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by kingo55 339 days ago
There's now Ethereum, Base and Solana featuring US dollar stablecoins and significantly cheaper fees. If you want to go a step further and eliminate the stablecoin issuer's counterparty risk you could even pay in the base asset of ETH. Shopify allows payments from crypto now, so Steam should try it again.

Good luck censoring purchases on ETH.
2 comments
lawn 339 days ago
There are plenty of alternatives to Bitcoin payments in the crypto space.

The problem isn't technical, the problem is getting people to care.

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paulryanrogers 339 days ago
Even stablecoins aren't so great for the environment. Proof of stake isn't as bad, but also doesn't offer much beyond traditional systems once KYC is needed.

Am I missing something?

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ETH_start 339 days ago
Stablecoins are great. The only way to be debanked is if the stablecoin issuer explicitly blacklists your address, which is a public act which they will be forced to justify.

And Ethereum's Proof of Stake algorithm is highly censorship resistant. That's why it took seven years to design.

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