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honestly all the suspiciously wealthy furries just need to join funds and start a new payment processor that explicitly allows porno
I want to believe but also I feel like whoever owns mastercard and visa are orders of magnitude more powerful [in terms of wealth and control over systems] than all furries combined
It’s potentially possible but the things that make it hard are that the banks and the credit cards don’t want to cooperate with that. If you’re not big enough to hurt them they can blacklist your company and now you’re cut off from the money people are trying to pay with.
If it had been made from the start with the intention of being actually scalable and not just as a neat tech demo, and if it hadn't been captured by techbro-finance ghouls, this would have been the actually good use case for cryptocurrency
and if you want to make your own bank you need to literally get the OK from your country's government.
so good luck there.
Good odds several of them are just like Sam Bankman-Fried already. This is unlikely to go the way you think it will.
to clarify i'm not genuinely suggesting this at all and i figured the absurdity of "furry credit card processor" would make that immediately evident
I can actually see some furry with too much money, or some hedge fund manager that follows furry drama, actually making moves to do this. Dumber things have been tried on the internet. About the only thing keeping this from happening is there probably aren't enough rich furries to get a bank going.
White supremacist furries exist and that in itself is WILD.
yeah that just baffles me, same with the virulent homophobes
it's funny that a major bank can get caught laundering massive amounts of drug money and just resume business, but furries want to buy pictures of titties and everyone goes crazy
