There are select places where it's usable, but generally speaking most merchants don't accept it. You can sometimes buy giftcards or something like that with crypto and just use the giftcard to pay, but honestly that's kind of a pain. Also I'm only talking about Bitcoin and Monero. Most of the other currencies I probably wouldn't bother using.

Don't forget you can have unbelievable gore and violence, but sex is naughty and horrible. Hypocrites

We're living in Libertarian fan-fiction universe. We've privatized all the critical cogs of society in the name of "Free Markets = Human Liberty!" and now we're discovering that a few orthodox reactionary CEOs are functioning as the tyrannical Communist dictators we were told privatization was supposed to protect us from.

Incidentally, all this is happening as the US Government is gobbled up by the Silicon Valley cryptocurrency-obsessed tech sector. So I would not be surprised if this was - simultaneously - used as an excuse to shoehorn porn providers into accepting crypto exclusively while egging on crypto-banks to implement comparable restrictions on transactions and trades.

"these kind of games" includes nsfw games on steam store.

credit card companies isn’t really a good term: it could cover many things

what you’re looking for is “card networks” - that’s visa and mastercard… and you’re right; payment processors are a different part of the system

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Indeed! They're in the spotlight now but they've been fucking with the adult industry for decades. It's because of them that there are rules as to what can and can not be filmed. There are also banned words that can't be used in the film or film's description. This list of rules and words grows more and more over the years. Fuck visa/mastercard!

The issue is that the card processors got Steam and Itch to delist some games completely. You csnt even buy with with a Steam card.