance is downstream of gaming

>evil corporations literally reliant on usury to profit
>ruin millions of lives annually
>NOOO YOU CANT PAY FOR A GAME WITH BOOBS IN IT AAAAAAAA

>>60642459 (OP)

Never. Gabe newell doesn't have any interest, and that's fine honestly. Plenty of other places accept crypto as payment.

>>60642459 (OP)
There's a misconception the average gamer is smart or especially tech savvy. Most of them are turbo normies.
If they were, things like Steam wouldn't even be a thing. It's literally an adware & DRM software.

They'll take it eventually, but no sooner than any other random normie businesses.

wont happen this decade

>>60645532
>NOOO YOU CANT PAY FOR A GAME WITH BOOBS IN IT AAAAAAAA
It was more than boobs
Valve will not stay in business if there's a new incest game on the front page every week.

>>60642459 (OP)
>>60646893
they say its for porn games with focus on incest and slavery, i tend to believe them even if i am suspicious and also dont care much for the porn game cucks.

0.01%
>that will be 40.00 in fees on your 4.99 game
>then there's lability

crypto reporting has turned out to a be complete nightmare for places that do take it like apmex, they've spend more money on tracking, audits, staff costs, and support than they've made in profits from accepting it. It's now for the precious metal dealers who jumped on board already as its a sunk cost but any business considering it is going to pay attention to that lesson.


t.work which has a comparable business model of small transactions online considers taking crypto every quarter and then looks at data and says hell no.

>>60643526
the subject is payments

>>60647279
that's cos it's too traceable. death to bitcoin maxis, death to bitcoin. anyone who accepts traceable coins is on a suicide mission

>>60642459 (OP)
Steam used to accept Bitcoin for payments. I know because I bought some games from them with Bitcoin (then I forgot the password to my email account that I bought them through, so it was a waste of $15 or 0.05 BTC, worth $6000 today).

The best thing about that is that I still have the "change" from when I bought them, which is worth a couple of thousand bucks. So I still made out.

>>60642594
>XRP or XLM
Shitcoiners are still pimping Stellar Lumens? Yeah, I'd ban your retarded ass too.

>>60643667
>yandere simulator
That's hilarious.

>>60645420
>The true reason they originally posted (pic related) made the most sense. The fees during Dec 2017 were just unsustainable. I regularly make BTC payments (for my VPS) so I remember how bad it was, 300-330 sat/B fee was the average, so yes, $25 was a pretty common fee. I actually switched to other chains for payment back then. Although the worst fees was during the peak of ordinals, 500-1000 sat/B was the frequent going rate.

Yeah, that was insane. But we have LN now so it's possible to spend small payments without enormous fees, at least once you've done the single initial setup transaction.

> current fee is 3 sats/byte
Really? I've only been paying two, and the mempool has been bouncing off "empty" for the last month. Just checked Jochen Hoenicke's queue site and it's still bouncing off "empty" (there were 0.084 vMb remaining after the most recent block was mined, so call it 1.2 sats/vB to be safe).

>>60646893
>people want to make incest games
>people want to buy incest games
>steam wants to sell incest games
>puritanical christian NGOs don't consent
yeah, incest is the problem here...

>>60642459 (OP)
hey they supported linux after window 10 dropped

>>60642459 (OP)
Possibly when virgopay goes live.

>>60646893
2/3rds of the front page of porn websites is incest. Why don't credit cards ban porn subscriptions. No my history or cookies are not the reason.

>>60651501
where is a porn site with 4ch style filters so I can filter out all the kiked stuff?
killer app of defi + ai, imo.

>>60651825
have you tried clicking on the amateur vanilla category on porn sites instead of going to BLACKED.COM and complaining about niggers?