The article is about service providers, like payment processors, offering alternatives to far-right interests when incumbent providers refuse their business.
For a cryptocurrency to be useful, it would need to be accepted by the service provider. And I doubt you could pay for your anti-vax rally at the airport Radisson with crypto.
The payment processor in the article, Stripe, does indeed work with crypto businesses and allows users to keep a crypto balance, but you would need to convert to regular tender to book a room at a Radisson (at least according to their website).
Sadly for the hodlers, while you might be able to buy your coke and hookers with Dogecoin, the hotel will want a credit card on file.
You can get prepaid cards with crypto, so you could have the card on file with them. So, yes, it might be indirect, but you are still paying for your hotel with crypto. Heck, there’s even a travel agency that accepts crypto (which books hotels). www.travala.com
Speaking from personal experience, prepaid cards rarely work for these types of transactions. If you think service providers don’t know the difference, you’re kidding yourself. There are good reasons to demand a real card.
I’ve mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, opposition to big banks and big tech is welcome. But the replacement is precisely the thing that they claim to be fighting against. They want an economy built on exclusion, just one that excludes the right people.
It’s always the way with conservatives. They don’t oppose cancellation, censorship, or manufactured narrative. They just want to be the ones canceling, censoring, and crafting the narrative.
They love regulations and rules as long as they are not bound by them. There is nothing they love more than adding regulations and rules to other people’s lives.
Entrepreneurs and influencers from across a spectrum of conspiracist and religious communities gathered in Las Vegas in March to discuss building an “uncancellable” future together.
Being “canceled” is a badge of honor for these fucks. It’s a marketing boon. No one uses this word in the real world. “Hey everybody, let’s cancel Trump, then he’ll go away!” Fucking idiots.
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