Kizudarake wrote:If buttcoins became acceptable currency on Deckbox, then Deckbox should accept the buttcoins and pay the equivalent value out in cash to the seller. Over the Internet. We could have a (M)agic: (T)he (G)athering (O)nline currency e(X)change!
Except for the part where there's a higher percentage of shady folk involved in the unregulated Bitcoin market because it's unregulated, and the minute that someone got screwed in a deal on here, there'd be a huge amount of drama because you can't do chargebacks on bitcoins, and the value of a Bitcoin is more likely to fluctuate between when the buyer submits the transaction and when the seller sends out the card, so it's harder to put an actual price on the card pegged to dollars, so Sebi has to either put a lot more work into maintaining basically two marketplaces and two register systems, and at this point, if you absolutely have to use bitcoins to buy magic cards, just go do it at ABU games, Jesus Christ.
Lets take a look, what do we have here?
Buttcoins? Cmon you can do better than that?
Why pay out the equivalent in cash? Sort of defeats the purpose, and not everyone wants their btc converted into cash.
Shady folk? You mean like Dell, Newegg, Microsoft, oh yeah there are a bunch of banks investing in blockchain tech, I guess those guys are shady. So I am a crook because I have/use bitcoins? You understand that it is unregulated and decentralized by design, and what the advantages are over older more expensive services like cc and paypal?
Anyone who uses btc is aware of the fluctuation, which is why it should be opt in only. But pretty much everyone who is familiar with/uses btc is comfortable with this, especially if they are not all that interested in converting back to fiat.
You can't do chargebacks of course but you can 1. transact with reputable buyers/sellers, and/or set up a holding account from which btc are released upon receipt of delivery. Not a bad thing considering paypal is pretty much set up for buyers to scam sellers if they want. I have been spending cryptos drama-free for quite some time.
Not sure what Jesus has to do with it, but clearly ABU games and a few others can use bitcoins, so I am not sure why it is so impossible to use? But again if you hate them so much you could just not transact with them. Why limit everyone else because you don't like them? Just don't opt in.
Of course there are more important upgrades for the site at the moment. But they won't know what we want if we don't tell them. And if the general consensus is against btc, then they will know. But if there is a demand for it, they may benefit from integrating it into the site. There is no way to know without having some sort of discussion about it.
