There was a bot on reddit back in the day that let you tip posters in crypto. It was cool no one is expecting serious money to be throw around its just a fun way to say heres a dollar you made me laugh.
This is probably the most reasonable take. But I remember getting tipped and not ever bothering to follow the link to try to collect until a few months later when the service hosting the crypto thing went permanently offline and couldn’t be collected.
Fuck. Crypto!
Look I get the fear of it but I think they whole scammy and not thing was a spyop to poison public opinion why do u think they got all the propaganda agents in on it.
Fear? No I don’t fear that bullshit that’s used primarily for even more bullshit.
I have some bullshit to trade for your bullshit, can I bullshit you into raising the bullshit price of my bullshit over yours?
Heck yeah let’s trade horse manure.
Ooh, horse, is that the next organic fertilizer coin™? How quickly can I flip my bull into that?
Yeah it’s better than NFGreens. You can trade 2:1 and get 30% by following my affiliate link.
Or, or it actually is a pyramid scheme that has conned people out of life savings. Hanlon’s razor, no “psyops” required.
The dollar is a pyramid scheme that scams people out of their life savings every day. It’s called inflation. It’s generally hard to see in your savings account day to day, but if you work for 30 years, for example, you can really see it in your retirement account, because that $500,000 or more in your retirement account can’t buy nearly what it could when you started work at age 20. Everybody needs to flee fiat currencies such as the dollar and go to some sort of cryptocurrency where the rules are known and cannot be changed or go to gold.
You’re right and you’re wrong — mostly the latter.
Yes, capitalism is its own large con game but you cannot in good faith compare inflation with the risks of unregulated speculation and flat out scams inherent in cryptocurrency.
At least there are (arbitrary and insufficient) securities built into traditional economic systems to assure account holders when banks crash or fold. There are no such regulations with crypto and, as the linked piece points out, crypto bros only pay lip service to the establishment of such investor insurances.
One of the big points of crypto is that everybody can be their own bank because nobody is going to look after your money as well as you are going to look after your own money. I actually practice what I preach and hold very little fiat currency and hold mostly gold and crypto.
One of the big points of traditional banking is that nobody wants the hassle of (or should be trusted with) being their own bank. Crypto doesn’t solve that in the least.
I actually practice what I preach
Thought you might. Nothing says “I drank the kool-aid” like dropping “fiat currency” into a casual conversation. Anyway, good for you until you have to pay for real world stuff with your Fantasy Wall Street scrip.
Except that I pay for things all the time with it and have been doing so for over a year now. It is a currency like any other and is accepted as such. The biggest difference is I know exactly how much currency exists and know what the inflation rate is and will be and know that my money is actually safe.
The person thinks inflation and pyramid schemes are the same thing. I think your argument is falling on deaf ears.
Especially after I blocked them, yeah 😉
Yes, please do that for Peertube. Creating videos can be expensive and some people do this as a living and they can’t use Peertube because there isn’t any monetization options.
But please leave me at least one space where i can casually talk to people and that’s not all about money.
Also why specifically do that on a microblogging platform? And I think you missed the interesing aspects of federation. It should also factor that in and split donations between content creators, instance providers and software developers?!
There already exist plugins for Peertube that allow cryptocurrency integration.
Setting up a Ko-fi is still the best option to get monetisation going on Fedi.
Or we could not and fuck off the whole tipping culture and double fuck off crypto tipping.
Yeah but who the hell would want that?
The “Grow your own services” site has the best crypto/web3 rundown of why cryptocurrencies can get in the fucking sea.
Agree in principle, but there is a place for digital money. That’s why it’s viable and sensible to pay for web services like VPNs, hosting, domains, with Monero.
Low cost transactions to allow for micropayments make sense with a low cost digital currency.
Oh, Monero is what you’re
sellingshilling?But yes, while there is a place for digital money that doesn’t equal cryptocurrency. For instance, I haven’t held physical legal tender in my hands in ages. All my purchases go through online banking systems (via credit cards or my bank’s web ui) and I don’t even remember what my local bank notes look like anymore.
The big difference is that established banking system (which I have my own reservations about) have checks, failsafes and customer securities to ensure that when the next crash comes, we have some chance to recover our losses.
No need to insult me.
Those checks and fail-safes have value but come at a cost. Middlemen want their cut. So it doesn’t make sense to have micro transactions online, so there is a gap in the market for quick low cost low value payments.
The article is pure fluff. (even includes “synergy”). Most sentences don’t mean anything. Was this maybe just AI generated?
Regarding the topic: if people wanted this feature, it would already have been implemented. It’s not like the topic is obscure, or that it’s difficult to implement.
Yes. Automatically tip instance owners when you post for hosting your comments. Automatically tip commenters for engaging with your post. Tip upvoters for the upvotes. Tip mods for deleting your post for not tipping enough.
Thank you for your tipping comment. you have been tipped 0.003 cents
I would tip you as thanks for your tip but TipCoin got rugged 20 minutes ago and it’s all worthless now.
No worries, there’s a new coin that a billionaire told me to buy 5 thousand dollars of, it should retain it’s value for a while
Keep money the fuck out. We been though this shit before. Crypto will insta-kill whatever platform it touches and anything profitable gets greedy and enshits. We don’t need to summon the crypto bro/bot grifters.
You can’t keep money out of it. You’re being subsidized by others unless you are paying for all of the infrastructure that’s hosting your data, including when it is federated to multiple instances.
Cryptocurrency or not, I don’t think posts should be monetized. This is mostly a platform for discussion. People shouldn’t be paid just for discussing with each other. People should discuss because they find the topic fun or interesting, not because someone will pay you to do it.
No thanks, you keep it.
