[TheCoelacanth]

> anonymous. Your wife won't find out in a bank statement, so less chance of "fake-angry" customers trying to force money back.

Right, she'll think you're buying drugs instead when she sees the charge for cryptocurrency.

[Rjevski]

You can just say you heard about all this cryptocurrency craze and wanted to try and get rich too.

[tomjen3]

"Honey I wanted to buy some bitcoins because if they go up we could make a mint.."

[Fjolsvith]

Or prostitutes?

[sokoloff]

Why would you need crypto (rather than cash) for any inherently in-person exchange?

[ghostbrainalpha]

A prostitute of sufficient quality and reputation may actually require payment ahead of time.

[Fjolsvith]

counterfeit money?

[vortico]

Very easy to defend, since there are infinite possibilities of what a Coinbase transaction in your bank statement could mean. "I wanted to try out crypto so I bought a takeout pizza" he might say. Not the case with CC-Bill or AcmeMiddlemanHoldings.

And regardless of how the interaction plays out between the wife and husband, the end result will never be a chargeback, so the content provider wins anyway.