this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
628 points (78.8% liked)

memes

16512 readers
2786 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 154 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yep. Just because one side is bad, it doesn't mean the other is any good.

Cryptocurrency is still dependent of a pyramid scheme and criminals-enabling. Credit card companies are still a private owned government branch with no concern for human rights and criminals-enabling.

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

Yep, but cryptocurrency isn't dictating what you can spend with it...yet at least. So if no government does anything to help us, then we must adopt a cryptocurrencies like Monero to fight back against censorship as nothing more than a private citizen.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I learned recently FedNow is a payment processor ran by the Federal Reserve, with a fee of $0.043 per transaction. Making it much, much cheaper than every other payment processor out there.

It just launched two years ago; I'm wondering if this might become more of a thing moving forward for digital payments.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You pay fees for transactions?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Every digital payment has transaction fees, yes.

Credit card transaction fees for vendors are generally 1-3%, for example.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Every digital payment has transaction fees, yes.

If you say so.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Which digital payment doesn't have transaction fees?

Credit cards (vendor side), debit cards (vendor side), and crypto (consumer side) all have transaction fees. Paypal, venmo, etc all make their money from (vendor side) transaction fees as well. Is there a different type of digital payment you are using that doesn't have transaction fees?

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 days ago

Say that any louder and it’ll be DOGEd overnight.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

It's also a heck of a lot quicker to process, (effectively instant) and works even on holidays.

And of course, banks like Bank of America, Capital One, and tons of other financial institutions simply refuse to use it, because that would mean spending money on changing their infrastructure, and making it more convenient for people to also use accounts outside of theirs.

Seriously, it's been ages, and they've refused to use it at all, even though it's purely a financial and technical upside for every user once it's implemented.

[–] aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Nice but floundered. Call me when consumers and small businesses can use it.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

Criminals-enabling is what they call VPNs, E2EE encrypted communication etc.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

more and more good people are being called criminals

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cryptocurrency is still dependent of a pyramid scheme and criminals-enabling.

As we all know, Visa and MasterCard have never been used by criminals. As soon as a criminal touches a card, the card turns into ash.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

Reading isn't your strong suit, is it?