They made it so you couldn’t save scum killing her? lol

Then they’ll ban you for life like they do other people who violate their rules, and they’re very good at banning people who try to open new accounts and banning people who have any links to you.

You’d still have risks with a centralized db of the tickets which the tokens would solve.

Ticket master recently had an incident being hacked and that could literally happen to any company.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/have-you-bought-tickets-thru-ticketmaster-recently-check-your-account-and-make-sure-theyre-still-there

Granted a user could be hacked as well because of improper storage of the NFT. To really solve the problem it would also require everyone to be using good hardware wallets which I think is where things are going long term, but it’s yet another complicated step which will slow adoption.

One day having a hardware wallet will just be normal.

The money required to double the bitcoin hash rate and maintain double is immense. It’s specialized hardware that would need to be manufactured (lead time while network continues to grow, plus who even has the capacity to do that other than TSMC or Samsung) and the network would see it coming and have a chance to do something about it.

It was a risk when it was smaller, but the ability to pull an attack off like that now and maintain the attack isn’t practically in the realm of possibilities. (Edit and that’s not even getting into where they’d get the power to power the network which is estimated at 173Twh a year and the need to keep expanding that power to maintain the attack in adversarial conditions.)

Attacking the network in other ways via corrupt laws with multi government cooperation would be far easier.

IMO if they don’t turn and run, it’s now a life threatening situation.

When android and ios were taking off, I’d see job requirements saying 8 to 10 years experience in Android development.

It hadn’t been out 8 to 10 years.

There were people estimating 40w in earlier threads on lemmy which was ridiculous.

This seems more realistic.

It’s at least 60 minutes, not 60 minutes. It’s just bad reporting.

e.g https://youtu.be/pkrANZBUqhY?t=33 [that’s at the point]

Sub penny on L2 and a couple / a few cents on mainnet unless a big event is happening on main.

That’s actually a pretty realistic option given the 2 hour refund window.

Maybe allow it only after 1 successful deposit, and revoke it after 1 failure for a long period and X successful payments.

Also maybe only 1 game is playable if you happen to buy more than 1 in that time

The digital shit is so complicated it takes a huge amount of employees. Integrations with hardware (payment terminals), banks, setting up infrastructure so others can accept your payments, automated fraud detection, digital compliance in every country they want to target, it’s huuuuuuge. Thousands of employees.

It used to be do a carbon copy of the card and send us the receipt.

Valves internal structure wouldn’t scale to that size either, and they have no experience running a company of the size that would be required in a different structure.

And that’s back to my point of people not wanting to leave money places in case they want to buy a game in the future.

That is such a monumental task and valve only has between 350-400 employees.

Stripe has around 8500 employees, and they only integrate with credit card banks who integrate to the credit card companies. But they finally got a license to directly integrate so we might finally see that in the near future.

When sears made the discover card, they had hundreds of thousands of employees, and they didn’t need to deal with all the digital shit we gotta deal with now.

Even having to wait an hour is a fantastic way to lose a sale.

That takes time (days) that people don’t want to wait to make a purchase, nor do people want to leave a balance with companies or have to worry about topping it up so they have enough to buy the next game they happen to want without waiting.

Edit: Not to mention the risk of sharing bank account information.

I keep a $50 bill hidden between my phone/case so I always have some if i lose/forget my wallet, but that’s definitely a prime target for being stolen… might toss one in a shoe as well, that’s a good idea.

Using my mandolin where you slightly rotate the onion after each cut works wonderfully.

The problem was the artificially congested network causing unreliable transactions that would take too long which would make the price too volatile. Additionally fees were getting ridiculous when they stopped accepting them due to this congestion

That led to too many refunds or failed payments or payments that were no longer sufficient.

That resulted In a customer service nightmare.

All of those problems can be avoided today using a stable coin not on the bitcoin network.

They could even issue their own stable coin if they were weary of being reliant on another. I think valve would be viewed as trustworthy in keeping the 1:1 backing in a bank account. They could partner with someone else to issue it, like coinbase and Gemini do USDC.

USDV

They know exactly how to do it as they did it before but had to stop because the bitcoin network was artificially congested with insane fees and it caused failed transactions or multi hour long transactions where the price dramatically changed. This resulted in complicated refunds or delays which resulted in unhappy customers.

They can avoid that all now by simply accepting stable coins like USDC. For every issued usdc there is 1 usd in a bank account somewhere. The value barely fluctuates. There are networks that can handle the volume this would create without getting congested nowadays as well.

Given the mess that happened last time though I imagine they are highly reluctant, although this could be enough motivation.