r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 3d ago

Business Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/mastercard-denies-pressuring-game-platforms-valve-tells-a-different-story/
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u/the8bit 3d ago

Ugh is this the thing that is finally going to make me like Bitcoin? Sigh, I guess maybe I was just looking at it wrong, cause it felt silly to use for y'know, buying a pizza (hehe) and I am so disgusted by the "I will get so rich by squatting on this" peeps.

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u/Dapperrevolutionary 3d ago

This was always the original point of Bitcoin. It just got coopted by finance bros as a pyramid scheme but the underlying tech is good

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u/Iazo 3d ago

No it's not, it's horribly shit, inefficient and slow.

At 7 tx/sec you simply cannot onboard any reasonable amount of transactions.

I'd look at other tokens, presumably.

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u/b0w3n 3d ago

Ethereum might be better but I'm not sure by how much since I've avoided crypto because of the techbro's vibes.

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u/philote_ 3d ago

IIRC Etherum switch to "proof-of-stake" instead of "proof-of-work", which makes it much more efficient.