Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?
- Discoverability?
- Broader selection of payments platforms? Direct transfer to avoid processors? (I’m ignorant about the processing system, plus international considerations)
- Ease of spinning up (SaaS?)
- Content deliverability (on the fly transcode from sourced FLAC or WAVs? Rich video/multi track audio?)
Cryptoscam shill is shilling the cryptoscam.
It’s amazing to me that anybody considers crypto"currency" to be a viable currency these days after all the failures of the (… uh … you know that “exchanges” are payment processors right? RIGHT!? …) ecosystem to the tune of now billions of dollars.
But hey, you can at least send your funny money on a public ledger (for PRIVACY! LOL!) and have it get processed painfully slowly while contributing to more greenhouse gases than most medium-sized nations!
There’s literally no downside!
You don’t need to use an exchange to get paid in crypto or use a crypto with a pubic ledger
Monero is far more private than letting a credit card processor have your information. Ethereum doesn’t use mining anymore so the electricity used for it is less than paying with credit card. It also takes a few seconds to process.
Yes. The scam has mutated. All scams do. It’s still a Ponzi scheme and suckers like you are still trying to fill out the bottom of the pyramid so that you’re not the one holding the bag when it collapses.
When.
Not if.
Go shill crypto on that distributed messaging system specifically set up to shill crypto, dude. You’ll find more receptive suckers there.
And now let’s address your second favourite crypto-Ponzi: Ethereum. This would be the Ethereum whose “smart” contracts are so fucking dumb that it’s almost routine to find stories of them being owned by kiddies? (Ask Hope Lend, Fantom Foundation, Balancer, Huobi, Remitano, and a cast of thousands.) Or would this be the Ethereum that filled to the brim with suspect entities like TrueUSD/$TEURO (which they laughably claim aren’t related despite both coming from the same address), Milady NFTs (or, let’s face it, ANY fucking NFT!), or any number of other rug pullers and such? Or are you talking the Ethereum that is so lazy an implementation that people trivially write snipe bots to manipulate values for things? Or are you talking the Ethereum so fucking lax (and convoluted in actual use) that even its founder got himself Twitter-hacked to wind up draining people’s accounts dry from a scam?
Yeah. Absolutely the org I’d trust with finance. Great suggestion, Sparky? Why not just resurrect Capone and tell people to put cash in this bag he’s holding out?
Ethereum is not an organization, you don’t need to use NFTs or smart contracts if you don’t want to
So, let’s look over the first of your favourite funny money Ponzi schemes: Monero.
Is this the Monero that people are increasingly certain is doing the digital equivalent of printing currency? (C.f. “Monerun” for details.) The Monero that has a single mining pool that’s within striking distance of pulling off a 50%+1 attack? That Monero? 'Cause that “privacy” you tout for it works both ways. Yes, user details are private … but so are the operator’s details so there’s no way of knowing what’s really going on under the covers. Like, I don’t know, say, “paper Monero”…
Doesn’t even sound slightly scammy. Not in the slightest. I know I’d trust them with monetary matters!
@ttmrichter @iopq seems I remember them as well as a ‘money exchange’ never used them but the name rings a bell from a few years ago then I may be wrong?
I just looked up Monerun
Monero is not doing “printing currency”. Some exchanges that promise to pay you monero may not hold it. That’s the same what your bank does. The bank seldom has enough dollar bills to pay all of its depositors money.
But again, this is between an exchange and its customers. You can gasp use another exchange and withdraw your money immediately after using it
